Photo: Twitter @CaraDPhil
Taylor Swift played an immensely impressive two-hour set at Hyde Park's British Summer Time last night (27 June), during which she brought out Serena Williams, Cara Delevingne, Kendall Jenner, Karlie Kloss and Gigi Hadid.
Opening the show with 'Welcome To New York', the first track on her latest album 1989, the singer introduced herself to the crowd (somewhat unnecessarily) with, "Hello, my name's Taylor... and there's one thing you should know about me. I was born in 1989." She then launched into two more tracks from that album - 'New Romantics' and 'Blank Space', before performing an at first barely recognisable, minor key version of 'I Knew You Were Trouble'.
The show was segmented with VT montages of some of Swift's more high profile friends, including Lena Dunham, Haim, Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne, discussing the importance of female friendship and empowerment, Swift's love of cats and being in love.
Towards the end of the set, midway through 'Style', Swift introduced a plethora of famous women onto the stage, including Serena Williams, who is in London for Wimbledon, Kendall Jenner, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid and, finally, Cara Delevingne, who arrived waving a large Union Jack.
Cara, Kendall, Gigi, Karlie Kloss & Serena Williams all joined Taylor Swift on Stage during "Style" (June 27) 👑 pic.twitter.com/nOzPgMazoe
— Cara Delevingne PH (@CaraDPhil) June 27, 2015
@serenawilliams strutted her stuff on stage during @taylorswift13 concert in Hyde Park, London! #hydepark pic.twitter.com/I0vCFnYfCN
— ULTM8SerenaWilliamsf (@ultm8swfans) June 28, 2015
Swift's set was met with an overwhelmingly warm response from the 65,000 strong crowd, which comprised men, women and children of all ages, many of whom had banners, t-shirts, Swift-themed costumes and face paint.
See Taylor Swift's set list below. The British Summer Time series comes to an end tonight (28 June) with its family event, which includes performances from Union J, Collabro, Justin Fletcher and more.
Taylor Swift played:
Welcome to New York
New Romantics
Blank Space
I Knew You Were Trouble
I Wish You Would
How You Get the Girl
I Know Places
All You Had to Do Was Stay
You Are in Love
Clean
Love Story
Bad Blood
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Style
(Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid,… more )
Wildest Dreams (contains an element of "Enchanted")
Out of the Woods
Shake It Off
