The title "Taylor Swift: City of Lover Concert" summarizes somehow what you are getting here. This is if we just look at the facts a 42-minute live action short film. Documentary you could say too. But of course, what this really is is super successful American recording artist Taylor Swift presenting her new album to an audience. I read here on imdb this is an exquisite audience? This did not come through here at all. It felt like any audience basically. Anyway, the director is Dan Massie, who has worked with other very successful recording artists in the past already. One would be the ginger dude. What is his name. Wait. Oh yes, Ed Sheeran. exactly. Not a big fan of him either. Don't feel his voice is anything special and to me it feels as if his success is mostly due to him giving off vibes like the normal guy from next door. But now we are getting a bit carried away I think. Back to this one here: I do not hate Taylor Swift. Actually, I liked her quite a bit in her beginning as a musician when she was still more about country than pop music. Even her early pop years I did not oppose too strongly. But as the years went by, she basically turned into the epitome of a generic pop music starlet who takes zero risks and wastes her talent on music that is way below her. This concert is the best example. Here and there, a song is mildly catchy, but most of the songs are completely forgettable. Even the catchier songs offer almost nothing in terms of being a challenge. No range needed whatsoever to pull them off. Like I said: zero risk-taking. Also this entire thing here was recorded in Paris and this can be seen in the title, which is really a very clumsy play on words combining the title of the album with Paris' nickname "City of Love". This basically says it all in a not positive way at all about the outcome here. Like I said at the start this is closer to 40 minutes than 45, so not too long and if it was "real" concert I would not be too happy because it's just not enough you get for your ticket money and honestly I think concert tickets to Swift's shows are fairly expensive. However, it is somewhat justified by this just being the presentation of the album. What else can be said. Oh yeah, in-between the songs Swift talks a bit to the audience, but it is nothing spontaneous at all. She learned it by heart before thow and I personally did not really feel as if what she had to say felt particularly interesting or informative or insightful. There we have the three I's. And still I won't deny that I have heard worse songs by Swift over the last couple years. But this does not mean that what you hear in here is good from any perspective. It's just a smaller degree of terrible. Says it all if this "The Man" song (or whatever it is called) is the best number of the night. For many other recording artists with more courage, maybe more talent too, it would have been the worst song. The entire thing here gets a massive thumbs-down from me. Absolutely not recommended and I cringed even once really hard when Swift told everybody her equality statement in relationships and then made the most bizarre connection to what she wants people to know/tell who disagree. I wonder if her ex-boyfriends agree that they have been part of Swift's song on a regular basis for a really long time. Not sure if it is still the case. Anyway, this one you may wanna skip at all costs of course. Big thumbs-down.
