{"id":117972,"date":"2024-07-02T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/02\/the-national-now-sees-bewildered-taylor-swift-fans-at-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:02:07","slug":"the-national-now-sees-bewildered-taylor-swift-fans-at-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/02\/the-national-now-sees-bewildered-taylor-swift-fans-at-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"The National now sees &#8220;bewildered&#8221; Taylor Swift fans at shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-02\/getty_taylorswiftandaarondessner_041623.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Taylor Swift and The National&#8217;s Aaron Dessner onstage in Tampa, FL; Octavio Jones\/TAS23\/Getty Images for for TAS Rights Management; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some Swifties are entering their indie rock era at <strong>The National<\/strong> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Since guitarist<strong> Aaron Dessner<\/strong> has started collaborating with <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>, The National frontman <strong>Matt Berninger<\/strong> has noticed more fans of the pop superstar attending their concerts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see a lot of Taylor Swift fans coming to shows and being bewildered by the first 25 minutes or so,&#8221; Berninger tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-national-glastonbury-2024-interview-watch-taylor-swift-idles-fontaines-dc-ed-sheeran-3771141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NME<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been blessed with demographics that are across the spectrum,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;Then 10 or 15 years ago, a lot of younger people started coming [to our shows] \u2013 more and more women. The first 10 years was kind of a dude-fest at most of our shows, but that&#8217;s changed a lot. At our shows we have all kinds of old friends and they&#8217;re always different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dessner worked on Taylor&#8217;s albums\u00a0<em>folklore<\/em>,\u00a0<em>evermore<\/em> and\u00a0<em>THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT<\/em>, and The National as a whole is featured on the\u00a0<em>evermore<\/em> cut &#8220;coney island.&#8221; However,\u00a0in response to a question about the possibility of Taylor showing up to perform at a National show, Berninger says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is fun \u2013 that whole bridge has been a really, really fruitful thing for our whole band, not just Aaron,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Obviously, Aaron&#8217;s been having such a great time and making so much great stuff with her, and the Taylor Swift bridge has been there for a long time. But no, we&#8217;re not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift and The National&#8217;s Aaron Dessner onstage in Tampa, FL; Octavio Jones\/TAS23\/Getty Images for for TAS Rights Management; Some Swifties are entering their indie rock era at The National shows. Since guitarist Aaron Dessner has started collaborating with Taylor Swift, The National frontman Matt Berninger has noticed more fans<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/02\/the-national-now-sees-bewildered-taylor-swift-fans-at-shows\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}