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Taylor Swift brought HAIM and St. Louis' own Nelly on stage last night.
Taylor Swift performed in St. Louis for the last two nights, though you may not have known if you’re following her in the international press, as Ms. Swift herself points out:
Swift is promoting the album named for her birth year, 1989, but when she brought the Lou’s own Nelly on stage with her, the rapper fast-forwarded through time to 2002 by singing his smash hit “Hot in Herre.”
Swift has brought Nelly on stage before, but this time was different. She and opening band HAIM, a pop rock group comprised of three sisters, choreographed a backup dance the day before and performed it in front of the screaming fans at the Scottrade Arena.
Here’s video of T-Swift and HAIM busting loose:
Haim sisters Este, Danielle and Alana—like practically everyone else on the planet—are big Nelly fans, and the perpetually cool singers struggled to maintain their chill after the performance, which started with an entrance from beneath the stage.
But HAIM isn’t just another opening band to Swift. The chart-topping singer became friends with the sisters in late 2014 after tweeting to her how much they liked her songs. Since then, the sisters have adopted Swift into their “wolf pack,” and Swift posted on Instagram recently that her life has never been the same.
Swift and the Haim sisters have had some pretty wonderful times together (and with Webster Grove native and supermodel Karlie Kloss), if you can believe social media:
She even introduced them to her dad:
So this tweet from Swift after last night’s St. Louis show caught our eye:
That’s right, St. Louis. "The highlight." Of all the glamorous adventures these spritely stars have been on together all over the world, nothing was better than the moment they got onstage here in St. Louis and fangirl all over the man who put local hip-hop on the map. For Swift, the STL is no longer just the city where her grandmother lives or where her best friend is from. It’s the scene of “the highlight” of one of her closest friendships.
That’s pretty cool, St. Louis. Right, ladies?
Contact Lindsay Toler by an email at LToler@stlmag.com or on Twitter @StLouisLindsay. For more from St. Louis Magazine, subscribe or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
