Rainna's Playlist: Where We Are Tour Nashville

Tuesday, August 19th

The fans had been waiting since October for this day to finally arrive and 50,000 girls, boys, moms and dads had filled LP Field in Downtown Nashville. I was lucky enough to be one girl in the crowd, nonetheless on the floor. It was a high energy show and tons and tons of screaming. The jumbo-trons would show videos of the opening act, 5 Seconds of Summer, and of One Direction and everyone would scream at the top of their lungs. No doubt about it, you could hear the music and screams from downtown.

5 Seconds of Summer is a huge reason why I was so excited for the show. The Australian pop-punk band have been opening up for One Direction on their European tour and their North American tour. Their energy on stage is obvious and so is their passion. Ashton Irwin (drummer), enters first and fires up the crowd by banging on his drums and stepping back as the other boys enter. Luke, Calum and Michael run onto the stage and at this point I've completely lost it. They open with a guitar riff and a "Whats up Nashville?" They continue on to play ten songs and even changing their normal setlist by adding in the song Disconnected, because Michael decided he wanted to sing it that night. Unfortunately singing Disconnected, meant they had to cut out the song Good Girls, to 5SOS's surprise, as they were told by the people controlling the show they had time to only sing one more song. They closed their set with their breakout hit She Looks So Perfect and they did not forget to add in the synchronized jumps. 5 Seconds of Summer know how to interact with a crowd, and keep them listening. There are a lot of skeptical people about this band because the may not really be "punk" or they may be stealing One Directions fame, but they disregard those people in the crowd. As the boys mention multiple times in the show, that they are so thankful for everything the fans have done for them and where they have gotten them, and they even acknowledge the people in the stadium not paying attention to them. You can tell they are so passionate about what they are doing and that they love to play in front of 50,000 people every night.

After the long wait, the Where We Are tour opening video begins to play and everyone goes wild. I am pretty sure that even the dad in front of me let out one yell. The One Direction boys run out and spread out across the stage and down the catwalk. Niall even has his guitar as he struts down the stage. The visuals on the screen are very unique and then there are fireworks, and no one knows where to look. The stage? The Fireworks? The screen? Too bad we don't have more than two eyes. Listening to the boys sing, never gets old. They are always doing something to change the song up and Liam sure did that, he would hit higher notes than the recorded version and singing in different accents. They sang a whopping total of 23 songs including four songs as an encore. You can tell these are grateful when they thank everyone for all they've done in the past four years. Niall introduces the song Don't Forget Where You Belong and talks about that no matter where they go in the world, nothing matters more than home and that they are still the same lads they were when they auditioned for the X Factor.

The show was nonstop screaming and jumping and energy. There was not a time when the crowd was not involved. Harry asked the whole stadium to quiet down and that's exactly what everyone did and then he asked for everyone to scream, and did this two or three times. There is nothing these fans won't do for One Direction and that is proven, from all the way to fans from Costa Rica and South Dakota travelling to Nashville, nothing stops them. Little Things is a slower song with a meaning saying that "You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you / And you'll never treat yourself right, darling but I want you to." This song is what the fans love the most about the concert, the intimate parts where everything is quiet and the stadium is lit up by the lights of phones. Liam asked everyone to sing the last chorus, and it was the largest choir I have ever seen. None of the boys sang, just the crowd and it was amazing.

Everything about this concert was amazing and it is almost hard to put into words. Walking out was especially hard for people, having to say goodbye to their favorite bands. Tears were definitely flowing from girls all over. I can say that I was one of them. This was a concert that I will never forget and one that I will constantly relive in my head.