Country singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen delivered an unforgettable night of music in front of a sold out crowd at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Saturday night. The audience seemed to make the 30-year-old Tennessean’s evening as well.
“Sometimes you show up somewhere and you just know it’s going to be a special night — one you can’t forget — I swear that’s exactly what I felt for today,” he said to the enthusiastic crowd, who had already been warmed up by Hardy, Ernest and Baily Zimmerman.
Wallen’s One Night at a Time World Tour sold out stadiums in four countries and on two continents and is in support of his massively successful “One Thing at a Time” album, which has broken several records and spent more than 15 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts.
The crowd of about 70,000 fans in Inglewood, who came out sporting cowboy hats, boots, and some wearing head-to-toe denim, were fired up and sang along with cups of beer in hand. It was a predominantly younger audience, filled with Gen Z and millennial fans. However, the older generations were into it, too, some even wearing Wallen’s merch. There were also a lot of fans dressed just like the show headliner, who came out with his signature trucker hat, white T-shirt and jeans.
As the stage lights came on and his band ran on stage, Wallen wasted no time busting into his set with the hits “Up Down,” “I Wrote the Book” and “You Proof.” Throughout the nearly two-hour performance, he did take time to share stories about how certain songs were created and the emotional rollercoaster of making it to where he is today. It wasn’t easy, he told the audience, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I moved to Nashville in July of 2015,” he said ahead of playing “Chasing You” off of his 2018 debut record. “Me and some buddies I met wrote this song in November in a tiny little room that same year about something I was going through. Now, a couple years later, this song…
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