Taylor Swift Eras tour

It's been five years since Taylor Swift last went on tour, during which time she's released four albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Folklore.

If you have a story suggestion email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). - Karma - Style - Cardigan - August - Betty It is not known whether the extravagant production will come to the rest of the world - but fans are living in hope. - 22 - Enchanted - Fearless - Lover - Published

The opening night of the star's Eras Tour traversed her 10-album career, revisiting crossover hits, rowdier experiments and more restrained ...

No real tweaks, no rejoinder from the new Swift to the old one — just a searing take on the sort of love that makes for a better song than relationship. During “Anti-Hero,” the screen behind Swift showed a version of her as a kind of King Kong, bigger than everyone and unfairly besieged, and on “Lavender Haze,” she was surrounded by dancers hoisting huge cloudy puffs. In addition to “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” it was the night’s other pillar performance. Before “You Belong With Me,” she asked if the crowd was “ready to go back to high school with me,” both a dare and a legitimate question. And Swift herself tackled each period of her career — the dynamic ones and the flaccid ones alike — with real gusto, in outfits covered in glitter, or fringe or glittery fringe. [10th studio album](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/taylor-swift-midnights.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-taylor-swift&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), is a return to the pop pipeline, with production from her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. [“All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),”](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/arts/music/taylor-swift-all-too-well.html) as layered and provocative as its title is unwieldy. The earnest pleas in “You Belong With Me” and “Love Story” still had their old bite. Songs from “Folklore” fared slightly better, especially “Cardigan” and “Betty,” but this section teetered toward melodrama, as if compensating for the less assured production on those songs. [disastrous rollout of ticket sales](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/arts/music/taylor-swift-tickets-ticketmaster.html) — but none quite like this. “Don’t Blame Me” was husky and alluring, while “Look What You Made Me Do,” performed in front of dancers trapped in glass boxes dressed as old versions of Swift, brimmed with attitude. A revision and expansion of one of her most gutting songs — the original appears on her 2011 breakthrough pop album, [“Red”](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/arts/music/no-more-kid-stuff-for-taylor-swift.html) — it dissects a problematic, lopsided and ultimately scarring relationship with forensic detail.

Taylor Swift kicked off her hotly anticipated “Eras Tour” on March 17 in Glendale, Arizona, revealing her set list and outfit changes to the packed stadium.

For her Midnights hit “Lavender Haze,” she rose on a platform in the middle of the stadium. She added, “I don't know how to process all of this and how it's making me feel right now... It's been five years since Swift's last tour, and in that time she's released four more albums, so there was a lot to cover.

Taylor Swift fans have waited since 2018 for her return to the stage, and she rewards them mightily with The Eras tour, a three-hour show.

(Only her 2010 “Speak Now” album received a single representation, the lovely “Enchanted.”) The Eras Tour spans the country for 51 more dates through August, including a second round in Glendale on Saturday. [Rerecorded Taylor Swift album a feast of 30 songs](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/11/12/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version-offers-30-rerecorded-songs-heartbreak-new-songs/6371456001/) As the [75 of Taylor Swift's best lyrics, ranked](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/12/13/taylor-swift-songs-30-best-lyrics-all-her-albums/4179419002/) [10-minute version of “All Too Well,”](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/11/12/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version-offers-30-rerecorded-songs-heartbreak-new-songs/6371456001/) which Swift said she was performing as a thank you to fans, that captivated as the crowd heartily emoted the words of the labyrinthian story-song. [Her recent smash, “Anti-Hero,” ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/22/best-albums-2022-ranked-taylor-swift-beyonce-harry-styles-bad-bunny/10903349002/)positioned itself as another addition to her canon that will be heard on tours for years to come, while Swift and her dancers paid homage to Bob Fosse’s “Chicago” with a slinky chair routine to accompany “Vigilante S---.” [as a Broadway musical. [embedded with attitude, ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/12/13/taylor-swift-songs-30-best-lyrics-all-her-albums/4179419002/)and Swift and her crew ably snarled and tossed out sultry looks while stomping through "...Ready For It?” Beams of lights encircled Swift as she roared during the pop-metal crunch of the anything-but “Delicate” and a cool display of outfits from throughout her career – worn by her dancers – paired with the electro-goth romp, “Look What You Made Me Do.” [Swift kicked off The Eras Tour](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/03/16/taylor-swift-new-songs-ahead-eras-tour-launch/11485575002/) with a [staggering 44 songs](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/03/09/taylor-swift-eras-tour-setlist-song-wish-list/11413662002/) presented over a span of three hours and 15 minutes. [went through “considerable effort” ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/11/18/ticketmaster-concerns-what-to-know-concert-tickets-taylor-swift/10728296002/)to attend the show, and through her singing, dancing, storytelling, sweating and strutting both on the main stage and the lengthy catwalk, she rewarded them mightily. [ bring the eras of her career](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/03/14/taylor-swift-eras-tour-albums-films-since-reputation-tour/11428040002/) to the stage, believe her.

Baby, let the games begin. Taylor Swift's Eras Tour kicked off on Friday night in Glendale, Arizona during a three hour show that ran through hits from ...

Swift stood on a set decorated like the moss covered “Folklore” cabin seen in serveral of her music videos. [2020 album “Folklore”](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/entertainment/taylor-swift-folklore-reaction-scli-intl/index.html) for the first time in a live concert. She later played an acoustic rendition of “Mirrorball” after informing her audience she’ll play a different acoustic song at every show throughout the tour. [Swift played ](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanschocket2/taylor-swift-eras-tour-best-moments)various songs from her [record-breaking 2022 album “Midnights,”](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/entertainment/taylor-swift-midnights/index.html) including “Anti-Hero,” “Lavender Haze,” “Mastermind” and “Bejeweled,” and closed out the show with the high energy hit “Karma.” [Swift’s set list covered more than 40 songs](https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/03/17/taylor-swift-eras-tour-setlist/70022488007/), likely proving to her fans that an exhausting wait for their anti-hero Taylor Swift to return to the stage was well worth it. Full disclosure: This CNN writer is a Swiftie. [Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour](http://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/entertainment/gallery/taylor-swift/index.html)” kicked off on Friday night in Glendale, Arizona during a three-hour show that ran through [hits from every era](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/entertainment/taylor-swift-unreleased-songs-eras-tour/index.html) of the Grammy-winner’s 17-year career.

Songs from “Red,” “Folklore” and “1989” came after, and then Swift performed a short acoustic set consisting of “Mirrorball” and “Tim McGraw” from her first, ...

Each era was accompanied by jaw-dropping sets, stunning choreography and, of course, custom outfits to represent each specific moment in Swift’s life and career. Swift ended the night with her most recent release, “Midnights,” bringing fans back to the present. Somehow, the only time Swift paused throughout the night was to make a quick outfit change, disappearing into thin air only to return in a brand-new (and often bejeweled) look.

At her epic opening show, the pop star played 44 songs and conjured actual magic. By Spencer Kornhaber. Taylor Swift posing with a microphone and ...

When she donned a glittering robe and began strumming that wounded ballad, it was the prestige of a magic show. Swift’s beloved 2010 album, Speak Now, emerged for only the keening “Enchanted,” sung by Swift in a ball gown amid a field of flowers. Giving fans the “Delicate” performance they’d agitated for on social media, Swift went comedic, delivering “You can make me a drink” as an impatient command, not a come-on. Then came the night’s first true gut punch, the ballads “Lover” and “The Archer.” For the latter, Swift stood alone, listing her vulnerabilities to a pulsing beat, until pyrotechnic sparks fell in a curtain behind her. “I see it—I see all of it.” The requisite giant snakes of Reputation, her 2017 [armored tank of an album](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/reputation-taylor-swift-first-review/545561/), hung amid stark, vertically imposing scaffolding. Breaking: Taylor Swift is not simply a voice in our ears or an abstract concept to argue over at parties, but a flesh-and-blood being with a taste for sparkling pajamas and the stamina of a ram. For the segment devoted to the Swift created the vibe of an ecstatic cram session, like an epic outing with a far-flung bestie visiting for one night only. Then came the hugely awaited live debut of the fan favorite “Cruel Summer,” a track emblematic of Lover’s careening, happy-go-lucky maximalism. “So, uh, is it just me or do we have a lot of things to catch up on?” Swift asked early on, sitting behind a piano whose mossy encrusting gave it the look of long-submerged treasure and helped underscore her point. All concerts are conjurings, turning the audience’s idea of a performer into a real thing, but last night’s kickoff of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour in Glendale, Arizona, heightened the amazement with Houdini-escapes-handcuffs physicality.

All the old Taylors came to the phone Friday night at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. For the purposes Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, ...

Hearing the clubby thump of the latest single, “Lavender Haze,” kick in as the show enters its tenth and final stretch was a kick, in a pop world where most veteran performers put their new material in the middle of a show, rather than the climax. It’s redolent, actually, of how she ended the last tour with a similarly feisty and unexpected choice, “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.” “Karma” seemed like a throwaway to some when “Midnights” first came out, but it holds up as not just kind of a funny eff-you — and her funniest song, which is saying a lot in a catalog that includes “Blank Space” — but also a celebration of the good guys winning. Especially when that’s rumored as the next “Taylor’s Version” edition to be coming, that album made for a strange choice to be underrepresented. It’s really only a handful of the 44 songs that are represented as snippets, or passing parts of mashups, although the attentive will note nips and tucks here and there to smashes like “Style” that ultimately aren’t very consequential. As much delight as there is in hearing a hit as mammoth as “You Belong With Me” or an album track as dramatically indelible as “Don’t Blame Me” again, this tour’s greatest value may be in finally giving an airing to the “Folklore”/”Evermore” nexus of contemplative material, with or without the chimney smoke. I wanted to play one more song from that album, if you have an extra 10 minutes to spare.” And the song that once only showed up in sets in the wild-card spot now took its place as now and probably forever the centerpiece of her set, even if “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” did indeed take a slot that probably could have been filled with enough other mashups to take the song count closer to 50. When “Style” occurs late in the show, you get a backward-tracking shot of Swift and her eight-women-strong girl squad moving in a single line toward the camera, to the suitable-for-marching beat. The visualization of “Tolerate It,” a number about a woman’s feelings of long-term emotional neglect, was played out with Swift standing on top of and eventually crawling across a dining room table of “Citizen Kane”-style length to literally get in the face of a disinterested partner. The stage set is as wide and almost as tall as it was for the “Reputation” tour, but most of that heft is put to use with a giant curved screen now, versus the sense of a multi-story dystopian city you got in 2018. A certain type of fan might wish she would reinvent some of her catalog music for the purpose of touring, but the star who has rendered her “Taylor’s Version” renditions as exact soundalikes has never see arrangement-tweaking as much of a priority. Actually, somewhere in that sequence the tour’s overriding structure came into focus — that this would really be the “Albums Tour,” with a less clunky name. And not just “the new ones.” As Swift reminded a crowd that needed little reminding a ways into Friday night’s tour opening, “We added four new members to the family” since everyone last convened for the “Reputation” tour in 2018.

The Taylor Swift Eras Tour: a theatrical, emotional, intense feat of performance that clocked in at over three hours — with 45 songs total much to the ...

She flexed her arm like Rosie the Riveter, hammering home the point with a deranged little kiss to her bicep. Taylor was fully feeling herself minutes into the Eras Tour setlist, and nowhere was this more obvious than in her build-up to “The Man.” Transitioning from sparkly bodysuit to sparkly power blazer, she said, “You guys are making me feel powerful." The effect was theatrical, bright as she rose from the middle of the wings to a surprising first song: “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince.” This one was for the girls with Lover Fest tickets. Three-plus hours of some of Taylor Swift's best work can be summed up in a quote from the singer-songwriter herself: “I don't know how to process how you all are making me feel right now.” an opening door, and dancers emerged carrying massive colorful wings — a la Loïe Fuller — to a montage of Taylor audio clips from various eras. It was also an especially Nashville kind of night, with openers Paramore and GAYLE hailing from the city.

Taylor Swift fans know all too well she's a brilliant performer. But never in our wildest dreams did we expect the Eras set list to be so enchanting.

- "Karma" - "22" - "Lover"

The three-hour concert in Glendale sees Taylor reportedly performing a total of 44 songs.

“If This Was a Movie” was originally included on a deluxe edition of Swift’s 2010 album Speak Now. Meanwhile, “Eyes Open” is another track from the film’s companion album The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond. “Safe and Sound” was part of the official soundtrack to the 2012 film The Hunger Games.