Dani/20s/ She/Her/ Welcome to my blog. I am a Christian woman who is also a crazy fandom obsessed fangirl. Some of my favorite fandoms are: Percy Jackson, Marvel, Stargate, 9-1-1, Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick, Stranger Things, Star Trek, Star Wars, Merlin, Doctor Who, Throne of Glass, One Chicago, & more. I'm always up for chatting about them and others.
"So today is a fantastic day, because today, I feel like you already know what I’m going to say, which makes me so precious and wonderful. 1989 is 10 years old today! That’s pretty special—a decade of the 1989 album. I um, god, I appreciate you so much for what you turned that album into. I’m always going to be so proud of it, so I think I should just go ahead and play some 1989 songs. So let’s just do it!"
— Taylor before playing How You Get The Girl/Clean (piano) in New Orleans, LA on October 27th
"So uh, welcome to the acoustic section New Orleans! The acoustic section, this is a tradition that I started on the Eras Tour because I was trying to challenge myself to play as many songs from different albums and different eras as I possibly could, so I always do something different. I’ll do something different on guitar, then I’ll do something on piano, no two nights are ever the same. And so that’s a fun little challenge for me to try to come up with what you might like to hear. I cannot remember the last time that I did this one."
— Taylor before playing Afterglow/Dress (guitar) in New Orleans, LA on October 27th
"So folklore actually has a sister album that I’m very proud of. That album is called evermore. And I call them sister albums because I just wrote them so close together. They were both pandemic albums, and they came out like, a couple months apart, and so for me, it was just one continuous project, and I look back on it all the time, when I get to play these songs, because I remember when I would finish writing a song that I’d be really proud of, the first thing I’d feel was I would feel really excited that it would be a way to connect with you guys, because we were all so isolated, and we all felt kind of alone, and so I’d be happy about that. But then I’d kind of wonder to myself, ‘Am I ever going to get to play this song live and hear them sing it with me? Am I ever going to get to have that experience with them over this song?’ because we really didn’t know the future of concerts at that time, as you remember, so let me just say, I am overjoyed that right now, I get to sing champagne problems with you here in New Orleans!"
— Taylor before playing champagne problems in New Orleans, LA on October 27th
"And so we have brought the folklore cabin to New Orleans! So folklore was, it was an album that I started writing about two days into the pandemic, and it was really, it was such an escape for me honestly, and I think we were all, at that point in time, looking for a way to escape from the reality we were in, because we were just so confused about everything that was going on, and so I think we all kind of dove into stories, right? Like we all ended up watching like a thousand hours of movies and TV a day somehow, reading books, and just drinking a lot of wine—just escape things, just escape things. And one of my escape things was writing the folklore album, and so here we are in this imaginary cabin that I created in my head, and when I would write this album every day, I would pretend like I lived in this cabin, and I would pretend that it was a real place, and I’d write stories. It was kind of first time where I’d made an entire album where I didn’t write every single song from the perspective of being the main character. [I was more of a narrator. And so I created all these stories in my head, and this is a story about a girl named Betty!"
— Taylor before playing betty in New Orleans, LA on October 27th
"Are we enjoying the Red era so far, New Orleans? Me too! You know what, I am really enjoying the whole thing, you know? Like, this is actually the longest tour I’ve ever done in my entire life. I’ve never played this many shows before, and there’s nobody that’s making me do that, right? Like, a tour can be as long as you want it to be, and I’ve just continued to add shows to this tour, because the Eras Tour is just simply the most fun I’ve ever had on tour, ever. And the reason for that, and I think you know that you guys have done this, but just know that I notice it, you’ve just, you’ve made it so special, you’ve created all these traditions, you like take over a city with joy, and kindness, and exuberant happiness. You know, like, I wrote, like, one line in a song about, ‘Make the friendship bracelets,’ right? And then I show up to night one of the Eras Tour, and you guys have all just made all these bracelets, and you’re trading them, and you’re making new friends, and you’ve just, you’ve turned this into such a fun thing. And now I like, roll into New Orleans, and there’s a giant friendship bracelet on the outside of the stadium. You did that! Speaking of the tours we’ve done before, I’ve been touring since I was about 15, and I made a lot of memories on those tours that I really loved, and really cherish. Is there anyone here tonight, I’m just curious, anyone here tonight who’s seen me in concert before? Welcome back! That’s a lot of you, wow. Is there anyone, and there’s no wrong answers here, is there anyone here tonight who’s never seen me in concert til tonight? Lots of new friends. I love it, I love it. That’s what I like about this show. It’s like we take all of my favorite memories from previous tours, and we add tons of new ones from the newer music, and so it’s almost like we’re always all there the whole time. And there’s actually one more song from the Red album that I’d love to play for you, if you happen to have about 10 minutes to spare?"
— Taylor before playing All Too Well (10 Minute Version) in New Orleans, LA on October 27th
"What an absolute delight it is to get to say these words to you: New Orleans, welcome to the Eras Tour! This is our third and final night getting to play in New Orleans, and I just want to tell you that I have been so moved and so blown away by the way that this city has embraced us and welcomed us, so can we all just please say a big, ‘Thank you, New Orleans!’ And you may think that we’re tired on our third night. That is not the way this works on the Eras Tour. The way it works is that we save our best energy. We save everything we’ve got, and we give it to you on this Sunday night, because you don’t care if you’ve got school tomorrow, you don’t care if you’ve got work tomorrow, you said, ‘I’m going to the Eras Tour anyway.’ There’s something pretty beautiful about that, so we’re giving you everything that we have tonight. But you know what? You’ve already gotten a world-class show this evening, because you’ve gotten to see an artist who is so brilliant, so magnetic, so incredible. You know that I am of course talking about my friend Gracie Abrams! So you and I, we’re about to go on a little adventure, and that adventure is going to span 18 years of music, and we’re going to be doing this one era at a time. How does that sound to you, New Orleans, Louisiana? Okay, so, here’s the thing. You’re about to hear a lot of songs. I mean there’s—there are a lot of songs in this show. And these songs are either written about, you know, I wrote it about something that happened in my life, a feeling I felt at one time, or maybe something that I invented in my imagination. And maybe that’s what you think about when you hear these songs playing out in the world, but all that’s about to change after tonight, because after tonight, when you hear these songs, you’re going to think about the memories that we made here at the Eras Tour in New Orleans! I’ll be your host this evening, my name is Taylor."
— Taylor before playing Lover in New Orleans, LA on October 27th
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