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Mexican 🇲🇽 20.

[gethimback]

CRUEL SUMMER The Eras Tour - Mexico City, Mexico (Night 4)

[theerastour]

but what if I'm alright right right right here...(x)

[theerastour]

Taylor being the absolute cutest before atw (x)

[slightlymad]

to live for the hope of it all cancel plans just in case you’d call

[needyoulikeaheartbeet]

A List of the Eras Tour Surprise Songs

Wildcard songs from each show!

mirrorball (Glendale Swift City - March 17th, 2023)

Tim McGraw (Glendale Swift City - March 17th, 2023)

this is me trying (Glendale Swift City - March 18th, 2023)

State Of Grace (Glendale Swift City - March 18th, 2023)

Our Song (Las Vegas - March 24th, 2023) 

Snow On The Beach (Las Vegas - March 24th, 2023) 

cowboy like me with Marcus Mumford (Las Vegas - March 25th, 2023)

White Horse (Las Vegas - March 25th, 2023)

Sad Beautiful Tragic (Arlington - March 31st, 2023)

Ours (Arlington - March 31st, 2023)

Death By A Thousand Cuts (Arlington - April 1st, 2023)

Clean (Arlington - April 1st, 2023)

Jump Then Fall (Arlington - April 2nd, 2023)

The Lucky One (Arlington - April 2nd, 2023)

Speak Now (Tampa - April 13th, 2023)

Treacherous (Tampa - April 13th, 2023)

The Great War with Aaron Dessner (Tampa - April 14th, 2023)

You’re On Your Own, Kid (Tampa - April 14th, 2023)

mad woman with Aaron Dessner (Tampa - April 15th, 2023)

Mean (Tampa - April 15th, 2023)

Wonderland (Houston - April 21st, 2023)

You’re Not Sorry (Houston - April 21st, 2023)

A Place In This World (Houston - April 22nd, 2023)

Today Was A Fairytale (Houston - April 22nd, 2023)

Begin Again (Houston - April 23rd, 2023)

Cold As You (Houston - April 23rd, 2023)

The Other Side Of The Door (Atlanta - April 28th, 2023)

coney island (Atlanta - April 28th, 2023)

High Infidelity (Atlanta - April 29th, 2023)

Gorgeous (Atlanta - April 29th, 2023)

I Bet You Think About Me (Atlanta - April 30th, 2023)

How You Get The Girl (Atlanta - April 30th, 2023)

Sparks Fly (Nashville - May 5th, 2023)

Teardrops On My Guitar (Nashville - May 5th, 2023)

Out Of The Woods (Nashville - May 6th, 2023)

Fifteen (Nashville - May 6th, 2023)

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve with Aaron Dessner (Nashville - May 7th, 2023)

Mine (Nashville - May 7th, 2023)

[lovestory]

(x)

[lingeringswift]

she’s so hannah montana!!!!!!

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“Awww, hello! It feels like we have a little to catch up on. Am I the only one who feels that way, or do you feel that way too? So what’s been going on with us, you know, from my side of things, we’ve added four new musical members of the family. They’re really cute, they’re doing great. Our eldest of the four new ones is named Lover, and then we have a very, very imaginative, little sister, called folklore. And then folklore’s younger sister evermore. She’s wild. And then the baby, the youngest, Midnights. Another thing that’s happened is that I decided to re-record my first six albums! And let me tell you, that was a thing that a lot of people were like, ‘That’s not going to work.’ That’s not going to work. Watch her do that and watch that not work. But I had feeling you guys might back me up it, and you did! So thank you, thank you, forever, for that. The ones that I’ve put out so far are Fearless (my version) and Red (my version). But now we are embedded in the wild and whimsical world of evermore. And you know, when I write a song, my favorite part to write is the bridge. It’s my favorite. And I know that the chorus is probably the thing everyone remembers and the hook is apparently important, but that bridge—if you can get to that bridge and make the bridge go like, ‘Oh! Whee!’ then that’s my favorite moment to sing with a crowd, So when I wrote this one, I’ve always been like, ‘I really can’t wait to sing that one with the crowd.’ So this is called champagne problems.”

—Taylor before playing champagne problems in Arlington, TX on April 1st

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“So you might have noticed, based on the aggressive color blocking, that what we’ve been trying to tell you is we are currently in the Red era. When I do the show, one of my favorite things about it is that it really does take me back through this dream and life and caeeer that I am so lucky to have gotten to have because of you. And when we get to the Red album, I really do think about how important that album was for me as a musician who wanted to try new things and experiment and and learn, but also as a young woman who was writing about heartbreak and just dying for someone in the crowd to look back and say, ‘I’ve been through that too and it’s going to be okay,’ and you did that for me. And you know, I think there was one song that mattered more to me than any other song. I hate to play favorites, but I just do when it comes to this one. And so I’d like to play this next song, one more song in the Red era, if you happen to have an extra 10 minutes to spare?”

— Taylor before playing All Too Well (10 Minute Version) in Arlington, TX on April 1st

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“So you might have noticed, based on the aggressive color blocking, that what we’ve been trying to tell you is we are currently in the Red era. When I do the show, one of my favorite things about it is that it really does take me back through this dream and life and caeeer that I am so lucky to have gotten to have because of you. And when we get to the Red album, I really do think about how important that album was for me as a musician who wanted to try new things and experiment and and learn, but also as a young woman who was writing about heartbreak and just dying for someone in the crowd to look back and say, ‘I’ve been through that too and it’s going to be okay,’ and you did that for me. And you know, I think there was one song that mattered more to me than any other song. I hate to play favorites, but I just do when it comes to this one. And so I’d like to play this next song, one more song in the Red era, if you happen to have an extra 10 minutes to spare?”

— Taylor before playing All Too Well (10 Minute Version) in Arlington, TX on April 1st

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“So folklore was an album that was really my form of escapism during the pandemic. You know, we all found different ways to get outside f our lives and realities because we just didn’t know what we were doing. For me, up until then, it had never occurred to me to write about anything other than just me, and me, and my feelings, and me, so it was a nice change. And I thought, you know, wouldn’t it be fun to create characters and story arcs and narratives that go between these characters, right? And there’s one thing you should know about me: I do have this recurring theme in my writing where I just love to write songs that womansplain to men how to apologize. I just love it. It’s the thing I love to do: “This is how you get the girl, this is how you fix it, this is how you say sorry to us.” And so I thought, wouldn’t it be so fun to create a character like this teenage boy named James who screws things up with the love of his life, and he has to apologize to her, and her name was Betty!

— Taylor before playing betty in Arlington, TX on April 1st

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“This is another request from someone who’s here tonight. This is a request from Gracie Abrams. I texted her and I was like—we text—and she was like, ‘I’m so excited, I’m so excited for this tour,’ and in her very adorable way, ‘I’m dying, dying, dying, I’m dead, I’m crying all day,’ she talks, you know her, she’s very adorable, the way she speaks in hyperbole. And I mentioned the acoustic set, and she was talking about the setlist, and she was like, ‘Would you play Clean?’”

— Taylor before playing Clean (piano) in Arlington, TX on April 1st

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. I’ve been checking in with you all night, but I feel so impolite. I haven’t greeted you. Are you having a good time back here? Good! You know, this is like, this is one of my favorite parts of the show because, it’s just you and me and an instrument in this very intimate venue, and I get to play a song and hear you sing it so loudly because it’s just me and you in this intimate venue. So what I do on this tour so far, is I’ve been playing diff songs every night, like I’ll do one on the guitar and one on the piano, and the goal is to not repeat one so that every single time I play a song on the acoustic set, it’s the one time I play it, unless I mess it up in which case I would have to do it again at some point to redeem myself—you understand. I do take requests, if they are phrased in a polite way. Not right now, I’ve already decided, I’m so sorry, that was false advertising, I didn’t mean to—I have to practice all day, you know, I can’t take chances, there are 70,000 people here. You get it! This actually came from one of my closest friends, and my collaborator of dreams, who is actually here tonight. Jack Antonoff is here tonight. And you know, I was telling him, I’ve played this one, I think once live, and everybody screamed the bridge so loudly that I kept telling him about it, saying, ‘I wish you’d been there, it was so insane,’ because we wrote this song together because we wrote this song together and I really want him to hear you do it. I’m really hoping you know the words to this song. I’m gonna take my chances. This song’s called Death By A Thousand Cuts.”

— Taylor before playing Death By A Thousand Cuts (guitar) in Arlington, TX on April 1st

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“Las Vegas, welcome to the Eras Tour! I got a really, really good feeling about this crowd tonight. You made an impeccable first impression. Wow. I’m just curious, what’s the alchemy that makes up a crowd like this? I was wondering, is there anyone here tonight who has traveled a great distance or otherwise greatly inconvenienced themselves to be here? That’s a lot. I’m also curious: Where are my Vegas locals? So it’s these two groups that make up this glorious, effervescent crowd that has already made us feel so welcome. And I would like to say, on behalf of every single person that you see on this stage, everyone working underneath the stage, above the stage, the people who helped put the stage up, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being with us tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Speaking of people who’ve been on this stage, we are very, very lucky on the Eras Tour because we have incredible opening acts. The first person you saw perform was a fellow Nashville girl and an amazing artist named Gayle. Give it up for Gayle! And then after Gayle we had an artist who was making her very first show debut on the Eras Tour who I’m a huge fan of: this amazing singer-songwriter called Beabadoobee. Can you please give it up again for Beabadoobee? Guys, since you’ve been so incredibly supportive for 17 years that I’ve been making music, we’re about to go on a grand adventure together, one era at a time. So we have songs about all kinds of things headed your way. We have songs about illicit affairs and blank spaces and the month of August and revenge, and heartbreak, and all that good stuff. But this song we’re about to play for you now? That’s just a good old fashioned love song. And by the way, I’m about to introduce myself. I’ll be your host this evening. My name’s Taylor!”

— Taylor before performing Lover in Las Vegas, NV on March 24th

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“So, is it just me, or do we have a whole lot to catch up on? I feel like there’s a lot we have to catch up on. Maybe I’ll start with the big things. We added four new members to our musical family, and their names are Lover, folklore, evermore, and Midnights. And also, I basically decided to re-record my first six albums, which you guys have been absolutely unthinkably supportive about, like I never imagined that you guys would do what you’ve done with the re-records, it’s crazy. The two that I’ve put out so far are called Fearless (My Version) and Red (also My Version). And right now, we are currently enmeshed in the glorious, wild, whimsical world of evermore! And ever since we wrote this song that I’m about to play with you, I’ve been fantasizing about what it would be like to sing it with you in a stadium of 60,000 gorgeous, excitable, supportive people. So I’m going to do it now. This is champagne problems.”

— Taylor before playing champagne problems in Las Vegas, NV on March 24th

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“On the count of three, can you tell me what era we are in? 1-2-3! That’s correct, Vegas. We are in the Red era. When I look back on Red as an album, it really feels like I can’t think about the album without thinking about all the ways in which that album represented my entire life at that point. I look back at that album as a point in my life where I was trying out new genres. I so badly wanted to experiment in some ways. I so badly just wanted to work with any type of collaborator I could, whether they were putting out country music, I wanted to try working with people in rock and pop and folk. I wanted to learn. And this was an album where it really did seem sort of like a mosaic of just curiosity musically. And at the time, I was 21 and 22 years old when I made it, and just as a young person I was really happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time. And I don’t think you understood that by embracing this album, you were embracing the very scattered, growing, flawed, but learning person that I was at that age, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to thank you for what that did for me as a person. On that album I had a favorite song on the album, and knew it would never be a single. And no one in a conference room or at a record label would ever pick this song, so I didn’t even try, honestly. It never like, could be a single, so I just didn’t give it attention. It was a really long song, like 5 minutes and 30 seconds, or something. But it started out much longer, so I’d like to play that song for you, if you have an extra 10 minutes.”

— Taylor before performing All Too Well (10 Minute Version) in Las Vegas, NV on March 24th

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“So we brought the folklore cabin to Las Vegas, Nevada. The folklore cabin, as an idea, really just kind of started in my imagination. Everybody has a different experience with the pandemic, but I think we all had to essentially resort to some form of escapism, whatever that was, you know? Sourdough, or, I don’t know, wine? And so the folklore cabin, I think, probably came into my imagination before the folklore album even arrived in my head, which was about two days into the pandemic. I started writing that album immediately. I was like, ‘I have got to do something about the way this has made me feel.’ And so it was kind of like a method of escapism in that, when I imagined this cabin, I was not a millennial woman who was rubbing hand sanitizer on her groceries and somehow managing to watch 76 hours of television in one day who has cat hair all over her. I was, in my mind, I was a pioneer woman wearing a Victorian tattered nightgown and I was wandering through the woods and maybe collecting feathers and saying like a spell or an incantation, and so that’s where it all started. It was like an idea, of like, 'I’m not here, this isn’t happening,’ and so now folklore is an album, and this cabin is here, with all of us tonight. So one of the things that I loved about writing folklore was it was just the first time I ever thought, 'Hey, I’m not going to write about my own life. I’m going to take a little breather from the extensive navel-gazing of my own life. I was just going to be like, what if there was this teenage boy named James who fell in love with a girl named Betty?”

—

Taylor before Betty in Las Vegas, NZ on March 24th

[likeadevils]

thinking about “by embracing this album, you were embracing the very scattered, growing, flawed, but learning person that I was at that age” and taylor talking about how she would constantly tear down her past work in order to make a new album, and how the 1989 tour barely had any songs from past albums, and how she is rerecording every inch of her first six albums and playing sold out stadiums on a tour that consists of 38/44 songs from her past albums and just. may we all grow to love and forgive our past selves as much as taylor has