The fourth and baddest era of them all: Reputation.
After a big snake slides across a screen, Taylor launches into Ready For It?, which will be followed by Delicate, Don’t Blame Me, and Look What You Made Me Do.
This era was the last time I saw Tay live and I am being taken back to her black sequinned, dark lipstick, leather, snake era. Hisssss! She’s killing it.
Here she is at a previous concert for those watching at home.
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Possible Reputation announcement …
During the Tokyo night two concert, before playing Champagne Problems, Taylor made a little speech to the crowd saying the last time she had performed in Tokyo was during her Reputation tour.
This is a pretty normal thing for an artist to say and reminisce on but fans are now madly speculating the mention was a subtle hint that her re-record of the album could drop any day now.
Could an announcement happen tonight? I am keeping my eyes peeled for any clues.
The fourth and baddest era of them all: Reputation.
After a big snake slides across a screen, Taylor launches into Ready For It?, which will be followed by Delicate, Don’t Blame Me, and Look What You Made Me Do.
This era was the last time I saw Tay live and I am being taken back to her black sequinned, dark lipstick, leather, snake era. Hisssss! She’s killing it.
Here she is at a previous concert for those watching at home.
“You realise how loud you’ve been singing all night,” she says. “I’m having such a crazy moment in my brain. This entire show. Like, ‘I get to BE here?’”
She’s introducing her bandmate Karina DePiano – who plays the piano, and yes that is her name.
Tolerate It is up now. Here’s more nice footage from the start of the concert!
Have found some cute footage of Love Story from earlier in the night!
Champagne Problems
Champagne Problems tells the story of a couple dealing with a failed proposal as their family members pop the bubbly around them in celebration. Taylor actually collaborated with William Bowery (the pseudonym for her ex-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn) on this song and others during the folklore/evermore era. At the time, fans were stressed the song was about Taylor turning down a proposal from Joe but the singer had said both albums are works of fiction. Even so, marriage rumours surrounded that relationship and now that it is over … Well, this song kind of has a whole new weight to it.
In her preamble she mentioned her upcoming album the Tortured Poets Department and said “we’re gonna talk about that later”.
The cheers she is getting for that song are insane. Taylor looks genuinely overwhelmed and is tearing up. “You guys!!!”
Taylor’s at a piano now: “We have a lot to catch up on don’t we. Last time I was in Melbourne it was 2018, it was the Reputation tour, so if anyone was at that tour, thank you so much. We love old friends. If anyone is here for the first time (big cheers) then I’m so happy to see you.”
“People asked me how do you plan on touring with this overload of albums? You see the issue you run into when you put five albums out in as many years – so I came up with an idea called the eras tours.”
We definitely thought she was about to announce something but it turned out she just wanted a chat. She’s now singing Champagne Problems.
Side note: at one of her Tokyo shows, Taylor acknowledged a fan-initiated moment during the song majorie.
She said people putting their phone lights up for the song has “become a beautiful Eras tour tradition”. This song always makes me weep, and I actually can’t believe it’s in the setlist!
She just finished playing it.
Here’s some footage from outside the stadium, where people who didn’t have tickets were gathering earlier for a small sing-along.
Taylor swaps out the sparkles for this simpler mustardy dress, or as a Guardian staff member is calling “a trad wide mustard dress”.
It’s from designer Etro. She doesn’t need a spectacular piece here, just a beautiful flowing dress that she can wear while playing the piano and singing her heart out with the fans.
One for the money, two for the show
I never was ready, so I watch you go
Act three has started and it’s evermore: Swift’s second lockdown album and folklore’s older, perhaps wiser, sister.
Swift released evermore just five months after her surprise album folklore (the album and song titles are all lowercase). It was written when she was in the cosy depths of her relationship with Joe Alwyn – all autumn, woollen jackets and braided hair. Some of her most poetic songs live on this album (think Gold Rush).
This era starts off with ‘tis the damn season (a song I pretend to live out when I travel six hours home) followed by willow, marjorie, champagne problems (on piano) and tolerate it (surprised this gets a spot).
Lots of love happening in the nosebleed section!
From Sian, inside the show:
“People are going off for You Belong With Me. Taylor shouted: ‘Alright Melbourne, are you ready to go back to high school?’”
“Platforms are now moving up – she’s high and centre on the runway.”
And now we’re doing Love Story!
Taylor’s outfits for Fearless
For this Era, I always think back to her 2009 Saturday Night Live monologue song where she sang: “I like glitter and sparkly dresses.”
By now, Taylor has changed out of her trademark bodysuit and brought back back her shimmery dress, with fringes and tassels. The main dress she wears is this custom Robert Cavalli dress:
But she’s even gone more daring with this look from the designer:
We will keep our eyes peeled for what she goes for tonight.
One of the biggest surprises of the night is also not a surprise – Taylor will play two songs that are not on the setlist. She always plays two songs, so that’s not the surprise: the surprise is what they are, and she has rules.
Once she plays a surprise song she will not repeat it. Unless ... well, there are a few caveats:
She can repeat the song on the tour if she messes it up, which usually means fumbling the lyrics slightly
If the song is from her latest original album, Midnights, she can play it as many times as she wants
She announced at the end of last year that she would be “resetting” the surprise songs, so all the concerts she played in 2023 do not count towards the surprise songs of 2024.
Since there have only been three other shows this year – in Tokyo – there are hundreds of possibilities for surprise songs tonight.
The second era is Fearless – and this is the Era I truly fell in love with Taylor.
I still remember buying the 2008 album on CD from Target when I was 12 years old. My mum took me and it’s only fitting that 15 years later I’m taking her to her first Swift concert.
There has been criticism that Tay isn’t playing her self-titled 2006 debut album in the Eras concert (Our Song, Teardrops On My Guitar and Mary’s Song are so nostalgic for me), but Fearless was when she really did cut through to the mainstream with Love Story and You Belong With Me (which also infamously kicked off that Kanye West feud).
For this era Taylor performs the classics Fearless, You Belong With Me and Love Story.
(Additional: All I can say is my mum will be really happy with these choices – I on the other hand would’ve loved a little Forever and Always, The Best Day or Hey Stephen but there’s always the surprise songs.)
Here’s a snippet from a past show:
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