Talkie Tuesday: The Eras Tour

 

"Welcome to the Eras Tour!"

 

 Hello everyone!

And welcome back to the blog post shenanigans that we usually get up to in this little corner of the internet.

I unfortunately had to take last week off, because I realized that getting up before 3 am every single morning, working until noon and then needing to function as a fully responsible adult in the afternoon just wasn't going to cut also having typing issues throughout.

So I took the break and recharged, focusing on what I needed, to come back with something I think people will rather enjoy!

Or well, I hope they will. LOL.

God only knows what people read about online these days, after all.

But that said, let's not waste anymore time and jump straight into The Eras Tour.

 

I'm reasonably sure I don't have anything else remotely similar to this on the blog already, but if something DOES crop up when I do a quick search later you can be sure it'll make its way to the very bottom of the page, as per usual.

 

The Eras Tour is the current ongoing musical concert tour by phenomenon Taylor Swift, who, even if you live under a rock, you've heard of.

 

The country music princess turned world-wide superstar knows how to put on a show, let's put it like that. And she decided, after not touring for five albums worth of music, that she was going to make a whole melange of a show to focus on all her achievements.

 

The concert is sectioned off - loosely - to cover basically ALL her eras, al the different albums she's released, and all the different genres of music she's played with over the years. The movie was filmed in LA so the set list goes like this:

 

 

Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, an Acoustic set (that changes depending on the rotation she has), and Midnights.

 

The show basically covers ALL of what she's ever done, and she has a very clever way of doing it, too, seamlessly moving from one set to the next, as well as changing her appearance to mirror what she's singing about. For example, during the Fearless act, she shows up in her signature frilly golden dress and low-heeled boots that were her staples when she was doing her first big tour, since I think she was slightly uncomfortable (at the time) wearing heels.

 

For Speak Now, she busts out the big, cupcake-shaped gowns that defined that entire album, and for Reputation she's in a slinky bodysuit.

 

You can see her transition from innocent princess and girl trying to fit in to a woman who doesn't give two sh*ts about what anyone else thinks, slipping into high heels regardless that she's already tall without them, not slouching anymore to seem smaller, and showing off a womanly figure that has nothing to do with the thin standards the industry tries to shove everyone into.

 

 

She's also incredibly inclusive with her support systems, too: her vocalists are all women of colour, and her dancers are a hodge-podge of ... literally everything! There's the traditional, basic white girl, someone covered in tattoos, POC, someone heavier in weight you normally wouldn't see dancing on a world stage like that, a curvy girl, a red head, you name it, she probably has it somewhere in the back!

 

And boy does she put on a show with these people. She's non-stop action from the first moment she appears to the very least, and I'm sure she was REAL thankful for the Acoustic set which allowed her to sit down or stand in one place to perform for a little bit.

 

But the real magic happens during the songs where she has her whole band out with her, some of which you might recognize as being with her since the very beginning, if you look closely, and when she busts out her very greatest hits that make the stadium echo because people know them so well - Love Story, I'm looking at you.

 

As arguably the first of her very biggest, Love Story is a song that EVERYONE knows and remembers, even the people who don't listen to her. Sure some of her newer singles from albums like Folklore and Midnights also get some of those kind of sounds but, I don't think anything beats the way the audience reacts to her older music, like when she busts out Our Song, the only feature in the entire set list (at least for LA) to represent her very first studio album.

 

 

And of course, she performs Long Live, as well.

 

I swear this song was actually prophetic. 

 

Swift released it on her Speak Now album, so that was back in 2010, but when she stands up on stage for her Eras Tour and performs it with her band standing on either side of her, you get chills (unless you're dead as a door nail), it's literally what she's experiencing right now with them. What they're all experiencing together.

 

And you can see it in their faces, the people who've walked this hard road with her all these years, and especially you can see it on HER face: she's done it. She's done everything that people said she couldn't do, and more.

 

There's so many rumours going round the internet about who or what she is - narcissist, flighty, unable to commit (Travis might have something to say there now), the works - but she takes it all gamely, puts it in her songs, and processes it that way.

 

 

I don't know Miss Swift personally, so I can't make that judgement call. Maybe she is all those things, maybe she isn't - but no one can deny that she's a BRILLIANT businesswoman who's built an empire and is moving higher and higher into the stratosphere. She's making smart decisions and all her moves are strategic, in pretty much everything she does, and scandal can't really seem to touch her (she's re-recording her old music to own it again, and honestly, if she were a guy and dating the way she dates, everyone would applaud her, so I'm with her on this).

 

She is, quite simply put, a Mastermind in her own weight class, and has tremendous reach across the globe with her fans because of it.

 

Plus, she's an entertainer. Yes she might rake in billions, but she also owns up to that, and supports people, putting her money where her mouth is. 

 

All in all, The Eras Tour is worth a watch simply because she's such a star-act show all on her own. I highly recommend it, for everyone - but bring your tissues and don't wear makeup. You'll cry through the show, I guarantee it.

I said remember this feeling
I passed the pictures around
Of all the years that we stood there on the sidelines
Wishing for right now
'Cause for a moment, a band of thieves
In ripped up jeans got to rule the world
Long live all the mountains we moved
I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you
And bring on all the pretenders
One day we will be remembered ...

xx

*images and video not mine