The stadium has turned purple … welcome to the brief but beautiful Speak Now era.
I know she is performing for 3.5 hours but I can’t believe there’s only two songs from this era. At least they are two of my faves: Enchanted and Long Live (the latter of which was added on 7 July 2023 for the fans).
This is what our lucky Melburnian Swifties would be witnessing right now: a real-life dream Barbie in her Swan Lake era. I hope Swifties survive through this song to see the rest of the concert.
Filters BETA
We have our first official pics now from the Melbourne show, from
Joel Carrett at AAP. As a general rule, gig photographers are only allowed to take snaps of the first three songs.
Era #5, Speak Now, is up next!
Reputation remains by far Taylor’s most experimental album, particularly after the huge success of 1989. She moved away from mainstream pop and went with harder and harsher sounds, and even rapped.
[Please enjoy Don’t Blame Me, which she just finished.]
My personal fav from this album is Call It What You Want. I am surprised Getaway Car isn’t featured in the setlist – this became a fan fav from her last tour and from that now famous clip of her and producer Jack Antonoff filming themselves writing the bridge of the song together.
Here’s a very sweet clip of Taylor reacting to the very prolonged cheer she got after Champagne Problems.
She’s currently singing Delicate, and Sian Cain tells us “there are a few using the walkways to have a dance-off. Some very weary staff are watching them.”
In other news our pizza arrived! It was average.
Reputation outfits
Here Taylor switches it up massively again. Goodbye flowing dresses and hello almost-full-length black sparkly bodysuit, with red snake patterned sequins.
This is another custom designed Robert Cavalli look and I love it:
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!!!”
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