Will ‘Tortured Poets’ Be Added to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour?

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We are little than a fortnight distant from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour arriving crossed the pond successful Paris, France. We are also in the mediate of Swift’s latest epoch The Tortured Poets Department, that’s filled with 31 marque spanking caller songs. How is she going to acceptable them into the upcoming concerts? That’s mode excessively galore lone to beryllium played during Swift’s astonishment opus set, wherever she sings 2 songs acoustically connected soft and guitar. She lone has 50 shows successful Europe, truthful it would instrumentality up 31% of the acoustic acceptable if she decided to savor them each for the second fractional of the show. But Swift’s excessively overmuch of a mastermind for that. This limb of the circuit lone had 1 opener, Paramore, meaning much imaginable signifier clip for Swift. Could she adhd her newest epoch to an already 3-hour and 15-minute concert? Here’s each the grounds we’ve collected arsenic to wherefore Tortured Poets could beryllium added to the Eras Tour.

Ah, YouTube shorts. Probably 1 of the astir annoying features added to the level arsenic it floods the subscription provender with short-form videos connected a tract that thrives successful agelong signifier content. But it is present our archetypal portion of evidence. Looking person astatine the 15 2nd video of Swift rehearsing the concert, you tin spot her leaning against a railing that looks like… The Torture Poets Department logo?

She’s wearing what we tin presume to beryllium a lilac skirt, which is besides seen successful different YouTube Shorts video and mentioned successful “imgonnagetyouback.” Below is simply a person look astatine her heels, which are precise akin to the aforesaid shoes she wears successful the “Fortnight” euphony video. Now, wherefore would she request to signifier successful antithetic shoes if not for a caller set?

Our past portion of Shorts grounds shows dancers wearing achromatic hats and holding canes. Now, aft what feels similar countless viewings of the Eras Tour movie, I bash not retrieve seeing Swift’s dancers with either of those items, nor doing immoderate of those moves with Swift astatine the center.

In March 2023, Swift, likewise to the “Fortnight” challenge, shared bits and pieces of her beingness successful a TikTok, wherever she showed antithetic colored mics from the Eras Tour, including a achromatic one, which we haven’t seen connected circuit yet.

Over a twelvemonth later, the achromatic microphone has made its mode backmost into Swift’s hand, perchance for a Tortured Poets appearance.

The Anthology announcement echos a akin connection that Swift shares connected the Eras tour. Right earlier she plays “Lover,” she tells the crowd immoderate variation: “These songs possibly started retired being astir my life, but my goal, my imagination is that by the extremity of the night, they’ll beryllium astir your life.” And present for her latest medium release, Swift writes, “And present the communicative isn’t excavation anymore… it’s each yours.” Swift loves to make parallels betwixt her caller euphony and her erstwhile work. Can this beryllium an Easter Egg for what’s to come?