Paris Witnesses the Birth of a New Era with "The Tortured Poets Department! Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Takeover.

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to Taylor Swift Today, your daily
dose of all the latest headlines surrounding Taylor's

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music, tours, movies and life. I'm your host, Annalise's Idel and

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boy do we have some exciting stories
for you today. Let's kick things off

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with the highly anticipated European leg of
the Airas Tour. Anticipation hung in the

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air inside Paris's Lada Fence Arena on
Thursday night as a clock counted down to

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Taylor Swift's first European date. This
from Variety. Yes, the record breaking

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tour had been running for over a
year and was very well documented. Swift

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even released a concert film of it
in October that is now streaming on Disney

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Plus. But tonight was different.
Just under a month ago, during a

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break from the tour, Swift had
released her eleventh studio album, The Tortured

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Poets Department, and this show would
mark its live debut. No one could

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be sure of how it would fit
into her set. Would it be an

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entirely new era or just included in
the surprise songs portion? Would she kick

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off the show with it or put
it at the end? Well. When

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the lights dimmed and Swift sang It's
been a long time coming, signaling the

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beginning of the Lover Era, it
was clear that plenty of changes had been

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made to accommodate the new songs and
new outfits. Throughout. Swift debuted a

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new orange pink bodysuit for the Lover
Era, complete with a matching blazer for

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the Man. However, one of
her prized track numbers, the Archer,

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was removed from the setlist. Next, in the Fearless Era, a new

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black and gold fringed dress made an
appearance, but the real first surprise of

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the night came when the Red Era
followed instead of Evermore. During Red,

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Swift also debuted a new T shirt
which read this is not Taylor's version.

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As the show progressed, Swift revealed
that she would be combining the Folklore and

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Evermore sets from now on. We
have now reunited the sisters and combined them

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into one chapter, Swift said.
She then proceeded to flip flop between the

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two albums, beginning with Cardigan and
Betty, but then moving to a moss

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covered piano for Champagne Problems. The
song was greeted with several minutes of cheers,

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causing Swift to get emotional and mouth
I Love you to the crowd.

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As unfamiliar visuals came across the screen, it became clear that it was now

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time for the Tortured Poet's Department.
Assorted pieces of furniture, a chair,

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a lamp, a door floated from
the sky, alongside pieces of paper,

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which then evolved into a desert road
where the fixtures crashed onto the floor.

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Swift then appeared in a white corset
dress with cursive writing adorning its skirt and

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a chunky Vivian Westwood choker. The
set's graphics were mainly in black and white

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and included a UFO that looked like
it was about to abduct Swift and a

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filter that wided out her eyes,
giving her a demonic look. All of

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the stylings for the Tortured Poet's Department
were vaguely old Hollywood, perhaps a reference

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to Clara Beaux, but Swift really
hammered that home with a minute long skit

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in the middle of the set,
in which two of her dancers fling her

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around like a doll while old timey
music plays. During the skit, Swift's

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dress is removed, revealing nothing but
a two piece black set, and she

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is dressed in a gold jacket and
matching heels. Leaving the venue that night,

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one couldn't help but feel that they
had just witnessed an entirely new show,

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proving Swift's expertise in reinvention. She
could have just tacked the tortured poet's

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department onto the beginning or the end, but that would have been too easy.

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Instead, with more changes sure to
come throughout its European leg, she

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gifted her fans with another reason to
come back and see the Aras tour again

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and again. Speaking of the new
TTPD chapter during her second show in Paris

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on Friday, Swift revealed that she
started planning the surprise eight or nine months

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ago ahead of the album's release in
April. So Paris is the very first

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city to ever see the new TTPD
chapter of the Era's tour, she told

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fans, as the sold out crowd
cheered, I have to tell you it

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has been so rewarding playing it for
you, because we started planning this surprise

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for you about eight or nine months
ago, and then when we got two

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months off of the Eras tour,
we really didn't take any time off at

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all. We just went directly back
into rehearsal. More in a moment.

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Speaking of new outfits, let's dive
into the stunning high end looks Swift showcased

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during the Paris show during the first
show of its European leg on stage in

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a new Versace leotard and matching Lubatan
boots. The designer outfit is one of

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multiple high end looks Swift has added
to her updated show, which now includes

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songs from her latest album, The
Tortured Poets Department. Swift has been wearing

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custom Versace bodysuits during the Lover portion
of her shows since the start of the

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Era's tour, but her newest version
is one of her brightest, covered in

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orange crystals and large magenta sequins.
She wore the form fitting piece with knee

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high Christian Lubutan boots and a gold
Versace necklace. And let's not forget about

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the glittering blazer she added for her
performance of The Man a new version of

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the Versace design, featuring a double
breasted jacket covered in orange sparkles. For

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the Fearless Era, Swift stepped on
stage in a black body suit covered in

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silver, gold and white fringe that
made the piece look like a dress.

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She wore the metallic piece with sparkling
Lubutan boots and her signature red lipstick.

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It's unclear who designed the newest suit, but fashion house Roberto Cavalli has created

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Swift's other fringe pieces for the Fearless
set of the Era's tour. Alberta Ferretti

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has designed all of Swift's folklore dresses
throughout the Era's tour, including the flowing

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white piece she's seen wearing in her
twenty twenty three concert film. The new

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version, she wore in France on
Thursday appears to be the same silhouette as

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the latter garment, but in a
new yellow shade. It features a tiered

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skirt, flowing long sleeves, and
delicate swirls of sparkles and microbeads. For

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the nineteen eighty nine Era, Swift
swapped her usual fringed pieces for a bedazzled

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pink crop top a blue ombre skirt
and ankle boots in both colors. All

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designed by Roberto Cavali. The outfit
seemingly referenced similar ones Swift war on her

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nineteen eighty nine tour. In twenty
fifteen, the fashion house is also responsible

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for this look, with creative director
Fausto Puglisi adding a leopard head embellishment in

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the middle of its neckline. Cavali
was widely known as the Leopard King before

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he died in April. To match
the moody aesthetic of her new album and

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reference her Fortnight music video, Swift
donned a custom Vivian Westwood gown. It

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featured a sleeveless structured bodice, a
high low skirt, and lyrics from the

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Tortured Poets Department printed across it.
Swift wore the dress with white ankle boots

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from Christian Lubutan. In true Midnight's
fashion, Swift was bejeweled by the show's

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end. Zuhimrad designed her latest Midnight's
bodysuit, featuring a halter neckline, a

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diamond chest cutout, smaller slits at
the waist, fringe across its hem,

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and an intricate beaded pattern across the
garment. Swift wore the daring piece with

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knee high boots, fishnet tights,
and her now signature garter in a matching

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blue fabric. Speaking of the tour's
success, ticket sale revenues are rejected to

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hit around one point four billion dollars, which would make the eras the most

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profitable tour ever, ahead of Sir
Elton John's lengthy Farewell Tour, which spanned

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several years and brought in around nine
hundred and thirty nine million dollars. And

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it's not just fans who are loving
Swift's work. Kings of Leon frontman Caleb

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Followill recently praised Swift for inspiring a
new generation of musicians. He told The

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Sun newspaper, Dixie started wearing Kings
of Leon shirts around the house, but

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Taylor has made her see music differently. She's impressed how she can walk in

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with a guitar and write a song. A new generation are discovering what it's

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like to organically make music because of
Taylor Swift. And there you have it,

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