Swifties in Shock as Taylor Stuns with New Costumes, Setlist Shakeup on Eras Tour

0:00 You can hear this episode commercial free, along with hundreds of others from Kalaroga Shark Media on Apples, Spotify, or many other players. Just click the link in the show notes for more info Caalarogashark Media. Welcome to Taylor Swift Today, your brief roundup of the latest news about Taylor Swift's music, tours, movies and life. During a memorable performance in Portugal on Saturday as part of her European Eras tour, and emotional tailor gushed to the crowd during her red set, I've just never seen a crowd like this in my life.

0:41 There have been moments in this show already where I like forget what I'm supposed to do next or what I'm supposed to say, because I'm just so distracted by how much fun you're having and how you're performing in the audience. I love this. You're just so in the moment, she added, and I cannot tell you how special that is for us as performers to get to look out and make eye contact with you and connect with you in this way, noting it was an absolute dream to bring the Airas tour abroad. After performing in Lisbon on both Friday and Saturday. Swift asked the audience during her final show, there is before I start crying, there is one song that I want to play you from the Red album if you happen to have about ten minutes to spare, do you have ten minutes? This introduced her acoustic rendition of All Too Well Taylor's version. Later in the show, the singer surprised the Portuguese audience with two song mashups. Accompanied by guitar, She performed The Tortured Poets Department, her latest album's title track, along with Now That We Don't Talk. Swift then sang a medley of You're on your Own Kid and long Live on piano. After a two month break, Swift returned to the Arastur stage in Paris on May ninth. As anticipated by fans, she incorporated songs from her new album, The Tortured Poets Apartment into the three point five hour set list. However, she surprised the crowd by reordering the show lineup and debuting many new costumes. Sporting a white Vivian Westwood gown printed with lyrics from the album, Swift opened the segment with but Daddy, I Love Him,

2:15 before an abridged version of So High School. She then levitated around the stage on a moving platform while powerfully singing Who's Afraid of a Little Old Me, and performed down Bad encircled by a UFO beam. During Fortnight, Swift seemed to navigate an asylum and in the Smallest Man who Ever Lived, she mimed being shot while walking with a marching band. For the final song of the act, I Can Do It with a Broken Heart, Swift did a quick on stage change into a Vivian Westwood lingerie set and jacket as her backup dancers urged her to go on with the show. She then recreated choreography from across the Eras Tour while singing about performing despite heartbreak. On Sunday, Taylor also celebrated her her eighty seventh Eras Tour show with several nods to boyfriend Travis, who wears number eighty seven for the Kansas City Chiefs, along with wearing Chief's colors. During the nineteen eighty nine section, Swift sang So High School Live for the first time with Kelsey in attendance scene, dancing and singing along before mashing up the Alchemy and Treacherous During the surprise songs, Swift gave Kelsey a subtle shout out, asking the audience, did you know this is our eighty seventh show. In other news, Taylor has revealed opening acts for her upcoming Wembley Stadium Eras tour dates in London Met on June twenty first, Griff on June twenty second, and Benson Boone on June twenty third. I just found out Fortnite is number one on the UK Airplay chart, Taylor said,

3:46 next to an Airas tour poster. Thought this might be a fun time to announce the first group of opening acts I'll be adding to the London shows going on before Paramore. I chose artists whose music I love listening to and I can't wait for them to add an extra jolt of excitement to our shows. On x Met expressed gratitude to Swift opening the Taylor Swift Vertical bar the Era's tour on June twenty first at Wembley Stadium in London. Thank you at Taylor Swift thirteen. Never been so excited in my entire life. Hashtag ts the Aras Tour, sharing Swift's Instagram stories. Benson Boone captioned it at Taylor Swift so excited to be a part of the show, Thank you for having me.

4:29 Meanwhile, Jason Kelsey poked fun at younger brother Travis Kelsey's ripped jeans worn to an NBA Playoffs game on Sunday by reposting a quip from one of girlfriend Taylor Swift's cat loving fans reacting to his eye catching Denham's style at this is very trying, shared on x what the f did Taylor's cats do with his jeans? Jason chimed in, reposting it with the commentary, now that's funny. In Kentucky, one lucky blood donor will win Taylor Swift tickets from the Kentucky Blod. Donors giving blood this week at any of their locations are entered to win two tickets to Swift's final us Eras Tour show in Indianapolis on November three, plus a five hundred dollars Visa gift card for travel. According to a news release, every donor receives a Taylor Swift inspired T shirt, and those donating Mondays or Tuesdays also get a friendship bracelet. Mandy Brajuha, VP of External Relations at KBC said, showing our appreciation of donors is always at the top of our mind, so we are particularly excited to give a local life saver the opportunity of a lifetime to see an icon at the pinnacle of her career. It takes good fortune to get your hands on tickets like these, but it only takes forty five minutes to save local lives and potentially go to a concert on us. The release notes that blood donations typically decline during summer months. Stevie Nicks showed support for Taylor Swift while performing at the Bottle Rock Napa Valley Music Festival in kla on May twenty fifth. The legendary singer

6:02 wore a gold bracelet that said TTPD, initials for the Tortured Poet's Department, on her left wrist on stage. Fans quickly noticed the bracelet from Taylor's TTPD merch collection see even Legends Love Taylor, one fan posted on x after a Swift fan account shared video of Nick's wearing it. This means everything to me. Another replied. The friendship between Nix and Taylor is well known. Nix wrote a poem for Swift's TTPD album included handwritten in the CD and vinyl editions with the dedication for t and Me. An excerpt reads, he was in love with her, or at least she thought so. She was broken hearted.

6:43 Maybe he was too. Neither of them knew. She was way too hot to handle. He was way too high to try. He couldn't even see her. Nix called this relationship almost a tragedy, continuing he really can't answer her. He's afraid of her, He's hiding from her, and he knows that he's hurting her. The two have been close for years, performing together at the twenty ten Grammy Awards and with Nick's praising Swift in a Time profile that year, More Tailor in a Moment. Finally, one talented Taylor Swift fan stunned fellow Swifties by revealing a handmade crocheted blanket inspired by the official Aires tour poster. The creator shared the impressive throw on TikTok, unrolling the giant textile from above her head down to the floor, recreating the original tour poster design. The project took nearly one hundred thousand stitches and over five hundred hours across seven months to complete. Fans marveled at the blanket's intricate details, with comments like amazing, twelve out of ten, no notes, unreal talent, and this is wizardry as far as I'm concerned. Some jokingly admitted this is amazing and I am afraid of you, referencing the videos Who's Afraid of Little Old Me soundtrack. Though the creator Jen revealed the blanket just as Swift debuted an updated tour poster featuring her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, she wasn't concerned, preferring the original design between Time Sanity and Kiro appointments plus

8:20 materials. Another one would cost over twelve thousand, five hundred dollars to make, but she did release an updated pattern for other crocheers. In chart news, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department marked its fifth consecutive week atop the Billboard two hundred Albums chart. TTPD is the first album to spend its first five weeks at number one since Morgan Wallin's One Thing at a Time held the spot for twelve straight weeks after its March twenty twenty three release. Swift dropped the acclaimed double album on April nineteenth, and has added several tracks to the setlist of her aristour European leg. Fan footage from the Lisbon shows captured her performing a medley featuring the title track live for the first time. Close behind in second place, Billie Eilish's new album hit Me Hard and Soft garnered three hundred thirty nine thousand equivalent album units, marking the twenty year old singer's biggest career week so far. And that's a rap. Be sure to follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your preferred app and leave a rating or review if you enjoy the show, I'm Anally's Idol thanks to Mark Francis and John McDermott. Parts of this podcast may have been AI assisted, but it's one hundred percent pure Taylor Love. Taylor Swift Today is a Calarugus Shark Media production.