How Taylor Swift Shapes the Story of Her Eras

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The pop superstar is back on tour for the first time since 2018, performing grand stadium shows that spin a narrative from her 10-album catalog. Guest: Joe Coscarelli.

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0:00.0	I would be complex, I would be cool, they'd say I played the field before I found someone
0:08.4	to commit to, and that would be okay for me to do, every conquest I had made would make
0:16.6	me more robust to you.
0:18.2	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, your homemade DIY-to-temic merchandise item of music
0:23.4	news and criticism, I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:31.8	Back from the desert, the desert, I went to the desert for y'all, Glendale, Arizona, opening
0:38.6	night, Taylor Swift, Eras tour.
0:42.2	Maybe you were there, there were 70,000 people there, maybe you were there, and I didn't
0:46.0	see you, if so, hello, maybe you watched on a TikTok live stream, maybe you are sitting
0:51.5	tight waiting for the tour to come to a stadium near you, there's a lot to talk about as
0:56.4	far as the tour, the set list, big picture statements that Taylor has been making with
1:03.6	the show and in a adjacent territory, and also in the fan energy, both in the room and
1:11.5	on the internet.
1:14.1	Hello, live from Tumblr, we're back.
1:20.1	Joe is the first pop guest guest to be coming from inside a social network, he's been fully
1:26.2	bored, he's the lawnmower man of Tumblr.
1:29.2	We're going to have to talk about the different mode of Swiftie, depending on the social
1:33.8	network, because I think we're gearing up for a war.
1:37.1	Some of the things you were texting yesterday certainly seem to indicate that, so different
1:41.2	social network Swifties and also just different levels of engagement Swifties, no locals on
1:47.2	this pod.
1:48.2	No, of course not, like never, like literally exiled, exiled, we're going to go back home.
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