Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: The Ultimate Breakdown of Opening Night and Beyond

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We dive deep on The Eras Tour, from song choices to staging to guesses at surprises to come and more. Waiss Aramesh, who covered opening night for Rolling Stone, joins Brittany Spanos and host Brian Hiatt for the discussion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:05.8	The Aera's tour has begun.
0:07.9	It's the first tour in five years from Taylor Swift.
0:11.5	It looks like every night of this tour is going to be 44 songs
0:15.5	over three hours and we wanted to give you a sense of what to expect. To help us do
0:20.5	that I have Brittany Spanos and Weiss Aramesh with me.
0:24.0	Brittany and I were not lucky enough to be at the opening concert of the Erris tour,
0:28.0	but Weiss you were.
0:29.0	Brittany and I experienced it only through Tik-Tocks and YouTube.
0:32.0	We had to spoil a lot of the show for ourselves
0:34.4	just for the sake of this episode I hope everyone is sufficiently grateful for that
0:38.1	spoiled the whole setlist everything but wise to experienced it you wrote a great piece on our website that everyone can check out.
0:45.0	For you, what were the biggest surprises of the show itself?
0:48.0	The biggest thing was the three hours thing.
0:50.0	I've never seen anything like that.
0:52.0	30 minutes before she even went on,
0:53.7	there had been people on Twitter saying that it might be like three hours and 15 minutes.
0:58.0	People really want that to be the case and she has such a broad discography and they want her to do all this music but I don't know how
1:04.2	sustainable that is for a pop star to do that on a stadium tour when she's doing back-to-back nights and I just,
1:10.3	I didn't think that that was going to be a thing and then we're halfway through the show
1:14.8	she's five eras in and it's already like 9 37 and I'm like wow no she's really going to do all of this and
1:22.2	it's not like yeah are there breaks that are carefully
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