The Eras tour movie: can Taylor Swift get any bigger?

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re talking about the show, and pop star, of the century: Taylor Swift just released the film version of her Eras concert in theatres, and it’s already breaking records. Lilah hosts a roundtable on both the film and the Taylor phenomenon with HTSI Editor Jo Ellison and US media correspondent Anna Nicolaou. How did we all get wrapped up in the hype? Is there anywhere else for Swift to go? Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at http://ft.com/ftweekendpodcast.

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Links:

– the FT’s review of the Taylor Swift concert documentary: https://on.ft.com/46Hl0lh

– Anna has been writing about the Taylor Swift phenomenon for years, including here and here

– read Jo's column on seeing Taylor, which came out the day this episode dropped. You can find Jo on Twitter and Instagram at @jellison

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0:00.0	Welcome to FT Weekend. I am your host, Lila at Raptopoulos. Today we are changing up the format to do something a little bit different because a film that shook the world came out recently. We're doing a roundtable about Taylor Swift. That means I should probably do this again. Hi, welcome.
0:21.5	I'm Lila Raptopoulos.
0:23.0	I am a nightmare dressed as a daydream.
0:27.8	I'm thrilled to be here in the New York studio with Anna Nikolao, our U.S. media correspondent.
0:34.0	She is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.
0:38.0	I truly couldn't be happier on the weekend. Hi.
0:38.7	I truly couldn't be happier to be here.
0:41.6	Also with us from London is Joe Ellison, editor of HTSI and deputy editor of F.T. Weekend, who is also crucially the James Dean daydream look in my eye. I don't know. Hi, Joe. Hi. How are you doing?
0:58.7	Very well. Thank you. So all three of us went to movie theaters recently for the opening weekend of Ares. That is the film version of Taylor Swift's sold-out Ares tour. The film is a cut-down version of Taylor Swift's U.S. tour. It was filmed during
1:14.1	her stop in L.A. over three nights. And over the course of the weekend, it has become the highest
1:20.4	grossing concert film of all time just in one weekend. Anna, it was right under Barbie. Is that
1:26.3	right? Yeah. No. Really?
1:29.4	Yeah. So basically for the price of a movie ticket as a movie goer, you get to be at the concert, have the best seat in the house, see everything that's going on. And that's great because the tour was famously exorbitant.
1:44.7	Jo, maybe you can explain the movie itself.
1:47.8	How was the show organized?
1:49.6	So it's effectively a ticket to the show, no frills, no backstage, no conversation, no monologue.
1:57.4	It's pretty much a kind of like break down a bridged version of exactly what you
2:02.6	would see in the stadium, except that you are watching it and like on the front seat in high
2:06.8	definition, swooping around with the drones and getting this kind of like incredible
2:10.8	access all areas sort of view of the show, which is a two hour, 48minute, I think, version of her ERA's tour, which is a condensed
2:22.8	version of her 10 studio albums that she's released, bridging 17 years of Taylor, the life
2:29.1	of Taylor Swift. Yes. Anna, what did we miss? Nothing. That was perfect. I mean, the, I guess the line out of the Taylor Camp was this is the way for people who couldn't afford to go to the show to experience it.
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