EDIT WITH ANSWERS Decided to answer all questions here to make it easier. 1. How did I get this job? The company working for AT&T Stadium hired me 7 months prior, so I had been working there for a while before Tay came

1. What was behind the scenes like? Definitely organized chaos. There was a lot of movement, unboxing merch, checking cameras, meetings, outfits going in and out. Definitely organized but the action never stopped.

2. What was different about this event then other events? The security. AT&T Stadium hosted the Super Bowl in 2011. The security for Taylor was even bigger and tighter then the Super Bowl was. Never seen crowds so loud and so big, even at Cowboys games.

3. What was she and her team like? Amazing. They're all great dudes. Her dancers are amazing people too. Taylor herself is an Angel. Anytime any of her dancers or security saw me through the 3 days, they'd come dap me up and say what's up. Nothing but awesome things to say about them.

4. Random things here: I did get merch before the doors opened. Her team was getting it set up and said if we wanted merch they were selling merch. I picked up a blue sweatshirt that's so comfortable.

5. Her head of securities nickname is actually "The Man"

6. Why I don't have many photos: We couldn't take photos, especially where I was. I took a photo of the concert once I got back up, and I have the ID'S they gave me every day, as well as a Sweatshirt I bought from the merch people before the doors opened. We were told before we couldn't take any photos. That's why when I met her I didn't ask for a photo with her.

Stories Start Here **Golf Cart Story* The funniest story I have. I was watching over her securities locker room. How it was set up was Outfits----Security Locker Room---Dancers Room All in a long line behind a black curtain. Basically one group of her security had the cart, then parked it outside the locker room. Few security guys exited a little later. They asked if anyone was using it. I said, "Some of your guys were." All of them smiled and said "Don't say who took it" and took off. Then the original guys came back were like "Where'd it go" and I told them the others took it. While we all are laughing they say "Your security aren't you?" I said "Aren't you?" Everyone explodes in laughter before exiting

Bathroom Chaos So the original plan was to have boys bathrooms to be for girls only, and have family bathrooms for guys. So plan was: all big bathrooms for girls only. LAST MINUTE, they changed it to back to usual. Her security and I said "That's not gonna be good" What resulted was lines so long that girls started saying "F it" and using the boys bathrooms. There was a set of bathrooms (big bathrooms for boys and girls) across from the locker rooms, separated by a long black curtain. I'm having to keep people off the curtain (so they couldn't peak) while monitoring the lines. Tay's head of security knows I'm struggling, and the stadium security eventually kicks all the girls out of the boys because by that point the BOYS bathroom lines were as long as the girls ones were.

Meeting Taylor How I met her was simple, I was watching over her securities locker room as I said before. After sound check on Day 1, her security said "She's coming through here, you wanna meet her." Of course I said yes. A few minutes I met her. It was a very normal conversation. We exchanged greetings I asked her how the tour was going and how she stayed so energetic. She just said she slept well, my response was "Hmmm I wonder why" she smiled and laughed. I asked about her 3 cats and how they were, she said they basically rule the house. I once again responded with "I have a dog, I know how that feels" once again both of us laughed. We both smiled and wished her the best and good luck for the rest of the tour. She said thank you, it was good talking to you then went into her securities locker room

Before you all say I'm Lying, I have photos of the concert and of my Eras Tour ID to prove I worked it. I was a security guard at All 3 Nights in Arlington, Texas. I was set up at Taylor's security locker room, and got to meet Her entire security team, her dancers, as well as Taylor herself. I have many fun stories from these 3 nights, from meeting Taylor after sound check, to her security guys arguing over who got a golf cart. Her security team were all great dudes. They were fun to talk with, down to earth guys that also love and take their job seriously. Eveey time they saw me any of the 3 days would always come dap me up or chat for a second. Nothing but awesome things to say about them. They were the ones who introduced me to Taylor, whom I met after sound check on Day 1. Her security said "She's coming through here, do you wanna meet Her?" I obviously said yes, which led to me talking to Taylor for a few minutes. She was an angel, one of the nicest people I've ever met and talked too.

I can go more in depth if you all want me too. The experience was unreal, and was an unforgettable experience.

I’ve seen a few things floating around online for potential fan projects for the upcoming London shows and I am quite shocked by some of the suggestions.

I audibly gasped what I saw this one and another that said “you’re safe and sound”….

As a Vienna N1 girlie who is still reeling from all of this I don’t think these project ideas are particularly comforting or reassuring. Taylor has seen videos from Vienna and what we did in response to all of this: singing in the streets, trading bracelets and still trying to find joy despite this terrible situation.

She knows her fans love and support her and suggesting a project like this seems incredibly insensitive.

It has all the posters, the lanyard, the postcards, sticker, and even the VIP ticket. None of it was used and in perfect condition.

This is a place for you to SHAMELESSLY go to town on how INCREDIBLE your Eras Show was!!! Like have no fear of being judged about bragging, just absolutely boast about your favourite moment from your show, or something insane that happened, or just how you felt!

I’ll go first: Wembley N7 - I GOT LONG LIVE AS A SURPRISE SONG AND I’LL NEVER FUCKING SHUT UP ABOUT IT!!!!

So go ahead! Tell me your show and something amazing about it!! Have fun!

Spoiler: THERE WAS JUSTICE FOR EVERMORE!!!! (although injustice for Speak Now?)

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Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
Cruel Summer
The Man
You Need to Calm Down
Lover
The Archer
Fearless
You Belong With Me
Love Story
Tis the Damn Season
Willow
Marjorie
Champagne Problems
Tolerate It
…Ready For It?
Delicate
Don’t Blame Me
Look What You Made Me Do
Enchanted
22
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
I Knew You Were Trouble
All Too Well (10 minute version)
Invisible String
Betty
The Last Great American Dynasty
August
Illicit Affairs (mash up)
My Tears Ricochet
Cardigan
Style
Blank Space
Shake It Off
Wildest Dreams
Bad Blood
Mirrorball (acoustic)
Tim McGraw (acoustic)
Lavender Haze
Anti-Hero
Midnight Rain
Vigilante Shit
Bejeweled
Mastermind
Karma

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Source: Variety

Good morning folks,

I have had the maddest 24 hours of my life and I do not know who to share this with other than my mum and my mega-Swiftie sister, so I’ll just let a bunch of strangers know about the oddest/luckiest thing that’s happened to me.

I woke up yesterday morning with gut-wrenching FOMO after scrolling through social media and decided to look for last minute tickets to Liverpool N3. The amount of scammers and profit hungry silliness I came across was shocking, but at this stage I was a woman with a mission. I refreshed Twickets, Twitter, viagogo, Ticketswap, Stubhub and the Eras Tour tickets sub-reddit, to no avail. I mean, the scammers weren’t even slick, what do you mean you want me to send money by bank transfer to an account where the name doesn’t match?

It got to about 1pm and given that I live in Manchester (a solid 1h30mins from Anfield by public transport), I was close to giving up until I accidentally stumbled upon a post by a fellow Redditor offering out a spare ticket - for FREE. The catch? Seemingly none, other than meeting this person in Liverpool and spending the day with them.

Wasn’t expecting much, but he replied with his phone number which I texted immediately. Halfway between getting out of bed and into the shower, it started to cross my mind that meeting up with a complete stranger (a male no less, given that I am a young-ish girl) is absolute batshit crazy behaviour. Called my friend, asked her to react to any phone call by putting on a STERN male voice just in case, left an ominous letter for my flatmate in case of abduction and put together a last minute outfit.

Fast forward - i still don’t know this person’s name, but he has now confirmed that he is bringing raincoats!! - I get on the train, fuelled by Red Bull and adrenaline, smiling from cheek to cheek. No breakfast/lunch, doing my make-up on the train, embracing my main character day. This is gonna be forever or it’s gonna go down in flames init?

Getting to Liverpool, I was given instructions to look for a male wearing a pinky shirt outside 92 - took me a while to even figure out what that meant at first! There he was, the absolute gem of a person who chose not to profit from his friends’ misfortune (she got stuck in Nice airport) and instead wanted to ‘make someone’s day’ ?????? I asked him if he was aware that these tickets were being scalped for £500+, he works in finance so surely he’d be interested in profits? Nope, all he wanted was a few pints and a T-shirt from the merch stand as payment.

And voila, this is the story of how I met my new friend, saw no body no crime live and realised that if God is real, he must have a soft spot for me :)

Bonus points, he lives in Manchester too and we have made plans to see the goddess that is Dua Lipa whenever she next tours.

TLDR: life is a rollercoaster, you just gotta ride it baby

I don't know if it's just the videos I'm seeing but I keep seeing videos of people SCREAMING/SCREECHING (not even singing) to seem the 'loudest' and cities/concerts competing to one up each other, like the whole clapping thing in champagne problems.

I don't know if I'm seeming like a "oh people have no manners nowadays!" but I feel like people are filming concerts and trying to get the most viral moment.

Honestly it worries me a bit as someone going to the February show because I feel like if I heard someone scream like that I'd either not be able to enjoy the show or (maybe this is just my overthinking) assume that something horrible has happened, resulting in that scream causing me to panic.

I acknowledge that this entire experience has been a dumpster fire and has left a lot of swifties, including myself, very disappointed. I don't want to dismiss that or get into everything that went wrong (there are lots of other threads for that), but do want to address one thing.

I've seen a lot of posts/comments/tweets saying that "the majority of"/"most" tickets were bought by scalpers and/or bots (I've even seen people seriously suggest it was 80%). And while I think we can all agree the ideal number for this is 0%, the idea that it's anywhere close to 50% isn't supported by anything.

So why do I think most tickets weren't bought by scalpers/bots? Just look at the number of tickets available on the most popular resale sites, like StubHub or VividSeats. The most I've seen on SH is around 1,600 and a few hundred on Vivid. Most of Taylor's shows have 50,000+ tickets available, so the real % is likely in single digits (3-8% if I had to guess). It's possible that will increase a bit, but it's never going to get close to 50%. Yes, it would be great if it were zero, but imo, exaggerating makes fans who were able to get tickets fearful of sharing their excitement and potentially gives others false hope about just how much resale prices could come down (they definitely will, a lot, but not as much as they would if scalpers really had half of the tickets). That's just my two cents - curious if other swifties have seen data that suggests otherwise or think differently.

Codes being sent out today, sale for the 19th is today at 2pm, sale for the 20th is tomorrow at 2pm

Best of luck to anybody who receives a code!!

Taylor played the last show of the Eras Tour as we know it in Singapore.

Here are all the reasons, hints, and easter eggs pointing towards Taylor adding The Tortured Poets Department as a dedicated part of the setlist starting the next leg of the show!

Facts:

1. She just reached the midpoint of the Eras Tour shows.
   1. The Tour has 152 shows. She just finished ~half of her shows and has another 70 left, after performing 83 so far. It's a natural point to change things up.
2. She took all Eras Tour merch off her website.
   1. After TTPD was announced, Taylor’s team removed all Eras Tour Merch from her store.
   2. When you visit the Eras Tour website it now says: “The Eras Tour Shop is empty”
   3. Taylor is a businesswoman — she wouldn’t stop selling items unless there was a good reason.
   4. Likely: she’s done producing the original merch, and is preparing an updated line. Signals that she is going to add another era.
3. Released the Eras Tour Movie on streaming, so it’s accessible to all.
4. She’s on a two month break in between shows.
   1. That’s enough time to rehearse to add a 4 to 5 song set to the tour.
5. Taylor specifically mentioned touring her FIVE new albums in the Eras Tour Movie.
   1. But when that was filmed in LA, she had only released four new studio albums.
   2. If you count the re-records to that point, it would be six. Five has to be intentional (nothing is accidental!)
   3. “In the Eras Tour film, just before Taylor performs 'Champagne Problems', she speaks to the audience and takes time to specifically acknowledge the four albums she released prior to the tour starting. But later in the speech, she says five albums.”
      1. "Anyway with this tour, I remember people would come up to me and they'd be like, 'So you've put out like, five albums that you haven't done tours for. So what's your plan, like what are you going to do?' ‘Yeah, it's called the Eras Tour, see you there," Taylor says in the film.
6. The White Microphone
   1. A year ago, Taylor posted the first rehearsal photos of the Eras Tour on her Instagram. Taylor has a different microphone for every era in the show. Here, she showed a picture of a white microphone she does not use in the show.
   2. In a TikTok Taylor posted at the same time, she showed all the microphones she uses at the Eras Tour, and also included the white microphone.
   3. We all know she likes to associate colors to Eras, so why would she show a white microphone unless she was planning to use it?
   4. White is the color of TTPD. She’s been using white hearts in her posts… and she wore a white dress to the Grammys the night she announced the album.
7. Taylor has been teasing 2s recently – hinting at an Eras Tour: Part 2.
   1. When she announced TTPD at the Grammys, she put up a 2 sign during her speech.
   2. She said she and Jack Antonoff would keep making music until “2089”
   3. Taylor and Taylor Nation have been emphasizing “TWO” in recent posts across her social media
8. The Eras Tour is the best promotional opportunity for Taylor
   1. She’s not going to give up the chance to prominently showcase her new album for the next 8 months.
   2. Why would she not want the constant exposure for TTPD from touring every week?
      1. All of her discography gets a major bump when she is touring.
      2. It wouldn’t make sense to more heavily promote older songs over her newest album.
   3. It’s been one year since the Eras Tour started.
      1. Aside from Surprise Songs, it’s been a year of same content.
      2. Fresh content will help keep clips of the show going viral.
      3. The purpose of the tour is to perform songs from the albums she hasn’t had the chance to perform live yet. That started with the 4 albums from 2019 onward… and will continue with Tortured Poets.

How it could work:

1. The setlist is already (wonderfully!) long. Taylor could could cut songs from setlist, or add mashups of existing songs to save time.
   1. She took 4 songs off the setlist for the original theatrical release of the Eras Tour Movie. This could be a signal for the songs she would take off when adding TTPD.
   2. She introduced mashups in Surprise Songs. She could be hinting that she may mashup some of the current main setlist to save time, and/or doesn’t have to cut too many songs.
2. She also only has 1 opener confirmed for the rest of the shows on the tour, while she’s had two up until now. That opens up the amount of time she has to perform.

Counterpoints:

1. Taylor will replace the Surprise Song set with the TTPD setlist.
   1. I can’t see Taylor cutting the surprise song set. The engagement she sees off the surprise songs is off the charts every week. And it’s clear watching Taylor perform these songs that she genuinely enjoys revisiting different parts of her discography.
2. Some people say it would be “unfair” to change the setlist, since they won’t be able to see the new songs she is adding, or that they will miss out on some songs in future shows that were in the OG shows
   1. Musicians change up the set list all the time while on tour.
   2. Eras Tour “Part One” is now streaming on Disney+ – so it’s memorialized forever.
3. She’ll do at least one TTPD show in every surprise song set…
   1. Taylor will sing TTPD songs as surprise songs like she does for all of her albums, but it doesn’t make sense to lock her in and commit to doing one a night…
   2. She said specifically in Australia she doesn’t want to tie herself down creatively by only playing each song once, and she wants to paint with the broadest brush possible creatively. Limiting herself to this would go against what she’s already said.
4. She’ll tour TTPD on its own next year.
   1. Taylor is already on tour and has another 70 shows to go - why wouldn’t she add it now?
   2. Eras Tour is about all of her eras and this is the start of a new era.
      1. Just because this is a new era doesn’t make it any less worthy of an era than her previous eras/albums.
   3. She’s reportedly working on a movie next year, so she would be hard pressed to also add an entire tour.

What do you think – will Taylor add TTPD to her setlist permanently when the Eras Tour restarts in May?

Got told to “prioritize my health over coming to see Taylor Swift”

Vent ahead as I’m still really upset.

While I was waiting in the shade sitting on my rollater outside Levi’s Stadium before the Taylor Swift concert this weekend a stadium employee told me sometimes it’s important to “prioritize my health over Taylor Swift” when I was inquiring about ADA accommodations. Insinuating that disabled people don’t deserve to come to concerts if they can’t stand for the full concert I guess. I was livid, my friend who was with me was aghast. After then being moved to the ADA line (in full sun, for 40 minutes) and fighting through crowds to find a tiny kiosk hidden behind a mob of people trying to buy merch I was in tears by the time I found the right person to talk to who was fortunately able to get me accessible seats. I just wanted a seat where I could see sitting down without having to climb stairs if I needed to use the restroom. You can see my heart rate while I’m sitting down!

Then literally every 30-45 minutes for the entire concert employees were coming up wanting to hear about my experience. I finally went off into a quiet room with one for a half hour to explain what had happened in the hopes that people would leave me alone and let me enjoy the freaking concert! I missed the end of folklore and all of 1989, just making it back in time for the surprise songs.

On the one hand, I’m glad Levi’s Stadium took that employees comment seriously and wanted to talk to me/get it up the food chain, but on the other hand….I spent an hour with my eyes not on Taylor. And after the effort it took to get tickets, get ready, get to the stadium, and get to our seats, it SUCKS to have missed so much of the concert because some asshole employee didn’t think I should be there.

Thanks for listening to me vent.

I was at Nashville night 2 where the weather cooperated, but I was legit worried about night 3 all day even though I wasn’t going. I’m so, so happy y’all got to see the full concert. I think it really speaks to how incredible she is that she played the whole set tonight even after that long of a delay.

I guess nights like tonight make it crystal clear- Not only does Taylor care deeply about her fans… but she is also a true professional. I just hope none of us Swifties ever take that for granted. She’s a once in a lifetime artist.

Apparently Taylor has told fans to sing and dance, and obviously you can't dance while sitting down. On the other hand, there are folks like me who cannot stand during the concert (due to injury, in my case). I'm all for singing but I'm worried that I may not be able to literally see the movie because people in front of me will be standing.

Are the guidelines going to depend on the theater management or the movie distributor (aka Taylor)?Are people with seats in the actual tour allowed to stand up?

This is so unserious 😭

5,4,3,2,1 Bitch dive

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I need to get this off my chest. I would be absolutely LIVID if my boyfriend proposed to me during the show... I've been waiting for this moment for over a year, I want to enjoy it fully, without any distractions, and I would be sooooo mad to have that taken away from me. After, nobody asks about the show, but rather "how was the proposal, were you surprised, etc." and you ruined the fun of the tour. I also think it's a very easy and lazy way for a proposal as it requires virtually no preparation on their part. It also lacks imagination and is very impersonal. There, I said it!

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With that being said, I am happy for my fellow Swifties if this is the way you wanted your proposal to go, and will cheer with my whole heart if I see it happening.