Eras Tour
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Take a look — it’s definitely mad love! Katy Perry attended Taylor Swift‘s first show of the Eras Tour in Sydney, Australia, on Friday (Feb. 23) and showed everyone that she’s a Swiftie. In fan-captured videos, the “Dark Horse” singer is spotted singing along and dancing at Accor Stadium to the pop superstar’s hit “Bad […]
Travis Kelce is a supportive boyfriend! The Kansas City Chiefs tight end was spotted landing in Sydney, Australia, ahead of girlfriend Taylor Swift’s Eras tour dates in the country. In photos shared by Page Six, Kelce is seen walking off his private jet, surrounded by security. Swift is performing four shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium […]
A colorful new mural of Taylor Swift has popped up in Sydney, Australia, ahead of her four Eras Tour concerts at Accor Stadium later this week, but it seems like some fans would prefer a blank space on the wall instead.
The image — located on Crown Street in Surry Hills — features Swift in a red spaghetti-strapped top, her wavy blonde locks falling over her left shoulder as her blue eyes gaze out at the viewer. Around her neck is a sparkling “87” necklace, a nod to boyfriend Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end whose jersey number is 87. The bottom left of the mural is tagged by artist Scottie Marsh, who also shared a photo of the star’s likeness on his Instagram account, simply captioning it, “Tay Tay fever.”
While Swifties may be excited for the upcoming sold-out shows, they don’t seem to be exactly enchanted by the tribute to the 14-time Grammy winner. In the comments section of local Instagram account sydney_explained, which first shared a photo of the mural on Sunday (Feb. 18), viewers didn’t hold back on their thoughts about how well the new art did — or didn’t resemble her.
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“It’s really unflattering,” opined one person.
“Oh dear it looks like a #mafsau wife,” wrote another, joking about Australia’s version of reality show Married At First Sight.
“It looks like my cat ate a rainbow lorikeet and then threw up on the wall,” added one commenter, while someone else wrote, “Nice attempt but seriously missed the mark.”
Over on Marsh’s account, one IG user noted, “Not one of your better works.. looks a bit off.” Others who agreed it wasn’t a great representation of the globally beloved singer-songwriter said they thought the mural resembled Donald Trump and Napoleon Dynamite a bit.
But there were supporters of the new wall art, too. “Look y’all, tay tay brings so many peeps joy!” one fan commented. “Even though I love scotties more political art I think it’s nice to have murals of peeps who bring joy. As they say, let people have fun!” One even took a page from Swift’s songbook to support the artist, simply quoting the pop star’s hit “Shake It Off”: “Haters gonna hate.”
Swift is set to kick off her four-shows at Accor Stadium on Friday, Feb. 23, with Sabrina Carpenter performing as the opening act. The superstar just wrapped three sold-out shows at Melbourne’s Melbourne Cricket Ground.
“What do I even say to you after over 288,000 of you came and danced with us in the last 3 nights ??!” Swift said in a Feb. 18 Instagram message to fans who attended her Melbourne shows. “That was unforgettable. You were on another LEVEL. Thank you for the memories. I’ll revisit the ones from this weekend often.”
Taylor Swift fans now have two versions of The Tortured Poets Department to choose from — and knowing Swifties, they’ll probably grab both. During the surprise song section of her Eras Tour show in Melbourne Friday (Feb. 16), the 34-year-old pop star announced a second version of her upcoming 11th album dubbed The Bolter. Complete […]
Swifties, get ready to stream Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour wherever and whenever. The record-breaking concert film is heading to Disney+ on March 15, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed on Wednesday (Feb. 7), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which is given the extended title Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), will include the […]
Taylor Swift is back on the road for her global Eras Tour, and soon, she’ll be adding a new “era” to the mix: The Tortured Poets Department, her 11th album which she announced during her best pop vocal acceptance speech at the 2024 Grammys.
And at her returning show in Japan on Wednesday (Feb. 7), she revealed exactly how long she’s been crafting her April 19-slated record. “I’ve been working on Tortured Poets since right after I turned in Midnights,” Swift shared at Tokyo Dome, adding, “You turn in albums months in advance.”
“I’ve been working on it for about two years,” she continued. “I kept working on it throughout the U.S. tour and when it was perfect — in my opinion when it’s good enough for you — I finished it and I am so, so excited that soon you’ll get to hear it. Soon we’ll get to experience that together.”
Fans were shocked Sunday (Feb. 4) when the 34-year-old pop star, while accepting the first of two Grammys she would earn that night for her fall 2022 album Midnights, revealed the title and release date of Tortured Poets on the Crypto.com Arena stage before immediately sharing its cover art on Instagram. But according to Swift, the album’s announcement would have come this week no matter what — even if she hadn’t won either best pop vocal or album of the year at the awards show.
In fact, the “Anti-Hero” singer said she’d planned to drop the news at Wednesday’s concert had she not taken home any golden gramophones a few nights prior. “Luckily enough that ended up happening,” she told the crowd, thanking fans for indirectly securing Midnights‘ AOTY win. “My backup plan was I was gonna do it tonight in Tokyo.”
“I’m over the moon about the fact that you guys care about my music, it still blows my mind,” she concluded. “Everyone’s like, ‘Why do you make so many albums?’ I’m like, ‘Man, because I love it. I love it so much.’ I’m having fun, leave me alone.”
Swift has three nights left at Tokyo Dome this week before she’s expected to fly back to the States to support boyfriend Travis Kelce at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, where the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers. The next week, she’ll embark on the Australian leg of the Eras Tour before doing a string of Singapore shows early March.
This week of Eras shows also means four nights’ worth of new surprise songs, which, at Wednesday’s show, were “Dear Reader” and “Holy Ground.”
See clips from Swift’s comeback Eras Tour show in Tokyo below.
So, when exactly did Emma Stone fall in love with longtime friend Taylor Swift? When the two superstars were just teenagers, as it turns out! In a New Year’s Day The Graham Norton Show interview (Jan. 1), Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone opened up about her friendship with Swift, her Eras Tour experiences and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) vault track “When Emma Falls In Love.”
Stone, who won the best actress Oscar for her performance in 2016’s La La Land, revealed that she has attended the Eras Tour “three [times] so far,” including the tour’s opening show in her hometown of Phoenix, Ariz. “Mandy Moore, who was the choreographer of La La Land, was [Taylor’s] choreographer for the tour,” Stone explained. “So it was a bunch of lovely things all come together, and it was incredible to see.”
Moore’s choreography and Stone’s performance were two key elements that resulted in La La Land’s resounding success. At the 2017 Academy Awards, the Damien Chazelle-helmed film won six awards from 14 total nominations, a haul that helped the movie join All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997) as the most nominated films in Oscar history. Thanks to the La La Land soundtrack, Emma Stone is a Billboard-charting artist; “City of Stars,” her duet with co-star Ryan Gosling, reached both Digital Song Sales (No. 45) and the Bubbling Under Hot 100 (No. 8).
Nonetheless, Stone and Swift’s story stretches back years prior to their high-profile successes. According to Stone, the two met “at the Young Hollywood Awards when [she] was 18 in L.A.” She continued, “We just kept in touch ever since and became great friends.”
The most devoted Swifties have been well aware of the Stone-Swift friendship, and that knowledge provided the basis of fan theories regarding “When Emma Falls In Love,” a vault track from Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). Some fans believe that Stone is the titular Emma, but, for her part, the Easy A actress says, “You have to ask [Taylor]!” Naturally, her response drew hearty laughs from both the audience and her fellow Graham Norton guests, including Poor Things co-star Mark Ruffalo.
Watch Emma Stone spill all the Taylor Swift tea above.
When Sabrina Carpenter first released Emails I Can’t Send in July 2022, nobody expected “Nonsense” to take on a life of its own in the way that it has. While flashier songs like “Fast Times” and “Because I Liked a Boy” got a lot of initial attention, it was “Nonsense” that grew into the set’s […]
Heat exhaustion is the cause of death of a Brazilian fan who attended a concert of singer Taylor Swift in November, a forensics report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday shows.
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Ana Clara Benevides, 23, passed out during Swift’s second song in the Nov. 17 concert in Rio de Janeiro, “Cruel Summer,” and died hours later at a local hospital. Temperatures in the city that day were at about 40 degrees Celsius (105 Fahrenheit).
Fans lined up for hours before the show, and many accused organizers of failing to deliver enough water supplies for the more than 60,000 attending the concert at the Nilton Santos Stadium. They said they were not allowed to take their own water into the stadium.
The report by Rio’s Forensic Medical Institute said Benevides’ heat exposure led to a cardiorrespiratory arrest. It also said she did not have preexisting conditions or substance abuse that could have led to her death.
The forensics expert who analyzed her body said in the document she had “serious compromise of her lungs and sudden death” due to the heat.
One of Benevides’ friends, who also attended the concert, told local media outlets in November they had been given water while waiting to enter the stadium.
Organizers T4F said in a statement the company “followed the best practices,” complied with “every demand from authorities” and “distributed thousands of bottles of water” to fans. TF4 also denied it did not allow people to bring their own water to the concert.
TF4 also said Benevides “was promptly cared for by members of a rescue team and sent (to the hospital) in an intensive-care unit ambulance.”
“In our 40 years in the business, this company had never registered a tragic episode” like Benevides’ death due to extreme heat, T4F said.
The office of Rio’s public prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation. Rio police said in a statement on Wednesday that after the forensics report is analyzed “representatives of the company organizing the event will be called to testify.”
Benevides’ death shook many in Brazil. She had taken her first flight to travel from the country’s center-west region to see her favorite singer.
In a statement posted on Instagram after the death, Swift said the case had left her with a “shattered heart.”
Benevides’s father, José Weiny Machado, told news website G1 he “never doubted the cause of death was the heat.”
Gayle knows that everything happens for a reason. Late last year, the 19-year-old star canceled her North American tour to focus on her mental health. In a new interview with NBC News Now, Gayle shared how the “intimidating” experience ultimately led to something better — opening for Taylor Swift on select dates of her groundbreaking […]