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An Intimate Look at the Eras Tour: A Taylor Swift Extravaganza Unveiled
Get ready to hit the road and immerse yourself in the spectacle of the Eras Tour, the concert-turned-movie by none other than global Pop icon, Taylor Swift. Katy, joined by her former roommate and dear friend, Juliana, spill the details of this three-hour extravaganza. From the elaborate sound engineering to the breathtaking choreography, they'll walk you through every aspect of this star-studded event. You'll hear their firsthand account of the movie experience, offering a unique perspective that you won't find anywhere else.
They've laughed, danced, and reminisced about how Taylor’s music has underscored different eras of their lives. Sit tight as they dissect the cinematic ambiance, compare it to being in the concert arena, and marvel at the intricacies of the stage design, including the stunning use of 3D effects. As they embark on this journey, Juliana shines a light on the minor details that lend the concert its magic. Buckle up Swifties, because this episode is an extraordinary exploration of the Eras Tour, guaranteed to leave you spellbound.
One's a movie buff, one watches movies, just enough Together. Fun will be had by all. This is Nady and Katie at the Movies.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Nady and Katie at the Movies. I'm your host today. Katie Nathan is not with me because he did not go see the movie that I saw, but with me today is my good, good, good friend and my old roommate, miss Juliana, aka Tia Huli. Hi, juliana, how are you Good? How are you? I'm so good because we're together. We're driving to Atlanta right now. I'll drop you off the airport, so it's a little loud, but got to hang out this weekend. And what movie did we go see?
Speaker 3:We went to go see the one and only Eris Tour by Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2:That's right, folks. We will be reviewing today, on our secret special Super Saturday episode, the Taylor Swift Eris Tour, which you guys could probably guess. That's why Nathan is not joining us. He was not interested in the three hour Taylor Swift concert. But before we get started with our likes and dislikes, we will have to do, as always, a brief synopsis.
Speaker 3:Juliana, yes, it was a cultural phenomenal that continues as Pop icon Taylor Swift performs a once in a lifetime concert in a theater.
Speaker 2:Starring Taylor Swift, the one and only the one and only, and a bunch of backup dancers, but it's pretty much Taylor Swift Y'all. I mean there's no spoilers here, straightforward thing about it. It's a concert and it's just a concert. It's not like a biopic or any. There's no interviews, there's no special thing. You are just witnessing a live production. This particular recording was, I think, la right is the last one of her domestic tour, so she's probably tired but also probably had everything figured out by then. And it was, I think, three hours, not too long. And we did not go to opening weekend right, it was not, hardly went in there.
Speaker 3:We did not. We went second or third opening weekend, but opening weekend she brought in gnarly $97 million.
Speaker 2:It was wild to me, yeah, and so far she's made $130 million off of it and that's just the, or your stats, just the movie itself, just the movie itself.
Speaker 3:That's wild the concert itself. It's been estimated each concert she makes $13 million, but she's been very generous and has donated a lot of it to her staff and other organizations.
Speaker 2:So kudos to her, that's true, and she, I mean I can't imagine the amount of people she's employed to like put on the show To get into some of the parts of the movie, aka also the concert itself, the amount of lights and just everything theatrical, everything Like sound engineering, the light engineer, I mean.
Speaker 3:that show must have took at least a year to plan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm leaving. I leave over Giuliana during the concert which, by the way, this is not a typical movie. Like we talked, we took selfie, we didn't take too many suitvelies, we danced a little bit, so we were not dancing in the front like some of the people open a weekend, but you could tell it was a more relaxed atmosphere. Like we were, we would lean over and talk. You know, if you guys but Giuliana at one point was like this show probably took at minimum a year to prep, Cause I was like how does she choreograph this many songs? Like it's insane, it doesn't miss a beat.
Speaker 3:And the costume changes and just the light, like again, the lighting, the fireworks, the different techniques they use. It's, it's amazing what all incorporates into putting on a good show. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I mean absolutely remarkable, Definitely entertaining. So let's go straight into specific likes. It's a little different than a movie per se, but in terms of not just the concert, so try to think about the movie itself as well. Do you feel like? What were some of your big highlights for the movie version of our concert?
Speaker 3:I think she did a really good job on putting different views of the stage, Like she got some from top view, from the side view, just her going talking and singing directly into the camera. So it was really cool like seeing like all the different aspects.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel you you mentioned at one point too, like getting to see kind of what she sees, yes, from from, like how she, what she's seeing looking out, and yeah, I mean I would argue there's obviously it would be cool to be there. I love if someone gave me free tickets there so I'd go. But you get to see closer. I mean, imagine you're in a football stadium, like we get to see Taylor's sweat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I definitely enjoyed the movie experience because it's like if you were right there, right there on stage with her, or at least in the first couple rows, like you got to get a really good view of the dancing and it's like you said, you even got to see her face and her makeup and her hair like throughout the show. So I definitely enjoyed the movie experience. Like, sure, going to the concert I'm sure it would have been fun, like being there with a bunch of Swifties and hearing it live, but the movie experience, I think, just gave Jess as good of experience yeah to your point of like the sound, like the audio to me was incredible.
Speaker 2:I thought that it did a great job for the movie. Like you, they had the perfect amount of fans, like a little bit of fan interaction, but you probably could hear it way thousand times better than the real concert, cause, like I actually get to hear Taylor singing rather than the girls next to me screaming the lyrics yeah, that's a really good point. But they still incorporate like I appreciate they would cut to the audience a little bit. They'd cut like you could hear some of them chanting stuff, but not overkill.
Speaker 2:Another thing I liked about maybe more the concert than the movie, was how she set it up. Like it's the Ares tour, so she divides it into eras, so it's all the songs from that era. So I could kind of be like I didn't really like that CD as much, so I'm just like I'm gonna go get popcorned with that. But then there was other parts like Juliana and I went to college together and Taylor Swift, like we were the same age as her. So it's kind of like getting to go along the journey with Taylor of like this era of our lives, like in this era of our lives.
Speaker 3:Very true, I think. I think even at one point we said there's a certain era like 1989, like, oh, we were in college, we were here when we were singing this song and, like, had specific memories just based off of the era that was going on and what I liked a lot that she did. She didn't play it in sequence, she had different eras, but they weren't going from earliest to latest.
Speaker 2:Like baby Taylor to now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she mixed it up a bit, so that kept it entertaining.
Speaker 2:There's so many things to like. I really had such a good time. I would go see it again For sure. Okay, are there? I mean there's other likes. We could keep going on and on. I think. How about the you said the electronic stuff? The dancing was great. I would say it's amazing. I don't feel like it was. They didn't steal the show, but they also supplemented well, but the screens. There was one point. A snake was like I don't know how they did it, but there's literally a snake like slinking around this giant stage and I'm like am I viewing like a 3D? Is this like drones? Like I don't even understand how they did that.
Speaker 3:Definitely 3D, but they used the other screen and the screen of the stage itself.
Speaker 2:And you pointed out one time like she would like stomp and it would like crack the stage, like make like a little light, like showing she's, like cracking the stage with her step.
Speaker 3:Yep, Again that sound and lighting engineering.
Speaker 2:Well, and the fact that's like. So I leaned to her too and I was like imagine how on point this has to be. Like Taylor's every move, like flicking her I don't know if everything, even her flicking her hair or like moving her jacket a certain way, or like giving a certain look at a certain cue, like it must be so choreographed, like she has to step at a specific place, cause also she's going you've seen this in cultures like they're going up and down on these moving stages Like hope you time it right, hope you get all the right one. There's a scene where she like dives under the stage like going underwater.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I even saw I saw a video beforehand that when one of the platforms didn't work, she was supposed to go down in the platform to do her next costume change, but the platform didn't work. So she, she knew like oh, this was happening, and she ran to the backstage and got out and queued, just in time, that's true, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2:Not only do you have all the choreography of the actual show, then there's a backup plan. If this happens, then this, if this happens, then that it's crazy. So again, we can go on. So, but here's the challenging question Dislikes. Did you have any dislikes, or maybe something you were wanting that wasn't there?
Speaker 3:The only thing I think I would have wanted a little bit more was just kind of like personal interaction with her. Like there are a couple times where she talked to the audience and she was saying thank you and she wouldn't be there without their support. But I think a little bit more like personal story or just interaction. But who knows, and probably it probably happened in the real concert. But she's got a when making the film, she's got to make a time limit.
Speaker 3:So, probably those were cut, but otherwise, I mean I'd give it a 10 out of 10.
Speaker 2:Okay, she's ready to rate it. Yeah, I would agree with you that I can hear some songs, especially if you're hearing it like in a concert movie rather than in person. You're like, oh, I could listen to the song in the car on the radio, like, what I really can't get is that, like you're saying things that are unique to each concert, or a little blurb she says that was. I found that to be. My favorite part was when she would just talk to the audience and you're like, oh, this is like Taylor and the person that's making all this music and making it more personal. But I actually I guess it's like positive, not a dislike.
Speaker 2:But I think they did a great job with the editing, because Juliana was like, wow, that was a super quick change. I'm like, well, it isn't the movie. So that's another kind of perk of the movie is you're going immediately, like when she dives under the stage they're probably in real life was like a five minute pause where everyone's just hanging out, but in the movie you just it's like a fade to the next song. That was nice. Yeah, I think my I don't know if I have a dislike. I guess my only dislike would be I want more.
Speaker 3:I want more.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I mean, it was absolutely incredible. I do feel like this is kind of a small thing and sometimes, nathan, I talk about this with other movies we review there tends to sometimes be that check the box we've talked about in movies, where it's like we have to check the box to make sure we include, like, one black person, one person in a wheelchair, one person you know that's gay, one person that's like, and I appreciate inclusivity, but sometimes it feels like just I've checked the box and that annoys me. I felt a little bit like that in this concert, being honest, like it was almost, like it felt very weird. She's like almost the only white person on the stage. Like every dancer was not white, which is, again, that's fine, but it felt very like are you afraid to put people that are why they don't want to look a certain way? And then again, even in the crowd, like they showed a lot more gay guys or just men in general, like there's no way it was that many men. I felt like they showed more gay guys than just women in the stands and again, I don't know if it's trying to be showing like, look, look at the diversity at my concert, but like if 90% of the girls that are there are just these like college age blonde girls. It's okay to show that and again, that's just my personal opinion. I do appreciate that's actually one of the core things of who she is is inclusivity, so like I get why she did it so, but again, it's just more personal preference. I'm like, oh, you're like checking the box here.
Speaker 2:With that being said, that's my only negative. I could and I had to search for that negative. So we do love this movie. I'm going to guess your ranking out of six. I think I know what you're going to say. What would you give this movie? What do you think? I'm thinking you're going to give it a perfect six. I am, I will. I think I will too. I'm gonna give it a perfect six. Perfect six out of six stars. This was an incredible movie. If you haven't seen it yet, go see this concert. Whether it's live, you're gonna have to fly across the world to see it live. But if not, catch the movie, it's only, I think, 20 bucks and it's worth every penny. So, on that note, we will sign off. And there's so many Taylor Swift songs to choose from and lyrics, but we were trying to think of what quote to end it? I think what we came up with. Look in your eyes. We never go out of style.
Speaker 3:We never go out of style.
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