Taylor Swift - Midnights (October 21, 2022) Album • Page 76

Just signed up for registration in two minutes y’all are dedicated this morning lol

 

My sister is getting tickets for me, my mom, my 14 year old brother, her, and our sister in law either for Dallas or KC

 

A mix of predictions and wishes, with a tilt toward the wishes.

 

tbh, it would be great to see her split her set into 3 parts named after the different "pen types" with which she classifies her songs - one set quill, one set fountain, and one set glitter gel pen.

 

Those who bought loverfest tickets do have priority for this as long as you use the same account on Ticketmaster

 

oh shit really? where’d you see this?

Edit: oh wow it’s true!

 

I would NEVER lie to you

 

Honestly the name of the tour is the one thing I’m worried about. I really do not want a show broken up into her musical eras at all. I would much prefer just a standard jumbled set list of everything.

 

here's where I landed. working on (Matt's Version) because these aren't quite my picks

 

Maybe I'm jaded, but I expect 90% greatest hits/big singles with one or two sightly deeper cuts rotating each night

 

Not to invoke John Mayer too much, but he did a great job of breaking up his set into different kind of feels (Hits, acoustic, Trio and mix of hits and deep cuts). Would be cool to see her do something similar.

 

I mean building a great set list that covers each aspect and era of an artist is key. I just don’t want a big banner that is like “Era 1:The Country Era”, and then plays songs off the first 3 records for 30 mins and then “Era 2:” yadda yadda. That would really bore me to have to laid out like that.

 

I think we will see a lot of mash-up/medleys. Style-Love Story-You Belong With Me, Bad Blood-Should’ve Said No, Long Live-New Year’s Day, TIWWCHNT-WANEGBT like stuff from the rep tour.

 

God, I hope not... never been a fan of mash-ups/medleys. I want whole songs, not teases.

But, I will trade 3 hours of mash-ups/medleys in trade for New Romantics as the lone song played in full.

 

Her tour average is what, 20 songs a night? That’s 2 an album if distributed evenly. Insane to think about it.

 

We’re pretty on the same page with the encore!

Lol, why is this boring? It’s the best opportunity to showcase older songs, to shift the aesthetic throughout the night to reflect the different eras, to get a setup and band that fits each era (especially country and the folklore/evermore stuff), and to make the concert feel like an actual career arc story. I’d take that over a big shuffled greatest hits playlist, especially given what she named the tour.

I mean, she is simply going to have to play more songs, haha. You can’t do a tour like this on a 20-song-per-night basis, especially not when you’ve doubled the size of your own catalog in a five-year period. She needs to go, if not full Springsteen, then at least into the 25-30 song range.

 

Oh, I agree entirely. Beyoncé usually does 35-40 during hers (admittedly, dropping verses in about half of those) to cover everything. And maybe that’s why this tour is almost all weekends. Longer shows, more recovery time. I think 30 should be the floor for this tour.

 

I’ll take fewer songs if they’re full songs. Not a fan of the mashup/cutting verses thing. Taylor’s a songwriter first, keep the songs intact!

 

Karma with elements of Look What You Made Me Do

 

I’m fully expecting mirrorball/Bejeweled to be worked together somehow.

 

It’s boring because for me it’s entirely telegraphed. It reminds me of when Beatles cover bands would come to summer festivals and play set lists by era, which works fine for a band that hadn’t been a band for over 30 years. For the actual artist at the height of her powers it’s kind of an unnecessary gimmick. I want all possibilities available, and when you (possibly) compartmentalize the set list, it feels limiting.

 

I'm not worried at all about what her show will be like, it's Taylor fucking Swift, she's never had a less than stellar tour

 

I’m sure the show will be great. Simply saying, I want all possibilities available for the next song at all times. I think that’s fair criticism of a set that could possibly be constructed this way (we don’t know).

 

I just feel like every single tour she’s ever done has underserved her older material. I feel like this is a good way to give every album and period of her career its due. But I’m also not someone who has ever really cared about being “surprised” by the next song or “spoiled” on what the setlist looks like. I get that people are more concerned about than I am, so I understand where you’re coming from.