An all encompassing documentary starting from the pandemic and going from the end of the Lover era which was one of her weakest eras commercially/popularity wise to where she is now and how she handled it all and her thoughts on getting to this level she has gotten to (along with her planning the tour) would have been very interesting. What we are getting will probably still be cool, but less exciting to me.
I dunno, a behind-the-scenes look at how the biggest tour ever came together and what it took to do all that sounds super cool to me. I don’t need “conflict” or “drama” to be interested in how extraordinary achievements are reached. That’s just me, though!
i mean, didn't she go through two breakups on the tour? idk if the series would explicitly cover that, but that's more than enough "conflict" to throw in, in addition to any logistical challenges while putting together the tour or the stress of performing for two years straight and recording the equivalent of 5 albums in that timespan
Absolutely agree, the trailer isn't showing any conflict is what I'm saying, which is all we have so far. If she actually gets into things like that it'll be pretty wild
Even if she doesn’t touch her personal life in this (beyond Travis, obviously) there is so much ground you can cover just looking at the production. Rehearsal process, production design, drawing inspiration from other massive stadium tours (I feel like U2 360 almost had to be a reference point), building the setlist, everything going on under the stage during the show, secret songs, how much had to happen before the tour was even announced, opening acts, the Ticketmaster debacle, adding in the new album that came out in the middle of the tour (and whether that release was always expected to happen while Eras was still going), whether she considered keeping the tour going when she clearly could have sold out shows around the world forever, etc. As a journalist, I could probably ask a hundred questions about this tour and not scrape the bottom of the barrel. I feel like there’s absolutely enough for six episodes where they’ll probably show a fair amount of performance footage, too.
Ironically I work on movie trailers for a living, so yes I'm probably more critical. I know she has a built in fanbase so it doesn't matter, but it's nice to see stakes in a trailer to get you excited to watch
if Peter Jackson can get 8 hours of footage of The Beatles recording and performing over a span of 3 weeks for Get Back, i'm sure whoever's directing this can get 6 across 2 years.
I’m sure there will be references to time periods prior, but this documentary is about the tour winding down, so I presume it will just be 2024 onwards.
we are getting six episodes of high-quality behind-the-scenes footage on the biggest tour in history and y'all are complaining before you've even seen it
Look if I don't have something to complain about does it even exist?? I haven't watched the trailer yet so I haven't complained but just as a general rule.
Every once in awhile, I'll read a quote from her and wonder: "Does she know what those words mean?" My favorite example of this is "This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell."
Lol it's so bizarre because she is often so articulate and insightful and then she says something that's just like popular slang or buzzwords strung together in the wrong context and I'm like girl, you good? It's like that "how do you do, fellow kids" meme except she's not even old just sort of corny and out of touch.
I do not understand why she of all people wouldn’t say anything about the Trump Administration using her music. Virtually everyone whose music he’s used has spoken up. Why not do the same? Kind of maddening, IMO.
I feel like she hasn’t said much of anything during this cycle. It was basically her interview on New Heights, the movie stuff and promotional posts on social media.
She did a week of in-person promo and then basically went back to being silent again. At first I thought drawing attention to the Trump administration using her music in videos would just be taking the bait but idk I see both sides because I have thought the documentary has aged a bit poorly. She did make a huge deal in it about not being on the wrong side of history and using her voice/platform to speak out, which she ended up doing quite a bit during the Lover/2020 era, but then for whatever reason pretty much stopped afterwards sans the Kamala endorsement post. She put that expectation of speaking out on herself so I understand when people are annoyed by that.