Swift’s career has now taken her all the way from wide-eyed teenage fairytales to 30-something late-night anxiety attacks, from country-folk ditties to moody synth-pop soundscapes, from the commercial peak of iTunes to the apex of the streaming age, from a time when she was defined by her radio smashes to a moment when her albums don’t even need conventional hit singles to earn rave reviews, win Grammys, and generally dominate the culture. 1 hit to date in its lead single “Anti-Hero.” For another, it comes after the longest road layoff of Swift’s illustrious touring career, with nearly five years - as well as six (!!) Swift full-length releases, and one global pandemic - having transpired since the Reputation Stadium Tour kicked off in May 2018.īut perhaps the biggest reason is that Swift now has a 17-year song catalog that’s the rival of any artist this century - and maybe even further back - which she plans on revisiting at length in the career-spanning tour.

There’s a number of reasons for that: For one, it comes at the very peak of Swift’s popularity, with the superstar singer-songwriter just experiencing the best first-week numbers of her career for last October’s Midnights album, and spawning her longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. Taylor Swift‘s upcoming 52-date The Eras Tour, set to finally launch this Friday (March 17), is quite simply one of the most-anticipated (and most in-demand) tours in the history of American popular music.

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