Taylor Swift Eras tour adds Tortured Poets Department and combines Folklore and Evermore eras – as it happened in Paris (2024)

Thanks so much to everyone who followed the blog, to the fans in Paris who shared their thoughts throughout the day and to the readers who sent tips. It’s been a memorable evening.

Special thanks to the Guardian’s head of digital (live) Claire Phipps, a fellow Swiftie.

You can read more about tonight’s show here:

Taylor has three more nights at Paris La Défense Arena before heading to Stockholm, Lisbon and Madrid in the coming weeks.

To make way for seven new performances of songs from The Tortured Poets Department, some songs that previously were staples of the Eras tour weren’t there tonight and presumably have now disappeared from the setlist … for now.

They were:

• The Archer (from Lover era)

• Long Live (from Speak Now era)

• the 1 (from folklore era)

• the last great american dynasty (from folklore era)

• ’tis the damn season (from evermore era)

• tolerate it (from evermore era)

Thanks to Phoebe Woodward for compiling this list.

Will this be the new lineup for this leg of the show? Time will tell, but here’s what we witnessed in Paris tonight.

Lover

• Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince

• Cruel Summer

• The Man

• You Need to Calm Down

• Lover

Fearless

• Fearless

• You Belong With Me

• Love Story

Red

• 22

• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

• I Knew You Were Trouble

• All Too Well (10-minute version)

Speak Now

• Enchanted

Reputation

• … Ready For It?

• Delicate

• Don’t Blame Me

• Look What You Made Me Do

Folklore/Evermore

Now combined as one Era

• cardigan

• betty

• champagne problems

• august

• illicit affairs

• my tears ricochet

• marjorie

• willow

1989

• Style

• Blank Space

• Shake It Off

• Wildest Dreams

• Bad Blood

The Tortured Poets Department

New!

• But Daddy I Love Him

• So High School

• Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

• Down Bad

• Fortnight

• The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

• I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

Surprise songs

• Paris (from Midnights)

• loml (from TTPD)

Midnights

• Lavender Haze

• Anti-Hero

• Midnight Rain

• Vigilante sh*t

• Bejeweled

• Mastermind

• Karma

Catch up here on Taylor’s performance of the song Paris… in Paris!

Fans will certainly be analysing this evening’s performance for some time.

New setlist, new performances, new outfits – while some songs were cut.

“I love you so much,” Taylor tells the crowd in the Paris arena, closing the first night of the Europe leg of her Eras tour, where she revamped her setlist and performed new music for the first time.

Taylor is singing Karma.

‘Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma’s a relaxing thought
Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap ‘cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that

We’re on the last song :(

“This has been an unforgettable night in Paris, we love you so much!” Taylor tells the audience.

We’re close to the end of the show…

Taylor is now singing Mastermind. Love these lyrics:

What if I told you none of it was accidental
And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me?
I laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork
The dominoes cascaded in a line

Bejeweled!

“So on the weekends
She don’t dress for friends
Lately she’s been dressing for revenge”

She’s moved to Vigilante sh*t.

And here’s footage from the earlier TTDP set:

Midnight Rain is up now.

“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me
At tea time, everybody agrees
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero”