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Taylor Swift takes the stage and proves she doesn't care about her bad reputation. Taylor Swift takes the stage and proves she doesn't care about her bad reputation. Taylor Swift takes the stage and proves she doesn't care about her bad reputation.

• Paul Dugdale
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Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour is a documentary movie that covers the fifty-three concerts that took place as part of the pop star’s Reputation Tour. It is directed by Paul Dugdale, produced by Taylor Swift Productions, Den of Thieves, and SR Films, and officially released on OTT via Netflix in 2018.

Here’s how you can watch and stream Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour via streaming service Netflix.

Is Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour is available to watch via streaming on Netflix.

The movie captures the grandeur and hyper-maximalism of the tour for Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, Reputation. The film immortalizes the extravagant and gothic theatrics that were the soul of the album, like the snake motif. It was nominated in 2019 for Best Multicamera Work by the Royal Television Society and for the Excellence in Production Design Award by the Art Directors Guild in 2020.

The movie stars Taylor Swift, along with guest musicians, and back-up singers and dancers, including Matt Billingslea, Camilla Cabello, Toshi Davidson, Tiffany Haddish, Giuseppe Giofrè, Kamilah Marshall, and Amos Heller.

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• $22.99 per month (Premium) – This gives access to all the content available on the platform. It supports four devices at once, with Ultra HD. Users get to download content on up to six supported devices at a time.

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Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour released on Netflix – here’s what you need to know

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Taylor Swift has released a belated Christmas present for fans, in the form of her Reputation stadium tour on Netflix .

The concert film, which appeared on the streaming site on New Year’s Eve, is comprised of footage from the last show of the US leg of the pop star’s world tour at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, using 28 cameras.

It features the pyro, elaborate staging, fireworks, dances and a 63ft inflatable cobra called Karyn that were all part of her critically acclaimed show, along with special appearances from Camila Cabello and Charli XCX. It streams globally on 31 December.

Swift closed her Reputation tour on a particular high point, with the news that she had broken the record for the highest-grossing US tour since Billboard records began tracking tour data in 1990.

The tour grossed $266.1m and sold 2,068,399 tickets, beating the previous record held by The Rolling Stones for their A Bigger Bang tour, which ran between 2005 and 2007 and grossed $245m. Swift also managed to achieve the feat in just 38 shows, while the Stones took 70 to reach their record.

The Reputation tour also attracted critical acclaim around the world. Reviewing her first show of the UK leg, The Independent branded it a “dazzling spectacle” and the “biggest event on the 2018 pop calendar”.

“A breathtaking rendition of ‘Bad Blood’ adds a countrified guitar hook so it switches easily over to ‘Should Have Said No’,” the review said. ”There was so much uproar over ticket prices when Swift announced the tour, yet from the offset it has been apparent – for any fans who doubted it – that it was worth every penny, as the stage is flooded with red lighting and dancers swing from trapeze with all the splendour of a Broadway show.

“The dynamic of the gig is perfect – there are lulls, but only when they’re intended, to create pauses between the big songs that feel profoundly intimate.”

The typical setlist for the Reputation stadium tour was as follows:

• “...Ready for It?”
• “I Did Something Bad”
• “Style” / “Love Story” / “You Belong with Me”
• “Look What You Made Me Do”
• “King of My Heart”
• “Shake It Off” (with Camila Cabello and Charli XCX)
• “Dancing with Our Hands Tied”
• “All Too Well”
• “Blank Space”
• “Bad Blood” / “Should’ve Said No”
• “Don’t Blame Me”
• “Long Live” / “New Year’s Day”
• “Getaway Car”
• “Call It What You Want”
• “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” / “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”

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Taylor Swift performs during the last night of the U.S. portion of her Reputation Tour. In front of 60,000 fans at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Grammy winner puts on her most over-the-top show yet while performing her hit songs from the best-selling album of 2018. Her celebrity friends, including opening acts Camila Cabello and Charli XCX as well as Tiffany Haddish and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, join her onstage.

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Taylor Swift's Reputation tour lives forever and ever on Netflix

You'll want to see this movie, even if you saw the show live.

To mark the end of 2018, global superstar Taylor Swift and streaming service Netflix threw one hell of a New Year's Eve party. There were snakes, there was glitter, there was confetti and there were the best indoor fireworks you've ever seen.

Didn't attend? Not to worry, there's still time.

The movie version of Swift's 53-date, award-winning, record-topping blockbuster Reputation stadium tour was released on Netflix Monday. Having attended two dates on the tour and seen Swift perform live for the first time in three years, I thought I knew what to expect from the movie. What I didn't expect was feeling equally as moved and starry-eyed while tucked up on my sofa on a cold winter's night as I did back on those warm evenings last summer. Not only did it spirit me back onto the stadium arena, but it left me with an overwhelming sense of relief that this spectacle has been committed to film I can revisit any time.

It's a smart move for Taylor Swift to partner with Netflix rather than a US-based TV network or put out a straight-to-DVD release. The streaming service is pretty much unrivalled in its ability to bring Reputation to a global audience at the same time everywhere in the world for an affordable price. For reasons of cost and geography, many fans were unable to attend the tour, which visited only five countries outside the US. But Netflix lowers the barrier to entry, making Swift's latest live performances accessible to pretty much anyone with an internet connection.

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This is excellent news for fans who missed out, but also for Swift herself. The more people who see her play live -- when she's absolutely in her element -- the more likely she is to be recognised for doing what's genuinely important to her. When people think of Taylor Swift's reputation, no longer will they think tabloid headlines and unwanted scrutiny of her personal life. Instead visions of kaleidoscopic pyrotechnics will dance in their heads, while her poignant, powerful lyrics echo in their ears. It's a masterful deflection, a taking back of a twisted narrative, and perhaps most importantly in the long run, a way to establish this era as a building block in her legacy that's as integral as any that's come before it.

And it would be foolish to think that Taylor Swift isn't always, to an extent, thinking about how things like this movie play into the bigger picture. Swift knows that her reputation is a transient and ever-changing thing, but that legacy is a different matter altogether. 

This particular show, with its curved stages, dancing lights, elaborate choreography and gorgeous costumes, is a work of art in itself. The live show transcends the album and serves as a reminder that no matter what else happens, Swift's stardom is perennial. Among the setlist are sure-fire crowdpleasers from earlier eras seamlessly woven into the show through mashups or B-stage performances, while fans belt out new favorites like Delicate as Swift shimmers high above the whole scene in a floating gold cage. 

"1, 2, 3, LGB" -- Swift floats above the crowd.

It also allows tracks from Reputation that didn't get the love they truly deserved a chance to shine with dazzling production. One to watch out for is King of My Heart, my personal favorite from the album, which quite literally gets the full song-and-dance treatment. Another highlight, Don't Blame Me, sounds like it was purpose-written with stadiums in mind. The live version of this song is akin to a religious experience; fans call it "going to church".

That's not to mention the acoustic rendition of All Too Well -- widely considered to be Swift's best song -- which is sung both by Swift and the fans around her with such depth of emotion that it relays to viewers the truest impression of what it was actually like to attend this show in person. Swift is well known for being very much in tune with her fans , and this connection allows her to talk to the audience with heartfelt candor throughout the show, as well as to stop and blow her nose with nothing but cheering and applause.

“All Too Well” was never a single, and it always blows my mind that it is consistently one of the loudest songs the crowd sings when I play it. Moments like this defined the Reputation Stadium Tour for me, and I can’t wait for you to see it in full starting at 12:01 AM 12/31 PST pic.twitter.com/wgcV3oumje — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 29, 2018

Hardcore fans will tell you that floor seats, particularly if you're in the pit, are the only tickets worth having. But the show is so spectacular and carefully designed that it's worth viewing from every angle. Each perspective brings with it a new experience, and thanks to Netflix, you get access to all of them for the price of a month's subscription. In fact, you get money-can't-buy views of the action: Swift smiling winsomely down the lens as she dances towards the camera, and ethereal slow-motion of the most dramatic moments.

For me, the camerawork and closeups brought new insights into a show I've thought about every day since I first saw last year. It's a divine showcase of the costumes, the dancing and especially Swift's own barely-contained effervescent joy at being on stage. And all in glorious high-definition detail, with the HDR and Dolby Atmos sound on point throughout. Even the less ardent fans among my own NYE party guests were bowled over by the production, both of the show and the movie itself, as my friends had to think hard to compare it to the best stadium rock gigs they've attended. Each of them left with a party favor in the form of a new favorite song, as the movie trained a light on Swift's artistry even when bringing lesser-hyped album tracks to the fore. 

If you had any lingering doubts about whether Swift is still an artist at the top of her game, the Reputation tour movie will allay your concerns. Perhaps she's no longer America's sweetheart or the darling of the recording academy, but you don't become the world's greatest show-woman by always colouring inside the lines. 

When Swift puts pen to paper for a new album, it's her fearless disregard of the traditional parameters of genre and subject matter that spin individual thoughts and feelings into showstoppers. The Reputation era culminates in a live event absolutely worth capturing and watching over and over again. It's a music event for the new year -- and for the history books. 

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Taylor Swift Announces First Round of Reputation Stadium Tour Dates

Taylor Swift gives fans first round of cities off upcoming Reputation stadium tour.

By Allison Stubblebine

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Taylor Swift announced the first 27 tour dates of her Reputation   stadium tour via her Taylor Nation Twitter account early Monday (Nov. 13) morning. The tweet, captioned, “WE’LL SEE YOU SOON!” does not specify whether this is the entirety of the U.S. leg of the tour. 

Fans were also reminded to grab the album boost through Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program in order to snag the best possible access to Reputation   Tour tickets. 

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WE’LL SEE YOU SOON! The first round of dates for Taylor Swift’s reputation Stadium Tour have been announced. Ticket and onsale info: https://t.co/d17RNtqtNa — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 13, 2017

Taylor Swift Tix users, if you bought an album during street week be sure to get your album boost! If you haven’t signed up, you still can here — https://t.co/by0d1CxFmP — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 13, 2017

Swift’s sixth album  Reputation  was released on Friday, and amassed an unheard-of 700,000 albums sold on its first day. View the list of first-round dates below. Register at Taylor Swift Tix  to get first access to ticket purchasing. Registration closes Nov. 28. 

Reputation   Stadium Tour Dates 2018

May 8 – University of Phoenix Stadium – Glendale, AZ May 12 – Levi’s Stadium – Santa Clara, CA May 19 – Rose Bowl – Pasadena, CA May 22 – CenturyLink Field – Seattle, WA May 25 – Sports Authority Field at Mile High – Denver, CO June 2 – Soldier Field – Chicago, IL June 30 – Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, KY July 7 – Ohio Stadium – Columbus, OH July 10 – FedEx Field – Washington, DC July 14 – Lincoln Financial Field – Philadelphia, PA July 17 First Energy Stadium Cleveland, OH July 21 – MetLife Stadium – East Rutherford, NJ July 28 – Gillette Stadium – Foxborough, MA Aug. 4 – Rogers Centre – Toronto, ON Aug. 7 – Heinz Field – Pittsburgh, PA Aug. 11 – Mercedes-Benz Stadium – Atlanta, GA Aug. 14 – Raymond James Stadium – Tampa, FL Aug. 18 – Hard Rock Stadium – Miami, FL Aug. 25 – Nissan Stadium – Nashville, TN Aug. 28 – Ford Field – Detroit, MI Sept. 1 – U.S. Bank Stadium – Minneapolis, MN Sept. 8 – Arrowhead Stadium – Kansas City, MO Sept. 15 – Lucas Oil Stadium – Indianapolis, IN Sept. 18 – The Dome at America’s Center – St. Louis, MO Sept. 22 – Mercedes-Benz Superdome – New Orleans, LA Sept. 29 – NRG Stadium – Houston, TX Oct. 6  – AT&T Stadium – Arlington, TX

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Taylor Swift Announces More Dates For 'Reputation' Stadium Tour

The GRAMMY-winner pumps up her North American tour with seven additional dates across the U.S.

With an already massive tour planned in support of her sixth album, Reputation , Taylor Swift has given her fans even more opportunities to catch her live in 2018 by adding seven U.S. dates to her Reputation stadium tour.

The announcement comes the same week Reputation reclaimed the top spot on the Billboard 200, after being temporarily dethroned by Eminem 's Revival . Swift's Reputation tour was already on track to be one of the most talked-about tours of the year.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New dates for Taylor Swift’s reputation Stadium Tour have just been announced! Tickets go on sale January 31st at 10a local time. Get more information at <a href="https://t.co/nl2zos8L1x">https://t.co/nl2zos8L1x</a>. <a href="https://t.co/XI9yBKTi6Q">pic.twitter.com/XI9yBKTi6Q</a></p>&mdash; Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) <a href="https://twitter.com/taylornation13/status/948556164324872192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The newly announced dates will expand the tour to add an additional show in each of these seven cities: Santa Clara, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Rutherford, N. J.; Foxborough, Mass.; Minneapolis, Minn.; and Arlington, Texas.

Advance ticket sales for the added dates will begin for fans registered for the Taylor Swift Presale via Ticketmaster Verified Fan starting on Jan. 5 and continuing through Jan.18. Tickets for the general public will go on-sale Jan. 31.

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Sabrina Carpenter is the first to admit that it's taken her a bit of time to find her way to the top of the music industry. She even likens herself to the tortoise in the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" — even if she didn't want to believe the metaphor growing up.

"Something that my mom always said to me as a little girl that really annoyed me was that I am the tortoise… throughout my life, [I was] being told, 'Sabrina, you're the tortoise, just chill,'" Carpenter recalled while accepting the Variety Hitmakers Rising Artist Award in December 2023. "In moments of frustration and confusion it can feel like a letdown, but it turns out it's actually a very good thing."

It's been a very good thing for Carpenter, indeed. A decade since the release of her debut single, the singer/songwriter isn't just breaking through — she's one of pop's new reigning queens. Over the last year, Carpenter has nabbed her first No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, made a stellar debut at Coachella, and performed on "Saturday Night Live," all the while racking up billions of streams on her music new and old. It's all built excitement for one of the most anticipated pop albums of the summer: Short n' Sweet .

As Carpenter unveils her new album, take a deep dive into her decade-long journey to pop stardom.

Getting Started: Disney Breakthrough

Growing up, Carpenter filled the sounds of her family home in Pennsylvania with covers of songs like Adele 's "Set Fire To The Rain" and "Picture to Burn" by future Eras Tour companion Taylor Swift (more on that later). After submitting videos for a singing contest spearheaded by Miley Cyrus , Carpenter would get her first taste of success. Placing third, she caught the eye of Hollywood Records, who signed her following the competition.

Simultaneously, Carpenter also began pursuing acting, landing guest spots on series like "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" in 2011 and joining "The Goodwin Games" in 2012. In 2014, she landed a lead role in the Disney Channel series "Girl Meets World," a spin-off of the beloved '90s series "Boy Meets World," which served as a breakthrough moment for the burgeoning star — and a catalyst for her music career.

Just before the show debuted, Carpenter released her debut single, "Can't Blame A Girl for Trying," the title track to her debut EP that arrived a month later. While the four-track EP was the typical output of a teenage Disney star — bubblegum pop sounds with digestible, family-friendly lyricism — it showed off her youthful timbre and offered themes that would become prevalent later in Carpenter's songwriting: love, heartache, and navigating life.

A year later, she released her debut album, Eyes Wide Open . A mix of pop with folk and country influences — a soundscape that remains on Short n' Sweet — Carpenter's debut showed maturity and growth following Can't Blame A Girl For Trying ; songs like "Eyes Wide Open" and "We'll Be the Stars" showed a more introspective side, reflecting on the pressures of being in the spotlight and the journey of finding her identity. Eyes Wide Open also hinted that Carpenter was beginning to hone her songwriting skills, penning four of the 12 tracks.

It would be on her 2016 sophomore album, EVOLution, where Carpenter would find confidence as a songwriter, co-writing all but one song on the 10-track project. In turn, the lyrics reflected her growing sense of self and a new perspective on past themes, like embracing non-romantic forms of love in "All We Have is Love," being there for a struggling friend in "Shadows," and learning to assert boundaries in "Space."

EVOLution transitioned Carpenter out of the teen pop aesthetic into a more sophisticated sound, experimenting with dance-pop and techno sonics. Genre versatility would become a throughline of sorts for Carpenter, and EVOLution foreshadowed the multifaceted musicality that was to come.

Shedding Disney: From Child Actor To Pop Star

After "Girl Meets World" came to an end at the beginning of 2017, Carpenter was ready for reinvention. Much like Britney Spears ' Britney and Cyrus' Can't Be Tamed before her, as Carpenter grew into an adult, she felt like she needed to shed the Disney-fied image that has become a rite of passage for teen stars. Thus began the Singular era.

Released in 2018 and 2019, respectively, Singular: Act I and Singular: Act II featured songs that were more risqué and mature in nature. A far cry from her tamer work of the past, the R&B track "Hold Tight" is equal parts sultry and evocative with Carpenter singing, "Wanna keep you in, wanna keep you in right/ Wanna feel your skin, wanna feel it on mine."

As she noted in an interview with Billboard , Singular: Act I   was a natural progression for a girl now in her late teens — even if it was against the squeaky-clean image of her beginnings.

"I was known as a fictional character on television with lines that were written for her with an attitude that was portrayed in a way by other people. So for a lot of people, their first impression of me was as a 13-year-old girl [singing] the kinds of songs that she should be singing," she said. "Then, flash forward to 19, and people are asking why I am not singing about the same things that I did when I was 13, as if that's normal."

One of the more notable Singular tracks is from Act I , "Sue Me." Sneakily disguised as a story about a romantic relationship, the song is Carpenter's response to being sued by her ex music managers: "That's my shape, I made the shadow/ That's my name, don't wear it out though/ Feelin' myself can't be illegal." Its tongue-in-cheek and snarky nature would inevitably embolden Carpenter to continue writing more confessional songs with attitude, whether she's responding to media scrutiny in "because i liked a boy" from 2022's emails i can't send , or warning a suitor to be careful in Short n' Sweet 's "Please, Please, Please."

Singular: Act I and Act II further helped demonstrate different facets of Carpenter's musicality, with the former leaning into pop tendencies and the latter embracing an R&B flair. And as her final albums with Hollywood Records, she used Singular: Act I and Act II to indicate that she wasn't going to let any sort of previous perceptions hold her back. Their coming-of-age themes showcased Carpenter as an artist coming into her own — regardless of whether listeners wanted to keep her in the Disney box or not.

Reintroducing Herself: Artistic Authenticity & The "Nonsense" Effect

While the world was going through a period of change amid the COVID-19 pandemic, so was Carpenter. She signed with Universal Music Group's Island Records in 2021, and soon she would be able to fully introduce the world to who Sabrina Carpenter is as an artist.

As she noted herself to Variety earlier this year, her 2022 LP, emails i can't send , "marked the beginning of a really freeing and artistic time for me." Once again, she co-wrote every song on the album; this time, though, she only had one co-writer for each track, and even wrote two songs solo ("emails i can't send" and "how many things") — proving that she was more assured as a songwriter than ever.

As a result, Carpenter's knack for confessional songwriting is on full display. emails i can't send represents a reflective time capsule of sorts; one that brings the curiosity of her earlier work with the perspective and wisdom of a young adult. Her growing fame meant there was more attention on her personal life, and emails i can't send allowed her to reclaim her narrative and express her side of the story.

Carpenter's candidness struck a chord with listeners, and upon the release of emails i can't send in July 2022, it was clear Carpenter was on a new trajectory. The album debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200, which marked her highest entry on the chart to date (as of press time); the 2022 stretch of her Emails I Can't Send Tour sold out in less than a day. And once  "Nonsense" was released as a single that November, her place as a rapidly rising star was solidified.

"Nonsense" was initially written as a means to an end after Carpenter was writing a sad song and had writer's block. Now, the track is the epitome of Carpenter's lyricism, weaving together her wit and humor with an infectious hook. First gaining traction on TikTok because of its catchiness, it's become a beloved part of Carpenter's canon thanks to her inventive and bespoke outros during her live shows. It's since become a tradition for fans to check to see what outro she created for each performance, adding to the fan fervor.

Carpenter further satiated fans' taste for her cheeky lyricism in March 2023, when she released emails i can't send fwd: , the deluxe version of her album, which featured a new track called "Feather." She took the playful, flirting energy of "Nonsense" and infused "Feather" with buoyant, airy production that mimics the feeling of self-liberation after moving on from a relationship. Earning Carpenter her first pop radio No. 1, "Feather" proved that the singer's audacious style was taking hold — and it set the stage for an even bigger 2024.

Becoming A Superstar: Eras Tour, "Espresso" & Beyond

After her own extensive — and very sold out — tour in support of Emails I Can't Send , Carpenter's rising star status was further confirmed by pop's current queen, Taylor Swift. The singer earned a coveted opening slot on Swift's monumental Eras Tour in Mexico, South America, Australia, and Asia.

Just after her last Eras Tour show in March 2024, Carpenter hinted that her own new era was beginning. "I'm starting to feel like I've outgrown the songs I'm singing," she admitted to Cosmopolitan , "which is always an exciting feeling because I think that means the next chapter is right around the corner."

That chapter began with "Espresso," which dropped a day before her debut Coachella performance. Doubling down on the playful, self-assured vibe of "Nonsense," the song immediately hinted that big things were coming for Carpenter, debuting at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 3.

Upon announcing her sixth album, Short n' Sweet , Carpenter released "Please Please Please." Combining her now-signature playful, carefree lyricism with an airy, disco-tinged sound, "Please Please Please" didn't just present Carpenter as a confident superstar —  it became her first Hot 100-topping smash.

Carpenter has referred to Short n' Sweet as the "hot older sister" of emails i can't send. "It's my second 'big girl' album; it's a companion but it's not the same," she explained to Variety , to whom she also admitted she feels a "sense of separation" from her work prior to emails . "When it comes to having full creative control and being a full-fledged adult, I would consider this a sophomore album."

It's apt, then, that her Short n' Sweet collaborators — including songwriters Julia Michaels , Amy Allen and Steph Jones — are largely the same as the team from emails i can't send . "I've really honed in on the people that I love making music with," she told Rolling Stone in June.

Even more telling of the direction she's heading is her work with one of pop's hottest producers — and Swift's right-hand man — Jack Antonoff , for the first time. At a GRAMMY Museum event with Antonoff himself, Carpenter debuted the country-infused " Slim Pickins ," presenting yet another pop style from Short n' Sweet . And as "Slim Pickins," "Espresso" and "Please Please Please" indicate, Carpenter's knack for infectious and edgy lyrics isn't just the throughline across Short n' Sweet — it's become the epitome of both her artistry and her stardom.

Just like her metaphorical friend the tortoise, Carpenter's long but steady journey has clearly paid off. As she's figured out who she is on her own terms, she's manifested the bonafide superstardom she's always imagined.

"I never had the plan B, and it wasn't even a thought in my mind that it wouldn't work out," she told Rolling Stone . "I just always knew it was about not if it would happen but when it would happen."

For Carpenter, every chapter of her artistry has built on the last; she's refused to rest on her laurels and continuously pursued new directions. She's creating work that wholeheartedly reflects her, and growing a loyal fan base because of it. Her next album might be named Short n' Sweet , but her time as a pop superstar will be anything but.

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Behind Ryan Tedder's Hits: Stories From The Studio With OneRepublic, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift & More

As OneRepublic releases their latest album, the group's frontman and pop maverick gives an inside look into some of the biggest songs he's written — from how Beyoncé operates to Tom Cruise's prediction for their 'Top Gun' smash.

Three months after OneRepublic began promoting their sixth album, Artificial Paradise , in February 2022, the band unexpectedly had their biggest release in nearly a decade. The pop-rock band's carefree jam, "I Ain't Worried," soundtracked Top Gun: Maverick 's most memeable scene and quickly became a global smash — ultimately delaying album plans in favor of promoting their latest hit.

Two years later, "I Ain't Worried" is one of 16 tracks on Artificial Paradise , which arrived July 12. It's a seamless blend of songs that will resonate with longtime and newer fans alike. From the layered production of "Hurt," to the feel-good vibes of "Serotonin," to the evocative lyrics of "Last Holiday," Artificial Paradise shows that OneRepublic's sound is as dialed-in as it is ever-evolving.

The album also marks the end of an era for OneRepublic, as it's the last in their contract with Interscope Records. But for the group's singer, Ryan Tedder , that means the future is even more exciting than it's been in their entire 15-year career.

"I've never been more motivated to write the best material of my life than this very moment," he asserts. "I'm taking it as a challenge. We've had a lot of fun, and a lot of uplifting records for the last seven or eight years, but I also want to tap back into some deeper material with the band."

As he's been prepping Artificial Paradise with his OneRepublic cohorts, Tedder has also been as busy as he's ever been working with other artists. His career as a songwriter/producer took off almost simultaneously with OneRepublic's 2007 breakthrough, "Apologize" (his first major behind-the-board hit was Leona Lewis ' "Bleeding Love"); to this day he's one of the go-to guys for pop's biggest names, from BLACKPINK to Tate McRae .

Tedder sat down with GRAMMY.com to share some of his most prominent memories of OneRepublic's biggest songs, as well as some of the hits he's written with Beyoncé , Adele , Taylor Swift and more.

OneRepublic — "Apologize," 'Dreaming Out Loud' (2007)

I was producing and writing other songs for different artists on Epic and Atlantic — I was just cutting my teeth as a songwriter in L.A. This is like 2004. I was at my lowest mentally and financially. I was completely broke. Creditors chasing me, literally dodging the taxman and getting my car repoed, everything.

I had that song in my back pocket for four years. A buddy of mine just reminded me last month, a songwriter from Nashville — Ashley Gorley , actually. We had a session last month, me, him and Amy Allen , and he brought it up. He was like, "Is it true, the story about 'Apologize'? You were completely broke living in L.A. and Epic Records offered you like 100 grand or something just for the right to record the song on one of their artists?"

And that is true. It was, like, 20 [grand], then 50, then 100. And I was salivating. I was, like, I need this money so bad . And I give so many songs to other people, but with that song, I drew a line in the sand and said, "No one will sing this song but me. I will die with this song." 

It was my story, and I just didn't want anyone else to sing it. It was really that simple. It was a song about my past relationships, it was deeply personal. And it was also the song that — I spent two years trying to figure out what my sound was gonna be. I was a solo artist… and I wasn't landing on anything compelling. Then I landed on "Apologize" and a couple of other songs, and I was like, These songs make me think of a band, not solo artist material. So it was the song that led me to the sound of OneRepublic, and it also led me to the idea that I should start a band and not be a solo artist.

We do it every night. I'll never not do it. I've never gotten sick of it once. Every night that we do it, whether I'm in Houston or Hong Kong, I look out at the crowd and look at the band, and I'm like, Wow. This is the song that got us here.

Beyoncé — "Halo," 'I Am…Sacha Fierce' (2008)

We were halfway through promoting Dreaming Out Loud , our first album. I played basketball every day on tour, and I snapped my Achilles. The tour got canceled. The doctor told me not to even write. And I had this one sliver of an afternoon where my wife had to run an errand. And because I'm sadistic and crazy, I texted [songwriter] Evan Bogart, "I got a three-hour window, race over here. Beyoncé called me and asked me to write her a song. I want to do it with you." He had just come off his huge Rihanna No. 1, and we had an Ashley Tisdale single together.

When you write enough songs, not every day do the clouds part and God looks down on you and goes, "Here." But that's what happened on that day. I turn on the keyboard, the first sound that I play is the opening sound of the song. Sounds like angels singing. And we wrote the song pretty quick, as I recall. 

I didn't get a response [from Beyoncé after sending "Halo" over], which I've now learned is very, very typical of her. I did Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé "II MOST WANTED" [from COWBOY CARTER ] — I didn't know that was coming out 'til five days before it came out. And when I did "XO" [from 2013's Beyoncé ], I found out that "XO" was coming out 12 hours before it came out. That's how she operates.

OneRepublic — "Good Life," 'Waking Up' (2009)

["Good Life"] was kind of a Hail Mary. We already knew that "All the Right Moves" would be the first single [from Waking Up ]. We knew that "Secrets" was the second single. And in the 11th hour, our engineer at the time — who I ended up signing as a songwriter, Noel Zancanella — had this drum loop that he had made, and he played it for Brent [Kutzle] in our band. Brent said, "You gotta hear this drum loop that Noel made. It's incredible."

He played it for me the next morning, and I was like, "Yo throw some chords to this. I'm writing to this today." They threw some chords down, and the first thing out of my mouth was, [ sings ] "Oh, this has gotta be the good life." 

It's the perfect example of, oftentimes, the chord I've tried to strike with this band with some of our bigger records, [which] is happy sad. Where you feel nostalgic and kind of melancholic, but at the same time, euphoric. That's what those chords and that melody did for me.

I was like, "Hey guys, would it be weird if I made the hook a whistle?" And everyone was like, "No! Do not whistle!" They're like, "Name the last hit song that had a whistle." And the only one I could think of was, like, Scorpion from like, 1988. [ Laughs .] So I thought, To hell with it, man, it's been long enough, who cares? Let's try it. And the whistle kind of made the record. It became such a signature thing.

Adele — "Rumour Has It," '21' (2011)

"Rumour Has It" was the first song I did in probably a four year period, with any artist, that wasn't a ballad. All any artist ever wanted me to write with them or for them, was ballads, because of "Halo," and "Apologize" and "Bleeding Love."

I begged [Adele] to do a [song with] tempo, because we did "Turning Tables," another ballad. She was in a feisty mood [that day], so I was like, "Okay, we're doing a tempo today!"

Rick Rubin was originally producing the whole album. I was determined to produce Adele, not just write — because I wanted a shot to show her that I could, and to show myself. I stayed later after she left, and I remember thinking, What can I do in this record in this song that could be so difficult to reproduce that it might land me the gig?

So I intentionally muted the click track, changed the tempo, and [created that] whole piano bridge. I was making it up as I went. When she got in that morning. I said, "I have a crazy idea for a bridge. It's a movie." She listens and she says, "This is really different, I like this! How do we write to this?" 

I mean, it was very difficult. [But] we finished the song. She recorded the entire song that day. She recorded the whole song in one take. I've never seen anyone do that in my life — before or since.

Then I didn't hear from her for six months. Because I handed over the files, and Rick Rubin's doing it, so I don't need to check on it. I randomly check on the status of the song — and at this point, if you're a songwriter or producer, you're assuming that they're not keeping the songs. Her manager emails my manager, "Hey, good news — she's keeping both songs they did, and she wants Ryan to finish 'Rumour Has It' production and mix it." 

When I finally asked her, months later — probably at the GRAMMYs — I said, "Why didn't [Rick] do it?" She said, "Oh he did. It's that damn bridge! Nobody could figure out what the hell you were doing…It was so problematic that we just gave up on it."

OneRepublic — "Counting Stars," 'Native' (2013)

I was in a Beyoncé camp in the Hamptons writing for the self-titled album. [There were] a bunch of people in the house — me, Greg Kurstin , Sia — it was a fun group of people. I had four days there, and every morning I'd get up an hour and a half before I had to leave, make a coffee, and start prepping for the day. On the third day, I got up, I'm in the basement of this house at like 7 in the morning, and I'm coming up with ideas. I stumble across that chord progression, the guitar and the melody. It was instant shivers up my spine.  

"Lately I've been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be" is the only line that I had. [My] first thought was, I should play this for Beyoncé , and then I'm listening to it and going, This is not Beyoncé, not even remotely. It'd be a waste. So I tabled it, and I texted the guys in my band, "Hey, I think I have a potentially really big record. I'm going to finish it when I get back to Denver."

I got back the next week, started recording it, did four or five versions of the chorus, bouncing all the versions off my wife, and then eventually landed it. And when I played it for the band, they were like, "This is our favorite song."

Taylor Swift — "Welcome to New York," '1989' (2014)

It was my second session with Taylor. The first one was [ 1989 's] "I Know Places," and she sent me a voice memo. I was looking for a house in Venice [California], because we were spending so much time in L.A. So that whole memory is attached to me migrating back to Los Angeles.  

But I knew what she was talking about, because I lived in New York, and I remember the feeling — endless possibilities, all the different people and races and sexes and loves. That was her New York chapter. She was so excited to be there. If you never lived there, and especially if you get there and you've got a little money in the pocket, it is so exhilarating.

It was me just kind of witnessing her brilliant, fast-paced, lyrical wizardry. [Co-producer] Max [Martin] and I had a conversation nine months later at the GRAMMYs, when we had literally just won for 1989 . He kind of laughed, he pointed to all the other producers on the album, and he's like, "If she had, like, three more hours in the day, she would just figure out what we do and she would do it. And she wouldn't need any of us." 

And I still think that's true. Some people are just forces of nature in and among themselves, and she's one of them. She just blew me away. She's the most talented top liner I've ever been in a room with, bar none. If you're talking lyric and melody, I've never been in a room with anyone faster, more adept, knows more what they want to say, focused, efficient, and just talented.

Jonas Brothers — "Sucker," 'Happiness Begins' (2019)

I had gone through a pretty dry spell mentally, emotionally. I had just burned it at both ends and tapped out, call it end of 2016. So, really, all of 2017 for me was a blur and a wash. I did a bunch of sessions in the first three months of the year, and then I just couldn't get a song out. I kept having, song after song, artists telling me it's the first single, [then] the song was not even on the album. I had never experienced that in my career.

I went six to nine months without finishing a song, which for me is unheard of. Andrew Watt kind of roped me back into working with him. We did "Easier" for 5 Seconds of Summer , and we did some Sam Smith and some Miley Cyrus, and right in that same window, I did this song "Sucker." Two [or] three months later, Wendy Goldstein from Republic [Records] heard the record, I had sent it to her. She'd said, very quietly, "We're relaunching the Jonas Brothers . They want you to be involved in a major way. Do you have anything?" 

She calls me, she goes, "Ryan, do not play this for anybody else. This is their comeback single. It's a No. 1 record. Watch what we're gonna do." And she delivered.

OneRepublic — "I Ain't Worried," 'Top Gun: Maverick' Soundtrack (2022)

My memory is, being in lockdown in COVID, and just being like, Who knows when this is going to end , working out of my Airstream at my house. I had done a lot of songs for movies over the years, and [for] that particular [song] Randy Spendlove, who runs [music at] Paramount, called me.

I end up Zooming with Tom Cruise [and Top Gun: Maverick director] Jerry Bruckheimer — everybody's in lockdown during post-production. The overarching memory was, Holy cow, I'm doing the scene, I'm doing the song for Top Gun . I can't believe this is happening. But the only way I knew how to approach it, rather than to, like, overreact and s— the bed, was, It's just another day.

I do prescription songs for movies, TV, film all the time. I love a brief. It's so antithetical to most writers. I'm either uncontrollably lazy or the most productive person you've ever met. And the dividing line between the two is, if I'm chasing some directive, some motivation, some endpoint, then I can be wildly productive.

I just thought, I'm going to do the absolute best thing I can do for this scene and serve the film. OneRepublic being the performing artist was not on the menu in my mind. I just told them, "I think you need a cool indie band sounding, like, breakbeat." I used adjectives to describe what I heard when I saw the scene, and Tom got really ramped and excited. 

You could argue [it's the biggest song] since the band started. The thing about it is, it's kind of become one of those every summer [hits]. And when it blew up, that's what Tom said. He said, "Mark my words, dude. You're gonna have a hit with this every summer for, like, the next 20 years or more." 

And that's what happened. The moment Memorial Day happened, "I Ain't Worried" got defrosted and marched itself back into the top 100.

Tate McRae — "Greedy," 'THINK LATER' (2023)

We had "10:35" [with Tiësto ] the previous year that had been, like, a No. 1 in the UK and across Europe and Australia. So we were coming off the back of that, and the one thing she was clear about was, "That is not the direction of what I want to do."

If my memory serves me correct, "greedy" was the next to last session we had. Everything we had done up to that point was kind of dark, midtempo, emotional. So "greedy" was the weirdo outlier. I kept pushing her to do a dance record. I was like, "Tate, there's a lot of people that have great voices, and there's a lot of people who can write, but none of those people are professional dancers like you are. Your secret weapon is the thing you're not using. In this game and this career, you've got to use every asset that you have and exploit it."

There was a lot of cajoling. On that day, we did it, and I thought it was badass, and loved it. And she was like, "Ugh, what do we just do? What is this?"

So then it was just, like, months, months and months of me constantly bringing that song back up, and playing it for her, and annoying the s— out of her. And she came around on it. 

She has very specific taste. So much of the music with Tate, it really is her steering. I'll do what I think is like a finished version of a song, and then she will push everyone for weeks, if not months, to extract every ounce of everything out of them, to push the song harder, further, edgier — 19 versions of a song, until finally she goes, "Okay, this is the one." She's a perfectionist.

OneRepublic — "Last Holiday," 'Artificial Paradise' (2024)

I love [our latest single] "Hurt," but my favorite song on the album is called "Last Holiday." I probably started the beginning of that lyric, I'm not joking, seven, eight years ago. But I didn't finish it 'til this past year.

The verses are little maxims and words of advice that I've been given throughout the years. It's almost cynical in a way, the song. When I wrote the chorus, I was definitely in kind of a down place. So the opening line is, "So I don't believe in the stars anymore/ They never gave me what I wished for." And it's, obviously, a very not-so-slight reference to "Counting Stars." But it's also hopeful — "We've got some problems, okay, but this isn't our last holiday." 

It's very simple sentiments. Press pause. Take some moments. Find God before it all ends. All these things with this big, soaring chorus. Musically and emotionally and sonically, that song — and "Hurt," for sure — but "Last Holiday" is extremely us-sounding. 

The biggest enemy that we've had over the course of 18 years, I'll be the first to volunteer, is, this ever-evolving, undulating sound. No one's gonna accuse me of making these super complex concept albums, because that's just not how my brain's wired. I grew up listening to the radio. I didn't grow up hanging out in the Bowery in CBGBs listening to Nick Cave . So for us, the downside to that, and for me doing all these songs for all these other people, is the constant push and pull of "What is their sound? What genre is it?" 

I couldn't put a pin in exactly what the sound is, but what I would say is, if you look at the last 18 years, a song like "Last Holiday" really encompasses, sonically, what this band is about. It's very moving, and emotional, and dynamic. It takes me to a place — that's the best way for me to put it. And hopefully the listener finds the same.

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"We're not writing for a pop audience, we don't need to dumb it down," Moby says of creating his new record. In an interview, the multiple-GRAMMY nominee reflects on his latest album and how it contrasts with his legendary release from 1999.

Moby ’s past and present are converging in a serendipitous way. The multiple-GRAMMY nominee is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his seminal work, Play , the best-selling electronic dance music album of all time, and the release of his latest album, always centered at night .  

Where Play was a solitary creation experience for Moby, always centered at night is wholly collaborative. Recognizable names on the album are Lady Blackbird on the blues-drenched "dark days" and serpentwithfeet on the emotive "on air." But always centered at night ’s features are mainly lesser-known artists, such as the late Benjamin Zephaniah on the liquid jungle sounds of "where is your pride?" and Choklate on the slow grooves of "sweet moon."  

Moby’s music proves to have staying power: His early ‘90s dance hits "Go" and "Next is the E" still rip up dancefloors ; the songs on Play are met with instant emotional reactions from millennials who heard them growing up. Moby is even experiencing a resurgence of sorts with Gen Z. In 2023, Australian drum ‘n’ bass DJ/producer Luude and UK vocalist Issey Cross reimagined Moby’s classic "Porcelain" into "Oh My." Earlier this year, Moby released "You and Me" with Italian DJ/producer Anfisa Letyago .  

Music is just one of Moby’s many creative ventures. He wrote and directed Punk Rock Vegan Movie as well as writing and starring in his homemade documentary, Moby Doc . The two films are produced by his production company, Little Walnut , which also makes music videos, shorts and the podcast "Moby Pod ." Moby and co-host Lindsay Hicks have an eclectic array of guests, from actor Joe Manganiello to Ed Begley, Jr., Steve-O and Hunter Biden. The podcast interviews have led to "some of the most meaningful interpersonal experiences," Moby tells GRAMMY.com.  

A upcoming episode of "Moby Pod" dedicated to Play was taped live over two evenings at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The episode focuses on Moby recounting his singular experiences around the unexpected success of that album — particularly considering the abject failure of his previous album, Animal Rights . The narrative was broken up by acoustic performances of songs from Play , as well as material from Always Centered at Night (which arrives June 14) with special guest Lady Blackbird. Prior to the taping, Moby spoke to GRAMMY.com about both albums.  

'Always centered at night' started as a label imprint then became the title of your latest album. How did that happen?  

I realized pretty quickly that I just wanted to make music and not necessarily worry about being a label boss. Why make more busy work for myself ?

The first few songs were this pandemic process of going to SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube and asking people for recommendations to find voices that I wasn’t familiar with, and then figuring out how to get in touch with them. The vast majority of the time, they would take the music I sent them and write something phenomenal.

That's the most interesting part of working with singers you've never met: You don't know what you're going to get. My only guidance was: Let yourself be creative, let yourself be idiosyncratic, let the lyrics be poetic. We're not writing for a pop audience, we don't need to dumb it down. Although, apparently Lady Blackbird is one of Taylor Swift 's favorite singers .   

Guiding the collaborators away from pop music is an unusual directive, although perhaps not for you?  

What is both sad and interesting is pop has come to dominate the musical landscape to such an extent that it seems a lot of musicians don't know they're allowed to do anything else. Some younger people have grown up with nothing but pop music. Danaé Wellington, who sings "Wild Flame," her first pass of lyrics were pop. I went back to her and said, "Please be yourself, be poetic." And she said, "Well, that’s interesting because I’m the poet laureate of Manchester." So getting her to disregard pop lyrics and write something much more personal and idiosyncratic was actually easy and really special .  

You certainly weren’t going in the pop direction when making 'Play,' but it ended up being an extremely popular album. Did you have a feeling it was going to blow up the way it did?

I have a funny story. I had a date in January 1999 in New York. We went out drinking and I had just gotten back the mastered version of   Play . We're back at my apartment, and before our date became "grown up," we listened to the record from start to finish.   She actually liked it.   And I thought,   Huh, that's interesting. I didn't think anyone was going to like this record .  

You didn’t feel anything different during the making of 'Play?'

I knew to the core of my being that   Play   was going to be a complete, abject failure. There was no doubt in my mind whatsoever. It was going to be my last record and it was going to fail. That was the time of people going into studios and spending half a million dollars. It was   Backstreet Boys   and   Limp Bizkit   and   NSYNC ; big major label records that were flawlessly produced.   Play   was made literally in my bedroom. 

I slept under the stairs like Harry Potter in my loft on Mott Street. I had one bedroom and that's where I made the record on the cheapest of cheap equipment held up literally on milk crates. Two of the songs were recorded to cassette, that's how cheap the record was. It was this weird record made by a has-been, a footnote from the early rave days. There was no world where I thought it was going to be even slightly successful. Daniel Miller from Mute said — and I remember this very clearly — "I think this record might sell over 50,000 copies." And I said, "That’s kind of you to say but let's admit that this is going to be a failure. Thank you for releasing my last record."   

Was your approach in making  'Play'  different from other albums?  

The record I had made before   Play ,   Animal Rights , was this weird, noisy metal punk industrial record that almost everybody hated. I remember this moment so vividly: I was playing Glastonbury in 1998 and it was one of those miserable Glastonbury years.   When it's good, it's paradise; it's really special.   But the first time I played, it was disgusting, truly. A foot and a half of mud everywhere, incessant rain and cold. I was telling my manager that I wanted to make another punk rock metal record. And he said the   most gentle   thing, "I know you enjoy making punk rock and metal. People really   enjoy   when you make electronic music." 

The way he said it, he wasn't saying, "You would help your career by making electronic music." He simply said, "People enjoy it." If I had been my manager, I would have said, "You're a f— ing   idiot. Everyone hated that record. What sort of mental illness and masochism is compelling you to do it again?" Like Freud said, the definition of mental illness is doing the same thing and expecting different results.   But his response was very emotional and gentle and sweet, and that got through to me.   I had this moment where I realized,   I can make music that potentially people will   enjoy   that will make them happy.   Why not pursue that?  

That was what made me not spend my time in ‘98 making an album inspired by Sepultura and   Pantera   and   instead make something more melodic and electronic.  

After years of swearing off touring, what’s making you hit stages this summer?  

I love playing live music. If you asked me to come over and play Neil Young songs in your backyard, I would say yes happily, in a second. But going on tour, the hotels and airports and everything, I really dislike it.   

My manager tricked me. He found strategically the only way to get me to go on tour was to give the money to animal rights charities. My philanthropic Achilles heel. The only thing that would get me to go on tour. It's a brief tour of Europe, pretty big venues, which is interesting for an old guy, but when the tour ends, I will have less money than when the tour begins.  

Your DJ sets are great fun. Would you consider doing DJ dates locally?  

Every now and then I’ll do something. But there’s two problems. As I've become very old and very sober, I go to sleep at 9 p.m. This young guy I was helping who was newly sober, he's a DJ. He was doing a DJ set in L.A. and he said, "You should come down. There's this cool underground scene." I said, "Great! What time are you playing?" And he said "I’m going on at 1 a.m." By that point I've been asleep for almost five hours.

I got invited to a dinner party recently that started at 8 p.m. and I was like, "What are you on? Cocaine in Ibiza? You're having dinner at 8 p.m .  What craziness is that? That’s when you're putting on your soft clothes and watching a '30 Rock' rerun before bed. That's not going out time." And the other thing is, unfortunately, like a lot of middle aged or elderly musicians, I have a little bit of tinnitus so I have to be very cautious around loud music.

Are you going to write a third memoir at any point?  

Only when I figure out something to write. It's definitely not going to be anecdotes about sobriety because my anecdotes are: woke up at 5 a.m., had a smoothie, read The New York Times , lamented the fact that people are voting for Trump, went for a hike, worked on music, played with Bagel the dog, worked on music some more went to sleep, good night. It would be so repetitive and boring. 

It has to be something about lived experience and wisdom. But I don't know if I've necessarily gotten to the point where I have good enough lived experience and wisdom to share with anyone. Maybe if I get to that point, I'll probably be wrong, but nonetheless, that would warrant maybe writing another book.

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The Environmental Impact Of Touring: How Scientists, Musicians & Nonprofits Are Trying To Shrink Concerts' Carbon Footprint

"It’s not just [about] a single tour, it’s every tour," singer Brittany Howard says of efforts to make concerts more sustainable. From the nonprofit that partnered with Billie Eilish, to an MIT initiative, the music industry aims to curb climate change.

Beloved by fans around the globe, yet   increasingly unaffordable   for many artists, concert tours are central to the world of entertainment and   local economies . After the pandemic-era   global shuttering of concert venues   large and small, tours are back, and bigger than ever.   

Taylor Swift ’s Eras Tour is   smashing records , selling more than four million tickets and earning more than $1 billion. But that tour made headlines for another reason: as reported in   Business Insider   and other outlets, for a six-month period in 2023, Swift’s two jets spent a combined 166 hours in the air between concerts, shuttling at most a total of 28 passengers.  

Against that backdrop, heightened concerns about the global environmental cost of concert touring have led a number of prominent artists to launch initiatives.   Those efforts seek both to mitigate the negative effects of touring and communicate messages about sustainability to concertgoers.  

A   2023 study   sponsored by Texas-based electricity provider Payless Power found that the carbon footprint of many touring bands was massive. In 2022, concert tours in five genres — country, classic rock, hip-hop/rap, metal and pop — were responsible for CO 2   emissions totaling nearly 45,000 metric tons. A so-called greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide contributes to climate change by radiative forcing; increased levels of CO 2   also contribute to health problems.   

No serious discussion of climate issues suggests a worldwide halt to live music touring, but there exists much room for improvement. Both on their own and with the help of dedicated nonprofit organizations, many artists are taking positive steps toward mitigating the deleterious effects that touring exerts upon the environment.   

Smart tour planning is one way to lessen an artist’s carbon footprint.   Ed Sheeran ’s 2022 European run minimized flights between concert venues, making that leg of his tour the year's most environmentally efficient. Total carbon dioxide emissions (from flights and driving) on Sheeran’s tour came to less than 150 metric tons. In contrast,   Dua Lipa ’s tour during the same period generated 12 times as much — more than 1800 metric tons — of CO 2 .   

In July, singer/songwriter and four-time GRAMMY nominee Jewel will embark on her first major tour in several years, alongside GRAMMY winner Melissa Etheridge . During the planning stage for the 28-city tour, Jewel suggested an idea that could reduce the tour’s carbon footprint.

"I always thought it was so silly and so wasteful — and so carbon footprint-negative — to have separate trucks, separate lighting, separate crews, separate hotel rooms, separate costs," Jewel says. She pitched the idea of sharing a backing band with Etheridge. "I’ve been trying to do this for 25 years," Jewel says with a laugh. "Melissa is the first person who took me up on it! "  

The changes will not only reduce the tour’s carbon footprint, but they’ll also lessen the cost of taking the shows on the road. Acknowledging that there are many opportunities to meet the challenges of touring’s negative impact upon the environment, Jewel emphasizes that “you have to find [solutions] that work for you.”

Sheeran and Jewel aren’t the only popular artists trying to make a difference. A number of   high profile   artists have become actively involved in creating the momentum for positive change. Those artists believe that their work on sustainability issues goes hand in hand with their role as public figures. Their efforts take two primary forms: making changes   themselves, and advocating for action among their fans.   

The Climate Machine  

Norhan   Bayomi   is an Egypt-born environmental scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a key member of the   Environmental Solutions Initiative , a program launched to address sustainable climate action. She’s also a recording artist in the trance genre, working under the name   Nourey .   

The ESI   collaborates with industry heavyweights   Live Nation, Warner Music Group and others as well with touring/recording acts like   Coldplay   to examine the carbon footprint of the music industry. A key component of the ESI is the   Climate Machine , a collaborative research group that seeks to help the live music industry reduce carbon emissions. "As a research institution, we bring technologies and analytics to understand, in the best way possible, the actual impact of the music industry upon climate change," says John Fernández, Director of the ESI.   

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"I’m very interested in exploring ways that we can   bridge between   environmental science, climate change and music fans,"   Bayomi   says. She explains that the tools at the ESI’s disposal include "virtual reality, augmented reality and generative AI," media forms that can communicate messages to music fans and concertgoers. Fernández says that those endeavors are aimed at "enlisting, enabling and inspiring people to get engaged in climate change."  

The Environmental Solutions Initiative cites Coldplay as a high-profile success. The band and its management issued an   "Emissions Update" document   in June 2024, outlining   its   success at achieving their goal of reducing direct carbon emissions from show production, freight, band and crew travel.   The established target was a 50 percent cut in emissions compared to Coldplay’s previous tour; the final result was a 59 percent reduction between their 2022-23 tour and 2016-17 tour.   

A significant part of that reduction came as a result of a   renewable-energy   based battery system that powers audio and lights. The emissions data in the update was reviewed and independently validated by MIT’s Fernández.   

Change Is Reverberating  

Guitarist Adam Gardner is a founding member of Massachusetts-based indie rockers   Guster , but he's more than just a singer in a rock band. Gardner is also the co-founder of   REVERB , one of the organizations at the forefront of developing and implementing climate-focused sustainability initiatives.   

Founded in 2004 by Gardner and his wife, environmental activist Lauren Sullivan,   REVERB  began   with a goal of making touring more sustainable; over the years its focus has expanded to promote industry-wide changes. Today, the organization promotes sustainability throughout the   industry  in   partnership with music artists, concert venues and festivals.   

REVERB initiatives have included efforts to eliminate single-use plastics at the California Roots Music & Arts Festival, clean energy projects in cooperation with   Willie Nelson   and   Billie Eilish , and efforts with other major artists. Gardner has seen sustainability efforts grow over two decades  

"It’s really amazing to see the [change] with artists, with venues, with fans," Gardner says. "Today, people are not just giving lip service to sustainable efforts; they really want to do things that are real and measurable."   

The   Music Decarbonization Project   is one tangible example of REVERB’s successes. "Diesel power is one of the dirtiest sources of power," Gardner explains. "And it’s an industry standard to power festival stages with diesel generators." Working with   Willie Nelson , the organization helped switch the power sources at   his   annual Luck Reunion to clean energy. At last year’s festival, Nelson’s headlining stage drew 100 percent of its power from solar-powered batteries. "We set up a temporary solar farm," Gardner says, "and the main stage didn’t have to use any diesel power."   

Billie Eilish was another early supporter of the initiative. "She helped us launch the program," Gardner says. Eilish’s   set at Lollapallooza 2023   drew power from solar batteries, too.   

With such high-profile successes as a backdrop, Gardner believes that REVERB is poised to do even more to foster sustainable concerts and touring. "Our role now," he says, "isn’t just, ‘Hey, think about this stuff.’ It’s more how do we push farther, faster?"   

Adam Gardner believes that musicians are uniquely positioned to help make a difference where issues of sustainability are concerned. "When you’re a musician, you’re connecting with fans heart-to-heart. That’s what moves people. And that’s where the good stuff happens."   

Small-scale, individual changes can make a difference — especially when they’re coordinated and amplified among other concertgoers. Gardner provides real-world examples. "Instead of buying a plastic bottle, I brought my reusable and filled it up. Maybe I carpooled to the show." Conceding that such steps might seem like drops of water in a giant pool, he emphasizes the power of scale. "When you actually multiply [those things for] just one summer tour, it adds up," he says. "And it reminds people, ‘You’re not alone in this;   you’re   part of a community that’s taking action."   

Gardner understands that REVERB’s arguments have to be framed the right way to reach concertgoers.   "Look," he admits, "It’s a concert. We’re not here to be   a buzzkill . Our [aim] now is making sure people don’t lose hope." He says that REVERB and its partners seek to demonstrate that, with collective action and cultural change, there is reason for optimism.   

"There’s a wonderful feedback loop between hope and action," Gardner says with a smile. "You can’t really have one without the other."   

Sustainable Partnerships  

Tanner Watt is Director of Partnerships at REVERB; he works directly with touring artists to develop, coordinate and implement initiatives that bring together his organization’s objectives and the specific personal concerns of the artists. "I get to come up with all the fun, big ideas," he says with a wide smile.   

Watt acknowledges that like every concertgoer, each touring artist has a certain level of responsibility where sustainability is concerned.   "And everyone can be doing something," he says, noting a number of straightforward actions that artists can put in place while on tour.   "They can eliminate single-use waste. They can donate hotel toiletries that [would otherwise] hit the landfill."   

Watt stresses that artists can lead by example. "Nobody wants to listen to an artist telling them what to do if they’re not doing it themselves," he says. "But we believe that everybody cares about something." He suggests that if an artist has cultivated a following, "Why not use [that platform] to be that change you want to see in the world?"   

Each artist has his or her own specific areas of concern, but Watt says that there’s a base level of "greening" that takes place on every REVERB-affiliated tour. Where things go from there is up to the artist, in coordination with REVERB. Watt mentions Billie Eilish and her tour’s sustainability commitment. "The Venn diagram of food security, community health, access to healthy food, and the impact on the planet is a big cause for her," he says. " So   there’s plant-based catering for her entire crew, across the entire tour."  

Speaking to   Billboard , Eilish's mother Maggie Baird said championing sustainability starts with artists. "If artists are interested, it does really start with them telling their teams that they care and that it’s foremost in their thoughts." In the same conversation, Eilish called the battle for sustainability "a never-ending f–king fight."   

Watt acknowledges that with so many challenges, it’s important for a concerned artist to focus on the issues that move them the most, and where they can make the biggest difference. " Jack Johnson   is   a great example," he says. While Johnson is a vocal advocate for many environmental issues, on tour he focuses on two (in Watt’s words) "cause umbrellas": single-use plastics solutions and sustainable community food systems. Each show on the tour hosts tables representing local nonprofit organizations, presenting concertgoers with real-world, human-scale solutions to those specific challenges.   

Four-time GRAMMY winner   Brittany Howard   is another passionate REVERB partner. "Knowing that I wanted to make my tours more sustainable was a start," she tells GRAMMY.com, "but working with REVERB really helped me bring it to life on the road. REVERB has helped us with guidelines and a green rider to keep our stage, greenrooms and buses more sustainable."  

After listing several other specific ways that her tour supports sustainability, Howard notes, "By supporting these efforts, I am helping ensure future generations have access to clean water, fish, and all that I love about the outdoors." A dollar from every ticket sold to a Brittany Howard concert goes toward support of REVERB’s Music Decarbonization project. "I’m also excited to see industry-wide efforts that are reducing the carbon pollution of live music," Howard continues. "Because it’s not just [about] a single tour, it’s   every   tour."  

There’s a popular aphorism: "You can’t manage what you can’t measure."   From its start, REVERB has sought not only to promote change, but to measure its success.   "As long as I’ve been at REVERB, we’ve issued   impact reports ," says Tanner Watt. "We include data   points, and   give the report to the artists so they understand what we’ve done together." He admits that some successes are more tangible than others, but that it’s helpful to focus on the ones that can be quantified. "We’re very excited that our artists share those with their fans."   

Watt is clear-eyed at the challenges that remain. "Even the word ‘sustainable’ can be misleading," he concedes, suggesting that the only truly sustainable tour is the one that doesn’t happen. "But if folks don’t step it up and change the way we do business in every industry — not just ours — we’re going to get to a place where we’re forced to make sacrifices that   aren’t   painless." Getting that message across is REVERB’s aim. "We can’t stop the world," Watt says. " So   we find ways to approach these things positively."   

Watt says that the fans at concerts featuring Jack Johnson and the   Dave Matthews Band   — both longtime REVERB partners — are already on board with many of the sustainability-focused initiatives which those artists promote. "But there are lots of artists — and lots of fan bases — out there that aren’t messaged to, or have been mis-messaged to," he says.   "I’m really excited to find more ways to expand our reach to them, beyond mainstream pop music.   Because these are conversations that are meaningful for everyone, regardless of political affiliation or other beliefs."   

Reimagining The Planet’s Future  

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Met does more than front   AJR , the indie pop trio he founded in 2005 with brothers Jack and Ryan. Met has a PhD in sustainable development and is a climate activist; he's also the founder/Executive Director of   Planet Reimagined , a nonprofit that promotes sustainability and activism through its work with businesses, other organizations and musicians.   

"I’ve spent years traveling around the world, seeing the direct impact of climate change," Met says. He cites two recent and stark examples. "When we pulled up to a venue in San Francisco, the band had to wear gas masks going from the bus into the venue, because of forest fires," he says. AJR’s road crew had to contend with a flash flood in Athens, Greece that washed out their hotel. "And in Rome, some of our crew members fainted because of the heat."   

Encouraged by representatives from the United Nations, Met launched Planet Reimagined. Met’s approach focuses on tailored, city-specific actions to empower fans and amplify diverse voices in the climate movement. Through social media and live shows, Met strives to galvanize climate activism among AJR fans. And the methods he has developed can be implemented by other touring artists.   

Met points out that one of the most climate-unfriendly parts of the entire concert tour enterprise is fans traveling to and from the concerts. And that’s something over which the artist has little or no control. What they can do, he says, is   try   to educate and influence. Working closely with Ticketmaster and other stakeholders, Met’s nonprofit initiated a study — conducted from July to December 2023, with   results published in April 2024   — to explore the energy that happens at concerts. "In sociology," he explains, "that energy is called collective effervescence." The study’s goal is to find ways to channel that energy toward advocacy and action.   

Polling a quarter million concertgoers across musical genres, the study collected data on attitudes about climate change. "Seventy-three percent of fans who attend concerts believe that climate change is real, and that we need to be doing more about it," Met says. "Seventy-eight percent have already taken some sort of action in their lives." He believes that if his organization can activate even a fraction of the estimated 250 million people annually who attend concerts around the globe, "that’s the ballgame."   

Met’s goal is to do more than, say, get concertgoers to switch from plastic to paper drinking straws. "At   scale   those things make a difference. But people want to see actions where there’s a track record," he says; a return on investment.   

AJR will be putting a plan into action   on   the second half of their upcoming arena tour.   Part of the initiative is encouraging concertgoers to register to vote, and then actually vote.   Beyond that, Met has specific actions in mind. "At every single stop, we’re putting together materials around specific policies that are being debated at the local level," he explains. "We give people a script right there, so they can call their elected representative and say, ‘I want you to vote [a certain way on this issue].’"   

He believes the initiative will lead to thousands of people contacting – and hopefully influencing – their representatives.   With regard to sustainability issues, Met is convinced that "the most impact that you can have as an artist is when you give fans ways to pick up the mantle themselves."  

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Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour Is Leaving Netflix, And You Need To Revisit It ASAP For These 5 Reasons

I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!

Swifties, what a time 2023 has been!! There’s no question in my mind that Taylor Swift ’s 33rd year has been the most epic yet, between her phenomenon of a tour which was immortalized through the Eras Tour concert film to the re-releases of Speak Now and 1989 and all the viral moments associated with Swift and Travis Kelce’s blossoming relationship . It’s never been a better time to be a Swift fan, but come New Year’s Day, fans will be down one concert film once the Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour movie becomes unavailable for Netflix subscribers . Time is ticking for you to get in one last viewing before it disappears!

As noted on Netflix , today is officially the last day to watch the 2018 concert film that brought Taylor Swift’s stadium tour for reputation home to Swifties. Here are five reasons why it’s worth rushing to the streaming service right now to check it out: 

We Have No Idea Where It’s Going Once It Leaves

For starters, it’s a complete mystery right now regarding what’s actually happening with the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour movie once it can no longer be watched with a Netflix subscription . The movie initially was released on December 31, 2018, so its last day on the streaming service actually coincides with it being there for five years. My best guess is that there was some sort of five-year contract on the Netflix original and for one reason or another, it was decided by either Taylor Swift’s team or Netflix to no longer host the movie. 

While, in the past, it was unheard of for originals from a streaming service to be removed from its service, it’s become more and more common as of late. Other services like Max and Hulu, have removed content from their platform as a way to make money back because the artists and producers behind films and TV shows may get residuals for as long as a title is listed. I’d like to think Taylor Swift struck some smart deal that will allow her to surprise us on New Year’s Day with another method to view the movie but, since it’s a Netflix original, I’m not counting on it!! 

The Acoustic Version Of “Dancing With Our Hands Tied” Is Spectacular 

The stadium tour is all around really fantastic. I’d put it on par with the Eras Tour movie, except it’s focused primarily on the particular time in Taylor Swift’s career when reputation was the shiny new album in her life and she wanted to really showcase it to the best of her ability on stage. The two-hour movie features Swift belting out over twenty songs, including a performance of just about every single track from reputation . 

One standout moment for me in this movie that you cannot find anywhere else is her acoustic version of “Dancing With Our Hands Tied.” The performance really made me think about the song in a whole new light and in my opinion, is even better than the recording. It’s a really gorgeous moment that is very unique to the Netflix release. (I’m really bummed it’s going away.) 

The “Bad Blood” / “Should’ve Said No” Mashup Is To Die For 

While it’s the reputation album that a fan is likely to have on repeat over a concert film, it’s really incredible to see the ways in which Taylor Swift presents the album on stage across six acts alongside her band and dancers. And that's because she doesn’t cut any corners. There are a lot of music cues she alters on stage, and so much of the choreography that is going on during each of the songs allows the viewer to find a deeper meaning in the songs (along with having the best time watching Swift feed off the crowd and vice versa). 

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My favorite example of a way that the movie does something new with the music occurs about halfway through when the songstress surprises attendees with a mashup of 1989 ’s “Bad Blood” with “Should’ve Said No” from her 2006 debut album. It’s a really empowering and jaw-dropping take on two of her older songs, and it’s an absolute blast to see her perform it in this movie. 

If You’re Not Into The Reputation Era, This Movie Might Change Your Mind 

When Taylor Swift launched the reputation era, it was a tumultuous time to be a Swiftie. For OG fans like me, at the time, the album actually alienated me completely, and I stopped listening to the artist for a while. For others, the album was actually the moment when they fell in love with the artist, after she dipped her big toe into pop with 1989 . 

With that in mind, I think there are a lot of people who were on my side of the street who didn’t appreciate the era immediately. While the album slowly grew on me over time when I got back into the singer, this movie really made me fall in love with this era of the star's career. So, if it’s not been your cup of tea, 2024 could be the year you get into it, with the help of this movie!! 

Reputation (Taylor’s Version) Is Expected To Come Out Very Soon

Lastly, while we don’t know exactly when Reputation (Taylor’s Version) is coming out , a lot of clues and not-so-subtle hints from Taylor Swift definitely point to it arriving very soon. So there’s no time like the present to get really amped for the next re-release from the iconic artist. By revisiting this Netflix movie before it’s gone (maybe forever), you’ll have a chance to see how the album was presented on a large scale when the album was released versus what changes she might make with her new version. 

If you happen to miss the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour movie, there are other avenues to see the singer on your TV screen. The Eras Tour is now available to rent, and you can check out her folklore movie on Disney+ along with her Miss Americana documentary on Netflix. We’ll keep you posted on upcoming Taylor Swift projects, and you can check out what 2024 Netflix movie and TV shows are coming soon to fill the void of the reputation movie’s untimely exit. 

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• Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour has been removed from Netflix without explanation. It was a successful concert film that portrayed Swift's historic tour.
• The reason for the movie's removal could be related to the ownership of Taylor Swift's album Reputation, which has yet to be released in her "Taylor's Version."
• However, fans can still stream Miss Americana on Netflix, a documentary that offers a deep and emotional look into Swift's life as a global superstar.

Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour has surprisingly been removed from Netflix, but it is unclear for exactly what reason. International pop star Taylor Swift has been the subject of plenty of documentaries , beginning in 2010 with Taylor Swift: Journey To Fearless . In 2010, Swift had only released three albums and, though her popularity was rocketing, she was still not the massive music, video, and pop culture icon she went on to become. With her impressive singing range, ear for catchy tunes, and seeming preternatural ability to understand what her fanbase will love, Swift's essence is hard to capture in one standalone film, or even in a documentary series.

One of the documentaries that attempt to harness just a small portion of Swift's power is Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour . This is a concert film released in December 2018 and depicts Swift's second performance at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for her Reputation Stadium Tour . It was the fifth concert tour of Swift's career and a celebration of the release of her sixth studio album, Reputation (2017). The movie succeeded in accurately showcasing what went on to be a historic and award-winning tour. But despite the movie's success and important role in telling the story of Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour is no longer on Netflix.

The best music documentaries on Netflix show just how much the streaming service has to offer to music lovers.

No Reason Was Given For Why Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour Left Netflix

Neither Netflix nor anyone else involved in Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour has given a reason for the concert movie leaving the platform on December 30, 2023. As a Netflix original, it's a little strange that the movie would ever leave the streamer. It's not an entirely unprecedented move, however, and Netflix originals do occasionally get removed if ownership belongs to some other party (via What's on Netflix ). That could be the simple answer, or it could be a messier issue considering Taylor Swift's fight to retain some of her albums .

Reputation is one of two remaining Swift albums that the pop star has yet to make a "Taylor's Version" for , along with Taylor Swift (2006). If Reputation is up for rerelease, Netflix may have decided to avoid controversy by giving the rights to their concert movie back to Swift. At the moment, Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour is not available to stream anywhere else, and it doesn't appear to be returning to Netflix anytime soon.

What Taylor Swift Documentaries Are Still On Netflix?

Fortunately for fans of Taylor Swift who have Netflix subscriptions, there is still one Taylor Swift documentary available to stream on the platform. Miss Americana (2020) is one of her few non-concert movies that instead follows Swift for several years between Reputation 's release and Lover 's (2019) rollout . It's a probing, emotional, and honest documentary that details the exhaustion and frustration that comes with being an international superstar. Swift's trademark vulnerability and down-to-earth qualities are on full exhibit in Miss Americana .

Is Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Available For Streaming?

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is another of Swift's celebrated concert movies with a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes . The 2023 doc is not currently streaming but is playing in theaters, and it's been released for rent on select streaming platforms. According to Town & Country , Swift has the option to put Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on streaming 13 weeks after its theatrical premiere, which would mean January 12, 2024 is the earliest time it can arrive, though that doesn't mean it has to go to streaming, just that the option is there. Similar to Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour , streaming fans will have to wait for their music documentary.

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Taylor Swift, who can decode you? Fans will try as they look for clues for 'Reputation TV'

LONDON —  Taylor Swift fans are doing their best to decipher their favorite poet.

As the "Tortured Poet" popstar goes into night four of a five night series of her famed Eras Tour at London's Wembley Stadium, one question is on every Swiftie's mind: When is " Reputation (Taylor's Version)" coming?

The album will be Swift's fifth project released as "Taylor's Version," an exercise Swift began to reclaim her artistic ownership  after the sale of her original master recordings in 2020 . The sale, Swift said at the time, "stripped me of my life's work." Her latest "Taylor's Version" release, "1989 (Taylor's Version)" came out October 2023.

While fans were served a new double album in April, they're back chanting for "more" in anticipation of a rerecorded "Reputation," which first debuted in November 2017. The album features high-fidelity dance beats and a streak of anger with songs like "Delicate" and "Ready For It" that resonate with fans today ( look no further than the soundtrack to Simone Biles' gold-medal-winning floor routine at the Paris Olympics ).

Easter-egging is practically Swift's birthright . But speculation has reached fever pitch (seriously, pack your ear plugs) as 92,000 fans (this author included) pack the London shows, which stretch until Tuesday and close out the European leg of the Eras Tour.

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Is London night five the big night?

Fans know to pay attention to Swift's hand signals. This was a lesson learned in February when she accepted the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and made a special announcement of her upcoming album "The Tortured Poets Department." As she dropped the news, she flashed two fingers.

"Two"? What did "two" mean? The peace-sign sent the internet into a frenzy. And ultimately, the sleuthing was rewarded when Swift released a surprise double album at 2 a.m. in April. The lesson: She wasn't just a star on stage accepting an award. She was telling her fans something.

Now, Eras attendees are looking for more clues, with some posting on social media that Swift flashed a "2-0" instead of the classic "2-2" choreography while performing the bop "22" during the "Red" section of the show on Saturday night.

Fans think the 2-0 may allude to Aug. 20, the final night of the Eras residency at Wembley, as the day the pop star announces "Reputation (Taylor's Version)."

That hand was rather serpentine...

The song "Karma" from the "Midnights" album marks the end of the over three-hour song fest that is the Eras Tour. As Swift popped a hip in a glittery body suit and feathery jacket per usual, fans noticed something serpentine about her bejeweled wave goodbye at the end of the night.

The star seemingly made a snake-like hand gesture as she waved farewell at the end of the Aug 17. show. Was it a wonky wave by a tired woman after singing 44 songs ? Or a sign that she is the serpent queen fans want to think she is?

More clues: Taylor Swift finally sings long awaited 'Reputation' track

Another fan posted Wembley Stadium shining red and green lights into the London sky which seemingly resemble the scales of a snake.

The snake is a heavily-employed metaphor by Swift, who dons a black body suit with red snakes on it during the "Reputation" portion of the Eras setlist. The reptile alludes to dishonesty and mistrust that marred Swift's reputation, and has been reclaimed through her music as a symbol of her biting back.

Whether or not she meant to make the snake-like gesture or flash calendar cues likely matters less than what the fans saw: her fangs are sunk deep and she's not going anywhere, even as her billion-dollar tour winds to an end. While "Tortured Poets" remains at the top of the charts, the arrival of "Reputation" will secure her spot at the height of the music industry for ensuing months.

Fans are dedicated nonetheless to labor of making it make sense, vying for insight into the inner world of their favorite mastermind. In some ways, going to the tour in this late stage is about figuring out what's next as much as it is celebrating Swift's 18 years of music.

In her titular song "The Tortured Poets Department" Swift asks "who can decode you?"

As the tour heads into the second to last night in London on Monday, the fans answer "we can."

Taylor Swift’s ‘I Can Do It With a Broken Heart’ Music Video Goes Behind the Scenes of the Eras Tour

Lights, camera, bitch, smile!

Taylor Alison Swift , you trickster. After seemingly dropping Easter eggs for reputation (Taylor’s Version) throughout her Eras Tour’s Wembley Stadium shows, the star instead premiered a music video for “ I Can Do It With a Broken Heart ” at the end of the European leg in London.

The track, which is the most recent single from The Tortured Poets Department , details Swift’s experience performing on a global stage while going through a breakup. The music video splices together behind-the-scenes clips from the Eras Tour, showing an inside look at Swift’s monumental performances. It also finally shows fans that she does, in fact, ride into each concert via cleaning cart, and she dives onto a puffy plastic mattress at the end of the acoustic set, finally clearing up two Eras Tour mysteries.

Prior to the drop, fans were buzzing about what might happen to celebrate the European section of the tour. The most advanced Swifties noted countless Easter eggs, claiming reputation (Taylor’s Version) was all but certain to be released. How’d Swift trick us exactly? Here are the Easter eggs fans pointed out:

• The bracelets worn by fans during her show flashed green during a song from Fearless (Taylor’s Version) , a color typically only reserved for songs from reputation .
• As she’s exited the stage the last few shows, she has made a snake gesture with her hands.
• She debuted a new, all-black bodysuit during the Midnights set of her Eras Tour, which many believed to be a subtle nod to her darkest album.
• Swift made a 20 gesture with her hands during her song “22,” which many fans believe referenced the announcement happening today, August 20.
• Swift had one last song from reputation to perform on the Eras Tour (“I Did Something Bad”), and she finally did so during her August 17 Wembley show. Swift originally blacked out all of her socials when promoting the album on Aug. 18, 2017, once again causing reputation- mania at the end of the summer.

After the final song of tonight’s show played, all hope for a special announcement seemed lost. However, when Swift descended into the stage, the music video for “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” played, giving London fans a first look. Tonight’s show also featured surprise appearances from Florence Welch, who performed “Florida!!!” with Swift for the first time, and Jack Antonoff, who came out during the acoustic set to play a medley of their hits.

Watch the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” music video, below.

Samuel is the Associate Editor at ELLE Magazine. He covers theater, music, and culture. Sam famously broke both his arms at the same time in fourth grade and was formerly the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief.

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When Will Taylor Swift Release 'Reputation (Taylor's Version)? Fan Theories Are Running Wild

T aylor Swift fans are once again donning their detective caps to determine if the musical megastar, 34, will be releasing a new version of her album Reputation .

The biggest hint? The preponderance of the color orange in Swift's onstage outfits. While the original Reputation album had a black and white color scheme, there was a special edition vinyl version of the album in a bright eye-catching orange hue.

While opening the final performance of the London Eras Tour run at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, August 20, Hayley Williams of Paramore sported an orange bob, stoking fan theories .

Another fan pointed out two all-orange outfits that have already showed up in the performance, writing: "it's all orange tonight. REP TV is coming."

A few fans have noted that Ed Sheeran's surprise appearance at the August 15 show might be a clue, as Sheeran, 33, collaborated on the Reputation song "End Game," which they performed as part of a mashup. He is expected to reprise the collaboration whenever Taylor's Version is released.

Swift has used hints as subtle as hand gestures to signal album releases in the past, such as when she held up two fingers during t he 2024 Grammys to signal that there would be two versions of her album The Tortured Poets' Department. Could a serpentine hand gesture that she made on August 17 be a nod to the snake symbology for Reputation?

Some fans, however, have begun to feel skeptical that such an announcement will be made in this final show of the summer. Many have started saying that they've all been fooled, using images of clowns to express their dismay at being tricked.

One internet artist created a clown-themed alternate album cover for what they dubbed Repuclowntion , featuring Swift in a red nose and rainbow wig.

Another joked that they had their " clown license " ready in case they had been fooled.

One fan simply expressed exhaustion at the idea of having to dig for new clues if the album is not announced tonight.

One last possibility? The orange and pink color scheme some fans have noticed may not be a Reputation reference at all, but a preview of an entirely new Taylor Swift album, which fans are referring to as TS12.

The question remains for Swifties: "...Are You Ready For It?"

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Taylor swift once again did not announce reputation (taylor's version), so the wait continues, share this article.

Here we are again, folks. Clown noses and makeup on our faces as yet again Taylor Swift didn’t announce the impending release of Reputation (Taylor’s Version) . Fans of the 14-time Grammy winner have been relentlessly predicting the next re-record album, coming up empty every time.

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As Tuesday evening’s show in London was the last one of the Eras Tour in Europe, it seemed natural for a big announcement. While fans didn’t get Reputation (Taylor’s Version) , they certainly didn’t leave Wembley Stadium without some surprises.

First, Florence Welch came on stage to perform their song “Florida!!!” from The Tortured Poets Department .

🎤 | Taylor Swift & Florence Welch performing “Florida!!!” at the last night of #LondonTSTheErasTour #TSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/4nUJbo4WC9 — Taylor Swift Museum (@theswiftmuseum) August 20, 2024

Then, for surprise songs, Swift welcomed longtime friend and producer on stage for a mashup of “Death By A Thousand Cuts” and “Getaway Car.” The duo even recreated their iconic riffing to get to the bridge of “Getaway Car.” It was perfect, even if the wait for Reputation (Taylor’s Version) continues.

Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff reenacting the creation process of “Getaway Car” bridge. #LondonTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/BOTCfVf79r — Taylor Swift Charts (@chartstswift) August 20, 2024

Could the MTV Video Music Awards on September 11 be the next clowning date for potential announcement? Only time will tell.

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Did Taylor Swift Hint at Reputation (Taylor’s Version) While Exiting London Eras Tour Stage? Here's Why Fans Think So

The pop star used a snake-like motion at her Aug. 17 show, sending fans into a frenzy over the impending re-release

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Is Taylor Swift slithering back into her Reputation era? Her fans seem to think so!

While exiting the stage at her Eras Tour concert in London on Saturday, Aug. 17, the pop superstar, 34, used a snake-like motion to wave goodbye as she descended into the Wembley Stadium floor, concert footage shared on X (formerly Twitter) showed.

Naturally, Swifties are reading into the motion, theorizing that it is yet another hint that the star — who is known for her use of “Easter eggs” — will formally announce Reputation (Taylor’s Version) sometime soon.

“REP TV IS CLOSE 🙈🙈,” one fan wrote in response to the serpentine gesture, while another said, “She's giving us hints 😭.”

Adding fuel to the Reputation fire — and more specifically, fan theories that Swift will announce the re-recorded LP before her final London show on Aug. 20 — is the timing of the move, plus the surprise songs the 14-time Grammy winner performed during the same show.

The London Eras Tour stop coincided with the seven-year anniversary of when Swift blacked out all of her social media accounts and websites . Three days later, she returned by posting clips of snakes : the first official teasers for the 2017 album.

At her Aug. 17 show, the pop star also surprised the crowd by performing an unexpected Reputation track : ”I Did Something Bad.”

In a fan-captured video of the show, Swift told the audience she was “going to do a song I've never done on the tour that's one of my favorite songs ever.”

Her justification? “Just because you're that awesome and you deserve something of this caliber,” she explained, adding that it is “such a dream to perform for a crowd like this, especially when there’s 92,000 of you.”

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Reputation (Taylor's Version) will be the sixth album Swift has released in her quest to reclaim her music catalog after Scooter Braun acquired her albums against her wishes in 2019.

The album follows the re-releases of 1989 in late 2023, Speak Now in July 2023, Red in November 2021 and Fearless in April 2021.

Swift officially teased her plans to revisit Reputation in her TIME 2023 Person of the Year interview last December, promising that its vault tracks will be “fire.”

“I think a lot of people see it and they’re just like, Sick snakes and strobe lights,” she said, and described the impending re-release as “a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure.”

Swift's new London tour stops take place on Aug. 19 and Aug. 20.

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Taylor Swift praised Charli XCX in a new interview. Here's everything you need to know about their rumored feud.

• Taylor Swift recently praised Charli XCX in a new interview with New York Magazine.
• Rumors of a rift between the women were sparked this summer by Charli's song "Sympathy is a Knife."
• Swift and Charli have a decadelong history as friends, tourmates, and pop-star adversaries.

Taylor Swift reignited stan-war discourse this week by contributing to a New York Magazine cover story about Charli XCX, her previous tourmate and current contender on the pop charts.

"I've been blown away by Charli's melodic sensibilities since I first heard 'Stay Away' in 2011," Swift told the magazine . "Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn't expect it to go, and she's been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off."

Swift's praise surprised some of Charli's fans, who've been circulating rumors of a feud between the two musicians since the early-summer release of "Brat," Charli's sixth studio album.

The album's third track, " Sympathy is a Knife ," explores a complicated relationship with a fellow woman in the music industry, who triggers Charli's fears of inadequacy. In " Girl, so confusing " — another fan-favorite on "Brat," whose confirmed muse is Lorde — Charli admits this competitive relationship is largely one-sided, perhaps even imaginary.

"This one girl taps my insecurities / Don't know if it's real or if I'm spiraling," Charli sings in "Sympathy," adding that her fiancé, The 1975 drummer George Daniel, chalks it up to paranoia.

Many fans theorized that "Sympathy" was written about Swift , most likely during her short-lived relationship with Daniel's bandmate Matty Healy .

"Don't wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend's show / Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they break up quick," Charli sings.

She's also close friends with Healy's current fiancée, Gabbriette Bechtel , and gives her a shout-out in the album's opening track " 360 ," essentially eliminating Bechtel as a "Sympathy" suspect.

Despite the speculation, Charli has made it clear that neither "Girl, so confusing" nor "Sympathy is a Knife" are diss tracks.

"They're really just about how it's so complicated being an artist, especially a female artist, where you are pitted against your peers but also expected to be best friends with every single person constantly," she said in a since-deleted TikTok.

Charli reiterated this position during her interview with New York Magazine, declining to answer direct questions about Swift.

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"People are gonna think what they want to think," she told the reporter. "That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don't want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt."

However, upon the release of "Brat," Charli's fans were still determined to defend her honor against perceived threats.

Taylor Nation, the social media arm of Swift's PR team, seemed to fuel the feud rumors by announcing six deluxe versions of her latest album, " The Tortured Poets Department ," the same week that "Brat" was released. These variants were UK exclusives, only available to buy in Charli's home country.

#TSTheErasTour in the UK means #TSTTPD Standard Digital Albums + Bonus Tracks (Live from Paris) and First Draft Phone Memos are available on the UK Store until 11:59pm BST! 🤍 UK only. https://t.co/DG0IewhXxK pic.twitter.com/Qhpwafmjeb — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) June 13, 2024

The fresh boost of digital downloads pushed "The Tortured Poets Department" back to No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for a sixth week, while "Brat" debuted at No. 2 . As a result, Charli's fans accused Swift of blocking "Brat" from the top position on purpose.

Meanwhile, in the US, "Brat" debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, lagging far behind Swift's streaming numbers. By comparison, "The Tortured Poets Department" has logged 15 weeks at No. 1 in the US and counting.

But despite Charli's lower chart performance, "Brat" has dominated pop culture this summer with rave reviews, star-studded remixes (including "Girl, so confusing" with Lorde herself), and a cosign from Kamala Harris' presidential campaign .

Charli has indicated that "Brat Summer" is far from over, even teasing an updated version of "Sympathy is a Knife" in her New York Magazine profile, which she said she wrote "three or four weeks ago."

Could Swift and Charli work it out on the remix , as Charli did with Lorde? Here's everything you need to know about their history.

Swift brought Charli onstage in 2015 and recruited her as a tour opener in 2017

To Charli's earlier point, she has found herself pitted against Swift since at least 2014, when both women released new albums: "Sucker" and "1989," respectively.

In reviews and media coverage of her major-label debut, Charli was framed as "taking shots at pop's elite," aiming to "join the ranks of Taylor Swift, Lorde, and Iggy Azalea," who were in the genre's upper echelon (at the time). Both her artistry and sales figures were compared to Swift's , with NPR noting that "Sucker" faced a commercial disadvantage by arriving in the wake of a "massive Taylor Swift album." (Sound familiar?)

The following year, Charli performed a cover of Swift's hit song "Shake It Off" for BBC Radio's Live Lounge. Just a few months later, the two women squashed any lingering hints of tension when Charli made a surprise cameo during the 1989 World Tour.

Even though Charli had recently canceled her own tour dates, she joined Swift onstage in Toronto for a duet of "Boom Clap," Charli's biggest solo hit to date . Swift also shared a video of their performance on X (formerly Twitter), writing, "I LOVE YOU @charli_xcx !!!"

In 2018, Swift upped the anti by recruiting Charli (and Camila Cabello) as openers for the Reputation Stadium Tour.

"I can't wait to see you, can't wait to see them, really excited just about the whole thing in general," Swift told fans in a filmed announcement .

Throughout the tour's global run, Charli and Cabello would often join Swift onstage to perform "Shake It Off."

During an appearance on the British talk show "Sunday Brunch," Charli gushed about Swift as a kind person and "incredible businesswoman."

"She makes us feel, like, so welcome. It feels like a girl gang on tour together. It's really good," Charli said.

Charli angered Swifties by comparing the 'Reputation' tour attendees to children

In 2019, one year after the Reputation Stadium Tour wrapped up, Charli reflected on the experience during an interview with Pitchfork .

"I'm really grateful that [Taylor] asked me on that tour," Charli told the website. "But as an artist, it kind of felt like I was getting up onstage and waving to 5-year-olds."

The comment was widely interpreted as Charli throwing shade at Swift and her fan base, prompting Charli to reiterate her gratitude in a statement shared on social media.

just to clarify 💕💕 pic.twitter.com/KpNQQx9SK0 — Charli (@charli_xcx) August 6, 2019

"In the printed version of this much wider conversation, my answers about this tour were boiled down into one kind of weird sentence," Charli wrote. "Leading up to that tour I'd been playing a tonne of 18+ club shows and so to be onstage in front of all ages was new to me and made me approach my performances with a whole new kind of energy."

Charli also said it was "brilliant" and "fun" to perform for Swift's audience, adding, "There is absolutely no shade and only love here."

Since the release of 'Brat,' Charli has condemned fans who start anti-Swift chants at her concerts

According to Billboard, "Brat" achieved the biggest debut week of Charli's career, though some fans were still disappointed when it succumbed to "Poets" on the charts.

When Charli hit the road for a string of "Brat" concerts and DJ sets, she was met with a wave of anti-Swift energy, including the chant "Taylor is dead" from a crowd at Club Zig in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

After videos of the chant circulated on social media, Charli told her fans to stop immediately.

"can the people who do this please stop. online or at my shows," she shared on her Instagram story on June 23, per Billboard . "it is the opposite of what i want and it disturbs me that anyone would think there is room for this in this community. i will not tolerate it."

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