WSJ: Eras Tour changed everything, "most all-consuming music mania of 21st century"

[Feanor]

 

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Changed Everything

 

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If Taylor Swift were her own genre, she'd be bigger than jazz.  The pop-music sensation accounts for nearly 2% of the U.S. music market—more than any other artist. Even in today's splintered media landscape, where top acts can go unnoticed by swaths of the public, she's a cultural phenomenon on par with Michael Jackson in the 1980s and the Beatles in the 1960s.

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What transformed this 30-something country-turned-pop singer into a musical deity? The Eras Tour. The global, stadium-sized odyssey has fueled the most inescapable, all-consuming music mania of the 21st century.

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Swift's Broadway-influenced concerts take fans on a journey across her nearly two-decade career. But unlike the typical retrospective, they deliver two Taylor Swifts at once—the "legacy" act in her imperial phase, looking back on the past; and the "current" artist, marching into the future with new products such as her 2024 album, "The Tortured Poets Department."

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Music executives say Swift has raised the bar for the concert industry, not just with ticket and merchandise sales, but conceptual ambition, stage production, wardrobe and news-cycle penetration. 

The Wall Street Journal

 

 

With everything it did for her, will The Eras Tour go down as Taylor's single best career move ever?

 

[midnightdawn]

Capitalist Queen

[shyboi]

i truly believe modern history could be divided pre and post eras tour 

 

BET - AET

[Solaria]

Ava Max - On Tour Finally bigger and more impact

[MissedTheTrain]

The thumbs down   

 

It's insane how massive this tour has been, such a special moment being a fan since the first album.

[Comedor]

Thank you Taylor! I loved the era concept and I hope my faves do their own version of it. I'm sure the execution and delivery would be better.

[PoisonedIvy]

The Eras Tour might actually have greater historical significance than the burning of the Library of Alexandria, if you ask me. 

[tiagol88]

This tour wont be surpassed for a long time

[Blade Runner]

But no impact, I guess. 

 

 

[The Music Industry]

@ICLDXU4HS aren't you TIRED sis 

[Vegvisir]

Yeah, we're all well aware 

[on the line]

Well, no **** said anyone alive in 2023-24.

[Chemist]

She is everything what's wrong with Materialistic Capitalism

[Totami Legend]

the entertainment mafia will destroy her once she stops being profiting, same old story.

[ImpressMeMuch]

Swift's Broadway-influenced concerts

 

let's not do too much now lmao

[Donquizote]

This is why she's #1 greatest artist of 21st century ever

WSJ spills the hot tea here. Thank you

[Miley Cyrus]

everything that i've seen come from that tour was mid tho

especially the weekly viral dance videos on twitter... but the access media has to continue licking the boot!

[Cruel Summer]

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If Taylor Swift were her own genre, she'd be bigger than jazz.  The pop-music sensation accounts for nearly 2% of the U.S. music market—more than any other artist. Even in today's splintered media landscape, where top acts can go unnoticed by swaths of the public, she's a cultural phenomenon on par with Michael Jackson in the 1980s and the Beatles in the 1960s.

The absolute POWER that this quote demonstrates  Truly the first, last, and only of her kind.

[Donquizote]

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What transformed this 30-something country-turned-pop singer into a musical deity? The Eras Tour. The global, stadium-sized odyssey has fueled the most inescapable, all-consuming music mania of the 21st century.

[Popboi.]

52 minutes ago, Totami Legend said:

the entertainment mafia will destroy her once she stops being profiting, same old story.

Good thing she's scored nearly 20 years nonstop of being extremely profitable then

[Totami Legend]

1 minute ago, Popboi. said:

Good thing she's scored nearly 20 years nonstop of being extremely profitable then

the bigger the jump, the harder the landing.

 

Hopefully she will be ready once the media will turn against her again.

[bliaz]

TaylorMania reminds me of when my dad told me about MadonnaMania. Taylor has undoubtedly earned legendary status in entertainment history. 

[Popboi.]

49 minutes ago, Totami Legend said:

the bigger the jump, the harder the landing.

 

Hopefully she will be ready once the media will turn against her again.

We've been hearing that since what, 2008?

 

The public turned on her over a manipulated, chopped phone call "leak", and we all know how that story played out in the end. At the end of the day, the most controversial thing she's done is... working and releasing ME! over Cruel Summer.

Edited December 6, 2024 by Popboi.

[on the line]

Not a hit thread. If you wanna get a hit thread you have to say something negative about Taylor. Ask @Burn how it does it.

[Goaty]

the downvote