“It just hurts…” vocal coach EMOTIONAL reaction ** THE ERAS TOUR ** 🤍FOLKLORE ERA🤍

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[@madchatter102]

I'm on for the watch party. Tell me more Audrey 🎉❤👏 how much 🤔

[@RMA-b9k]

Lol- the guy who starred in Hadestown was in her music video I Knew You Were Trouble. He had also starred in the U2 Broadway musical Spider-man.

[@Aleee89]

"I think she needs to do a rock album" SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE

[@JovanisVersion]

It's still so funny that she picked up evermore and thought it was folklore 😭

[@Familylawgroup]

Her song “My Tears Ricochet” was about her first manager, who had her song rights to her first five albums, selling his song catalog (which included Taylor’s first five albums) to Taylor’s number one energy - Scooter Braun. Taylor has been very vocal about how abusive Scooter Braun had been to her when she was 15 years old and starting out in Nashville. Scooter Braun was well known for repping Justin Bieber and when Taylor became friends with Selena Gomez she learned, even more, about Scooter’s toxic behavior and how it extended into Selena’s life when Selena and Justin broke up, reunited, broke up again…. Taylor’s father - Scott Smith - is a very well established financial manager and he was on the board of the company that had ownership of the large song catalog that included his daughter’s first five songs. The Board blocked her dad from even knowing about the corporate side of the deal because of conflict of interest and insider trading rules. He and Taylor learned from the NEWS that her song royalties were sold to Scooter Braun for about 300 million. (Keep in mind, other artists were in the sale but Taylor was the highest valued artist in the bundle). Shortly thereafter, Taylor appeared on Kelly Clarkson’s talk show and discussed the emotional impact of her treasures being sold to someone she deeply reviled and how soul crushing the betrayal from her former manager had been. Kelly made the suggestion that she could always re-record her original songs since she wrote each of them - she had the legal right to record the songs again. I think there was a required waiting period of 7 years, but I am not certain on that portion. So, Taylor latched on that idea and hence “Taylor’s Version” was born. She also released songs that were written and recorded during that time but didn’t make it on to the initial album. Those are the “From the Vault” songs.

[@michelle6337]

The Illicit Affairs bridge is one of my absolute favorites, so I love that it had a whole section in the show.

[@Eric_The_Eccentric]

The first time I saw that performance, I was like "is she ok?" It looked like she was going through hell 😭

[@JimHinCO]

Same! And yes, we need some more dominant electric guitar there :)

[@user-to2sc3cm6m]

Taylor is the only person who can make a song about a real estate transaction and it sounds so great (Last Great American Dynasty) lol. The story is real and she really bought it

[@Augustine0899]

speechless just sends me every time 😭😭

[@Violet316]

It took me a second to realize she meant Speak Now.

[@maxyluega2774]

she is doing this for content but fine it's okay haiya

[@Violet316]

@@maxyluega2774 what is haiya?

[@maxyluega2774]

@@Violet316 like uncle roger

[@Violet316]

@@maxyluega2774 What the fudge, I am 64 YO, why can't you young ones just use real words? And who is uncle roger?

[@onlytoankita]

Not the "Speechless" 😭😭

[@user-to2sc3cm6m]

My Tears Ricochet is about Scott Borchetta. He was her old label head. But I think deeper than that he discovered her when she was only 14 at the Bluebird Cafe. He had a brand new label and she was one of (if not his first) his first artists. She literally was the one who MADE his label. And then when he was selling her music she asked to buy it. He said only if she gave him a new album for every one he agreed to sell her. She'd wanted to leave the label to be able to do more pop stuff and he knew that. So he was trying to trap her. She said no. He sold it to Scooter Braun (of Vigilante Shit fame) who sold it to an investment firm.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Folklore is incredible. Got me through the pandemic

[@tay-swiftie]

folklore live just hits different

[@mermaidry-qf9og]

FR ❤

[@TopNotchWatcher87]

I want her and Lin Manuel Miranda to write a musical together. Would be the greatest thing ever written I believe.

[@chappellroanmemes]

yess Lin Manuel Miranda makes such good music

[@AndromacheNY]

It's kinda rude to read my mind like that! 😅

[@rocknroll20024]

Yesssss

[@Pathfinder197]

No words for how beautiful the Eras tour production for My Tears Ricochet is. This song is all about the masters debacle and Taylor being betrayed by Scott Borchetta when he sold the masters from Taylor’s first six albums to Scooter Braun. It might also reference Taylor’s former friend Karli Kloss, who worked for Scooter and was all but called out by name in Evermore’s “It’s Time to Go” as “a crook who was caught.” Well worth watching the whole convo in the Long Pond Sessions vid about “My Tears Ricochet” and the trope of best friends who become worst enemies with that background info in mind. A Taylor Swift musical inspired by the masters debacle would be lit.

[@mufaria]

TLGAD is about her hours in Watch Hill, RI. She bought it in about 2011/2012 or something. It used to be owed by the heir to Standard Oil and his wife Rebecca. So the song is about how the small town reacted to Rebecca and then to Taylor.

[@Suprachiasmatic]

She bought the house. :) I don't know why I always cry when she sings that part but I do. There's something so beautiful about her moving into a house with so much history and, well, folklore. Because she's such a great steward.

[@thejaz8749]

11:06 fun fact here the lyrics on the first chorus here make reference to her stolen albums “I didn’t had it in myself to go with grace” refers to State of grace from the red album “You’re the hero flying around saving face” refers to Superman from speak now “And if I am dead to you why are you at the wake” refers to look what you made me do from reputation “Cursing my name” refers to the way I love you from fearless “Wishing I stayed” refers to all you had to do was stay from 1989 “Look at how my tears ricochet” refers from teardrops on my guitar from debut Finally when she talks about her stolen lullabies she is referring to her first 6 albums that were stolen

[@Violet316]

I didn't realize that, that is pure genius. But we already knew she is a genius.

[@bammmitsrachel]

damn i didn't put that together, thanks!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love this era!

[@thespibunny272]

Audrey, I’d give so much for a rock album & a Taylor Swift written musical. Get our girl closer to that EGOT status!

[@Torturedpoetboi]

MY FAVORITE ERA I CANT WAITTT!

[@taylorswift_loverz]

folklore is def for me one of my top 5

[@berthavillalobos8163]

This is why I say she has to do a musical. Like actually write one because she is very very very capable of doing so. Also, a book!

[@LiMoo02]

Folklore is mostly fictional stories, but on the album, through telling those stories, Taylor works through the grief of losing her albums and the terrible relationship she now has with her once friend and label owner, Scott Brochetta.

[@maciedixon3983]

I personally believe the one is Harry inspired.

[@Swiftly_Wi1d]

Most of us Swifties have been telling Taylor the same thing ❤it’s time for a rock album! 🤘🙌

[@pichirandoms8301]

I feel you… I do too want a Taylor metal/rock album (or a musical)

[@fabio.lous_]

"sensitive topic!!" kkkkkkkkkk I love the editor, really!!!

[@Summerchildtv]

Folklore is my era, literally perfect

[@yvetterodriguez2550]

I don't usually like slow songs especially if they're hard for me to sing to cuz I can't hold a note for that long lol. But ever since I heard "Betty", in my head it sounds more upbeat almost like those mid 90s bands like Del Amitri's "Roll To Me" or Hootie & The Blowfish. And this Eras version of "Betty" had some drums. So I increased the speed to 1.25. And THAT'S how I hear this song in my head. More upbeat. And to me, Taylor IS metal 🤘😎 🎸❤

[@marinkanat]

6:49 The song The Last Great American Dynasty is a true story about someone named Rebekah Harkness who is a patron of the arts and funded the Rebekah Harkness foundation. Throughout the song Taylor makes comparisons between her life and Rebekah's in how they are/were both famous and have been known to go to parties with other famous people. They both got criticism in the media about them for whatever reason which also makes them more alike. Rebekah had a house in Rhode Island that she named The Holiday House. In the song when Taylor sings "and then it was bought by me" she is throwing herself into the story even more by saying that the house that Rebekah lived in is now owned by Taylor and the house is hers now to live her life that is similar to the previous owners (Rebekah) in. Taylor actually did buy this house and still calls it the Holiday House. This song also connects to her song The Lucky One from the album Red. In that song she talks about an unnamed Hollywood star was able to move away from the spotlight and into a more private life of her own which is also kind of what Taylor is doing where we as fans don't know everything about her as soon as it happens (ex. when she and Travis started dating they were private for the first bit and we didn't know until we saw her at the first game of his she went to). You should react to We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together rock version. That version is live and it's really good. Also for Taylor in a musical... She was in Cats...

[@katielafave4543]

the one is not about Joe. they were together when she made folklore. he even has some writing credits on folklore & evermore. for the most part folklore & evermore are about fictional stories. however, a lot of people do think the one is inspired by her relationship with harry styles

[@Henke_Reboot]

Idk, now that we know their relationship was far more tumultuous than we realized, I can fully see her writing this about Joe Alwyn during a bad time

[@raghadnjjar7714]

Fun fact! My Tears Ricochet is about her stolen songs (that Scooter Braun stole from her), so every line from the chorus of that song is a line from one song of each of her stolen albums (“stolen lullabies” as she says in my tears ricochet) “I didnt have it in myself to go with grace” - State of Grace - Red “And youre the hero flying around saving face” - Superman - Speak Now “And if Im dead to you, why are you at the wake?” - LWYMMD (the taylor is dead line) - Reputation “Cursing my name” - The Way I Loved You - Fearless “Wishing I stayed” - All You Had to Do was Stay - 1989 “Look at how my tears ricochet” - Teardrops on my Guitar - Debut

[@HazelASwiftie]

i never knew this....also never noticed this...now my tears ricochet is just so much more emotional...but i did knoww who the song was about..

[@Emma_kj3nj]

Actually, Scott Borchetta stole them. He refused to let her buy her masters without her agreement to trade a new album for each of the originals - but then of course he'd own the masters to 6 new albums. Scott then sold his company, including Taylor's masters to Scooter Braun. Then Braun pulled a similar trick telling her before he'd consider selling Taylor's masters back to her, she had to sign a non-disclosure agreement which would silence her from ever talking about him or what he did to her. There was no guarantee he'd sell the masters to her, no sale price given - absolutely nothing. He was never going to sell to her, he just wanted to silence her and thought he'd get away with it. Taylor's lawyers told her that was not standard practice at all, so she gave up trying to own her masters and decided to re-record those first 6 albums. She took all the power away from Scooter. Scooter then sold her masters to the Disney Family investment fund. Personally, I think the Disney family should gift those masters back to Taylor. That good will and all the karma generated would be much more lucrative to them then holding those masters!!

[@ReganO.]

The official story for my tears ricochet (one of my top 5 favorite songs in the universe) is that it, like most of folklore is inspired by stories from movies or books, or storylines taylor made up. However, a lot of swifties, myself included, feel that it's connected to the sale of her masters. "Stolen lullabies" "i can go anywhere i want, just not home" "you're the hero flying around saving face" and other lyrics like that immediately made me think of that situation when i first listened to this song

[@Nyssa_Bisans_Version]

She did her songs from 1989 in rock version for the 1989 tour and I think about that everyday. It was so perfect.

[@Jonhatanivan]

I love all Eras Tour numbers but My Tears Ricochet is SUPERIOR!

[@mythicalwatermellon5254]

I think she sounds so much better on stage than in her recordings

[@GrapefruitPizza]

Speechless (Taylor's Version) is my favorite album

[@roiaknin]

The Last Great American Dynasty is a true story, including buying the house. My Tears Ricochet is about her masters and Scott Borchetta

[@adabadoskova2915]

David, you never fail to make me laugh with those edits haha

[@mariesipes1606]

I really have to say I don’t know how anyone can’t like Taylor! I absolutely love her brutal honesty in her songs.

[@carriemoffett5778]

I agree. Taylor needs to write a concept album. Green Day's American Idiot was a concept album and so was The Who's Tommy. Both were then put on stage. She writes and releases the album and then her next tour is a full-blown stadium musical. Starring her and bring in either some other stars to support the story or some Broadway stars. I would so go see that.

[@beeekaaalss]

She already did, Midnights is a concept album of things that keep you up a night.

[@jackielehman8945]

Most of her albums are concept albums 😅

[@carriemoffett5778]

I don’t think we are thinking of the same thing. A theme for an album or telling a story in one song is not the type of concept album I am thinking of. I am thinking of essentially a proof of concept of songs for a whole musical. Like what Sara Bareilles did for Waitress.

[@jackielehman8945]

@@carriemoffett5778 not to sound rude, but maybe just look up the definition?

[@jackielehman8945]

@@carriemoffett5778 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIDYiJ9orNqFeJosi=GwzrhV1M4Ry7OUPK

[@coras_love29]

3:37 Speechless (Taylor’s version). That’s crazy bro 😂

[@wbksun]

FOLKLORE BEST ERA SLAY

[@roxettenicolepcd]

The editor’s side comment about Joe Alwyn cracked me up 🤣🤣

[@bammmitsrachel]

Illicit Affairs was placed perfectly before My Tears Ricochet, changed the entire vibe! We went from fun, sweet songs to angry and sad.

[@jackielehman8945]

My tears ricochet is soooooo gut wrenching. I havnt been moved bh a sog like that in years before hearing it.

[@lh7545]

Taylor actually bought Holiday House, in Rhode Island. The house was owned by Rebecca West Harkness who is the subject in the song The Last Great American Dynasty. She is telling the story of how Rebecca met and married Bill Harkness, and attorney who was heir to the Standard Oil fortune.

[@goldenbleak]

losing the count of times she refers to her old music as romeo and juliet 😭

[@FC-qb9wp]

We need a Taylor Swift Musical with complete new songs or maybe adapted to a musical, but she SO can compose one.

[@charbenz2768]

My tears ricocheted is about Scott Borchetta. Her stolen lullabies (albums), the jewelry she gave him, there are many thoughts, most people say that's about her gold and platinum albums...

[@user-to2sc3cm6m]

'Meet me behind the mall'... she'd written that down years and years ago and wanted to use it at some point and finally got her chance.

[@Violet316]

Was that in the same journal of all the words she would like to use in a song?

[@user-to2sc3cm6m]

@@Violet316 Yep she has these diaries of little notebooks she seems to write ideas in. She said in an interview about the longest it's taken her to write a song that Bad Blood came together very fast because she'd been writing different snippets of lyrics down in her notebook for years and it all just clicked one day of how to put them together.

[@briettemann6919]

Taylor is so cute Her eyes are so pretty!!!

[@Peachmain1]

Folklore is such a good album

[@crystalkadletc1944]

Taylor did infact buy the house she talks about in the last great American dynasty. It’s called Holliday House! It was owned by Rebekah Harkness and had been listed on the market for 50 years until Taylor bought her house.

[@savannahspecht4147]

The Last Great American Dynasty is a true story! Taylor bought a house in Rhode Island and the song is about Rebekah Harkness, the woman who owned the house prior to her. In the song Taylor relates to Rebekah because they both had experienced sexism in similar ways. I strongly encourage reading more about her story because it really is interesting! Also, fun fact, in the song Taylor writes that Rebekah stole her neighbors dog and dyed it a key lime green BUT in reality it was actually a cat! I like to think that the reason Taylor changed a few things in the song was to show how folktales are warped over time from being passed down generations for so many years!

[@alyssapisani]

Audrey, you're telling me that I have to wait another WEEK for your 1989 reaction? Living vicariously through you experiencing this for the first time!!

[@npats550]

Folklore is my sort of music. And Evermore obviously. I love the folk, country alt pop rock sound. It reminded me of Jewel and the "chicks with guitars", from the late 90's/early 2000's - Sheryl Crow, Sarah Mclaughlin, Alanis Morrisette, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton...so much to mention. Side note, I love her lower register. That performance of "Illicit Affairs", sounded amazing.

[@katek1905]

It got cut Movie (original of extended version) but on the actual ERAS tour the setlist also includes Cardigan during the Folklore portion. It was beautiful. The Evermore setlist also got cut down for the Extended version movie. So she sings even MORE than we see here. Her endurance is insane!

[@leighmonsrud1493]

When I saw Reputation tour, first thing that came to mind was how it reminded me of a rock opera. I have wished for many years that she would make a musical with her music, similar to how Momma Mia uses Abba music. Heck, she could write an entire musical based on just The Last Great American Dynasty and the history of Rebekah Harkness.

[@dogalien321]

WE WILL ALWAYS WATCH MORE TAYLOR❤❤!!!!

[@Alice_h_283]

Dear editor, I LOVE YOU Sincerely me

[@oriyanbarnes]

You saying that so many of the folklore songs would soung good to a rock or pop beat is so true! You should listen to the "complete eras megamix" by Joseph James, it's a 13 minute mashup of all of Taylor's songs (including singles outside of albums and collabs) and he put so many folklore and evermore songs atop great beats and it sounds incredible! ❤

[@sjshhssjsj2321]

OH YES THE BELOVED ALBUM SPEECHLESS. came right after the album "fear now"

[@Henke_Reboot]

She really bought the Holiday House on the beach! That song is the true story of the woman who lived there before! Rebecca Harkness was such an interesting character!

[@Kirsty_McKay]

I love seeing Ajayll clips popping up in videos on KZbin.

[@nicoliebraun]

I am sooo down for a Folklore listening party under the stars! 🪩✨🍷

[@aracelifernandez2305]

Yesssss a rock album would make my entire life 🖤

[@oriyanbarnes]

Omg the Ajay edit 😂😂😂 yes i too love and miss invisible string and cardigan 😭

[@jillsarah7356]

Ughhh these are some of my favorite TS songs but some of them are SO SAD but I still LOVE THEM hahaha

[@infsai]

Audrey is just aLittle Monster, that's why she calls Speak Now "Speechless"

[@linus6941]

Red era i feel like she could go Higher on that note in I Knew You Were Trouble Folklore era i feel like this should be a rock album and she should make a musical she said that for 13 minutes straight lol good reaction btw

[@tigercher93]

We really need the full version of this version of Illicit affair releasing - love your reaction to this era ❤

[@judithdoughty7967]

In The Last Great American Dynasty it is the house she bought that she references, and the "disruptive" lady owner from the past.

[@doulacandice]

The hype for style at the end 😂😂 I felt that.

[@Scivolemulo]

I wish we'd had a Foklore/Evermore tour. That would definitely have been a great, very dramatic musical 😭🩶🧡

[@vanessagonzalez6409]

The last great American dynasty is about the story of her Rode Island home so it's a ture story its so fun and such a great song this album in general is so amazing 🩶

[@crissyb65]

Fire pit blazing, wine, and this album sounds excellent.

[@tatjbere]

I so hope she keeps August in the setlist since I will see her in concert in August 🤩

[@tatjbere]

Also 22 from the Red Era, because I will turn 22 in May :)

[@CharlCharl_]

why would she remove it? 😂

[@tatjbere]

@@CharlCharl_ I don't know, setlists sometimes change, don't they?

[@CharlCharl_]

@@tatjbere it’s a fan favourite, especially the eras tour version. tbh it would be kinda weird to remove it

[@tatjbere]

@@CharlCharl_ ok thanks, that makes sense

[@ShuGal88]

I read somewhere that Illicit Affairs was inspired by Carrie and Bigs a ffair in Sex and the City. As a die hard fan of both SATC and Tay I refuse to belive any diffrent.

[@smarvin1112]

Last Great American Dynasty is about Rebekah Harkness and her house in Rhode Island, Holiday House. It was bought by Rebekah Harkness in 1948 where she would have lavish grandiose parties. Taylor bought it in 2013 I believe. The song is a little story about the rich, mad woman Rebekah was.

[@Anthology_of_Holly]

I would die for an Evanescence style rock version of my tears ricochet! The original is already one of my fave Tay songs 🙌🏻

[@pavitkaur5300]

“Speechless”😭

[@iteachlit]

3:37 “That…felt like Speechless.” :knowing nod: 😆

[@alessandrasilvestri1245]

The love triangle i can’t ❤️ ❤️ 💕

[@shireensayedahmad8426]

My tears ricochet is about her masters being sold out of her

[@kareneggers6505]

We need these videos longeeeer please!! 🥺

[@Leh-o3h]

“seems like he changed his mind recently” helppp💀💀

[@shakirasmylie6178]

She's pretty here and very funny vocal teacher 😂

[@jasmineg_63]

Yaaaas girl give me the bare minimum🤌

[@88missjessica]

Yes in LGAD, she's telling the story of her Rhode Island house and Rebekah Harkness who used to live there!

[@shelbydavis-wiemers457]

I’m living for these reviews!

[@carolynbrown4720]

I remember that same house being on her Grammy performance.

[@Swemo13]

the "it seems like he changed his mind recently" has me howling in a quiet house at 1am 😂

[@gigin6534]

Girl, you literally saw her say the song was abt her house in thelong pond studio sessions 😂

[@WendyEllzey]

James, Ines, and Betty are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' kids!

[@caroleigh4now]

folklore.... under the stars drinking wine... I am seated.

[@fernandakaren06]

Please somebody ask her to react to Taylor singing Evermore as a surprise song!!!! I thing her analysis would add so much to this performance that i already think it’s taylor’s best so far 😫

[@charbenz2768]

The house is real. "Westerly, Rhode Island. High Watch, formerly named Holiday House but locally known as the Harkness House, is an 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2) home situated in Watch Hill, a historic district in Westerly, Rhode Island." From things I've read, Taylor throws 4th of July parties there. Please Google it. ❤

[@jessicagentle_]

We swifties all want Taylor to make a rock album!!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love the illicit affairs bridge

[@Torturedpoetboi]

SPEACHLESS YES TOTALLYYYY

[@Al-ki6xs]

the last great american dynasty is actually about the person who owned taylor’s house before her :) and practically everything taylor wrote in her song is true. look up rebekah harkness!!

[@de60565]

If you want rock taylor you should definitley react to her live performance of haunted at speak now tour.