#rep Tour Toronto

[taylorsmygirl13]

I can’t believe we get to relive this album again @taylorswift constantly changing my life for the better

[leavingmebereftandreeling]

LWYMMD - Taylor Swift

Toronto N1 - The Eras Tour 2024

[glittercatsandtaylorswift]

Never be so polite, you forget your power

Never wield such power, you forget to be polite

-marjorie 

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

Surprise Song o’ Clock: Toronto Night 2

— Guitar:

I don’t wanna live forever x Mine

“I don’t wanna live forever, cause I remember, sitting there by the water.”

“All night, all night and every day, I've been looking sad in all the nicest places, Give me something, but you say nothing, Now I'm in a cab, I tell 'em where your place is — cause I remember that fight 2:30 a.m. as everthing was slipping right out of our hands I ran out, crying, and you followed me out into the street — what is happening to me?”

“I don’t wanna live forever, but I remember how we felt, sitting by the water.”

— Piano:

evermore x Peter

“Forgive me, Peter, but this pain wouldn’t be forevermore… and when I was shipwrecked I thought of you, in the cracks of light I dreamed of you, and it was real enough to get me through, but I swear… Peter, I tried, and I swear… when I sit by the window and turn out the light… you were there.”

[wouldvegonealongwiththerighteous]

What a shame she went mad! Do you believe me now? They say I did something bad .... I am not okay

[fuck-sewingmachines]

Every time Taylor sings CBBH at a show I'm not attending I die a little inside

[midnightmoon27]

ALL THE OUTFITS SHE’S WEARING TONIGHT HAVEN’T BEEN WORN FOR 6 SHOWS!!!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Middlemen without enshittification

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me next in SALT LAKE CITY (Feb 21, Weller Book Works) and SAN DIEGO (Feb 22, Mysterious Galaxy). After that, it's LA, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and more!

Enshittification describes how platforms go bad, which is also how the internet goes bad, because the internet is made of platforms, which is weird, because platforms are intermediaries and we were promised that the internet would disintermediate the world:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

The internet did disintermediate a hell of a lot of intermediaries – that is, "middlemen" – but then it created a bunch more of these middlemen, who coalesced into a handful of gatekeepers, or as the EU calls them "VLOPs" (Very Large Online Platforms, the most EU acronym ever).

Which raises two questions: first, why did so many of us end up flocking to these intermediaries' sites, and how did those sites end up with so much power?

To answer the first question, I want you to consider one of my favorite authors: Crad Kilodney (RIP):

https://archive.org/details/thecradkilodneypapers

When I was growing up, Crad was a fixture on the streets of Toronto. All through the day and late into the evening, winter or summer, Crad would stand on the street with a sign around his neck ("Very famous Canadian author, buy my books, $2" or sometimes just "Margaret Atwood, buy my books, $2"). He wrote these deeply weird, often very funny short stories, which he edited, typeset, printed, bound and sold himself, one at a time, to people who approached him on the street.

I had a lot of conversations with Crad – as an aspiring writer, I was endlessly fascinated by him and his books. He was funny, acerbic – and sneaky. Crad wore a wire: he kept a hidden tape recorder rolling in his coat and he secretly recorded conversations with people like me, and then released a series of home-duplicated tapes of the weirdest and funniest ones:

https://archive.org/details/on-the-street-crad-kilodney-vol-1

I love Crad. He deserves more recognition. There's an on-again/off-again documentary about his life and work that I hope gets made some day:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/free-sample/#putrid-scum

But – and this is the crucial part – there are writers out there I want to hear from who couldn't do what Crad did. Maybe they can write books, but not edit them. Or edit them, but not typeset them. Or typeset, but not print. Or print, but not spend the rest of their lives standing on a street-corner with a "PUTRID SCUM" sign around their neck.

Which is fine. That's why we have intermediaries. I like booksellers (I was one!). I like publishers. I like distributors. I like their salesforce, who go forth and convince the booksellers of the world to stock books like mine. I have ten million things I want to do before I die, and I'm already 52, and being a sales-rep for a publisher isn't on my bucket list. I am so thankful that someone else wants to do this for me.

That's why we have intermediaries, and why disintermediation always leads to some degree of re-intermediation. There's a lot of explicit and implicit knowledge and specialized skill required to connect buyers and sellers, creators and audiences, and other sides of two-sided markets. Some producers can do some of this stuff for themselves, and a very few – like Crad – can do it all, but most of us need some help, somewhere along the way. In the excellent 2022 book Direct, Kathryn Judge lays out a clear case for all the good that middlemen can do:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/direct-the-problem-of-middlemen/

So why were we all so anxious for disintermediation back in the late 1990s? Here's a hint: it wasn't because we hated intermediaries – it was because we hated powerful intermediaries.

The point of an intermediary is to serve as a conduit between producers and consumers, buyers and sellers, audiences and creators. When an intermediary gains power over the audience – say, by locking them inside a walled garden – and then uses that lock-in to screw producers and appropriate an ever larger share of the value going between them, that's when intermediaries become a problem.

The problem isn't that someone will handle ticketing for your gig. The problem is that Ticketmaster has locked down all the ticketing, and the venues, and the promotions, and it uses that power to gouge fans and rip off artists:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/20/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop/

The problem isn't that there's a well-made website that lets you shop for goods sold by many small merchants and producers. It's that Amazon has cornered this market, takes $0.51 out of every dollar you spend there, and clones and destroys any small merchant who succeeds on the platform:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

The problem isn't that there's a website where you can stream most of the music ever recorded. It's that Spotify colludes with the Big Three labels to rip off artists and sneaks crap you don't want to hear into your stream in order to collect payola:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/12/streaming-doesnt-pay/#stunt-publishing

The problem isn't that there's a website where you can buy any audiobook you want. It's that Amazon's Audible locks every book to its platform forever and steals hundreds of millions of dollars from creators:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

The problem, in other words, isn't intermediation – it's power. The thing that distinguishes a useful intermediary from an enshittified bully is power. Intermediaries gain power when our governments stop enforcing competition law. This lets intermediaries buy each other up and corner markets. Once they've formed cozy cartels, they can capture their regulators and commit rampant labor, privacy and consumer violations with impunity. That capture also lets them harness governments to punish smaller players that want to free workers, creators, audiences and customers from walled gardens. It also hands them a whip-hand over their workers, so that any worker who refuses to aid in these nefarious plans can be easily fired:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

A world with intermediaries is a better world. As much as I love Crad Kilodney's books, I wouldn't want to live in a world where the only books on my shelves came from people prepared to stand on a street-corner wearing a "FOUL PUS FROM DEAD DOGS" sign.

The problem isn't intermediaries – it's powerful intermediaries. That's why the world's surging antitrust movement is so exciting: by reinstating competition law, we can keep intermediaries small and comparatively weak, so that creators and audiences, drivers and riders, sellers and buyers, and other groups seeking to connect will not find themselves made subservient to middlemen.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/crad-kilodney-was-an-outlier/#intermediation

[taylorklosscomeout138]

I am starting a rumour that Taylor has NEVER wore the missing 1989 green top yellow skirt Daisy combo despite all other combos being worn bcuz she's saving it for a VERY special Kaylor coded show....

And that will be on Nov 23rd for the final show in Toronto. 💚💛

Because yes the 2013 VS fashion show was Nov 13th, but it was when she was 23. And she wrote a lyric about it in the ultimate comingoutlor song she's been using as a theme since it dropped

RWYLM. "She's still 23 inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to be" well as we know, she changed the prophecy, she made it up to Peter, the shelf life of those fantasies has NOT expired.

So I am thinking she will wear the Daisy combo on Nov 23rd to signify a full circle moment and that she has officially left the restaurant

This would be Fifteen days before she ghosts a Chiefs home game for the first time on Dec 8th, and Fifteen notably has the lyric "In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team" 👀

The only other combo she has never worn is the green on green one which I think is obviously being saved for an album announcement because green works for both Debut and Rep.

I think that she will wear the double green on Dec 8th for the final Eras Tour show!

Also 💚💛 gives vibes of Yellow Brick Road reaching The Emerald City which would fit the theory that Vancouver represents Emerald City if she wears the green and yellow combo on the last night of Toronto before the transition to Vancouver....

Veryyyyyyy interesting indeed

[wonderland-irwin]

I understand not everyone is a Swiftie, but there is something incredibly magical about how excited everyone is to see her. She’s in Toronto ending the tour in Canada, and media outlets have so much Swift coverage. Yes, it can be a little overwhelming to hear her everywhere, BUT with so much hate, so much negativity, so much anxiety in the world, isn’t it wonderful that there’s happy news??

It makes me happy that the Canadian Swifites are so happy, and I hope you get a Rep. or Debut TV drop while she’s here 🥰 y’all deserve it

[pinkheart22]

New Orleans Night 3 Announcment?

Something defientley happening tonight at New Orleans Night 3

Oct 27 = 1 year anniversary of 1989 Taylors Version

13 shows left on the Eras Tour

NOLA = NO LA = No Los Angeles Post for the Sofi Stadium dates where 1989 TV was announced

1989 TAYLORS VERSION HAD THE SNAKE S In Taylors Version

ET TU BRUTE = Julius Caesar = Caesars Super Dome

RED REP OUTFIT, GOLD REP OUTFIT, NOW SILVER REP OUTFIT?

Taylors Nails STILL painted GOLD like LWYMMD video with Sabrina Carpenter at New Orleans Night 2 AND SHE WAS WEARING ORANGE not a new multi-color surprise dress

Today is the 1989 1 year anniversary + SHE HAS BEEN FILMED BY A CREW 5 NIGHTS IN A ROW, so she's leading up to something that she wants documented

136 shows today Oct 27 in New Orleans BUT IF Vienna shows hadn't sadly been canceled, then that would make today, New Orleans Night 3 139 1+3+9= 13

Taylor's google vault tracks puzzle game had THE ERAS TOUR STAGE as the KEY to the VAULT. And there is a Door at the End of Karma and Her Vault is still locked with Reputation Vault Taylor in the Glass Box for LWYMMD

6 NIGHTS since Black / Gold Rep Outfit Debuted

They have been playing Karma, Bejeweled and I Can See You behind the scenes music videos AT the ERAS TOUR. all these videos / songs are about her reclaiming albums

AND the Fortnight music video behind the scenes. In there she says 'Til nobody noticed my new aesthetic !!! Her Instagram feed doesn't use TTPD greyscale filters anymore

TAYLOR NATION POSTED THIS: Only 13 Shows LEFT

They Used A Yellow Heart and Taylors instagram feed is all lined up in yellow, and she wore ALL YELLOW at Night 2 New Orleans + An Anniversary of 1989 to Celebrate tomorrow - NIGHT 3

She's been singing debut x reputation mashups

shouldve said no x i did something bad - Miami Night 2

our song x call it what you want - New Orleans N1

then tonight she CALLS Sabrina on the phone - New Orleans N2

the old Taylor cant come to the phone right now (CALL it what you want) ....and our song has THE phone in it

Toronto & Vancouver are last stops = TV = Taylors Version so she will make everything become Taylor's Version before the end of the tour finally Coming out in a THIS IS TAYLORS VERSION shirt for RED

THE NEW DRESS IS 1989 to REPUTATION ORANGE

The New Outfits are blue / white (like 1989) and orange and pinks like reputation

1989 was/is the album before the supposed "lost ablum" / "karma" and Reputation. Which means its only fitting to do something around the time of the 1989 taylors version.

Her new aesthetic has been yellows / pinks / oranges and plaids + jean / denims

OR just could be an announcement for more TTPD, DOWN BAD MUSIC VIDEO, SO HIGH SCHOOL, or ERAS DOCUMENTARY / ADDITION OF TTPD TO DISNEY+ FILM.

@taylornation @taylorswift

posted oct 27 2024 1127am

[glittercatsandtaylorswift]

And in the blink of a crinkling eye.

The first weekend in Toronto is finished. This weekend went by so fast, there are 6 shows left, 6 nights we get to experience this once in a lifetime phenomenon… The Eras Tour.



[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

Surprise Song o’ Clock: Toronto Night 5

Dress: Koi fish/pond

Guitar:

Ours x the last great american dynasty

“They say she was seen on occasion, pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea, and in a feud with her neighbor she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green, 50 years is a long time Holiday House sat quietly on that beach. Free of women with madness, their men and bad habits, and then it was bought by me — And it's not theirs to speculate, if it's wrong, and your hands are tough but they are where mine belong, and I'll fight their doubt and give you faith With this song for you — Who knows, if I never showed up, what could've been? There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen! I had a marvelous time ruining everything… The stakes are high, the water's rough, but this love is ours”

Piano:

Cassandra x mad woman x I Did Something Bad

“When the first stone's thrown there's screaming, in the streets there's a raging riot. When it's "Burn the bitch," they're shrieking. When the truth comes out, it's quiet… And there’s nothing like a mad woman… So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst, and tried to tell the town… what a shame she went mad… So, they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say, "Do you believe me now?".. And there’s nothing like a mad… woman — What did you think I'd say to that? Does a scorpion sting when fighting back? They strike to kill and you know I will… you know I will… what do you sing on your drive home? Do you see my face in the neighbor's lawn? Does she smile? Or does she mouth, "Fuck you forever"? Every time you call me crazy I get more crazy, what about that? And when you say I seem angry, I get more angry… So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst and tried to tell the town, And there's nothin' like a mad woman… I regret to say, "Do you believe me now?" What a shame she went mad, you made her like that… And you'll poke that bear 'til her claws come out and you find something to wrap your noose around… They knew, they knew, they knew the whole time, that I was onto something. The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line they all said nothing. Blood's thick but nothing like a payroll. Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul. You can mark my words that I said it first, in a morning warning, no one heard — So, I’m takin' my time, takin' my time, 'cause you took everything from me 'Cause you took everything from me. Watchin' you climb, watchin' you climb, over people like me. The master of spin has a couple side flings, good wives always know, she should be mad she’d be scathing like me but — I did something bad… what a shame she went mad… they say I did something bad… you can mark my words that I said it first, in a mourning warning, no one heard. Then, why's it feel so good? I regret to say, "Do you believe me now?" What a shame she went mad… they say I did something bad… do you believe me now? You made her like that. I did something bad. When the first stone's thrown there's screaming, in the streets, there's a raging riot. When it's "Burn the bitch, " they're shrieking. You’ll poke that bear till her claws come out, till I did something bad, you made her like that, do you believe me now? When the truth comes out… it's quiet… I did something bad… it's so quiet… Do you believe me now?”

[missegyptiana]

i haven’t seen taylor live in toronto since the rep tour someone help me get tickets plz

[foxes-that-run]

So it goes

So it goes tells the story of the 2014 Victoria Secret After Party: ''All eyes were on Harry and Taylor when they turned up. [...] The drinks were flowing until 3am, when they snuck out of a rear exit five minutes apart to avoid being pictured together." In context of the 2015 timeline 1989 (I know places established they wanted their relationship to go private) and 1D’s Four (with Stockholm Syndrome) had just been released. They were photographed the after party:

This was a pivotal night:

this outfit from that VS Show is also at 3 mins in I don’t wanna live forever (and cardigan refers to this sequin smile) and

In Only Angel Harry says he doesn't have eyes for the VS angels “She's an angel, My-my-my only angel”

Harry wore the coat

So it goes has only been played live 8 times and not yet on the Eras tour. The last time it was played was in the last Rep show in Tokyo, (9:38) with 2 other rare songs for the Rep Tour: I Know Places and Wildest Dreams. Harry Styles was in Japan that month and wrote Little Freak before he left Tokyo.

Timeline

3 December 2014 - Harry and Taylor seen dancing till 3am at the VS After party, where they were described as having "all eyes on them."

6-23 January 2015 - Harry and Taylor break up somewhere between here. See 2015 timeline

14 February - Style music video released, Two Ghosts and If I could fly written.

24 February - Taylor meets Calvin Harris, if she already had lyrics about the muse 'doing a number' on her on the 3rd Calvin could not be the muse. Harry's Winding wheel post

3 March - So it goes was written soon after Oscar Gorres became a father on this date. At that point "Taylor already had the lyrics" Shellback had the melody. Screenshots of the Grammy article:

11 march - Calvin breaks up with his girlfriend.

Taylor met Joe 15 months later.

Fun fact: Taylor's only lyrics "so it goes" are in Haylor songs, the very first night, So it goes, Style and You are in Love.

Live performances

So it goes has only been played live 9 times, ever. For a fan favorite love song this should further confirm it is an emotional song to Taylor at the time. She's also played it at particular times and paired it with particular songs:

June 22, 2018, Wembley. Where Harry lives. First time played was 2 months into the tour. Taylor also had Niall Horan as a guest in an NYC shirt. The same night Harry was very emotional, he sung Still the One in Madison Square Garden. Taylor later had that suit in the Me! video. It’s unclear why this date was so special, though it was 1 year and 2 days after his step-dad passed.

July 10, 2018, Landover, with State of Grace

July 14, 2018, Philadelphia, with Treacherous. Close to State of Grace/Temper Trap arm/tattoo anniversary.

July 22, 2018, New Jersey. End of Live on Tour.

July 28, 2018, Foxborough, news of Harry's break up with Camille broke 2 days later.

August 4, 2018, Toronto, with Come Back... Be Here (1 of 2 live performances of CBBH). Harry left LA for Italy and was seen driving a Maserati (was it a dead end street?)

September 1, 2018, Minneapolis

November 21, 2018, Last reputation show, played with Wildest Dreams. Harry had been in Tokyo and wrote Little Freak in the same period.

November 20, 2023, Eras tour, with Me! wore and made the Stadium green.

Lyrics

[Verse 1] See you in the dark All eyes on you, my magician All eyes on us You make everyone disappear, and Cut me into pieces Gold cage, hostage to my feelings Back against the wall Trippin', trip-trippin' when you're gone

The first verse sets the scene, similar to the articles Harry and Taylor are the focus of many, drawn to each other and wanting to keep their connection secret.

In Hoax, Taylor has a similar lyric to magician "Your sleight of hand"

'Gold cage, hostage to my feelings' refers to being trapped by love. Similar to Stockholm Syndrome, which was released only 2 weeks before the VS party, Taylor is trapped in a gold/gilded cage (a luxurious prison) by love.

[Pre-Chorus] 'Cause we break down a little But when you get me alone, it's so simple 'Cause, baby, I know what you know We can feel it [Chorus] And all the pieces fall right into place Getting caught up in a moment Lipstick on your face So it goes I'm yours to keep And I'm yours to lose You know I'm not a bad girl, but I Do bad things with you So it goes

So it goes is a lyric in Style. In the chorus Taylor lets us know that when they are away from others they have great chemistry. She also refers to lipstick, referred to in many 1989 songs. Taylor is described as a 'bad/good girl often, she talks about it in Miss Americana and also in:

Style: And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt

Question...?; Good girl, sad boy

Only Angel: That she's gonna be an angel, just you wait and see, When it turns out she's a devil in between the sheets

[Verse 2] Met you in a bar All eyes on me, your illusionist All eyes on us I make all your gray days clear And wear you like a necklace I'm so chill, but you make me jealous But I got your heart Skippin', skip-skippin' when I'm gone

The afterparty was in Basement bar. The illusionist/magician references are enjoying knowing that she and her muse will leave together without others knowing. 'Make all grey days clear' tells us the muse is British.

[Bridge] You did a number on me But, honestly, baby, who's counting? I did a number on you But, honestly, baby, who's counting? You did a number on me But, honestly, baby, who's counting? Who's counting? (One, two, three)

The bridge tells us more about her relationship with her muse, they have a history, have hurt each other before and are wanting to move on. Though she says she is letting it go she is also keeping score. At this point the events of Red, 1989 and most of the one direction songs about TS had transpired between them.

In Grapejuice Harry starts the song with 1, 2, 3 and ends on 1 (I.e let’s start again) here Taylor also counts 1, 2, 3 after “you didn’t a number on me but honestly baby who’s counting”

[tayloralison]

Does Canada not have big enough stadiums that can fit her stage? What about where the blue jays play?

yeah that's the rogers center in toronto. taylor was there for rep tour. but i'm not sure what the engineers/her team that built the stage would recommend the safe distance be as it'd be a tight fit i think.