After months of countdowns and excited outfit planning, Aussies are actually properly and really in the midst of our Eras period.
Taylor Swift kicked off her record-breaking tour at Melbourne’s MCG on Friday, drawing an viewers of 96,000, the most important of her profession thus far.
The celebrity’s three nights in Melbourne noticed every thing from superstar attendances and a number of proposals to pandemonium outdoors the MCG – often known as Taylor-gating.
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Behind the scenes, we heard tales of followers scoring final minute tickets and the singer’s dad Scott Swift, often known as Papa Swift, even upgrading followers to VIP seats.
Subsequent weekend shall be Sydney’s flip, as she kicks off 4 consecutive dates from Friday earlier than taking the tour to Asia.
You’ll be able to learn the total rundown of evening one of many Eras Tour Melbourne right here. In case you were not one of many fortunate ones within the crowd this weekend, here is what you missed.
Taylor thanks all 288,000 Melbourne followers for attending
On evening three, the ultimate evening of her Melbourne cease, Swift took a second to get emotional in regards to the profession excessive tour attendance numbers on the MCG reveals.
Throughout her opening Lover set, the pop star thanked all 288,000 followers from throughout the three nights for turning as much as her record-breaking reveals.
Watch the video above.
“96,000 individuals the primary evening, 96,000 individuals the second evening, 96,000 individuals tonight,” Swift started in a fan captured video from the heartwarming speech.
“All of that, these are all the most important reveals I’ve ever performed on a tour and you probably did it thrice. The mathematics is that it is 288,000 individuals in three nights,” she revealed.
“Melbourne, you’re the love of my life. I can not imagine you, what have you ever executed.”
“It is simply extremely good to do for somebody. Make them really feel welcome like that,” she mentioned.
After her ultimate Melbourne present on Sunday evening, Swift took to Instagram on Monday morning to thank followers once more for the ‘unforgettable’ expertise.
“Melbourne, what do I even say to you after over 288,000 of you got here and danced with us within the final 3 nights ??! That was unforgettable,” she captioned a pic from the present.
“You had been on one other LEVEL. Thanks for the recollections. I will revisit those from this weekend typically,” she added.
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Pandemonium outdoors the MCG as Taylor-gating takes over
For these followers who missed out on nabbing tickets to Swift’s Melbourne reveals, they did not let that cease them from having fun with the singer’s 44 tune set.
Outdoors the MCG, tons of of ticketless followers arrange picnics, dressed up and sang alongside to the live performance in what has change into often known as ‘Taylor-gating’.
The phenomenon was first seen on the singer’s kick-off North America tour, and has since been embraced by Swifties all over the world trying to take part on the live performance enjoyable and hoping to attain final minute tickets inside.
Many followers shared their experiences buying and selling friendship bracelets and singing alongside to the pop star’s tracks from outdoors the stadium to social media.
“Taylorgating, going from crowd to quiet house relying on whether or not I needed to sing on the high of my lungs (crowd) or simply shut my eyes and hear,” one fan shared to X.
“I actually had nearly as a lot enjoyable taylorgating as I did going like a very completely different vibe however soo a lot enjoyable,” one fan shared in regards to the expertise.
One attendee estimated there have been round 100,000 individuals outdoors the MCG alone.
“+ ~100K outdoors the stadium Taylorgating !! I’m certainly one of them proper now …” the wrote.
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The celebrities go wild for Taylor Swift
It wasn’t simply the on a regular basis Aussie who fought to get tickets to see Taylor Swift.
The singer’s three-night live performance cease in Melbourne was frequented by celebrities who went wild for Swift within the crowds.
From actors to singers, athletes and web stars, the Eras Tour Melbourne was a star-studded occasion.
Olympia Valance, Andy Lee and Rebecca Harding, Missy Higgins and Chrissie Swan had been amongst the A-lister attendees at Swift’s record-breaking Aussie reveals.
There have been additionally some sporting {couples} who turned the live performance right into a sequin-filled date evening. AFL star Josh Daicos and his girlfriend Annalise Dalins joined in on the live performance enjoyable, whereas Geelong participant Tom Hawkins tagged alongside together with his Swiftie spouse Emma.
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There have been additionally some cute mother-daughter duos on the MCG, with swimmer Giaan Rooney bringing her toddler alongside and sharing a pic of the friendship bracelets they took residence from the memorable evening.
Tammy Hembrow additionally took her daughter Saskia alongside to see the celebrity in Melbourne, with the pair rocking cowboy hats for the sparkly event.
Probably the most iconic moments to come back out of the celeb attendances needed to be rapper G Flip singing alongside to Swift’s monitor Merciless Summer time.
Followers will keep in mind the rapper lined the very same monitor earlier this 12 months, which even bought ‘preferred’ by Swift herself.
‘Child simply say sure’: There have been even some proposals
If there’s ever a extra magical time to suggest, it could be whereas Taylor Swift is serenading you along with her romantic hit, Love Story. Many Aussie {couples} did simply that.
Throughout Love Story, one couple Jules and Kesh bought engaged to the sound of Swift singing “he knelt to the bottom and pulled out a hoop and mentioned ‘Marry me’..”
Within the viral second captured on TikTok, Kesh pulled out a hoop field from their pocket and bought on one knee to suggest.
Aussie singer G-Flip even commented on the video with a candy “omg that is stunning.”
Who bought the 22 hat?
Swifties know that at every present, Swift will adorably present one chosen fan her hat that she wears whereas performing 22 – the identical type as from her costume within the music video.
With three Melbourne reveals, that meant Swift gave away her black signed hats to a few fortunate followers. 
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Swift gave her hat away to 2 younger women on each evening one and three of the tour.
Whereas the singer sometimes items the costume piece to her youthful followers, on evening two she gave the 22 hat to 24-year-old social media star Oliver Mills.
Mills shared movies of the candy second the pop star hugged him after which had some heartwarming phrases for him.
“She mentioned, “I like your movies, you are so humorous”, after which I mentioned one thing… in all probability unintelligible, after which I bought a second hug,” Mills instructed Immediately.
Earlier than the live performance, Mills posted movies of his live performance look, the place he dressed as Swift’s producer Jack Antonoff from a viral clip the place the pair had been within the studio developing with the lyrics to Getaway Automobile. The tune was then performed that evening as a shock tune.
What had been the shock songs at Eras Tour Melbourne?
Throughout her 44 tune set, Swift treats followers to 2 completely different songs from her discography every present. The singer performs one on piano and one other on guitar.
The shock songs have change into of probably the most thrilling components of the Eras Tour for followers, making every present distinctive and including some suspense to the three-hour present.
Whereas the singer beforehand mentioned that she would solely play every tune as soon as except she messed it up, Swift restarted the record after her North America leg and through her ultimate Melbourne evening, retracted the rule utterly. 
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“I wish to be as inventive as doable with the acoustic set shifting ahead and I do not wish to restrict something or say, ‘Oh, if I performed this tune, I am unable to play it once more,'” she instructed the group, including that she now not needs to “take any paint colors out of the paintbox.”
“I would like to have the ability to play songs greater than as soon as if I really feel prefer it and I would like to have the ability to make modifications to songs. Does that sound OK?”
So now that we all know there’s hope Sydney might hear these songs dwell too, here is the shock songs that Swift performed throughout her three nights in Melbourne.
- Purple (guitar)
- You are Shedding Me (piano)
- Getaway Automobile / August / The Different Aspect Of The Door mashup (guitar)
- This Is Me Attempting (piano)
- Come Again Be Right here / Daylight mashup (guitar)
- Teardrops On My Guitar (piano)
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What she implied about Joe Alwyn
After all, Swift did not point out her ex-boyfriend by identify. However followers have picked up on some delicate clues left by the singer – principally in her selection of shock songs – which may very well be hinting at why their relationship ended.
Evening one noticed Swift sing You are Shedding Me, a heartwrenching ballad about being in a relationship with somebody who appears to have misplaced curiosity in making issues work.
Launched in 2023 as a bonus monitor on Midnights, the tune was truly written in 2021 – which implies there have been cracks in her relationship with Alwyn greater than a 12 months earlier than they break up.
This weekend, there have been additionally unverified stories circling on-line that Alwyn had allegedly cheated on the singer with a co-worker. After all, we do not know whether or not these are true or not.
However Swift’s shock songs on evening two appeared to inform a narrative.
On Saturday evening, when Swift picked up her guitar for the acoustic set, she carried out a mash-up of three songs: Getaway Automobile, August, and The Different Aspect Of The Door. Swifties had been fast to choose up on the truth that all three of those songs are about dishonest in a relationship.
Additionally, this was tremendous notable as a result of it is solely the second time she’s executed a shock tune mashup on the Eras Tour.
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The primary was when she added the Out of the Woods bridge to Is It Over Now? after a TikTok went viral evaluating how related the songs sounded.
Once more, we will not actually draw conclusions from something – however the on-line Swifties definitely are.
They’ve additionally resurfaced a video of her singing Ought to’ve Mentioned No from earlier within the Eras Tour. She sings the road “was she value it?” earlier than trying on the viewers and shaking her head – contemplating this one other type of proof that Alwyn was untrue.
What she mentioned about The Tortured Poets Division
As everyone knows, Swift introduced that she’ll be releasing a brand new album, The Tortured Poets Division, on April 19.
Although we have already got the tracklist for the album, due to a put up that Swift made on social media revealing the again cowl, she determined to make use of her first Melbourne present to share the monitor identify of a bonus tune, which shall be out there on some variations of the album.
The tune is named The Bolter, and she or he projected the brand new album version cowl onto the screens across the MCG as she sang You are Shedding Me.
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As she was asserting the tune, Swift spoke a bit bit in regards to the course of of constructing her new album.
“I used to be speaking to you earlier about my new album. So, principally, I am very excited for April nineteenth, as a result of The Tortured Poets Division shall be out on that date, and I can not wait so that you can hear all of these songs then,” Swift mentioned.
“This album, this new one, Tortured Poets, is an album that I feel, greater than any of my albums that I’ve ever made, I wanted to make it.”
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“It was actually a lifeline for me, simply the issues I used to be going by way of, and the issues I used to be writing about, it sort of jogged my memory of why songwriting is one thing that truly will get me by way of my life.”
“And I’ve by no means had an album the place wanted songwriting greater than I would wanted it on Tortured Poets. And I needed to indicate you one thing tonight, as a result of we have an alternate cowl to The Tortured Poets Division that no one has seen, and there is an unique tune on this vinyl referred to as The Bolter.”
“So that is referred to as The Bolter version. Have a look at that cowl! It is so tortured, so poetic. So, I will simply present that to you right here in Melbourne, since you’ve simply been the very best that you may presumably be. I’ve by no means performed this tune dwell earlier than. It is certainly one of my favourites,” she concluded, earlier than enjoying You are Shedding Me.
Swift additionally made a joke about individuals calling her album by the mistaken identify – aside from Communicate Now and her self-titled debut, TTPD is her first album with multiple phrase within the title.
“You can name it ‘Tortured Poets’ if you happen to simply refuse to memorise greater than one-word album titles,” she instructed the Melbourne crowd from the stage on evening two.
