All the Surprise Songs Taylor Swift Has Played On The Eras Tour So Far
All the Surprise Songs Taylor Swift Has Played On The Eras Tour So Far
Over a year into Taylor Swift's Eras tour, she has found ways to keep the show fresh and new for those who have been waiting since she opened in Phoenix, Arizona in March 2023 to see her. Since the tour began in the United States last year, Swift has released two rerecorded albums - Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version) in addition to a brand-new double album, The Tortured Poets Department.
Right as she picked the tour back up in 2024, she flew from Tokyo, Japan to Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada (where she had previously performed) to watch her beau Travis Kelce and his NFL team the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl.
Every show on the Eras Tour involves an acoustic set where Swift performs at least two songs custom to that night's show. At first, she wouldn't allow herself repeats unless she messed up the lyrics to a song, but now, she has done away with that rule and gotten more creative by combining songs in mashups and playing up to four in a segment. The first song or three take place on guitar, and then she shifts to piano for the second half before diving beneath the stage to resume the setlist – which has since contracted and expanded to include a Tortured Poets Department era and set.
Below you'll find Taylor Swift's surprise songs that she has played most recently in Europe as well as a record of all those she has played on the entire tour so far.
International Leg 2024
- Tokyo, Japan
- February 6 - "Holy Ground" and "Dear Reader"
- February 7 - "Eyes Open" and "Electric Touch"
- February 8 - "Superman" and "The Outside"
- February 9 - "Come In With the Rain" and "You're On Your Own Kid"
- Melbourne, Australia
- February 16 in - "Red" and "You're Losing Me"
- February 17 - Mashup of "Getaway Car"/"August"/"The Other Side of the Door" and "This Is Me Trying"
- Sydney, Australia
- February 18 - Mashup of "Come Back… Be Here"/"Daylight" and "Teardrops on My Guitar"February 23 in Sydney, Australia – "How You Get the Girl" and Mashup of "White Horse/Coney Island" with Sabrina Carpenter
- February 24 - "Should've Said No (Naur)" and Mashup of "New Year's Day/Peace"
- February 25 - Mashup of "Is It Over Now/I Wish You Would" and Mashup of "Haunted/Exile"
- February 26 - Mashup of "Would've Could've Should've/Ivy" and Mashup of "Forever & Always/Maroon"
- Singapore
- March 2 - Mashup of "long story short/The Story of Us" and Mashup of "Clean/evermore"
- March 3 - Mashup of "Mine/Starlight" and Mashup of "I Don't Wanna Live Forever/Dress"
- March 4 - Mashup of "Foolish One/Tell Me Why" and Mashup of "This Love/Call It What You Want"
- March 7 - Mashup of "Death by a Thousand Cuts/Babe" and Mashup of "Fifteen/You're On Your Own Kid"
- March 8 - Mashup of "Sparks Fly/gold rush" and "False God/Slut!"
- March 9 - Mashup of "Tim McGraw/Cowboy Like Me" and "Mirrorball/Epiphany"
April 19 – The Tortured Poets Department release day
*Resuming her European tour in 2024 involved an additional set for the record-breaking The Tortured Poets Department complete with 7 staple songs. Most - "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)," "Down Bad," "But Daddy I Love Him," "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" "I Can Do It With A Broken Heart," "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" from the first half and "So High School" from the second half.
- Paris, France
- May 9 - "Paris" and "loml"
- May 10 - Mashup of "Is It Over Now/Out of the Woods" and "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"
- May 11 - "Hey Stephen" and "Maroon"
- May 12 - Mashup of "The Alchemy/Treacherous" and "Begin Again/Paris"
- Stockholm, Sweden
- May 17 - Mashup of "I Think He Knows/Gorgeous" and "Peter"
- May 18 - "Guilty as Sin" and Mashup of "Say Don't Go/Welcome to New York/Clean"
- May 19 - Mashup of "Message in a Bottle/How You Get the Girl/New Romantics" and "How Did It End?"
United States Leg 2023
- Glendale, Ariz.
- March 17 - Mirrorball" and "Tim McGraw"
- March 18- "State of Grace" and "This Is Me Trying"
- Las Vegas, Nev.
- March 24 - "Our Song" and "Snow on the Beach"
- March 25 - "Cowboy Like Me" with Marcus Mumford and "White Horse"
- Arlington, Texas
- March 31 - "Sad Beautiful Tragic" and "Ours"
- April 1 - "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and "Clean"
- April 2 - "Jump Then Fall" and "The Lucky One"
- Tampa, Fla.
- April 13 - "Speak Now" and "Treacherous"
- April 14 - "The Great War" with Aaron Dessner and "You're on Your Own, Kid"
- April 15- "Mad Woman" with Aaron Dessner and "Mean"
- Houston, Texas
- April 21 - "Wonderland" and "You're Not Sorry"
- April 22- "A Place in This World" and "Today Was a Fairytale"
- April 23 - "Begin Again" and "Cold as You"
- Atlanta, Ga.
- April 28 - "The Other Side of the Door" and "Coney Island"
- April 29 - "High Infidelity" and "Gorgeous"
- April 30- "I Bet You Think About Me" and "How You Get the Girl"
- Nashville, Tenn.
- May 5 in - "Sparks Fly" + Speak Now (Taylor's Version)Album Announcement and "Teardrops on My Guitar"
- May 6 - "Out of the Woods" and "Fifteen"
- May 7- "Would've, Could've, Should've" with Aaron Dessner and "Mine"
- Philadelphia, Penn.
- May 12 - "Gold Rush" and "Come Back…Be Here"
- May 13 - "Forever & Always" and "This Love"
- May 14 - "Hey Stephen" and "The Best Day"
- Foxborough, Mass.
- May 19 - "Should've Said No" and "Better Man"
- May 20 - "Question…?" and "Invisible"
- May 21 - "I Think He Knows" and "Red"
- East Rutherford, N.J.
- May 26 - "Getaway Car" with Jack Antonoff and "Maroon"
- May 27 - "Holy Ground" and "False God"
- May 28 - "Welcome to New York" and "Clean"
- Chicago, Ill.
- June 2 in "I Wish You Would" and "The Lakes"
- June 3 in - "You All Over Me" with Maren Morris and "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"
- June 4 Chicago, Ill. - "Hits Different" and "The Moment I Knew"
- Detroit, Mich.
- June 9 - "Haunted" and "I Almost Do"
- June 10 - "All You Had to Do Was Stay" and "Breathe"
- Pittsburgh, Penn.
- June 16 - "Mr. Perfectly Fine" and "The Last Time"
- June 17 - "Seven" with Aaron Dessner and "The Story of Us"
- Minneapolis, Minn.
- June 23 - "Paper Rings" and "If This Was a Movie"
- June 24 - "Dear John" and "Daylight"
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- June 30 - "I'm Only Me When I'm With You" and "Evermore"
- July 1- "Ivy" with Aaron Dessner, "I Miss You, I'm Sorry" with Gracie Abrams and "Call It What You Want"
- Kansas City, Miss.
- July 7 - "Never Grow Up" and "When Emma Falls in Love"
- July 8 - "Last Kiss" and "Dorothea"
- Denver, Colo.
- July 14 - "Picture to Burn" and "Timeless"
- July 15 - "Starlight" and "Back to December"
- Seattle, Wash.
- July 22 in - "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" and "Everything Has Changed"
- July 23 - "Message in a Bottle" and "Tied Together With a Smile"
- Santa Clara, Calif.
- July 28 - "Right Where You Left Me" and "Castles Crumbling"
- July 29 - "Stay Stay Stay" and "All of the Girls You Loved Before"
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- August 3 – "I Can See You" and "Maroon"
- August 4 - "Our Song" and "You Are in Love"
- August 5 - "Death By a Thousand Cuts" and "You're On Your Own Kid"
- August 7 -"Exile" and "Dress"
- August 8 -"I Know Places" and "King of My Heart"
- August 9 - "New Romantics" + "1989 (Taylor's Version)"Album Announcement and "New Year's Day"
International Leg 2023
- Mexico City, Mexico
- August 24 - "I Forgot That You Existed" and "Sweet Nothing"
- August 25 - "Tell Me Why" and "Snow on the Beach"
- August 26 - "Cornelia Street" and "You're on Your Own, Kid"
- August 27 -"Afterglow" and "Maroon"
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- November 9 -"The Very First Night" and "Labyrinth"
- November 10 - Cancelled Due to Rain
- November 11 - "End Game" and Mash-Up of "Out of the Woods" & "Is It Over Now?"
- November 12 - "Better Than Revenge" and "Slut!"
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- November 17 - "Stay Beautiful" and "Suburban Legends"
- November 19 - "Dancing. With Our Hands Tied" and "Bigger Than the Whole Sky"
- November 20 - "Me!" and "So It Goes"
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Nov. 24 - "Now That We Don't Talk" and "Innocent"
- Nov. 25- "Safe and Sound" and "Untouchable"
- Nov. 25 - "Say Don't Go" and "It's Time to Go"
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