So, the Eras Tour movie is out on Disney+, anyone saw it yet?
I did (over the Easter long weekend, I like Taylor, but I don't "sit 3 hours and a half straight through her songs" like her), and it's fantastic.
Sure, I knew the concept of the show, I saw the YouTube clips, but seeing in high definition on the big TV screen was something else. Excellent direction (look, Steve Harris, I worship you and I would like for you to be immortal but your videos are way too frantic), absolutely amazing stage and show concept, and something I assume her fans will remember forever.
I must admit I skipped through some of the songs I just don't like, but overall I watched 90%, if not 95% of it, and the grandeur of it all really came alive. Also the eras order were excellent, she always crafted some clever contrasts strategically placing Evermore and Folklore by having them follow up by totally different albums. If you're not crazy about a specific album, the next segment of the show is gonna get you excited (and the other way around).
I've never been a musical elitist, and if I even had 20 years ago a "metal is everything, and everything else sucks" I quickly grew out of it, but I guess from time to time I must have felt for pop fans who wouldn't know the majesty and the glory of seeing Iron Maiden and the plane and the pyros and Eddie walking around and the changing backdrops and Eddie walking around and everything, but now I'm thinking that Taylor fans are pitying other people who are never going to see as how as wonderful as this
it's really an amazing show and well, it'd better be, given the insane ticket prices!
I would never pay a third of my salary to got and see this show, and the italian date is long sold out anyway, but if by any absurd chance there would be a way to sneak into the concert - actually the wife of a coworker somehow managed to get some work as checking-stuff-at-the-gates person - I would gladly jump onto it.
And if one day she's gonna make an entire show of Folklore and Evermore with the sceneries she used (Willow became basically a folk metal song!), yeah, that I would pay for