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How Taylor Swift’s Eras tour took over America

On St Patrick’s Day of this year, Taylor Swift kicked off her Eras Tour, a 52-stop showcase encompassing all ten of her studio albums. Since then, people have fallen into three categories: either you won the Ticketmaster lottery and attended the tour, a genuinely epic in which the 33-year-old singer plays 44 or more songs over roughly three and a half hours; you did not get tickets, and have instead viewed innumerable videos of the show – her outfits, her choreography, her stage banter, the crowd, the celebrities; or you exist somewhere outside the Swiftie-verse and have been forced to pay attention to the Eras tour through consistent headlines and hype.

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