Everyone has heard about it. Everyone knows. And from the sound of it, everyone is going. And to be completely honest, so are we! But no, it’s not Oppenheimer, it’s not Barbie: it’s the one and only Taylor Swift! The movie that is. Even as non-Swifties, we’ve heard our fair share of “AHHH” about this movie, so we’re here to give an unbiased perspective on Ms. Swift’s fourth cinematic production.
Throughout her career, Swift has made repeated forays into the world of acting. Despite mostly sticking to songwriting, she has released three documentaries about her music career. Her first breakthrough into the cinematic world was with The Reputation Stadium Tour released in late 2018, which showed the entire footage of her 2.5-hour-long concert. Our 10-year-old selves loved it.
The second documentary, Miss Americana, was released in early 2020 and focused on Taylor’s experience creating her album Reputation. The film also highlighted her career, personal struggles, and political aspirations over her 17 years of being in the spotlight. The third and most recent documentary, Folklore Long Pond Studio Sessions, was a collection of tapes featuring the recording of her album, Folklore. Shockingly, many Swifties haven’t even heard of it.
The upcoming movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour will debut in theaters across the country on October 13, 2023. It will be the first of her documentaries not to air immediately on a streaming platform. And unlike the Folklore Long Pond Studio Sessions movie (can we acronym that?), it seems as though it may be almost as big as the concert itself.
From what our prodigious research and the vaguely comprehensible fangirling we’ve encountered have told us, this movie will be nearly three hours long. It will show all those who missed out on her concert every last detail of what they could’ve seen, had they been willing to cough up the several hundred dollars required to attend the tour itself.
In true popstar style, every movie-goer will be decked out in an Eras outfit, with the cowboy hat to match (we write this only minutes before our excursion to the thrift store in which we will desperately search for evermore and debut themed ones), and most definitely will be stocked with friendship-bracelets to trade.
