The year in Taylor Swift, from The Eras Tour to 1989 (Taylor’s Version) to Travis Kelce
Taylor Swift was pop culture's undisputed champion of 2023. Here's a look back at her latest record-shattering era
Aux Features The Eras Tour
Highlights from Taylor Swift’s record-breaking 2023. Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood; John Medina; TAS Rights Management; Noam Galai; David Eulitt; Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
Nobody had a year like Taylor Swift did in 2023. In fact, it’s probably fair to say no one has ever had a year like Taylor Swift did in 2023. If you thought she was inescapably famous before, her complete cultural saturation this year proved that there were yet more personal and professional peaks for her to reach. From her tabloid-famous romances to the blockbuster success of her re-recordings to the incredible economic impact of The Eras Tour, there wasn’t a facet of pop culture that Swift’s influence didn’t reach. Click on to look back at her record-breaking, chart-dominating, award-winning 2023. Long may she reign.
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I often wonder if this shell of a site would have anything to talk about without Taylor Swift.
We’ll always have superhero fatigue!
Who could forget that classic moment when Taylor Swift stopped in the middle of her latest hit song (you know the one) to fart into a microphone?
That photo will never not make me laugh. Runner up is Phil Collins, of all people, who someone pointed out always sings looking like someone handed him a microphone and then shot him in the ass.
ohh! taylor swift actually did that.
Oh SHIT but I thought she was canceled!
No that’s Becky
She came back from cancellation against incredible oddsIn fairness she didn’t say she got cancelled but that her career was taken from her which is even more dramatic and ridiculous.
Despite all the coverage of Swift, everywhere, it’s really not fair to call it overexposure. From the Wall Street Journal last month:“Her tour has broken attendance and income records across the country. She has transformed the economy of every city she visits. The U.S. Travel Association reported this fall that what her concertgoers spend in and around each venue “is on par with the Super Bowl, but this time it happened on 53 different nights in 20 different locations over the course of five months.” Downtowns across the country—uniquely battered by the pandemic and the riots and demonstrations of 2020—are, while she is there, brought to life, with an influx of visitors and a local small business boom. Wherever she went it was like the past three years didn’t happen.When Ms. Swift played Los Angeles for six sold-out nights in August she brought a reported $320 million local windfall with her, including 3,300 jobs and a $160 million increase in local earnings. From Straits Research this month: Ms. Swift’s tour is “an economic phenomenon that is totally altering the rules of entertainment economics.”When the tour became a bona fide record-breaker Ms. Swift gave everyone in her crew—everyone, the dressers, the guys who move the sets, the sound techs and backup dancers—a combined $55 million in bonuses. The truck drivers received a reported $100,000 each.Bloomberg Economics reports U.S. gross domestic product went up an estimated $4.3 billion as a result of her first 53 concerts.”That’s freaking nuts and I doubt we’ll ever see something like this again.
Oh, records are meant to be broken. It’s pop. We’ll definitely see something like this again. The only question is what form will the next big star take?
Right, but has she done a concert in Fortnite? CHECKMATE ATHEISTS