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Where to see taylor swift's eras tour movie in san diego county, swifties, you can catch the pop star's concert in theaters starting friday..

Kristina Houck , Patch Staff

SAN DIEGO, CA — Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie opens in theaters Friday, and you can see it at a number of theaters in San Diego County.

The movie has already grossed $100 million in advance ticket sales , according to AMC Theaters, which is distributing the film to more than 8,500 theaters in 100 countries. Showings are also planned at Regal and Cinemark.

Locally, there are showings this weekend at the following AMC theaters in San Diego County:

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• AMC Chula Vista 10 : 555 Broadway, Suite 2050, Chula Vista
• AMC DINE-IN Poway 10 : 13475 Poway Road, Poway
• AMC Fashion Valley 18 : 7037 Friars Road, San Diego
• AMC La Jolla 12 : 8657 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite 129, La Jolla
• AMC Mission Valley 20 : 1640 Camino Del Rio North, San Diego
• AMC Otay Ranch 12 : 2015 Birch Road, Chula Vista
• AMC Palm Promenade 24 : 770 Dennery Road, San Diego
• AMC Plaza Bonita 14 : 3050 Plaza Bonita Road, National City
• AMC UTC 14 : 4425 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite H-60, San Diego

Swifties across the country are expected to dress the part, just as they did for the Barbie movie last summer, according to a CNN report that outlines proper concert film etiquette.

Other guidelines: Do sing along and dance, but don't steal the show. Arrive on time. And take your wallet along. There will be merchandise to share.

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Taylor Swift Announces U.S. Dates for 2023 Eras Tour

The stadium shows will mark the superstar's first proper tour in nearly five years.

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Taylor Swift is, at long last, headed back on the road. Following this week’s monumental chart debut of Midnights , her tenth studio album, Swift announced the U.S. leg of her 2023 Eras tour on Tuesday morning (Nov. 1), confirming her first official tour in nearly five years following months of rumors.

“I wanted to tell you something that I’ve been so excited about for a really long time. I’ve been planning for ages and I finally get to tell you: I’m going back on tour,” Swift said on GMA . “The tour is called the Eras tour and it’s a journey through all of the musical eras of my career.”

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Swift said that after kicking off in the U.S., the tour will go on an international swing, with those dates to be announced soon.

Support on the tour will come via a rotating cast of opening acts including Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, Muna, Haim, Gayle, Gracie Abrams and Owenn. The public on-sale date for the tour will be 10 a.m. local venue time on Nov. 18. Swift has partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program, with fans able to register here for the TaylorSwiftTix presale now through Nov. 9 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Registered fans will get a code with exclusive access to purchase tickets on Nov. 15 starting at 10 a.m. local venue time.

Previous Lover Fest Verified Fan purchasers will get preferred access to participate in the TaylorSwiftTix presale; make sure to register with the same Ticketmaster Account as your Lover Fest purchase. Capital One cardholders will have priority access to purchase tickets on Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. local venue time through Nov. 17 at 10 p.m. local venue time or until supplies last.

Swift’s planned follow-up to the Reputation tour, Lover Fest, was scheduled to take place in 2020 following the 2019 release of her Lover album, but was canceled due to the pandemic. Since the Reputation tour, Swift has released four original studio albums — Lover , 2020’s Folklore and Evermore , and Midnights — as well as two re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) , both in 2021.

This week, Midnights blasted in atop the Billboard 200 albums chart with 1.578 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate — the biggest week for any album in nearly seven years. Meanwhile, Swift made history on the Hot 100 by becoming the first artist to claim the chart’s entire top 10 in a single frame, with “Anti-Hero” debuting at No. 1 to become her ninth career chart-topper.

See the full list of Eras U.S. tour dates below:

• March 18 — Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium (Paramore, Gayle)
• March 25 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium  (beeabadoobee, Gayle)
• April 1 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
• April 2 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
• April 15 — Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
• April 22 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
• April 28 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
• April 29 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
• May 6 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
• May 12 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
• May 19 — Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
• May 20 — Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
• May 26 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
• May 27 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gracie Abrams)
• June 2 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (girl in red, Owenn)
• June 3 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (girl in red, Owenn)
• June 10 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field (girl in red, Owenn)
• June 17 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Acrisure Stadium (girl in red, Owenn)
• June 24 — Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium (girl in red, Owenn)
• July 1 — Cincinnati, OH @ Paycor Stadium (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
• July 8 — Kansas City, MO @ GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
• July 15 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
• July 22 — Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field (Haim, Gracie Abrams)
• July 29 — Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s® Stadium (Haim, Gracie Abrams)
• August 4 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium (Haim, Owenn)

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Taylor Swift Taps Paramore for European Eras Tour Run

Taylor Swift knows we need more — so she’s giving us just that. The singer has added 14 more shows to the European/U.K. leg of her Eras Tour , and announced that Paramore will provide support throughout the trek.

“Really can’t contain my excitement because… we’re adding 14 new shows to The Eras Tour,” Swift wrote on Twitter Wednesday, July 5. “And I get to travel the world doing shows with @paramore !! Hayley and I have been friends since we were teens in Nashville and now we get to frolic around the UK/Europe next summer??? I’m screaming???”

Really can’t contain my excitement because… we’re adding 14 new shows to The Eras Tour. And I get to travel the world doing shows with @paramore !! Hayley and I have been friends since we were teens in Nashville and now we get to frolic around the UK/Europe next summer??? I’m… pic.twitter.com/kl1aijxR2o — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 5, 2023

Last month, Swift added dozens of shows to her Taylor Swift: The Eras stadium tour — bringing the total count of shows to a whooping 104 nights . She also extended her run at Los Angeles’ So-Fi Stadium with a sixth show scheduled for Aug. 7.

The new addition comes after the singer announced shows in Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Europe earlier this week. (See below for the full tour dates.)

“EXCUSE ME HI I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY 🙋‍♀️,” she wrote on Instagram. “I can’t wait to see so many of you on The Eras Tour next year at these new international dates!”

She also added more dates to her already-announced Latin America tour. After wrapping her U.S. dates in Los Angeles on Aug. 9, Swift will head to Mexico City for four straight shows at Foro Sol starting Aug. 24. She’ll then stop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil in November.

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Joining the artist on her Latin America run and shows in Singapore and Australia will be “sweet angel princess” Sabrina Carpenter.

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Swift first announced the tour last October after she completely took over the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 with Midnights . The added dates, which follow the addition of eight new shows last week, were slotted in “due to unprecedented demand,” according to the singer’s camp.

“Good Morning America, it’s Taylor,” Swift said during the announcement. “I wanted to tell you something that I’ve been so excited about for a really long time and I’ve been planning for ages, and I finally get to tell you I’m going back on tour. The tour is called the ‘Eras’ tour, and it’s a journey through all of my musical eras of my career.”

The tour began on March 17 in Glendale, Arizona and extends through Aug. 9, where the singer will wrap with a fifth night at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Swift still has stops left in Detroit, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Seattle, and Santa Clara.

She gave us 8 shows last week, honey, but we want ‘em all. 💕 Due to unprecedented demand for tickets to #TSTheErasTour , Taylor has added 17 more shows in the US! https://t.co/ebjX0GgXTu pic.twitter.com/1NQeUZ7vml — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 11, 2022

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Across the tour, Swift is being supported in select cities by a combination of special guests including Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, MUNA, HAIM, GAYLE, Gracie Abrams, and OWENN.

The Eras tour follows the cancelation of her planned 2020 Lover Fest tour, which was originally going to see her make stadium stops in Los Angeles, Boston, and New York, along with Brazil, Denmark, Norway, and Poland. “This is an unprecedented pandemic that has changed everyone’s plans and no one knows what the touring landscape is going to look like in the near future,” she wrote in 2021.

Swift last went the road in 2018 for her massive Reputation Stadium Tour , which saw Swift accompanied by the likes of Charli XCX and Camila Cabello across the United States, the United Kingdom, along with Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. The tour was the highest-grossing music tour by a female artist that year.

Since her last tour, Swift has released four albums and two re-releases: Lover , Folklore , Evermore , Midnights , and Taylor’s Version editions of Fearless and Red with additional songs. In total, she’s dropped 90 tracks of new material, not including collaborations with the likes of Haim and Big Red Machine.

Fans have long wondered what music she’ll be performing on the road, with some theorizing that she’d host a residency in Las Vegas or a music festival where she’d perform different “eras” on different nights.

Along with packing her setlist with songs from Reputation in 2018, she surprised each city with an acoustic rendition of fan favorites like “Red,” “Holy Ground,” and “Wildest Dreams.” At select shows, she also brought out special guests. Shawn Mendes, Selena Gomez, Hayley Kiyoko, and Maren Morris were among the artists to be brought out by Swift.

The stadium tour was accompanied by a concert film released on New Year’s Eve that year.

She previously took her 1989 album on the road for 85 dates, where she was accompanied by the likes of Mendes, James Bay, Vance Joy, and Haim. Before then was The Red Tour in 2013 and 2014, and her Speak Now World Tour from 2011 to 2012.

Feb. 16 – Melbourne, AUS @ Melbourne Cricket Ground Feb. 17 – Melbourne, AUS @ Melbourne Cricket Ground Feb. 23 – Sydney, AUS @ Accor Stadium Feb. 24 – Sydney, AUS @ Accor Stadium Feb. 25 – Sydney, AUS @ Accor Stadium March 2 – Kallang, SGP @ Singapore National Stadium March 3 – Kallang, SGP @ Singapore National Stadium

May 9 – Paris, FRA @ Paris La Défense Arena May 10 – Paris, FRA @ Paris La Défense Arena May 12 – Paris, FRA @ Paris La Défense Arena May 17 – Stockholm, SWE @ Friends Arena May 19 – Stockholm, SWE @ Friends Arena May 24 – Lisbon, POR @ Estádio da Luz May 25 – Lisbon, POR @ Estádio da Luz May 30 – Madrid, ESP @ Santiago Bernabéu Stadium June 2 – Lyon, FRA @ Groupama Stadium June 3 – Lyon, FRA @ Groupama Stadium June 7 – Edinburgh, SCO @ BT Murrayfield Stadium June 8 – Edinburgh, SCO @ BT Murrayfield Stadium June 9 – Edinburgh, SCO @ BT Murrayfield Stadium June 13 – Liverpool, ENG @ Anfield June 14 – Liverpool, ENG @ Anfield June 15 – Liverpool, ENG @ Anfield June 18 – Cardiff, WAL @ Principality Stadium June 21 – London, ENG @ Wembley Stadium June 22 – London, ENG @ Wembley Stadium June 23 – London, ENG @ Wembley Stadium June 28 – Dublin, IRL @ Aviva Stadium June 29 – Dublin, IRL @ Aviva Stadium June 30 – Dublin, IRL @ Aviva Stadium July 4 – Amsterdam, NED @ John Cruyff Arena July 5 – Amsterdam, NED @ John Cruyff Arena July 6 – Amsterdam, NED @ John Cruyff Arena July 9 – Zürich, SUI @Letzigrund July 13 – Milan, ITA @ San Siro July 14 – Milan, ITA @ San Siro July 17 – Gelsenkirchen, GER @ Veltins-Arena July 18 – Gelsenkirchen, GER @ Veltins-Arena July 19 – Gelsenkirchen, GER @ Veltins-Arena July 23 – Hamburg, GER @ Volksparkstadion July 27 – Munich, GER @ Olympiastadion Aug. 1 – Warsaw, POL @ PGE Narodowy Aug. 2 – Warsaw, POL @ PGE Narodowy Aug. 8 – Vienna, AUT @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion Aug. 9 – Vienna, AUT @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion Aug. 10 – Vienna, AUT @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion Aug. 15 – London, ENG @ Wembley Stadium Aug. 16 – London, ENG @ Wembley Stadium Aug. 17 – London, ENG @ Wembley Stadium

Taylor Swift The Eras Tour 2022 Latin America Dates (Additional Dates Bolded)

Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Second Round Additional Dates (Latest Addition Bolded) March 17 – Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium March 24 – Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium March 31 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium April 13 – Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium April 21 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium April 23 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium April 30 – Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium May 7 – Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium June 4 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field June 9 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field June 16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Acrisure Stadium June 23 – Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium June 30 – Cincinnati, OH @ Paycor Stadium July 7 – Kansas City, MO @ GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium July 14 – Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High Aug. 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium Aug. 8 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium Aug. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium

Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Additional Dates April 14 – Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium May 5 – Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium  May 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field  May 21 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium  May 28 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium  July 23 – Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field  July 28 – Santa Clara, CA  @ Levi’s Stadium Aug. 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium

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This story was updated on June 27 at 11:50 a.m. to include Swift adding a sixth night at So-Fi Stadium in Los Angeles.

This story was updated July 5 at 12:50 p.m. ET with Swift’s additional U.K./European shows, and news that Paramore would open on the tour.

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The long-awaited Taylor Swift mini-residency at SoFi Stadium began Thursday with thousands of fans descending on Inglewood.

Before the Eras Tour shows even began, a pre-event merchandise sale attracted thousands of fans on Wednesday. Swifties braved an hours-long wait near the stadium for the chance to buy T-shirts, sweatshirts and other tour memorabilia.

Merchandise sales will continue each day at Lake Park, adjacent to SoFi Stadium. There also will be a sale from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, an off day in Swift’s six-night schedule at SoFi.

After Thursday night, additional Swift performances are set for Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

In addition, Swift on Thursday announced an extension of the tour, not in fall of this year, but beginning in October 2024. And San Diego’s out of luck again.

She will return to North America – after L.A., the tour shifts out of the U.S. to Mexico City and continues around the world through August 2024 – with shows in Miami, New Orleans and Indianapolis, Variety reports.

The Miami shows are set for Oct. 18-20, 2024, with New Orleans to follow Oct. 25-27 and Indianapolis, Nov. 1-3. Swift will conclude the tour with six shows in Toronto.

Tickets to the first leg of the tour were highly coveted – for the L.A. shows, they only can be found on the secondary market – and stadium officials reminded the public that people who don’t have them shouldn’t bother coming to SoFi to listen to the music outside.

According to the stadium’s website, nobody will be permitted to remain in the parking lots or outside the stadium once the show has started. Only ticketed guests will be given access to the venue.

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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: All the U.S. and international dates and opening acts

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Taylor Swift opened the Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona — which rebranded itself as "Swift Cit y" for the March 17 and 18 concerts — with a triumphant return to live performance as the first act in the history of that venue to sell out two nights on the same tour.

By that point, she'd already broken the all-time record for most concert tickets sold by an artist in a single day and passed Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour as the highest-grossing tour in history by a female artist.

And Swift rose to the occasion , leading her band through a marathon 44-song set that lasted more than three hours while delivering on her promise of "a journey through all of my musical eras."

So what does she do for an encore? Here's where the Eras Tour is headed next, adding two surprise songs to the set at each show. Here's a look at what she's played so far .

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Taylor Swift Eras Tour dates in the US

Friday-Saturday, March 17-18: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona.

Friday-Saturday, March 24-25: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Friday-Sunday, March 31-April 2: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas.

Thursday-Saturday, April 13-15: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida.

Friday-Sunday, April 21-23 : NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas.

Friday-Sunday, April 28-30: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia.

Friday-Sunday, May 5-7: Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tennessee.

Friday-Sunday, May 12-14: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Friday-Sunday, May 19-21: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Friday-Sunday, May 26-28: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Friday-Sunday, June 2-4: Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois.

Friday-Saturday, June 9-10: Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan.

Friday-Saturday, June 16-17: Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Friday-Saturday, June 23-24: U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Friday-Saturday, June 30-July 1: Paycor Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Friday-Saturday, July 7-8: GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri.

Friday-Saturday, July 14-15: Empower Field at Mile High, Denver.

Saturday-Sunday, July 22-23: Lumen Field, Seattle.

Friday-Saturday, July 28-29 : Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California.

Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 3-5 : Sofi Stadium, Los Angeles.

Tuesday-Wednesday, Aug. 8-9: Sofi Stadium, Los Angeles.

Turns out it’s NOT the end of an era 😝 Miami, New Orleans, Indy and Toronto: The Eras Tour is coming to you in 2024 with @gracieabrams ! Verified fan registration for all shows is open now - visit https://t.co/xw6YMN3GMc for more information pic.twitter.com/DCgFQb2U22 — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 3, 2023

Taylor Swift adds new US dates in 2024 for the Eras Tour

In early August, Swift announced these new U.S. dates for the Eras Tour in 2024:

Friday-Sunday, Oct. 18-20: Hard Rock Stadium, Miami.

Friday-Sunday, Oct. 25-27: Caesars Superdome, New Orleans.

Friday-Sunday, Nov. 1-3: Lucas Oil Arena, Indianapolis.

Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 14-16: Rogers Centre, Toronto.

Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 21-23: Rogers Centre, Toronto.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour opening acts on US dates

Glendale was the only city on the Eras Tour to see Paramore as Taylor Swift's direct support. And that was a glorious stroke of good fortune. We also got Gayle, who crushed it in her own way and is playing several stops along the way. Here's a look at all the Eras Tour openers and where they're playing.

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March 17-18 at State Farm Stadium: Paramore and Gayle.

March 24-25 at Allegiant Stadium: Beabadoobee and Gayle.

March 31 at AT&T Stadium: Muna and Gayle.

April 1-2 at AT&T Stadium: Beabadoobee and Gracie Abrams .

April 13 at Raymond James Stadium: Beabadoobee and Gayle.

April 14-15 at Raymond James Stadium: Beabadoobee and Gracie Abrams.

April 21-23 at NRG Stadium: Beabadoobee and Gracie Abrams.

April 28-29 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium: Beabadoobee and Gracie Abrams.

April 30 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium: Muna and Gayle.

May 5 at Nissan Stadium: Phoebe Bridgers and Gracie Abrams.

May 6 at Nissan Stadium: Phoebe Bridgers and Gayle.

May 7 at Nissan Stadium: Phoebe Bridgers and Gracie Abrams.

May 12-13 at Lincoln Financial Field: Phoebe Bridgers and Gayle.

May 14 at Lincoln Financial Field: Phoebe Bridgers and Gracie Abrams.

May 19-20 at Gillette Stadium : Phoebe Bridgers and Gayle.

May 21 at Gillette Stadium : Phoebe Bridgers and Gracie Abrams.

May 26 at MetLife Stadium: Phoebe Bridgers and Gayle.

May 27-28 at MetLife Stadium: Phoebe Bridgers and Owenn.

June 2-3 at Soldier Field: Girl in Red and Owenn.

June 4 at Soldier Field: Muna and Gracie Abrams.

June 9 at Ford Field: Girl in Red and Gracie Abrams.

June 10 at Ford Field: Girl in Red and Owenn.

June 16 at Acrisure Stadium: Girl in Red and Gracie Abrams.

June 17 at Acrisure Stadium: Girl in Red and Owenn.

June 23 at U.S. Bank Stadium: Girl in Red and Gracie Abrams.

June 24 at U.S. Bank Stadium: Girl in Red and Owenn.

June 30-July 1 at Paycor Stadium: Muna and Gracie Abrams.

July 7-8 at Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium: Muna and Gracie Abrams.

July 14-15 at Empower Field at Mile High: Muna and Gracie Abrams.

July 22-23 at Lumen Field: Haim and Gracie Abrams.

July 28-29 at Levi's Stadium: Haim and Gracie Abrams.

Aug. 3 at Sofi Stadium: Haim and Gracie Abrams.

Aug. 4 at Sofi Stadium: Haim and Owenn.

Aug. 5 at Sofi Stadium: Haim and Gayle.

Aug. 8 at Sofi Stadium: Haim and Gracie Abrams.

Aug. 9 at Sofi Stadium: Haim and Gayle.

Oct. 18-20 at Hard Rock Stadium: Gracie Abrams.

Oct. 25-27 at Caesars Superdome : Gracie Abrams.

Nov. 1-3 at Lucas Oil Arena : Gracie Abrams.

Nov. 14-16 at Rogers Centre: Gracie Abrams.

Nov. 21-23 at Rogers Centre : Gracie Abrams.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour international dates and opening acts

In June 2023, Swift announced international dates for The Era Tour. Here's where she's headed next at the conclusion of the U.S. tour:

Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 24-27, 2023: Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 9-11, 2023: Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 18-19, 2023: Estadio Nilton Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Friday-Sunday, Nov. 24-26, 2023: Allianz Parque, Sao Paulo, Brazil, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 7-10, 2024: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan.

Friday-Saturday, Feb. 16-17, 2024: Melbourne Cricket Grounds, Melbourne, Australia, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Friday-Sunday, Feb. 23-25, 2024: Accor Stadium, Sydney, Australia, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Saturday-Monday, March 2-4, 2024: National Stadium, Singapore, SG, with Sabrina Carpenter.

Thursday-Friday, May 9-10, 2024: Paris La Defense Arena, Paris, France.

Friday, May 17, 2024: Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden.

Friday, May 24, 2024: Estadio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal.

Thursday, May 30, 2024: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain.

Sunday, June 2, 2024: Groupama Stadium, Lyon, France.

Friday-Saturday, June 7-8, 2024 : BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, UK.

Friday-Saturday, June 14-15, 2024 : Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, UK.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 : Principality Stadium, Cardiff, UK.

Friday-Saturday, June 21-22, 2024 : Wembley Stadium, London.

Friday-Saturday, June 28-29, 2024 : Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland.

Friday-Saturday, July 5-6, 2024 : Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 : Stadion Letzigrund Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Saturday, July 13, 2024 : San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy.

Thursday, July 18, 2024 : Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 : Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany.

Saturday, July 27, 202 4: Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany.

Friday, Aug. 2, 2024: PGE Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland.

Friday, Aug. 9, 2024: Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria.

Friday-Saturday, Aug. 16-17, 2024: Wembley Stadium, London.

Taylor Swift song list for Eras Tour

Taylor Swift told us on the opening night of The Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium that she planned to make the two-song acoustic mini-set near the end of her performance different at each concert. Other than that, this setlist from opening night is what you can expect to hear.

“Lover” album:

“Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince.”

“Cruel Summer.”

“You Need To Calm Down.”

“The Archer.”

“Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” album:

“Fearless.”

“You Belong With Me.”

“Love Story.”

“Evermore” album:

“’Tis The Damn Season.”

“Marjorie.”

“Champagne Problems.”

“Tolerate It.”

“Reputation” album:

“… Ready For It?”

“Delicate.”

“Don’t Blame Me.”

“Look What You Made Me Do.”

“Speak Now” album:

“Enchanted.”

“Red (Taylor’s Version)” album:

“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”

“I Knew You Were Trouble.”

“All Too Well (10 Minute Version).”

“Folklore” album:

“Invisible String.”

“The Last Great American Dynasty.”

“Illicit Affairs.”

“My Tears Ricochet.”

“Cardigan.”

“1989” album:

“Blank Space.”

“Shake It Off.”

“Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version).”

“Bad Blood.”

Wild card — a different acoustic song each show

“Mirrorball.”

“Taylor Swift” album:

“Tim McGraw.”

“Midnights” album:

“Lavender Haze.”

“Anti-Hero.”

“Midnight Rain.”

“Vigilante (expletive).”

“Bejeweled.”

"Mastermind."

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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is the first tour to cross the billion-dollar mark, according to Pollstar’s 2023 year-end charts.

Not only was Swift’s landmark Eras Tour the No. 1 tour both worldwide and in North America, but she also brought in a whopping $1.04 billion with 4.35 million tickets sold across 60 tour dates, the concert trade publication found.

Pollstar data is pulled from box office reports, venue capacity estimates, historical Pollstar venue ticket sales data, and other undefined research, collected from Nov. 17, 2022 to Nov. 15, 2023.

Representatives for the publication did not immediately clarify if they adjusted past tour data to match 2023 inflation in naming Swift the first to break the billion-dollar threshold.

Pollstar also found that Swift brought in approximately $200 million in merch sales and her blockbuster film adaptation of the tour, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” has reportedly earned approximately $250 million in sales, making it the highest-grossing concert film of all time.

According to their estimates, Pollstar predicts a big 2024 for Swift as well. The magazine projects the Eras Tour will once again reach $1 billion within their eligibility window, meaning Swift is likely to bring in over $2 billion over the span of the tour.

Worldwide, Swift’s tour was followed by Beyoncé in second, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in third, Coldplay in fourth, Harry Styles in fifth, and Morgan Wallen, Ed Sheeran, Pink, The Weeknd and Drake.

In North America, there was a similar top 10: Swift, followed by Beyoncé, Morgan Wallen, Drake, P!nk, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Ed Sheeran, George Strait, Karol G, and RBD.

Beyond the Swift of it all, 2023 was a landmark year for concert sales: worldwide, the top 100 tours of the year saw a 46% jump from last year, bringing in $9.17 billion compared to 2022’s $6.28 billion.

In North America, that number jumped from $4.77 billion last year to $6.63 billion.

Earlier this week, Swift was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year . Last month, Apple Music named her its artist of the year ; Spotify revealed she was 2023’s most-streamed artist globally , raking in more than 26.1 billion streams since Jan. 1 and beating Bad Bunny’s three-year record.

Consider 2023 a year of incredible pop music dominance — (Taylor’s Version.)

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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: All the Surprise Guests So Far

Fans at these shows had some good karma

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Taylor Swift 's Eras tour is straight out of our wildest dreams.

On her 60-stop tour , the 12-time Grammy Award winner has not disappointed — from the 10-studio-album setlist, to the outfits, to the surprise guests. So far, Swift has brought out six artists to perform on the stage with her, and fans have been enchanted by each and every one.

Already looking ahead, fans have been taking their guesses at who else might show up onstage — Swift has songs that include Keith Urban (who already saw a show but did not perform), Lana Del Rey , Bon Iver, The Chicks , Kendrick Lamar , Zayn Malik and Ed Sheeran , just to name a few. When Haim opens the tour later this summer, many are hoping they will join Swift to sing "No Body No Crime," which they collaborated on for Evermore.

Here is all you need to know about the Eras Tour surprise guests so far.

Marcus Mumford

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Just a week after kicking off her tour, Marcus Mumford — the Mumford & Sons frontman — joined Swift to sing "Cowboy Like Me" at her March 25 Las Vegas show. On the song in the Evermore album, Mumford sings only harmonies, but attendees of the concert got to hear him sing a verse. Swift recorded several songs from Evermore in Mumford's home recording studio during the height of the pandemic, and he joined in on the track after stopping in to listen one day.

In a TikTok post after the show, Mumford shared the duo’s performance, captioning it, "you're a bandit like me @taylorswift."

Aaron Dessner

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Three Eras Tour stops have included Aaron Dessner . The first was the April 14 show in Tampa, where Dessner and Swift sang "The Great War" — also one of the two surprise songs of the night. He came back for a second night in a row to perform “Mad Woman” from Folklore. A month later, Dessner joined Swift again at one of her Nashville shows on May 7, where they sang  "Would've, Could've, Should've" in the pouring rain.

Phoebe Bridgers

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Indie singer Phoebe Bridgers opened for some shows in the Eras tour — and on her first night as an opener, Bridgers returned to the stage to sing “Nothing New” with Swift, from Red (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault) . For the rest of the May shows, the song held a permanent spot on the setlist, so Bridgers joined Swift for shows in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

Jack Antonoff

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Any Swiftie knows that Jack Antonoff plays a major role in the making of many of Swift's songs. During her first New Jersey show on May 26, Fans were elated when she brought Antonoff out to sing Reputation hit "Getaway Car" and play their guitars, as the making of the song was documented in Swift's 2020 Miss Americana documentary.

On May 27, the day Swift announced the release of a remix version of "Karma" featuring Ice Spice , the rapper made an appearance at the end of the New Jersey show to perform the song alongside Swift. Ice Spice ended up sticking around, joining Swift for all three of her New Jersey concerts. 

Maren Morris

Chicago fans were in for a treat when Swift brought one of her "favorite artists," as she said that night, Maren Morris , onstage on June 3. For the first time, the duo performed their song, "You All Over Me," from Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault) as they strummed their guitars. 

Morris took to TikTok after the show to share the performance, writing "Thank you so much for having me @Taylor Swift . Your generosity to me in these last 7 years is insurmountable and I love you so."

She added on Instagram , "We finally got to play 'You All Over Me' and I won't ever be shutting up about it."

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Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ a Forever Problem?

The environmental protection agency says “forever chemicals” must be removed from tap water. but they lurk in much more of what we eat, drink and use..

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise. And this is “The Daily.”

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This month for the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency began to regulate a class of synthetic chemicals, known as forever chemicals, in America’s drinking water. But the chemicals, which have been linked to liver disease and other serious health problems, are in far more than just our water supply. Today, my colleague Kim Tingley explains.

It’s Wednesday, April 17.

So Kim, any time the EPA announces a regulation, I think we all sort of take notice because implicit in it is this idea that we have been exposed to something — something bad, potentially, lead or asbestos. And recently, the EPA is regulating a type of chemical known as PFAS So for those who don’t know, what are PFAS chemicals

Yeah, so PFAS stands for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They’re often called forever chemicals just because they persist so long in the environment and they don’t easily break down. And for that reason, we also use them in a ton of consumer products. They’re in makeup. They’re in carpet. They’re in nonstick cookware. They’re in food packaging, all sorts of things.

Yeah, I feel like I’ve been hearing about these chemicals actually for a very long time. I mean, nonstick pans, Teflon — that’s the thing that’s in my mind when I think PFAS.

Absolutely. Yeah, this class of chemicals has been around for decades. And what’s really important about this is that the EPA has decided, for the first time, to regulate them in drinking water. And that’s a ruling that stands to affect tens of millions of people.

So, help me understand where these things came from and how it’s taken so long to get to the point where we’re actually regulating them.

So, they really actually came about a long time ago. In 1938, DuPont, the people who eventually got us to Teflon, they were actually looking for a more stable kind of refrigerant. And they came upon this kind of chemical, PFAS. The thing that all PFAS chemicals have is a really strong bond between carbon atoms and fluorine atoms. This particular pairing is super strong and super durable.

They have water repellent properties. They’re stain resistant. They’re grease resistant. And they found a lot of uses for them initially in World War II. They were using them as part of their uranium enrichment process to do all these kinds of things. And then —

Well, good thing it’s Teflon.

In the 1950s is when they really started to come out as commercial products.

Even burned food won’t stick to Teflon. So it’s always easy to clean.

So, DuPont started using it in Teflon pans.

Cookware never needs scouring if it has DuPont Teflon.

And then another company, 3M also started using a kind of PFAS —

Scotchgard fabric protector. It keeps ordinary spills from becoming extraordinary stains.

— in one of their big products, Scotchgard. So you probably remember spraying that on your shoes if you want to make your shoes waterproof.

Use Scotchgard fabric protector and let your cup runneth over.

Right — miracle product, Scotchgard, Teflon. But of course, we’re talking about these chemicals because they’ve been found to pose health threats. When does that risk start to surface?

Yeah, so it’s pretty early on that DuPont and 3M start finding effects in animals in studies that they’re running in house.

Around the mid ‘60s, they start seeing that PFAS has an effect on rats. It’s increasing the liver and kidney weights of the rats. And so that seems problematic. And they keep running tests over the next decade and a half. And they try different things with different animals.

In one study, they gave monkeys really, really high levels of PFAS. And those monkeys died. And so they have a pretty strong sense that these chemicals could be dangerous. And then in 1979, they start to see that the workers that are in the plants manufacturing, working with these chemicals, that they’re starting to have higher rates of abnormal liver function. And in a Teflon plant, they had some pregnant workers that were working with these chemicals. And one of those workers in 1981 gave birth to a child who had some pretty severe birth defects.

And then by the mid 1980s, DuPont figures out that it’s not just their workers who are being exposed to these chemicals, but communities that are living in areas surrounding their Teflon plant, particularly the one in Parkersburg, West Virginia, that those communities have PFAS in their tap water.

Wow, so based on its own studies, DuPont knows its chemicals are making animals sick. They seem to be making workers sick. And now they found out that the chemicals have made their way into the water supply. What do they do with that information?

As far as we know, they didn’t do much. They certainly didn’t tell the residents of Parkersburg who were drinking that water that there was anything that they needed to be worried about.

How is that possible? I mean, setting aside the fact that DuPont is the one actually studying the health effects of its own chemicals, presumably to make sure they’re safe, we’ve seen these big, regulating agencies like the EPA and the FDA that exist in order to watch out for something exactly like this, a company that is producing something that may be harming Americans. Why weren’t they keeping a closer watch?

Yeah, so it goes kind of back to the way that we regulate chemicals in the US. It goes through an act called the Toxic Substances Control Act that’s administered by the EPA. And basically, it gives companies a lot of room to regulate themselves, in a sense. Under this act they have a responsibility to report to the EPA if they find these kinds of potential issues with a chemical. They have a responsibility to do their due diligence when they’re putting a chemical out into the environment.

But there’s really not a ton of oversight. The enforcement mechanism is that the EPA can find them. But this kind of thing can happen pretty easily where DuPont keeps going with something that they think might really be a problem and then the fine, by the time it plays out, is just a tiny fraction of what DuPont has earned from producing these chemicals. And so really, the incentive is for them to take the punishment at the end, rather than pull it out early.

So it seems like it’s just self-reporting, which is basically self-regulation in a way.

Yeah, I think that is the way a lot of advocacy groups and experts have characterized it to me, is that chemical companies are essentially regulating themselves.

So how did this danger eventually come to light? I mean, if this is in some kind of DuPont vault, what happened?

Well, there’s a couple different things that started to happen in the late ‘90s.

The community around Parkersburg, West Virginia, people had reported seeing really strange symptoms in their animals. Cows were losing their hair. They had lesions. They were behaving strangely. Some of their calves were dying. And a lot of people in the community felt like they were having health problems that just didn’t really have a good answer, mysterious sicknesses, and some cases of cancers.

And so they initiate a class action lawsuit against DuPont. As part of that class action lawsuit, DuPont, at a certain point, is forced to turn over all of their internal documentation. And so what was in the files was all of that research that we mentioned all of the studies about — animals, and workers, the birth defects. It was really the first time that the public saw what DuPont and 3M had already seen, which is the potential health harms of these chemicals.

So that seems pretty damning. I mean, what happened to the company?

So, DuPont and 3M are still able to say these were just a few workers. And they were working with high levels of the chemicals, more than a person would get drinking it in the water. And so there’s still an opportunity for this to be kind of correlation, but not causation. There’s not really a way to use that data to prove for sure that it was PFAS that caused these health problems.

In other words, the company is arguing, look, yes, these two things exist at the same time. But it doesn’t mean that one caused the other.

Exactly. And so one of the things that this class action lawsuit demands in the settlement that they eventually reach with DuPont is they want DuPont to fund a formal independent health study of the communities that are affected by this PFAS in their drinking water. And so they want DuPont to pay to figure out for sure, using the best available science, how many of these health problems are potentially related to their chemicals.

And so they ask them to pay for it. And they get together an independent group of researchers to undertake this study. And it ends up being the first — and it still might be the biggest — epidemiological study of PFAS in a community. They’ve got about 69,000 participants in this study.

Wow, that’s big.

It’s big, yeah. And what they ended up deciding was that they could confidently say that there was what they ended up calling a probable link. And so they were really confident that the chemical exposure that the study participants had experienced was linked to high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and pregnancy induced hypertension.

And so those were the conditions that they were able to say, with a good degree of certainty, were related to their chemical exposure. There were others that they just didn’t have the evidence to reach a strong conclusion.

So overall, pretty substantial health effects, and kind of vindicates the communities in West Virginia that were claiming that these chemicals were really affecting their health.

Absolutely. And as the years have gone on, that was sort of just the beginning of researchers starting to understand all the different kinds of health problems that these chemicals could potentially be causing. And so since the big DuPont class action study, there’s really just been like this building and building and building of different researchers coming out with these different pieces of evidence that have accumulated to a pretty alarming picture of what some of the potential health outcomes could be.

OK, so that really kind of brings us to the present moment, when, at last, it seems the EPA is saying enough is enough. We need to regulate these things.

Yeah, it seems like the EPA has been watching this preponderance of evidence accumulate. And they’re sort of deciding that it’s a real health problem, potentially, that they need to regulate.

So the EPA has identified six of these PFAS chemicals that it’s going to regulate. But the concern that I think a lot of experts have is that this particular regulation is not going to keep PFAS out of our bodies.

We’ll be right back.

So, Kim, you just said that these regulations probably won’t keep PFAS chemicals out of our bodies. What did you mean?

Well, the EPA is talking about regulating these six kinds of PFAS. But there are actually more than 10,000 different kinds of PFAS that are already being produced and out there in the environment.

And why those six, exactly? I mean, is it because those are the ones responsible for most of the harm?

Those are the ones that the EPA has seen enough evidence about that they are confident that they are probably causing harm. But it doesn’t mean that the other ones are not also doing something similar. It’s just sort of impossible for researchers to be able to test each individual chemical compound and try to link it to a health outcome.

I talked to a lot of researchers who were involved in this area and they said that they haven’t really seen a PFAS that doesn’t have a harm, but they just don’t have information on the vast majority of these compounds.

So in other words, we just haven’t studied the rest of them enough yet to even know how harmful they actually are, which is kind of alarming.

Yeah, that’s right. And there’s just new ones coming out all the time.

Right. OK, so of the six that the EPA is actually intending to regulate, though, are those new regulations strict enough to keep these chemicals out of our bodies?

So the regulations for those six chemicals really only cover getting them out of the drinking water. And drinking water only really accounts for about 20 percent of a person’s overall PFAS exposure.

So only a fifth of the total exposure.

Yeah. There are lots of other ways that you can come into contact with PFAS. We eat PFAS, we inhale PFAS. We rub it on our skin. It’s in so many different products. And sometimes those products are not ones that you would necessarily think of. They’re in carpets. They’re in furniture. They’re in dental floss, raincoats, vinyl flooring, artificial turf. All kinds of products that you want to be either waterproof or stain resistant or both have these chemicals in them.

So, the cities and towns are going to have to figure out how to test for and monitor for these six kinds of PFAS. And then they’re also going to have to figure out how to filter them out of the water supply. I think a lot of people are concerned that this is going to be just a really expensive endeavor, and it’s also not really going to take care of the entire problem.

Right. And if you step back and really look at the bigger problem, the companies are still making these things, right? I mean, we’re running around trying to regulate this stuff at the end stage. But these things are still being dumped into the environment.

Yeah. I think it’s a huge criticism of our regulatory policy. There’s a lot of onus put on the EPA to prove that a harm has happened once the chemicals are already out there and then to regulate the chemicals. And I think that there’s a criticism that we should do things the other way around, so tougher regulations on the front end before it goes out into the environment.

And that’s what the European Union has been doing. The European Chemicals Agency puts more of the burden on companies to prove that their products and their chemicals are safe. And the European Chemicals Agency is also, right now, considering just a ban on all PFAS products.

So is that a kind of model, perhaps, of what a tough regulation could look like in the US?

There’s two sides to that question. And the first side is that a lot of people feel like it would be better if these chemical companies had to meet a higher standard of proof in terms of demonstrating that their products or their chemicals are going to be safe once they’ve been put out in the environment.

The other side is that doing that kind of upfront research can be really expensive and could potentially limit companies who are trying to innovate in that space. In terms of PFAS, specifically, this is a really important chemical for us. And a lot of the things that we use it in, there’s not necessarily a great placement at the ready that we can just swap in. And so it’s used in all sorts of really important medical devices or renewable energy industries or firefighting foam.

And in some cases, there are alternatives that might be safer that companies can use. But in other cases, they just don’t have that yet. And so PFAS is still really important to our daily lives.

Right. And that kind of leaves us in a pickle because we know these things might be harming us. Yet, we’re kind of stuck with them, at least for now. So, let me just ask you this question, Kim, which I’ve been wanting to ask you since the beginning of this episode, which is, if you’re a person who is concerned about your exposure to PFAS, what do you do?

Yeah. So this is really tricky and I asked everybody this question who I talked to. And everybody has a little bit of a different answer based on their circumstance. For me what I ended up doing was getting rid of the things that I could sort of spot and get rid of. And so I got rid of some carpeting and I checked, when I was buying my son a raincoat, that it was made by a company that didn’t use PFAS.

It’s also expensive. And so if you can afford to get a raincoat from a place that doesn’t manufacture PFAS, it’s going to cost more than if you buy the budget raincoat. And so it’s kind of unfair to put the onus on consumers in that way. And it’s also just not necessarily clear where exactly your exposure is coming from.

So I talk to people who said, well, it’s in dust, so I vacuum a lot. Or it’s in my cleaning products, so I use natural cleaning products. And so I think it’s really sort of a scattershot approach that consumers can take. But I don’t think that there is a magic approach that gets you a PFAS-free life.

So Kim, this is pretty dark, I have to say. And I think what’s frustrating is that it feels like we have these government agencies that are supposed to be protecting our health. But when you drill down here, the guidance is really more like you’re on your own. I mean, it’s hard not to just throw up your hands and say, I give up.

Yeah. I think it’s really tricky to try to know what you do with all of this information as an individual. As much as you can, you can try to limit your individual exposure. But it seems to me as though it’s at a regulatory level that meaningful change would happen, and not so much throwing out your pots and pans and getting new ones.

One thing about PFAS is just that we’re in this stage still of trying to understand exactly what it’s doing inside of us. And so there’s a certain amount of research that has to happen in order to both convince people that there’s a real problem that needs to be solved, and clean up what we’ve put out there. And so I think that we’re sort of in the middle of that arc. And I think that that’s the point at which people start looking for solutions.

Kim, thank you.

Here’s what else you should know today. On Tuesday, in day two of jury selection for the historic hush money case against Donald Trump, lawyers succeeded in selecting 7 jurors out of the 12 that are required for the criminal trial after failing to pick a single juror on Monday.

Lawyers for Trump repeatedly sought to remove potential jurors whom they argued were biased against the president. Among the reasons they cited were social media posts expressing negative views of the former President and, in one case, a video posted by a potential juror of New Yorkers celebrating Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Once a full jury is seated, which could come as early as Friday, the criminal trial is expected to last about six weeks.

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Taylor Swift's ‘Eras Tour' concert film will be available to stream. Here's when and where

The film hit theaters on oct. 12, and the singer revealed it will be available to stream on her birthday, by anna kaplan | today • published november 27, 2023 • updated on november 27, 2023 at 9:52 am.

Could  demand for Taylor Swift  get any higher? Fans are seeking out the Grammy award-winning singer beyond her  record-breaking "Eras Tour,"  including at  football games ,  w e dding re hearsal dinners  and now,  movie theaters . Soon, Swifties will be able to watch their favorite singer from the comfort of their own homes.

On Nov. 27, Swift announced an extended version of her successful "Eras Tour" film will be available to rent exclusively on digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada. Fans can rent the movie, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, on platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Vudu, Xfinity, YouTube TV and Google TV, according to a press release.

(Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is part of TODAY's parent company, NBCUniversal.)

The movie will be released on digital Dec. 13, which as Swifties know, of course, is the singer's birthday. And as a gift to Swifties, the film will feature three bonus songs: “Long Live,” “The Archer” and “Wildest Dreams.”

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Eagle-eyed viewers of the movie noticed a few of their favorite songs  did not make the cut  in theaters, including the aforementioned three songs and “No Body, No Crime” and “Cardigan.” A TODAY staffer who attended the premiere noted "Long Live" was featured during the credits.

If you're wondering how much it will cost to rent the "Eras Tour" movie, it will come as no surprise that the price is $19.89, "honoring the legendary artist’s birth year and the title of her Grammy Award-winning album '1989,'" according to the press release.

Swift  rereleased "1989"  on Oct. 27 and  beat her own Spotify record  for most single-day streams for an artist.

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Streaming for the film in additional countries will soon be announced.

The singer also shared the exciting news on  Instagram .

"Hi! Well, so, basically I have a birthday coming up and I was thinking a fun way to celebrate the year we’ve had together would be to make The Eras Tour Concert Film available for you to watch at home!" she wrote.

After announcing over the summer that she would be bringing her “Eras Tour” performance to the big screen, Swift  added additional showings  in the U.S. and Canada for Oct. 12, one day ahead of the film’s premiere, due to “unprecedented demand.”

“I can’t really wrap my head around this but…. Look what you genuinely made me do: Due to unprecedented demand we’re opening up early access showings of The Eras Tour Concert Film on THURSDAY in America and Canada!! As in… TOMORROW. We’re also adding additional showtimes Friday and throughout the weekend,” she said in an Instagram post.

“I can’t thank you enough for wanting to see this film that so vividly captures my favorite adventure I’ve ever been a part of: The Eras Tour. And the best part is, it’s an adventure we’re still on together,” she continued.

Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert film hit the big screen  in more than 100 countries on Oct. 13, and fans who couldn’t snag a ticket to the tour now have a chance to watch the singer’s career-spanning performance in movie theaters across the globe.

Swift announced the "Eras Tour" concert film in August, and less than a month later, AMC said it took less than 24 hours for her film to shatter the company's U.S. record for highest ticket-sales revenue in a single day.

“With such overwhelming demand being evident, it became obvious that there should be an immediate worldwide release of the film,” AMC said in a Sept. 26 press release.

Will fans be able to stream 'Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour'?

Yes, Swifties will be able to rent the film from home starting on the singer's birthday, Dec. 13.

Fans will be able to find the "Eras Tour" movie on digital platforms with rentals available like Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Vudu, Xfinity, YouTube TV and Google TV, according to a press release.

The movie will cost $19.89 to rent (suggested prices may vary by retailer), a nod to Swift's wildly successful  album "1989."

For those interested in seeing the film in theaters, the “Eras Tour” concert film will be showing in more than 4,000 theaters across North America.

It's also set to play in every Odeon Cinemas location in Europe, as well as other theaters across 100 countries worldwide, according to AMC.

Adult tickets will also be priced at $19.89 in the U.S., in a cheeky reference to the  artist's latest rerecorded album , which dropped Oct. 27, while child and senior tickets are $13.13, referencing Swift’s famous lucky number of 13.

The concert film won't be the last chance for Swifties to see the "Eras Tour" in real life either: Swift began the  international leg of the tour  in November, with live performances in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe through August 2024.

The singer also  added additional U.S. and Canadian dates  in late 2024.

This story first appeared on  TODAY.com . More from TODAY :

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