Taylor Swift Reveals The 4 Disney+ ‘Eras Tour’ Bonus Songs
The four bonus acoustic songs in the new Disney+ version of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film have been revealed following the Thursday night (March 14) premiere. Over the course of this week, Good Morning America announced the songs as Swifties counted down to streaming debut.
Last month, it was announced that Disney+ would exclusively stream the box-office hit. As we reported, the singer-songwriter broke a record with the concert film. It is now the highest-grossing concert/documentary film of all time. The three-hour documentary made nearly $300 million at the worldwide box office, beating out the previous record holder, Michael Jackson’s This Is It. The posthumous 2009 doc grossed $261.2 million at the global box office. The film was released digitally via Universal Pictures on Swift’s birthday, December 13.
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Swift’s concert film garnered most of its record gross during its October opening weekend in North America. Her opening weekend total gave the Eras doc the biggest opening of all-time for a concert movie, also beating out the previous record-holder, 2011’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Ahead of the film’s release, Swift said on social media that her tour has been “the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far.”
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Since the “Eras Tour” film was shot during Swift’s three-night residency at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium, it had already been predicted that the other bonus tunes included would be the three remaining acoustic “surprise songs” she performed: “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “You Are in Love,” “Maroon” and “I Can See You.”
Continuing her Eras Tour this year, Swift is currently on hiatus until May when she resumes her tour with shows in Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Poland. Her international tour is swapping out Sabrina Carpenter, who joined her until March, with Paramore as her opener for the remaining dates.
Then, Swift returns to North America in the fall, from October to November, with 15 stops. Gracie Abrams will join her onstage once again for the extended dates. During Swift’s two-month rest period, her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, will be released on April 19th. There are four limited-edition versions of the upcoming eleventh studio album: “The Black Dog,” “The Albatross,” “The Bolter,” and “The Manuscript.” All of the physical CD, vinyl, and cassette editions of the album each have one of these four songs as an extra track, with only the digital release being sans a bonus song.
All of Taylor Swift’s Surprise Songs on the Eras Tour
Ever since Taylor Swift kicked off her Eras Tour back in March, she announced to her fans that she would perform two surprise acoustic songs at every show. With the first show taking place in Glendale, Arizona, Swift made good on that promise and performed “Mirrorball” from folklore and “Tim McGraw” from her 2006 self-titled debut album. Since then, the award-winning singer-songwriter has kept up with her promise.
With ten studio albums, three re-recorded studio albums (so far), five extended plays, and four live albums under her belt, Swift said that she has enough songs to cover the 52-date trek without repeating any songs. However, if she ever feels like she didn’t give a performance her all, there’s a chance she might perform it again. She also said there would be an exception of songs from Midnights, which might get played more than once on the tour. Swift has already hinted that this is what happened with her April 1 performance of “Clean,” which was requested by her opener Gracie Abrams in Arlington, Texas. On a TikTok stream of the show, Swift commented that she could have played the song “better in a higher key, so that’s technically a mess up.” She played the song again a month later in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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As we previously reported, Swift kicked off her Eras Tour on March 17 with the release of a re-recording of songs “Eyes Open,” “Safe & Sound” and “If This Was a Movie.” She also released her previously-leaked song “All the Girls You Loved Before.” Fitting with the theme of her Eras Tour, which
Gossip website TMZ recently reported that camera crews have been at almost every concert stop thus far. Sources were not able to reveal any plans to release the footage on streaming or in theaters, like her five previous concert docs. Take a look below at every surprise song Swift has performed so far on her Eras Tour:
March 17 - Tim McGraw
This was also performed during her opening night in Glendale. Swift threw it way back with this song dating back to her 2006 self-titled debut. Tim McGraw was a huge country star at this time. This was written by Swift when she was in her freshman year of high school; the lyrics narrate a summer romance that’s come to a sudden end.
March 24 & August 4 - Our Song
Taylor threw it back once again to her self-titled debut album when she performed this one on March 24 in Las Vegas. She played it again on August 4 in Los Angeles. She wrote “Our Song” for a high school talent show during ninth grade. She included the song because it was popular among her classmates!
March 25 - Cowboy Like Me
From 2020’s evermore, Swift’s “indie” album, this song is reminiscent of her country beginnings. The male backing vocals you hear in the track is Marcus Mumford, frontman of the band Mumford & Sons. He joined her on stage during the Vegas performance on March 25.
April 1 & August 5 - Death By A Thousand Cuts
April 1 & May 28 - Clean
The second song for her April 1 performance was “Clean,” from her 2014 album, 1989. She performed it again in New Jersey in May. Widely thought to be written about ex- Harry Styles, told Elle in 2015, “‘Clean’ I wrote as I was walking out of Liberty in London. Someone I used to date — it hit me that I’d been in the same city as him for two weeks and I hadn’t thought about it. When it did hit me, it was like, ‘Oh, I hope he’s doing well.’ And nothing else.”
April 2 - Jump Then Fall
Swift’s final day in Arlington included this acoustic performance of her re-recorded song from her 2008 Fearless album. Swift previously told MTV News the song is “really bouncy and happy and lovey. It’s got this really cool banjo part that’s, like, bouncy and… I don’t know, it just has a really good feel-good vibe to me.” The re-recording holds on to that feeling.
April 2 - The Lucky One
Fans in Arlington were the lucky ones hearing this song. It’s rumored to be about Joni Mitchell and Kim Wilde. There are references of how the English pop singer left her career to become a landscape gardener. Also, the main melody samples Wilde’s “Four Letter Word.”
April 14 - The Great War
April 14 & August 5- You’re on Your Own, Kid
April 15 - Mad Woman
From 2020’s folklore, Swift enlisted Aaron Dessner again to join her on stage. The song was written by Swift and Dessner, who produced the track. “Mad Woman” is a ballad that confronts gaslighting in Swift’s personal life, particularly her battles with Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta over owning her music.
April 22 - A Place in This World
With another song off from her debut album, Swift performed this song the next day in Texas. She was just 13 years old when she wrote this deep-cut. In her
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— Taylor Swift Updates 🩶 (@swifferupdates) April 23, 2023" rel="noopener" target="_blank">intro for the song, she revealed that even though she wrote “A Place in This World” when she was in middle school, the song actually resonates with her even more now, as a 33-year-old woman.April 23 - Cold as You
Two country songs closed out her Texas shows. Swift finished her surprise song pairing with this song from her debut album. She told Rolling Stone in 2012 that this is her favorite song on the album.
April 28 - Coney Island ft. The National
April 30 - I Bet You Think About Me
April 30 - How You Get the Girl
Switching up the pace, Swift performed this 1989 bubblegum pop track as the final song of her final day in the city. The song is rumored to be about the on and off relationship between her friend Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. The 2014 song was originally teased in her Diet Coke ad with her cat Olivia.
May 5 - Sparks Fly
On May 5 in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift performed this 2010 Speak Now country track. Though it’s part of her Speak Now album, Swift had written the song before she released her self-titled debut album in 2006. She only included it on her third album after she received fan requests to release the song after playing with her crush Jake Owen in a bar in Portland, Oregon.
May 5 - Teardrops on My Guitar
It should come as no surprise that Swift would perform this song that landed her on the mainstream charts in 2007. Swift was inspired to write “Teardrops on My Guitar” about her unrequited love for a boy named Drew Hardwick, a classmate of hers at at Hendersonville High School in Tennessee. At least he has some bragging rights!
May 6 - Out of the Woods
This synth-pop 1989 track kicked off day two’s surprise set. The song was written and produced with frequent collaborator, Jack Antonoff from fun. and Bleachers. She has said that this is her favorite song from the album saying, “It was interesting to write about a relationship where you’re just honestly like, ‘This is probably not gonna last, but how long is it gonna last?'”
May 12 - Gold Rush
On May 12, Swift began her Philadelphia, Pennsylvania surprise set with her live debut of this 2020 evermore track. During her set, Swift clarified a specific lyric: “With my Eagles T-shirt hanging from the door.” She told the Philly crowd that though she loves the band, she was talking about the football team. “I’m from Philly. Of course it’s the team.”
May 12 - Come Back…Be Here
Next up was a Red throwback, which, though Swift has not confirmed it, is speculated to be about ex- Harry Styles. At a release party for the 2012 album, Swift said, “It’s a song I wrote about this guy that I met. You know, you meet someone and then they just kinda happen to go away and it’s, like, long distance all of a sudden. And you’re, like, ‘B-b-but, but, come back, be here!’ So it’s a song that I wrote about having distance separate you, which is something I face constantly.”
May 13 - This Love
May 14 - Hey Stephen
The final day in Philly featured another Fearless track. Written about Stephen Barker Liles from the country music duo Love And Theft, who were an opening act on her Fearless Tour in 2008. He returned the favor in a song he wrote for her called “Try To Make It Anyway!”
May 28 - Welcome to New York
On her final day in New Jersey, Swift performed this song, fittingly for the venue which is in close proximity to the Big Apple. How close? Well, she performed at MetLife Stadium, the home of the New York Jets and the New York Giants. The 1989 track is inspired by Swift’s newfound freedom when she moved to NYC.
June 2 - I Wish You Would
Swift continued on her 1989 secret songs with this track on June 2 in Chicago, Illinois. The song was written a few months after she and Harry Styles broke up and is about they decided to become friends again. She said this was the first time she had become friends with an ex- to the point where they were comfortable enough to talk about why the relationship didn’t work out.
June 3 - You All Over Me
Maren Morris joined Swift on day two for the first duet live performance of this Fearless track. As Morris joined her on stage with another acoustic guitar, Swift called her “one of my favorite artists.” Like Swift, Morris is a country singer who also worked in pop music.
June 23 - Paper Rings
July 1 - Ivy
Cincinnati native and co-writer Aaron Dessner joined Swift on stage for this evermore track the following day. The song is about a married woman falling in love with a person who isn’t her husband.
July 1 - I Miss You, I’m Sorry
Swift covered opener Gracie Abrams’ song with the artist as her second surprise song. Swift was on guitar while Abrams played the piano. Swift has always elevated lesser known artists.
July 7 - Never Grow Up
July 8 - Last Kiss
July 22 - This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
July 28 - Castles Crumbling ft. Hayley Williams
This “from the vault” song was up next from her Speak Now album. When Swift announced the song, she said Hayley Williams’ band, Paramore, was a huge influence to her around the time that she wrote the album. She also revealed Paramore would be joining her as an opening act for her Eras Tour dates in 2024.
July 29 - All of the Girls You Loved Before
Swift then switched it up to this The More Lover Chapter track, which is one of three other songs that did not make it to the final tracklist when Lover was initially released in 2019. When kicking off the Eras Tour, Swift revealed the song would officially be released with three other tracks: “Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version),” “Safe and Sound (Taylor’s Version),” featuring Joy Williams and John Paul White, and “If This Was a Movie (Taylor’s Version).”
August 5 - You Are in Love
After three back-to-back repeats, Swift then shifted gears to this 1989 track. It was written with Jack Antonoff about his relationship with his then-girlfriend, actress Lena Dunham. “You guys are like the benchmark of actual, real true love,” Swift said about the couple. Sadly, they broke up in 2018.
August 7 - Exile
After taking a one-day break from her 5-day Los Angeles concert shows, Swift performed this folklore track next. The only other time Swift has performed the song live is during a Bon Iver concert in London last year. Fans expected Bon Iver (aka singer/songwriter and sometime Kayne collaborator Justin Vernon) to perform with her at her show, but it didn’t happen.
August 8 - I Know Places
Next up was this 1989 track, which seems to be about not being able to avoid the tabloid coverage when she and Harry Styles started dating. It uses the metaphor of a fox hunt, where the only chance of escaping lies in their cunning and ability to hide. And of course, Taylor and Harry still are always being hunted by paparazzi today.
August 9 - New Year’s Day
Swift’s final Eras Tour song was this closing song off the reputation album that fittingly uses a New Year’s party as a metaphor to discuss holding on to people and memories from both good and bad times. The song has also long been rumored to be about Swift’s now-ex, Joe Alwyn. Swift doesn’t come back to the Us until October 2024 with added dates.