Taylor Swift has removed six songs from her Eras Tour concert setlist, five of which were featured in The Eras Tour movie on Disney+. After a two-month hiatus, Taylor Swift resumed The Eras Tour in Paris, France, on May 9, 2024. During her hiatus, Swift released an extended cut of The Eras Tour concert movie on Disney+ which features almost the whole concert and a bonus section with the four remaining surprise songs from the filmed shows’ acoustic sets. Swift also dropped her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19, which turned out to be a double album.

Now that she’s back on the road and has entered a new era, Swift added seven songs from The Tortured Poets Department to the Eras Tour setlist. to her show. To accommodate this, Swift had to make some changes to the existing Eras Tour setlist. Along with rearranging the order of the existing eras and combining the Folklore and Evermore sets, Swift removed six songs from four different eras on the setlist to make room in the three-and-a-half hour concert for the new The Tortured Poets Department songs.

Because they were part of the permanent setlist, all but one of these now-cut songs were featured in Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), the extended cut of the concert movie on Disney+. A couple of them were initially excluded from the concert movie’s theatrical release to shorten the runtime, but when The Eras Tour movie was released on Disney+, almost all of the previously cut setlist songs were included in the streaming version.

The only song from the permanent Eras Tour setlist that was absent in all three versions of The Eras Tour movie is “’tis the damn season” from Evermore, which Swift has now removed from the setlist. “‘Tis the damn season” is missing from The Eras Tour movie because Swift swapped it for “no body, no crime,” her duet with opening act HAIM, at the three L.A. shows that were filmed for The Eras Tour movie. However, “no body, no crime” was never included in The Eras Tour movie either, leaving the Evermore set one song short in the concert movie.

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The Archer

The Lover Era

The first song that Swift cut from the permanent Eras Tout setlist is “The Archer,” which used to close out the Lover set. Despite rearranging some of the eras, Lover remains the opening era of the show, but “The Archer” no longer serves as the sixth and final song. Instead, the Lover era is now only five songs long and closes with the album’s title track.

“The Archer” is one of the least surprising casualties of the post-TTPD setlist given that it was also one of the casualties of The Eras Tour movie’s theatrical release. Exactly three months after the theatrical premiere on October 13, 2023, The Eras Tour movie was made available to rent on demand, featuring “The Archer” and two other previously cut songs as bonus features. When the movie hit streaming in March 2024, “The Archer” and the other missing songs in theaters (except “no body, no crime”) were finally included in their respective eras in The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+.

“The Archer” is one of Taylor Swift’s famous track 5 songs, two of which have now been removed from the Eras Tour setlist. Ever since her debut album in 2006, Swift has always made the fifth track on all her albums a deeply vulnerable, soul-baring song like “The Archer,” an introspective examination of her deepest anxieties and insecurities. It’s a well-known album tradition that Swift nearly continued with the Eras Tour itself by placing “The Archer” just one away from the fifth spot on the full concert setlist.

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Tolerate It

The Evermore Era

Evermore used to be the third era on the Eras Tour setlist, but because Swift combined the 2020 “sister album” eras, all the surviving Evermore songs now appear in the Folklore section before 1989. Swift also rearranged the song order and placed “willow” at the end instead of “tolerate it,” which did not survive. It’s such a shame Swift got rid of “tolerate it” because her live performance of this harrowing account of unrequited love was so moving.

On the Eras Tour, Swift brought the meaning behind the lyrics of “tolerate it” to life onstage during the Evermore era. Inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca, about a woman whose older, wealthy husband is haunted by his ex-wife’s ghost, “tolerate it” is written from the perspective of someone whose partner completely undervalues them and merely “tolerates” their love no matter how hard they try to impress them. The theatrical number opened with Swift acting out the lyric “lay the table with the fancy sh*t” by carefully setting the long dining table in the middle of the stage.

Swift would then be joined by Raphael Thomas, one of her backup dancers on the Eras Tour, who played the role of the narrator’s neglectful lover. Thomas sat across from Swift and would either look annoyed or ignore her completely as she grew more frustrated while singing. During the explosive bridge in which the narrator’s grievances all boil over, Swift would climb onto the table and angrily knock all the “fancy sh*t” off to try and get his attention.

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Long Live

The Speak Now Era

Arguably the most gutting song to lose from the setlist is “Long Live,” partially because of the tumultuous journey the Speak Now song has been on ever since the Eras Tour began. Originally, “Long Live” wasn’t even included in the setlist and the Speak Now era only consisted of “Enchanted.” It wasn’t until after she released Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) on July 7, 2023, that Swift officially added “Long Live” to the permanent setlist. Since then, she’s performed it at every show on the Eras Tour, including the three filmed shows in L.A. the following month.

Despite the spectacle of adding it to the setlist three months into the tour, Swift snubbed “Long Live” again when The Eras Tour movie premiered in theaters. Like “The Archer,” “Long Live” was one of the songs Swift cut from The Eras Tour movie that was later restored on VOD and streaming. Going through all that just to lose “Long Live” again would still be frustrating if it was any other great song, but it’s especially devastating because of what this song represents.

Swift wrote “Long Live” to express gratitude to her longtime bandmates and fans, so it’s always been a special song for the Swifties. This makes Swift’s neglectful treatment of “Long Live” especially baffling. As a celebration of both her success and the people who contributed to achieving it, “Long Live” encompasses so much of what the Eras Tour is all about. Plus, the Speak Now era is already the shortest set in the show; continuously leaving “Enchanted” to represent Speak Now all by itself just makes the setlist feel unbalanced.

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The 1

The Folklore Era

Previously tied with Midnights as the longest era on the setlist, the Folklore era lost two songs to the TTPD invasion, the first of which was “the 1.” At the live shows on the Eras Tour, Swift opened the Folklore era with “the 1” after the spoken word “Seven (Interlude),” laying on the mossy roof of the famous Folklore cabin as she reflected on the “one” who got away and wondered what could’ve been “if one thing had been different.” Since “Seven (Interlude)” was not featured in The Eras Tour movie, “the 1” set the tone for the Folklore era.

Swift’s removal of “the 1” doesn’t come as much of a surprise, though, considering it wasn’t always meant to be part of the Eras Tour setlist. When Swift embarked on the Eras Tour on March 17, 2023, she initially opened the Folklore era with “invisible string” instead of “the 1.” However, after just four shows of performing this fate-centered love song as the Folklore opener, Swift replaced it with the more bargain-stage-oriented “the 1.” Now that she’s merged the Folklore and Evermore eras and switched up the song order, Swift opens the combined “sister album” set with “cardigan” instead.

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The Last Great American Dynasty

The Folklore Era

The second Folklore song and last song from The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+ that Swift removed from the Eras Tour setlist is “the last great american dynasty.” Swift performed “TLGAD” as the third song in the era, between two of the three Folklore love triangle songs, “betty” and “august.” Like “tolerate it,” Swift brought the story of “the last great american dynasty” to life onstage during the Folklore era, only this time, it was a true story.

Swift wrote “the last great american dynasty” about an eccentric socialite named Rebekah Harkness who became the widow of an extremely wealthy oil heir named Bill Harkness. In the song, Swift paints a picture of the notorious Rebekah from the perspective of snobbish gossips. She goes from describing the couple’s lavish parties at their Rhode Island mansion, to Rebekah’s reputation as the “maddest” and “most shameless” woman in town who supposedly caused Bill’s fatal heart attack (“she had a marvelous time ruining everything“), to her outlandish activities at their “Holiday House” after his death.

While Swift performed “the last great american dynasty” on the Eras Tour, her dancers would act out the story onstage, with dancer Natalie Reid playing Rebekah. At the end of the bridge, Swift would take Reid-as-Rebekah’s place onstage as she revealed that she actually bought the Harknesses’ Holiday House in real life long after Rebekah was gone, drawing parallels between the socialite’s public image and her own as a high-profile celebrity. Now that it’s been taken off the Eras Tour setlist, Taylor Swift‘s performance of “the last great american dynasty” has thankfully been immortalized in The Eras Tour movie.