8 Biggest Differences Between The Eras Tour’s Theatrical & Disney+ Streaming Versions

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) is officially streaming on Disney+, and some major changes have been made to the concert movie since it first premiered in theaters. Divided into 10 separate sections, the set list for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour covers almost every era of her lengthy music career. In October 2023, Swift brought the showstopping concert experience to the big screen by releasing The Eras Tour movie in theaters. Following its theatrical release, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie broke several box office records, surpassing 2011’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never as the highest-grossing concert movie ever.

Now, the concert movie has finally hit streaming with an exclusive Disney+ release titled Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version). Of course, the privacy and control settings offered by streaming are just some of the many ways that watching Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on Disney+ will be different from theaters, but it’s not just the viewing experience that’s changed. There are some major differences between the theatrical and streaming versions of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie themselves, primarily in the number of songs in the Disney+ release.

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Four Songs Cut From The Theatrical Version Are Included In The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+

The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) Shows (Almost) The Entire Concert

The biggest difference between The Eras Tour movie on streaming versus in theaters is the inclusion of four previously cut songs in Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+. When it was released in theaters, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie did not include every song from the concert’s regular set list in order to shorten the runtime. When it was made available to rent on demand on December 13, 2023 (Swift’s 34th birthday), the VOD release included the previously cut songs “The Archer,” “Long Live” and “Wildest Dreams” at the end of the movie as bonus content.

In addition to these three songs, The Eras Tour movie also re-added “cardigan” on Disney+. Unlike the VOD version, these four songs have now been edited into their respective eras in their proper placements on the set list in the streaming version. Now that “The Archer,” “Long Live,” “cardigan,” and “Wildest Dreams” are finally featured in The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), almost the entire concert is shown in the correct order on Disney+. The only two songs still missing from The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) are “no body, no crime” and “Seven (Interlude).”

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Three Eras End Differently In The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+

The Lover, Speak Now, & Folklore Eras Each End With The Proper Song Now

Of the four previously cut songs that were finally included in The Eras Tour movie on Disney+, three serve as the final songs of their respective eras on The Eras Tour set list. At the live shows, “The Archer” closes out the Lover era and “cardigan” closes out the folklore era. Although the Speak Now era previously consisted of just “Enchanted,” after Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) was released on July 7, 2023, “Long Live” was added to the set list as the second and, thus, last song in the Speak Now era.

Because these three songs were excluded from the theatrical release, the Lover, Speak Now, and folklore eras all ended with different songs in The Eras Tour movie than they do at the live shows. The Lover era concluded with the title track, the Speak Now era started and ended with “Enchanted,” and “my tears ricochet” finished off the folklore era. Now that “The Archer,” “Long Live,” and “cardigan” are included in The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+ in their correct placements on the set list, all the eras finally end with the same final song as the live shows.

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“Long Live” Plays Twice In The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+

The studio version and Swift’s live performance of “Long Live” are both in The Eras Tour Movie (Taylor’s Version)

Although Swift’s live performance of “Long Live” was cut from the theatrical release of The Eras Tour movie, the studio version of “Long Live (Taylor’s Version)” played over the end credits. This is still the case in the streaming version, but Swift’s live performance of “Long Live” also appears in the Speak Now era after “Enchanted,” just like in the live shows. As a result, “Long Live” plays twice during The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) in both live and studio-recorded formats. This is the only instance in which two different versions of the same song play in the streaming version.

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There Are Four Bonus Acoustic Songs In The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+

“The Acoustic Collection” Is Included At The End Of The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)

One of the biggest differences between the theatrical and streaming versions of The Eras Tour movie is that The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+ contains four bonus acoustic songs. At every show on The Eras Tour, Swift does an acoustic set in between the folklore era and the final Midnights era. During this set, she performs two surprise songs from her vast catalogue of music: one on piano and one on acoustic guitar.

Because Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie was filmed during her first three stops at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Swift had six surprise songs to choose from for the acoustic set in The Eras Tour movie. She went with her performances of “Our Song” and “You’re Own Your Own, Kid,” which left four songs that she later included as bonus acoustic songs in The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+. “I Can See You,” “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “You Are In Love,” and “Maroon” appear at the end of the streaming version as part of “The Acoustic Collection.”

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The Surprise Songs From The Acoustic Set Play Twice In The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+

“Our Song” & “You’re Own Your Own, Kid” appear again in “The Acoustic Collection”

“Long Live” may be the only song with two different versions featured in The Eras Tour movie on Disney+, but “Our Song” and “You’re Own Your Own, Kid” play twice in The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version). Just like in theaters, these same surprise songs play during the acoustic set of the regular set list in The Eras Tour movie on Disney+. However, these same performances of “Our Song” and “You’re Own Your Own, Kid” are featured again in the “Acoustic Collection” alongside the bonus acoustic songs.

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The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+ Has A Much Longer Runtime

The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) is 45 minutes longer than the theatrical release

On The Eras Tour, Swift’s live shows are roughly 3 hours and 15 minutes long. However, because of all the songs cut from the concert movie in theaters, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour‘s runtime was only 2 hours and 45 minutes. With the addition of “The Archer,” “Long Live” and “Wildest Dreams,” the VOD release’s runtime rounded out to approximately 3 hours.

Now, between the four previously cut songs added back to the set list, the four bonus acoustic songs, and the original surprise songs from the acoustic set playing again in the “Acoustic Collection,” The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) has a very long runtime. The Eras Tour movie has a runtime of 3 hours and 30 minutes on Disney+, a whole 45 minutes longer than the theatrical release and 15 minutes longer than the live concert (thanks to “The Acoustic Collection”). However, pausing and fast-forwarding make this runtime much more manageable on streaming than at a live show or in theaters.

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The Eras Tour Movie On Disney+ Includes A Song Released After The Eras Tour Began

“I Can See You” was released as a vault track on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

Since embarking on The Eras Tour in March 2023, Swift has released two more re-recorded albums. The first was Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), released on July 7 before filming for The Eras Tour movie took place in August 2023. The second was 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on October 27, 2023, just two weeks after the premiere of The Eras Tour movie in theaters on October 13. These two albums combined contain a total of 11 previously unreleased songs “from the vault.”

Of course, Swift couldn’t have performed any 1989 (Taylor’s Version) vault tracks as surprise songs while filming The Eras Tour movie in August 2023, since the album hadn’t come out yet. However, Swift did perform one vault track from Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), “I Can See You,” while filming The Eras Tour movie, but it wasn’t selected as one of the two surprise songs for the acoustic set in The Eras Tour movie. Instead, these were “Our Song” from her debut self-titled album and “You’re Own Your Own, Kid” from Midnights, both of which were released before the tour began.

However, “I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]” was included as a bonus acoustic song in the streaming version. As a result, The Eras Tour movie on Disney+ now contains a song released after The Eras Tour began. “I Can See You” is also the only vault track in The Eras Tour movie other than “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” from Red (Taylor’s Version), which was released on November 12, 2021, and closes out the Red era on The Eras Tour set list.

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Taylor Swift Drops Two More F-Bombs In The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)

The inclusion of “Maroon” as a bonus acoustic song on Disney+ added two more F-bombs to The Eras Tour movie

Throughout the theatrical version of The Eras Tour movie’s two-hours-and-49-minute runtime, Swift only drops four F-bombs across three of the 40 songs. While none of the previously cut songs included in the streaming version contain any F-bombs, one of the four bonus acoustic songs actually contains two back-to-back. On the bridge of “Maroon,” Swift drops two F-bombs, bringing the total to six F-bombs in Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie on Disney+ across four songs. This could be useful information for any parents monitoring the coarse language in the streaming version of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.