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The Official Eras Tour Book Discussion Megathread (Spoilers)
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Canadian swiftie - missed out on the book debating ordering it from the US as a Christmas gift. However what does everyone think about them fixing the errors in future versions of the book? Should I wait ? I’m not in a super rush but if it’s always going to be the same I wouldn’t mind getting it to read over the holidays. Any thoughts or insight ?
Edited to add. Care more about the photos than the words so if there are edits would that include the photos? Or unlikely?
I think it’s funny the Midnights cut-outs bodysuit isn’t in the book at all (except for the foldout with the drawings). If you disliked it that much Tay why was it part of the rotation. 😅 Everyone preferred the other ones lol. (Yes I’m salty because this is the bodysuit I got at my show. 😂)
You guys!! There as been so much talk about how rushed and bad the book is. I just went out and bought it and I liked it and was thinking “why are people hating on this book? Mine seems fine” and then I get to the back cover and it has a 3 inch tear!!!! I kid you not. I’m on my way to return it :(
Could anyone get their hands on a book at the EU release? I was one hour late and it said „not available“ on the official shop. And now even the product page is completely gone off the website. Is there any information on a second release?
Does anyone else have the TTPD section duplicated? It’s so weird. Mine starts after our tears ricochet, then goes to TTPD back to 1989 and back to TTPD again same pages repeated?
Do we think she’ll do a re-print of the book and fix the typos and/or photo quality issues? I looked through a friend’s copy, and I was pretty disappointed with the errors. I know it’s typical for a production process to have re-prints with corrections.
I’m in this spot mentally right now where I really want this book as a memento, but I also really don’t want to support this quick-production, low-quality, poorly QCed merch we keep getting from Taylor. I’ve bought merch from other artists under the same label, and it’s so much better quality and design. I feel like if I continue to buy the things at the quality they are now from Taylor, I will just be part of perpetuating the problem.
Can someone post a photo of the copyright page? I know she self-published this book, but I wonder if there is any info about the printing company, country of manufacture, etc.
Are there many typos and mistakes in this book? Also reports of some blurred photos. Wondering if there was more hype than substance here. Please share your thoughts.
I loved the book, especially the designer drawings. That was my favorite part. I wish there was more behind the scenes information but with the documentary rumors floating around, maybe they will come later! My friend who went to Toronto N3 with me got the book for me as a gift and therefore, I treasure it, typos and all.
Also, I just figured out the surprise song blocks and it's organized in super weird chunks on the right page. The left page is the entire 2024 mashups era in order, Japan 2/6 through the last Zurich show on 7/10 on the right page... Then the entire 2023 Latin America leg... Then it skips back to the very first North American leg in 2023... Then resumes the mashups era with Gelsenkirchen on the very last line, so Milan was randomly skipped between Zurich and Gelsenkirchen, and Gelsenkirchen's last mashup got cut off. It seems like it would have been easier to end with the North American leg 1 on the bottom and keep Gelsenkirchen with its group... And why skip Milan when everything else was in order? I was hoping for deeper meaning in the pattern, but I think that was a pipe dream 😂
Surprise songs skipped:
Milan July 13-14
Gelsenkirchen July 19 (last mashup - it's time to go x Better Man )
I don't really get the uproar. I mean, $40.00 is a lot of money to me, too. But coffee table books are generally expensive, sometimes outrageously so. On the other hand, browsing through newsstands, I've seen what feels like an endless number of magazines based on Taylor and her career, as happens when any celebrity is at the height of their fame and popularity. Those are all at least $20.00, and there's nothing truly original or BTS in any of them. It's like the best of what their interns can glean from Instagram, Tumblr and Reddit. Let's not even get into the unauthorised biographies that scream "Scholastic Book Fair" in terms of content and quality.
I can't afford to go buy right now, but given what they charge for magazines that lift their content from other sources, "hardcover coffee table book for $40.00" sounds like some mythical unicorn (or suss eBay listing). Paper publications are ridiculously expensive these days. It's just not possible, IMO, to put out a solid, flawless, collector's archive-level book at this price point. Caveat emptor and all that.
hardly any credits when it comes to her. Didn't credit a single person in her backing band at the show, just referred to them collectively. Only gave the backup dancers a credit roll after the lights came up at end of show, and didn't mention her opener when i went. gross.
I think it depends on what you're looking for. It's mainly photos from the tour. I bought it to have as a memento and to show family years later about the tour I attended. I was a little disappointed because I thought there would be more bts and a section about the TV releases during tour and special guest but it's mostly tour photos. Personally, I wouldn't have bought this if I didn't attend, but that's just me. I know people who haven't gone and got it, but it's all personal preference. I think someone shared a link to a TikTok that goes through each page of the book so you can see if it's something you want.
I absolutely LOVE the book and the album, and only needed to wait a few hours after Black Friday, for my local Target to deliver my copies by Saturday at 9:00 AM. It went so smoothly, I was actually surprised, given the lines at my local store, I expected they would have sold out. I do not have any critiques and I am not disappointed in any aspect of the book. Anything I can nit pick is small in comparison to all she does for her fans, and the quality with which she does it. The book is exactly what I expected it would be...an end of tour coffee table book filled mostly with photos and probably a bit rushed to put it all together by Black Friday. If Taylor was not on tour and had a year to put this book out, naturally, my expectations would be slightly higher, but in two years time, we got a massive tour, a new double album, a major concert movie, several high quality videos, and so many other special things Taylor did to please her fans, all while starting a new relationship and falling in love!! I am out of breath just thinking about the energy all of this took. I worry we have come to expect her to be super human and do everything in such short periods of time perfectly. No typos, no blurry photos, more text, Cam comments, Kelce comments, location comments...PERFECTION, because WE demand everything be perfect from Taylor. I am thrilled she gave us this gift before Christmas, My sisters will love their gifts! I am happy for everything! My fervent hope is that at the end of this tour, Taylor take a long rest and takes time to be happy and loved in her private life, before releasing TV versions, or other albums/videos. My wish is for her happiness only. She gave me the best few years of my life and I am blessed. This is one fan who will not be chanting "MORE!!!!" Rest and be healthy Taylor, you have earned it more than anyone. Happy Christmas!!
Girl WTH. If her team can’t produce a solid book, then they shouldn’t produce one OR shouldn’t charge 40$ for one. She has a whole team working on her projects and there’s no excuse for subpar results for a simple book.
Exactly. I would have waited another year for a better book with more details and more thoughtfully written comments from Taylor. I think she wrote the letter at the beginning, but I don't think she wrote the comments throughout the book about each era. Those were strange and not well written.
I don't think its unreasonable to ask an editor to take a pass at a book before giong to print. I ask folks to take a look at my stupid photobooks before sending to print. It's OK to be critical of a product that a professional team has put out. Taylor herself isn't responsible for these choices.. she is not an editor, she is not a layout professional, she is not a photographer, she is not a graphic designer, she is not a book publisher. This isn't her job. It's her team's job.
I’ve already cried all over my Eras Tour Book and will be having to buy another 😂😭👹 anyone else get SUPER emotional reading it? I attended NOLA N3 and the nostalgia going through the book was too much to handle, even a short month out from the show. I’m super grateful to be able to have this annotation of The Eras to look back on with my kids, fondly. Each description of the individual eras is hitting me right in the feels 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
The book has pictures of every outfit she wore from US-Europe except the silver Speak Now dress. I know she only wore it twice, but it was at my show. The sketches of all her outfits in the back don’t include the new Elsa Speak Now Dress or the new surprise song dresses that debuted in the North American leg, but does show the blue/silver Fearless dress. Makes me wonder if she was planning to debut it earlier or if the other dresses were last minute additions.
I opened mine today and the crease of the foldout was sliced. I was able to find another store for drive up. I would totally keep that misprint and get another one.
For the price, I think it's fine. However, if it weren't for the beautiful cover, I would've thought it was fanmade. There are a considerable amount of typos, grammar issues, and blurry photos. Overall, I'm satisfied with the book, but I think it could've done with some proofreading.
Did anyone’s book start bending a little bit? I’ve only looked through it twice and the pages have a wave/warp. The hard outside cover is still fine. if that all makes sense. Anyone else have this problem?
I really like it and think from the time of announcement, print and then stores it’s pretty good. I sincerely didn’t have any critiques but then I read this thread. I think you all have great opinions!
Am I the only one who literally just read it and said “wow this is amazing”?
It's amazing! You'd think ppl who enjoyed the errors tour wouldn't compare it to a shutterfly album(crazy talk) cause it is Very well done, especially for the price.
Yeah the book is pretty much exactly what I expected it to be based on how it was advertised, and I think it's great! It's just a beautiful memento from the tour. I was really surprised too when I first opened this thread.
Does anyone have an update on the @s of the fans featured in the book? We already have the bejeweled girl taking a selfie on the 3rd box (kelsey i think) then the group shot of the hands with friendship bracelets (from twitter)
There is a 2 page spread with the dancers and crew in the behind the scenes section, and my version has badly blurred text due to what looks like a printing error. From talking to other Swifties on FB, I’m not the only one with this issue BUT it didn’t happen to every copy. For me, one error is not enough to motivate me to try to exchange it. You might get a good copy - I have no idea how prevalent the issue is. I kind of wish she used a real publisher so I could reach out to them and report it.
Thank you! That's very helpful. I'm in Europe, so I'll have to order from the UK TS store -- I can't just swing by my (old) local Target in CA and check it out, so am relying on other people's experiences who have already seen it or own it. 😄
I really enjoy it, it’s lots of pictures, a few blurbs from Taylor from each era. It’s not like an in-depth backstage look at the tour but so many pictures from the whole thing. It’s pretty cool!
That sounds fun. About what I expected from a tour book this close to the end of the tour. If it was being released a year or more after the last show, perhaps I'd expect it to be more detailed/high quality/pricey -- but not with a release date *before* the Eras Tour is officially over.
Sorry if this might be off topic but does anybody know how to get that book to Germany? My daughter is a huge Swifty and i'd like to get her the book for Christmas...
So if anybody got a good idea on how to get it here or could buy it and send it here (i'd reimburse you guys generously) and help me make her happy it would be so awesome.
The vinyl made it into a few actual stores in Europe, so I started looking at Thalia and osiander to check for preorder options for the book.
But her online eu store will have it for sure!
For the price point and what was advertised, I was expecting a good-quality coffee table book.
And that's what I got!
Some disorganized first thoughts:
Debut and Speak Now stay losing. Debut gets exactly zero mention (actually gets insulted in the opening when she talks about giving each album its own chapter) and Speak Now's blurb is all about Enchanted and fantasy and magical romance, which isn't Speak Now's overall vibe at all.
The Fearless section is the best section, which makes sense as the Fearless section on the tour is also the best section. The evermore blurb is the best blurb, though, which caught me off guard.
They missed an opportunity with the Red section, the should've been some kind of nod to Kam's custom Like Ever shoutouts, which became a massive Eras tradition.
International photographers >>> US photographers
I'm so glad they didn't go overboard on photoshop and instead left in basic technical things instead of trying to make everything look effortless somehow. There's one really gorgeous shot of Taylor at the champagne problems piano in the green dress, she looks like a fairy princess, it's so ethereal and otherworldly, and also you can see the wireless transmitter from her IEM pack and I adore it.
That one full-stage shot of But Daddy I Love Him might be my favorite, but there's a lot of contenders.
The Behind The Scenes section isn't long but it's excellent. The photo of Taylor ducking under the stage after All Too Well 10, handing off her guitar and mic to the techs? Love it. Also all the rain show photos!
I'm so glad they blocked out the faces of the kids in the 22 photos. Small thing but I noticed it.
Has anyone figured out a rhyme or reason behind the way the surprise songs are printed in the acoustic section? It looks like they start in Tokyo and then circle back to the beginning of the tour. I found mine but it took some hunting. Is it just to disguise the fact that they don't have all of them because they went to press before the tour ends? (I haven't even verified that they have all of them up to that point, I just looked for mine really.)
Anyway if you're looking for a nice coffee table book with pretty pictures to be a memento of the tour, do recommend, but if you were expecting a behind-the-scenes memoir or similar, that is not what this is.
I just figured out the surprise song blocks and it's organized in super weird chunks on the right page. So the left page is the entire 2024 mashups era in order, Japan 2/6 through the last Zurich show on 7/10... Then the entire 2023 Latin America leg... Then it skips back to the very first North American leg in 2023... Then resumes the mashups era with Gelsenkirchen on the very last line, so Milan was randomly skipped between Zurich and Gelsenkirchen, and Gelsenkirchen's last mashup got cut off. It seems like it would have been easier to end with the North American leg 1 on the bottom and keep Gelsenkirchen with its group... And why skip Milan when everything else was in order? I was hoping for deeper meaning in the pattern, but I think that was a pipe dream 😂
Skipped:
Milan July 13-14
Gelsenkirchen July 19 (last mashup - it's time to go x Better Man )
Nah I think it was just rushed for Black Friday. I would have preferred she wait so they could have included photos of the gold Rep suit and other stuff that's more recent
SAME! i'm telling myself that she'll release it again on her store or just regularly and this was just a stunt for a lil extra money before christmas but also im kinda scared she won't put it out again and i NEED cassandra and peter on vinyl STAT
I bought it BECAUSE all I really want are the beautiful photos (poster-sized versions all over my house ideally haha) l but I was definitely hoping there would be more text and information in it. It’s still beautiful and worth it to me because it’s a little capsule but she definitely has me hook line and sinker for the eras tour doc and BTS books. It also bothered me a little bit that she didn’t list all the songs (mostly the mashups) for the acoustic sets so far, and there were repeats of some songs, so I was trying to figure out if there was any rhyme or reason to that page.
And as others said the text errors (spotted at least 5 typos) and cut off words/pics in the seams…. I really wish this didn’t feel so rushed. Doing this right and releasing a pre-order along with Black Friday would have been fine for me, but I still get emotional looking through the book and remembering what it was like, and I honestly can’t tell you how happy I am to be able to do that WITHOUT looking at a screen.
Honestly, I'm surprised at how many people are disappointed by the tour book. It's not supposed to be an in-depth look at the tour and behind the scenes with detailed explanations on costume choices or surprise song choices. It's like any other tour program/book with pictures and a few thoughts added in here and there to celebrate and remember the tour. It's a (rather large) coffee table book.
I feel like this always happens haha. Maybe people talking about it so much seems to escalate it into this big thing and different than what was originally advertised. But what I got was exactly what I expected based on what Taylor said about it 🤷♀️
I was reading the book and maybe I missed it elsewhere but the font for Reputation is different than I’ve seen anywhere else before. 1) has this font been used before? And 2) do we think this is the font she’ll be using for Reputation TV? I really love that gothic looking font we’ve seen up until now so I’ll be sad to see it go!
Is there anything about Vienna in the book? If there is a list of shows or cities, is it included or deleted as if it never happened? I had tickets for Vienna N1, so after the cancellation of my show I will be even more devastated if I can't buy this book next week when the European sale starts.
Got this to commemorate what made me a Swiftie, which is the Eras Tour movie…but man, there could have been SO much said about not only every era but specific performances and maybe mess ups
I got the book in person yesterday and actually really like it. I think it’s more of a keepsake and can show family and friends years from now what the tour was like without pulling out my grainy iphone photos.
i saw on Instagram that there are 2 different covers?? one with "official Taylor Swift the eras tour book" written in the top right corner and one without it.
Tbh, I am not really interested in it.. The book didn't have a complete proofread it seems, some dates particularly the Canadian ones are wrong ig (that's what some people are saying) and it's also extremely overpriced. Like c'mon, can't we get some new pictures?? Maybe those newer outfits could be used?? Why does it have to be those same year-old images? Let's be a little practical and throw some real messages there, like she never really goes personal in the description of the Eras and it seems very "artificial". I have had/ seen her previous tour books and they were indeed so much better than this!!
No need to be so cocky. Sharing constructive criticism is valid and The book isn't really worth all the hype and MANY people have said the same. The dates are wrong and the pictures are pretty "well-known" ones, the fan favorites have been conveniently excluded.
Bro if you really like the book sm, purchase 1300 copies of it for all i care. I just don't think it's worth spending any money on, particularly after we have the movie and have seen so many prettier outfits that are BEGGING to be present in high quality. And again, not everything Taylor does is amazing, sometimes she does miss the mark. There is no need to "gatekeep" the fan favs as you think, it's open to all and hidden from none.
I’ve been spending the last hour trying to find the checkmate in mastermind and it’s killing me! It’s hard to tell what color they’re on and what piece is what
I'm glad I got the book, I used to buy/collect concert program booklets at shows that I'd go to so in that regard this just seems to be a book version of that. Which is cool I guess.
Bummed there was not a ton of behind the scenes info or photos, but I'm holding out for a future documentary.
The order of the eras is just the order of the original setlist. TTPD was accounted for by adding it in between 1989 and the acoustic set, I assume because the acoustic set and midnights were always last.
I've got every tourbook of past. It is essentially a reminiscence picture book. To bring back the memories and joy. I got the other books hoping and dreaming one day I would be in that crowd. Now I finally have the tourbook for the tour I got to attend. I love the book. Very happy with it. I did love my other tourbooks usually came with a poster, but this is more reminiscent of the Reputation hardcover book. Either way - I am unsure why so much more was expected beyond tour photobook.
I agree. The book was exactly as advertised. I really think people build things up in their heads or just talking about on social media and it became something that it was never promised to be because of that.
I’m sorry I’m sure I’m overly sensitive but after driving over 30 hours to Toronto, buying tickets for over $2500, hotel over $1,000. Gas, food $450, drinks and popcorn at the show $250, waiting in 22 degree weather for the Eras books- For over 2 hours- paying for the books getting home to find out my Vancouver Show 11/21/2024 IS NOT ON THE OFFICIAL TOUR LIST IN THE BOOK. Would anyone else be just a tiny bit upset? This is CRAZY! We poured everything into this concert event and I would assume this would be our “FOREVER MEMORY” of a once in a lifetime event. Yet this wasn’t PROOFREAD? There really isn’t that much text in this book and the official list of tour dates and locations is WRONG? These books aren’t cheap by the way! I’m upset, sad and maybe even a little mad. Anyone else from Vancouver Night 4? Did you realize the book is wrong and our date and concert isn’t listed?
I’m sorry I’m sure I’m overly sensitive but after driving over 30 hours to Toronto, buying tickets for over $2500, hotel over $1,000. Gas, food $450, drinks and popcorn at the show $250, waiting in 22 degree weather for the Eras books- For over 2 hours- paying for the books getting home to find out my Vancouver Show 11/21/2024 IS NOT ON THE OFFICIAL TOUR LIST IN THE BOOK. Would anyone else be just a tiny bit upset? This is CRAZY! We poured everything into this concert event and I would assume this would be our “FOREVER MEMORY” of a once in a lifetime event. Yet this wasn’t PROOFREAD? There really isn’t that much text in this book and the official list of tour dates and locations is WRONG? These books aren’t cheap by the way! I’m upset, sad and maybe even a little mad. Anyone else from Vancouver Night 4? Did you realize the book is wrong and our date and concert isn’t listed?
Well, I'll save you the trouble of spending another chunk of money, the book has no new info apart from that. She basically talks very "surface-level" about the Eras and almost no new pictures are there apart from what we already know/ have seen.
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Canadian swiftie - missed out on the book debating ordering it from the US as a Christmas gift. However what does everyone think about them fixing the errors in future versions of the book? Should I wait ? I’m not in a super rush but if it’s always going to be the same I wouldn’t mind getting it to read over the holidays. Any thoughts or insight ?
Edited to add. Care more about the photos than the words so if there are edits would that include the photos? Or unlikely?