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Taylor Swift adds third tour concert at Gillette as hotels see booming bookings

by CAL DYMOWSKI, NBC 10 NEWS

WRENTHAM, Mass. (WJAR) — Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour is getting a third concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.

The "Love Story" artist performs in Southern New England from May 19-21, much to the delight of fans.

"If she plays 'All Too Well' that would be awesome," said Swift fan, Michael Botsch. "I saw her in a 'Reputation' tour, and I don't think she can go wrong there."

"I'm very excited Taylor Swift has added another show," said Michael Place of Warren. "I'm a Luke Combs guy, but when an artist adds another show, it goes to show she's very popular and there's a high demand for the tickets."

There's also seemingly high demand for hotel rooms in the area, which could create a "Cruel Summer" for many fans.

Vick Patel runs the America's Best Value Inn on Route 1 and says available rooms at his spot are a "Blank Space." He sold out his 60 units hours after the concert dates and locations were announced on Tuesday.

"As I was seeing the reservations come in, I was recognizing a lot of the same names as the last Taylor Swift concert," Patel told NBC 10 News. "I remember a few years ago it was a good weekend for us so I'm really looking forward to this upcoming year."

He says prices varied from $319 to $400 for rooms at his inn.

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Just minutes down the road in Wrentham, a similar story. Marriott Bonvoy's Springhill Suites and Townplace Suites saying, "Don't Blame Me," as all 108 spots are booked. Management told NBC 10 that those cost $730 to $780 a night.

Christina Leonard of Revere, Massachusetts, has her hotel rooms, but not after a scare. She's getting married in nearby Walpole the same weekend Swift's concerts hit Gillette.

She told NBC 10 News that her 10 rooms were almost given away despite having previously been booked.

"[Hotel management] said we can make a lot more money on the [concert] for the rooms. Up to $1,000 they told me," Leonard said.

She explained the situation has since been cleared up with hotel higher-ups, and she'll have the rooms for her wedding weekend.

The Red Fox Motel near Patriot Place said it'll have just six rooms available when it starts taking reservations for the concert weekend. Management said rates could be up to $600 per night.

A quick check on the Hilton Honors app Friday evening also showed various hotels, motels and other places completely sold out.

Fans can register for codes to get Taylor Swift concert tickets at Gillette shows until Nov. 9. Registered fans who receive a code will then get exclusive access to buy tickets on Nov. 15.

General public sales for all three Gillette Stadium shows open up at 10 a.m. Nov. 18 .

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The Reputation Stadium Tour: Surprise Songs and Guests

The surprise songs, sometimes called secret songs or b-stage songs, they’ve become a hallmark of every Taylor Swift tour concert. It’s the time in which the Sparkly Dressed picks up the Sparkly Guitar (Sparkly Green in this era) and brings out a song from the vault. It’s a big vault, but somehow T-Swizzle has rummaged deep and brought some old cuts we thought we’d never hear again.

The surprise guests were rare but still amazing. Let’s not forget the amazing opening acts of Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.

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• May 8: University of Phoenix Stadium. Glendale, AZ. Taylor plays “All Too Well”.
• May 11: Levi’s Stadium. Santa Clara, CA. The Sparkly Dressed performs “Wildest Dreams”.
• May 12: Levi’s Stadium. Santa Clara, CA. Tay presents “The Best Day” on Mother’s Day Weekend.
• May 18: Rose Bowl. Pasadena, CA. The Princess in Red brings out Shawn Mendez to play “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” and plays “Red” on the b-stage.

• May 22: CenturyLink Field. Seattle, WA. Tay Sway gives us a rendition of “Holy Ground”.
• May 25: Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Denver, CO. The Songstress goes for “Teardrops on My Guitar”.
• June 1: Soldier Field. Chicago, IL. T-Swizzle plays “Our Song”.
• June 2: Soldier Field. Chicago, IL. The Blonde With The Sparkly Guitar was feeling “22”.
• June 8: Etihad Stadium. Manchester, United Kingdom. The Snake Queen plays “I Knew You Were Trouble”.
• June 9: Etihad Stadium. Manchester, United Kingdom. The Enchantress plays “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”.
• June 15: Croke Park. Dublin, Ireland. The Blonde With The Green Guitar plays “Mean”.
• June 16: Croke Park. Dublin, Ireland. The Mother of Fighting Dragons performs “How You Get The Girl”.
• June 22: Wembley Stadium. London, United Kingdom. The Queen of Sparks brings out Niall Horan to play “Slow Hands”. She takes the b-stage to play “So It Goes”.

• June 30: Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. Louisville, KY. T-Swizzle plays “Mine”.
• July 7: Ohio Stadium. Columbus, OH. The Sparkly Dressed performs “Sparks Fly”.
• July 10: FedExField. Washington, DC. The Princess in Red plays “State of Grace”.
• July 11: FedExField. Washington, DC.  The Snake Queen plays “Haunted”.
• July 13: Lincoln Financial Field. Philadelphia, PA. The Enchantress performs “Never Grow Up”.
• July 14: Lincoln Financial Field. Philadelphia, PA. The Blonde With The Guitar That Will Be Sparkly Again sang “Treacherous”.
• July 17: FirstEnergy Stadium. Cleveland, OH. Taylor sings “Babe” for the first time.
• July 20: MetLife Stadium. East Rutherford, NJ. T-Swizzle performs “Welcome To New York”.
• July 21: MetLife Stadium. East Rutherford, NJ. The Forever and Always Fearless One plays “Fearless”.
• July 22: MetLife Stadium. East Rutherford, NJ. The Enchantress plays “Enchanted”.

• July 27: Gillette Stadium. Foxborough, MA. The Fearless One sings “Change”.
• July 28: Gillette Stadium. Foxborough, MA. T-Swizzle performs “Mine”.
• August 3: Rogers Centre. Toronto, ON. The Songstress plays “Out of the Woods”.
• August 4: Rogers Centre. Toronto, ON. Taylor brings out Bryan Adams to sing “Summer of 69”. She also plays “Come Back, Be Here” live for the first time ever.
• August 7: Heinz Field. Pittsburgh, PA. The Mother of Fighting Dragons With You performs “A Place In This World”.
• August 10: Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Atlanta, GA. The Blonde With The Green Guitar Which Used To Be Sparkly plays “This Love”.
• August 11: Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Atlanta, GA. The Snake Queen plays “The Lucky One”.
• August 14: Raymond James Stadium. Tampa, FL. Taylor plays “Invisible”.
• August 18: Hard Rock Stadium. Miami, FL. The Enchantress plays “Breathe”.

• August 28: Ford Field. Detroit, MI. The Sparkly Dressed plays “Jump Then Fall”.
• August 31: U.S. Bank Stadium. Minneapolis, MN. The Blonde With The Guitar Of Indeterminate Color plays “Begin Again”.
• September 1: U.S. Bank Stadium. Minneapolis, MN. The Fearless One plays “Tied Together With A Smile”.
• September 8: Arrowhead Stadium. Kansas City, MO. The Mother of Fighting Dragons With You plays “Story of Us”.
• September 15: Lucas Oil Stadium. Indianapolis, IN. The Forever and Always Fearless One plays “Forever and Always”.
• September 18: The Dome at America’s Center. St. Louis, MO. Taylor plays “Hey Stephen”.
• September 22: Mercedes-Benz Superdome. New Orleans, LA. T-Swizzle performs “Speak Now”.
• September 29: NRG Stadium. Houston, TX. The Enchantress plays “Wonderland”.
• October 5: AT&T Stadium. Arlington, TX. T-Swizzle brings out Maren Morris to play “The Middle” and plays “White Horse” on the b-stage.

• October 19: Optus Stadium. Perth, Australia. The Blonde With the Snake Microphone sings “I Knew You Were Trouble”.
• October 26: Etihad Stadium. Melbourne, Australia. Taylor sings “I’m Only Me When I’m With You”.
• November 2: ANZ Stadium. Sydney Olympic Park, Australia. The Blonde With The Sparkly Guitar was feeling “22”.
• November 6: The Gabba. Brisbane, Australia. T-Swizzle plays “Starlight”.
• November 9: Mt Smart Stadium. Auckland, New Zealand. The Songstress plays “Out of the Woods”.
• November 20: Tokyo Dome. Tokyo, Japan. The Snake Queen sings “I Know Places”.
• November 21: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo. Japan. The Sparkly Dressed performs “Wildest Dreams”.

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Taylor Swift Announces First Round of Reputation Stadium Tour Dates

Taylor Swift gives fans first round of cities off upcoming Reputation stadium tour.

By Allison Stubblebine

Allison Stubblebine

Taylor Swift announced the first 27 tour dates of her Reputation   stadium tour via her Taylor Nation Twitter account early Monday (Nov. 13) morning. The tweet, captioned, “WE’LL SEE YOU SOON!” does not specify whether this is the entirety of the U.S. leg of the tour. 

Fans were also reminded to grab the album boost through Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program in order to snag the best possible access to Reputation   Tour tickets. 

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WE’LL SEE YOU SOON! The first round of dates for Taylor Swift’s reputation Stadium Tour have been announced. Ticket and onsale info: https://t.co/d17RNtqtNa — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 13, 2017

Taylor Swift Tix users, if you bought an album during street week be sure to get your album boost! If you haven’t signed up, you still can here — https://t.co/by0d1CxFmP — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 13, 2017

Swift’s sixth album  Reputation  was released on Friday, and amassed an unheard-of 700,000 albums sold on its first day. View the list of first-round dates below. Register at Taylor Swift Tix  to get first access to ticket purchasing. Registration closes Nov. 28. 

Reputation   Stadium Tour Dates 2018

May 8 – University of Phoenix Stadium – Glendale, AZ May 12 – Levi’s Stadium – Santa Clara, CA May 19 – Rose Bowl – Pasadena, CA May 22 – CenturyLink Field – Seattle, WA May 25 – Sports Authority Field at Mile High – Denver, CO June 2 – Soldier Field – Chicago, IL June 30 – Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, KY July 7 – Ohio Stadium – Columbus, OH July 10 – FedEx Field – Washington, DC July 14 – Lincoln Financial Field – Philadelphia, PA July 17 First Energy Stadium Cleveland, OH July 21 – MetLife Stadium – East Rutherford, NJ July 28 – Gillette Stadium – Foxborough, MA Aug. 4 – Rogers Centre – Toronto, ON Aug. 7 – Heinz Field – Pittsburgh, PA Aug. 11 – Mercedes-Benz Stadium – Atlanta, GA Aug. 14 – Raymond James Stadium – Tampa, FL Aug. 18 – Hard Rock Stadium – Miami, FL Aug. 25 – Nissan Stadium – Nashville, TN Aug. 28 – Ford Field – Detroit, MI Sept. 1 – U.S. Bank Stadium – Minneapolis, MN Sept. 8 – Arrowhead Stadium – Kansas City, MO Sept. 15 – Lucas Oil Stadium – Indianapolis, IN Sept. 18 – The Dome at America’s Center – St. Louis, MO Sept. 22 – Mercedes-Benz Superdome – New Orleans, LA Sept. 29 – NRG Stadium – Houston, TX Oct. 6  – AT&T Stadium – Arlington, TX

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Taylor Swift Extends ‘Reputation’ Tour With New Dates

By Ryan Reed

UPDATE: Taylor Swift has announced that Charli XCX and Camila Cabello will serve as her tour openers during her  Reputation  stadium tour. The singer unveiled the news on Thursday, via a video tweet .

I have a very exciting update to share… @Camila_Cabello and @charli_xcx will be the opening acts on the #reputationStadiumTour !!! pic.twitter.com/LAjmecVOrJ — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 1, 2018

Taylor Swift  extended her upcoming Reputation tour with seven new stadium dates, adding concerts in Santa Clara, California; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; East Rutherford, New Jersey, Foxborough, Massachusetts; Minneapolis and Arlington, Texas, Variety reports. 

General public tickets for the new shows go on sale Wednesday, January 31st at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can purchase advance tickets via Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift Presale; registration opens Friday, January 5th at 10 a.m. ET and continues through Thursday, January 18th at 10 a.m. ET.

Members of Taylor Swift Tix, the singer’s exclusive Ticketmaster Verified Fan program, will receive priority access ahead of new registrants. The program, which the singer announced in August, attempts to block scalpers and bots from purchasing and reselling tickets.

The tour launches May 8th in Glendale, Arizona and concludes November 9th in Auckland, New Zealand.

Swift returned to Number One on the Billboard 200 with Reputation , her sixth LP, which she issued in November. Rolling Stone ranked the album the year’s third-best pop record and the seventh-best overall .

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Taylor Swift Tour Dates (New Dates Bolded)

May 8 – Glendale, AZ @ University of Phoenix Stadium May 11 – Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s Stadium May 12 – Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s Stadium May 18 – Pasadena, CA @ Rose Bowl May 19 – Pasadena, CA @ Rose Bowl May 22 – Seattle, WA @ CenturyLink Field May 25 – Denver, CO @ Sports Authority Field At Mile High June 1 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field June 2 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field June 30 – Louisville, KY @ Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium July 7 – Columbus, OH @ Ohio Stadium July 10 – Washington, DC @ FedEx Field July 11 – Washington, DC @ FedEx Field July 13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field July 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field July 17 – Cleveland, OH @ First Energy Stadium July 20 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium July 21 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium July 22 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium July 26 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium July 27 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium July 28 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium August 3 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre August 4 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre August 7 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Heinz Field August 10 – Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium August 11 – Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium August 14 – Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium August 18 – Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium August 25 – Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium August 28 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field August 31 – Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium September 1 – Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium September 8 – Kansas City, MO @ Arrowhead Stadium September 15 – Indianapolis, IN @ Lucas Oil Stadium September 18 – St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center September 22 – New Orleans, LA @ Mercedes-Benz Superdome September 29 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium October 5 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium October 6 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium October 9 – Perth, AU @ Optus Stadium October 26 – Melbourne, AU @ Etihad Stadium November 2 – Sydney, AU @ ANZ Stadium November 6 – Brisbane, AU @ The Gabba November 9 – Auckland, NZ @ Mt Smart Stadium

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Swift Wows Fans During 3 Massive Shows at Gillette — Even Through Torrential Rain

Taylor swift fans were in awe of the pop star's three massive concerts in "foxy" foxboro over the weekend, by matt fortin • published may 22, 2023 • updated on may 22, 2023 at 4:53 pm.

It was a weekend that New England Swifties will remember "All Too Well."

Taylor Swift — who has been a fixture in pop music for years, but has recently seen her popularity catapult to stratospheric heights — performed three massive shows at "Foxy" Foxboro's Gillette Stadium over the weekend, creating lifelong memories for fans and several big moments that have captured the internet's attention.

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One legendary night even had the crowd dancing in a storm in their best dress, fearless .

Swift's three Gillette shows were part of her massive Eras Tour, which has been the source of major ticketing woes and months' worth of anticipation. Fans in Massachusetts showed how long they've been looking forward to this weekend's shows, by arriving hours early decked out in lots of "Bejeweled" outfits and letting out thunderous applause — even through pretty heavy rain during Saturday's concert.

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Rain show: 'a full deluge that never let up'.

All week, the forecast suggested that Saturday would bring rain, raising the prospect of a repeat from Swift's first Gillette Stadium show: a concert in the rain. And sure enough, the weather delivered.

In an Instagram post that garnered over 5 million likes, Swift thanked the "iconic crowd" at Gillette for dancing in the rain Saturday for an entire 3.5-hour-long concert .

"We’ve had rain shows at Gillette Stadium before but this was a full on deluge that never let up," Swift wrote. "I just want to thank that iconic crowd!!"

Swift appeared absolutely drenched during Saturday's show, but it didn't stop her from delivering exhilarating performances of many fan favorites. She even at one point was splashing water off the surface of her piano. The rain also didn't seem to stop the Swifties from enjoying themselves, ponchos and all.

"The fans and crowds in the New England, Boston, Foxboro, Massachusetts, area do not care if it rains. In fact, that kind of makes it more fun for you," Swift told the crowd. "And it makes it more fun for us because we just know that you guys are wild, you guys are just wild. You guys are up for it. And I love you so much for that, thank you."

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'I Didn't Play That'

During Sunday night's show, as Swift was seated at her piano, the instrument began to play notes on its own.

Swift looked shocked, asking the audience, "Do you hear that, too?"

It was speculated that the piano was damaged or waterlogged by the torrential rain on Saturday, somehow leading it to play notes on its own.

Extensive Set List, With Surprise Songs

Swift's career — which kickstarted with her eponymous country debut album in 2006 — has been marked by distinct periods that showcase the singer's evolving musical style, outlook and fashion. The Eras Tour takes fans on a journey through those periods, featuring songs from throughout her career.

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Here's the Eras Tour setlist broken up by album, as reported by The Boston Globe — including her surprise songs during each night at Gillette.

• Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
• Cruel Summer
• You Need to Calm Down
• You Belong With Me
• ‘tis the damn season
• champagne problems
• tolerate it
• ...Ready for It?
• Don’t Blame Me
• Look What You Made Me Do
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• I Knew You Were Trouble
• Nothing New (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
• All Too Well (10-Minute Version)
• the last great american dynasty
• illicit affairs
• my tears ricochet
• Blank Space
• Shake It Off
• Wildest Dreams

Surprise songs

Night 1: Friday

• Should’ve Said No

Night 2: Saturday

• Question...?

Night 3: Sunday

• I Think He Knows
• Lavender Haze
• Midnight Rain
• Vigilante Sh*t

Who Was in the Crowd

In addition to the tens of thousands of fans, there were a couple of celebrities spotted at the round of Gillette shows this weekend — including Patriots quarterback Mac Jones and TODAY co-host Jenna Bush Hager .

Swift Says Her Life Finally 'Makes Sense'

During one of her concerts at Gillette over the weekend, Swift shared some good news with her fans .

“I’ve just never been this happy in my life in all aspects of my life ever," she said. "And I just want to thank you for being a part of that,” she told the crowd. “It’s not just a tour, I just sort of feel like my life finally feels like it makes sense.”

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Drop Everything! Taylor Swift Just Announced the First Dates For Her Reputation Tour

We hope you're sitting down right now, because Taylor Swift just unveiled some big news. Less than a week after dropping her sixth album, Reputation , the singer announced the first round of dates for her Reputation stadium tour. The general public sale kicks off on Dec. 13 (aka Swift's birthday), but dedicated Swifties will be able to purchase tickets in advance through the Ticketmaster Verified Fan program . But you better hurry! Registration for the program closes on Nov. 28. If you're not in the Unites States or Canada, don't fret, dates for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand will be announced at a later time.

May 8: Glendale, AZ, University of Phoenix Stadium

May 12: Santa Clara, CA, Levi's Stadium

May 19: Pasadena, CA, Rose Bowl

May 22: Seattle, WA, CenturyLink Field

May 25: Denver, CO, Sports Authority Field At Mile High

June 2: Chicago, IL, Soldier Field

June 30: Louisville, KY, Papa John's Cardinal Stadium

July 7: Columbus, OH, Ohio Stadium

July 10: Washington DC, FedEx Field

July 14: Philadelphia, PA, Lincoln Financial Field

July 17: Cleveland, OH, First Energy Stadium

July 21: East Rutherford, NJ, MetLife Stadium

July 28: Foxborough, MA, Gillette Stadium

Aug. 4: Toronto, ON, Rogers Centre

Aug. 7: Pittsburgh, PA, Heinz Field

Aug. 11: Atlanta, GA, Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Aug. 14: Tampa, FL, Raymond James Stadium

Aug. 18: Miami, FL, Hard Rock Stadium

Aug. 25: Nashville, TN, Nissan Stadium

Aug. 28: Detroit, MI, Ford Field

Sept. 1: Minneapolis, MN, U.S. Bank Stadium

Sept. 8: Kansas City, MO, Arrowhead Stadium

Sept. 15: Indianapolis, IN, Lucas Oil Stadium

Sept. 18: St. Louis, MO, The Dome at America's Center

Sept. 22: New Orleans, LA, Mercedes-Benz Superdome

Sept. 29: Houston, TX, NRG Stadium

Oct. 6: Arlington, TX, AT&T Stadium

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Taylor swift's reputation stadium tour, & why it was the most incredible show i have ever experienced, sean patrick coyle , neighbor.

This past weekend, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour at Gillette Stadium. For years, Ms. Swift has been gracing Massachusetts with her presence, and every summer I always say I’m going to go but never do; this summer was the summer that I finally did. And boy oh boy, was it worth it. It goes without saying that she gave an absolutely incredible, unforgettable performance. Seeing her perform “Reputation” live gave me a new perspective, enabled me to experience the album in a brand-new way, and breathed life into an already beautiful, sonically cohesive & finely calibrated record.

When Taylor announced pre-sale tickets back in December, I immediately signed up for her clever marketing scheme so that I would be among the first to know when to get tickets. After listening to the latest album, I knew I absolutely could not miss this show; although Taylor Swift was never really my favorite artist until “1989” was released, I have always admired her as a person, and truly believe she is one of few All-American celebrities who is genuinely appreciative of her fans; she understands that without them, her career wouldn’t be possible. Further, she is someone who doesn’t rely on sex to sell her music, and someone who is positive, authentic and real that people can look up to as a positive role model. What I love most about Taylor Swift, is that she is genuinely excited about making music that is based on real experiences & feelings that others can easily relate to. She is a prime example of how working hard towards something you are truly passionate about can pay off and lead to great success and admiration. Seeing her in concert would absolutely rock my world, and I was determined to attend.

I can literally remember exactly where I was and exactly how I felt when she released “Look What You Made Me Do”, the lead single off “Reputation”. I was living in a Brownstone in Allston-Brighton that I had just recently moved into, and was lying in bed at about 12 in the morning when the song dropped on Spotify. I remember getting goosebumps within the first ten seconds of hearing the track. Chills ran up and down my arms and back, and I felt haunted by the sound and lyrics. I can distinctly remember relating heavily to the lyrics - it felt as though the song was written specifically about my life situation and what I was going through at the time, even though it obviously wasn’t. I knew from that moment that her latest album was going to be huge. “Huge” is definitely a massive understatement as to how incredible this record is - however, I’m lacking in creativity at the moment to think of a more illustrious word to describe it with. Suffice to say, I have been obsessed with “Reputation” since its release.

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My first task was to find friends who liked Taylor Swift and who were willing and able to shell out money to go to her concert. Obviously, someone who isn’t a fan of hers wouldn’t want to go to her show given the cost of tickets, parking, and food & drinks at the stadium. What's more, is that I knew if I was going to this concert, I was investing in good seats, and would not settle for the nosebleeds. This part was a little bit of a challenge, as a great majority of my friend’s dislike TSwift for one reason or another - “she’s too nice”, “her kindness is fake”, “her music sucks”, “she’s not genuine”, etc. As if anyone actually knows what celebrities are like in real life; I think it’s important to note that the people who say Taylor Swift isn’t kind or genuine, or that she’s a fake person, are the exact same people that will turn around and say Nicki Minaj and Kim Kardashian are the epitome of authenticity. HAAAAA! As if.

Despite this obstacle, I was determined to find even one friend to go to the show with - it’s the one performance in recent memory that I absolutely could not miss. It’s the one concert that I would have been emotionally devastated had I not attended, and would honestly have cried myself to sleep all three nights with the knowledge that she was performing and I wasn’t able to be there. TSwift’s music literally makes me feel so many emotions, and to see her perform live would legitimately be a dream come true. Thankfully, my friend & housemate Seana is equally as big a fan as I, so we decided to go to the concert together.

I spent Saturday leading up to the concert making preparations: I listened exclusively to TSwift music throughout the day, and made a sign that said “Taylor Swift: I LOVE your Reputation” & “Taylor Swift: You’ll never go out of style!” - unfortunately, I wound up not taking the sign with me to the show because it was too big, and security likely would have made me throw it away. Such a shame, because it was a wicked cute sign. Regardless, I was super excited all day, and made sure my look was on fleek for the concert that night. This includes my “I’ve been day drinking Yellow Tail pinot grigio all day to pregame this concert”, look. Also, I just want to note that I literally lost my Ray Ban’s BEFORE I even left for the concert - absolutely no idea how that happened.

Once Seana got home from work & assembled her outfit, we were off to Foxborough. She literally looked beyond Gorgeous - picture Kendall Jenner in blonde form. She wore a sexy black cropped tank, paired with black fishnets and destroyed ripped jeans, Calvin Klein underwear & black boots. Literally, she looked exactly like what you would expect a fan of Taylor Swift to look like - scroll down if you want to see the photos. I myself looked kind of like a 16 year old attending their first concert - but I may have just felt that way because it was my first Taylor Swift Concert, and because it was my first time seeing a concert at a massive stadium. I wore ripped Abercrombie booty shorts, a shirt that said “Dream Junkie”, and was dripped in crystals from Swarovski.

Surprisingly enough, there wasn’t that much traffic getting there, and we only had to park a mile away from the stadium. We didn’t get to the parking lot until maybe like 6-6:30 and thought we were running late since Charli XCX was opening at 7 - but when we got there, there were still tons of people in the parking lot pregaming, barbequing, and having a great time. God I love Gillette Stadium.

Once we ventured to the stadium and found our seats, we went to grab a couple of overpriced Twisted Teas, and of course some T-Swift merch. My “Dream Junkie” tee was quickly replaced with a $40 “Reputation” tee, and Seana & I both bought matching “Reputation” posters. We sat down and were treated to two amazing performances by Charli XCX and Camila Cabello, both of whom fit right in with the vibe of the show. Charli’s futuristic pop sound and Camila’s high energy & Pat’s jersey definitely won both over with the crowd. The pair served great as an energy lift for everyone entering the stadium.

Then came the main event: TAYLOR SWIFT! “We’re back!”, she exclaimed as she opened the show with “...Ready For It?”, which is pretty much exactly what I expected her to do - and I loved it, because I really wasn’t even ready for how dazzling and awe inspiring this concert really truly was. She played pretty much every song on “Reputation”, and the show itself was decked with all kinds of props, decorations, and special effects, including an impressive firework display at the end of the show, and at certain points throughout. Swift also moved around to different stages throughout the stadium via a lit up platform and a giant cobra.

In terms of production, no expense or idea was spared. Everyone in the audience received light up wristbands as we entered the stadium, which lit up throughout the night in various patterns and designs. She performed in front of two gigantic, drive-in movie size screens that moved and changed scenes throughout the course of the night. The most impressive feature of this show, was the serpent theme: snakes were displayed prominently on all of the screens, and the stage itself was populated with gigantic, gilded, blowup cobras and slithery pythons. The snake symbolism derives from a feud between Swift and the Kardashians in 2016 - essentially, Kim Kardashian West shared a series of videos on Snapchat (and eventually, her “Reality” show), that appeared to depict her husband, Kanye West, discussing controversial lyrics to the song “Famous” on the phone with Swift. It appeared from the videos that Taylor approved of the lyrics, however, prior to the surfacing of the videos, she claimed she never approved of Kanye calling her a “bitch” - which, she never explicitly stated in the videos that she approved, so I’m with her. The release of these videos led to trashy Kim Kartrashian and her band of mindless followers to refer to Ms. Swift as a “snake”, hence the theme of the tour.

In between songs, Swift also took time to talk to the audience about the meaning behind the music. She went into great detail about her artistic process and how she has fine tuned it throughout her career. She explained her evolution and what brought her to write “Reputation” - she as well encouraged the audience not to let the opinions of others to get them down, especially when it’s from people whom you don’t know that also don’t know you or your story, and are making comments about you based on hearsay or jealousy. Per Swift, “You shouldn’t care so much if you feel misunderstood by a lot of people who don’t know you, as long as you feel understood by people who do know you, who will show up for you, the people who see you as a human being…it’s you. You did that for me.”

Seana and I left Gillette Stadium after Taylor finished off the night with "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things", both feeling inspired and in awe of the show that we had just witnessed. We both felt energized from the production values, the dancing, the sights, the sounds, and especially, all of the other excited fans that were in the audience; we literally couldn't stop talking about it as we sat in traffic on our way home. I emphasized how happy and thankful I was that we were able to attend, as I hadn't seen a show that impressive since I had seen Madonna at the DCU Center back in 2004. This show re-affirmed my love for Taylor Swift, and the price that I paid for tickets and everything else felt completely justified. It really is an amazing experience when you are able to see and hear your favorite artist perform your favorite songs in person, live on stage. I am so happy and blessed that I was able to have this opportunity, and will hopefully be attending more of her shows in the future.

“...Ready For It?”

“I Did Something Bad”

“Style”/”Love Story”/”You Belong With Me”

“Look What You Made Me Do”

“King of My Heart”

“Shake It Off”

“Dancing With Our Hands Tied”

“All Too Well”

“Blank Space”

“Bad Blood”/ “Should’ve Said No”

“Don’t Blame Me”

“Long Live”/ “New Year’s Day”

“Getaway Car”

“Call It What You Want”

“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”/”This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”

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How long before the show to get there?

If you’re one of the lucky ones who got the nearly-instantly-sold-out train tickets, you don’t have to worry. But if you’re driving to Gillette, make sure you plan ahead. If you don’t want to miss the opener at 6:30 p.m., consider trying to arrive closer to when the lots open at 2:30. Parking at the stadium itself requires a (sold out) prepaid pass, but if you have one, you’re guaranteed a spot. Otherwise, there’s general parking across from the stadium that ticket holders can use, but again, get there early if you want to get a spot. Gillette also warns that people attending Friday’s show leave even earlier to beat rush hour traffic.

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What’s the best way to beat Gillette traffic?

The show’s over and you’re ready to take off like you’re in a getaway car . But much like Taylor said in that song off her Reputation album, “You’ll never get far.” Since there’s only one way in and out of the stadium , there will be tons of cars flooding the road at once, so you’ll probably spend more time asking the traffic lights if it’ll be alright (or if you’ll ever get home). If you’re thinking of sneaking out down a side road, don’t: Many of them are closed during events unless you’re a resident. (Now is the time to see which of your friends live in Foxborough and has a driveway you can borrow.)

Stadium lots also close right after the show, so waiting out the traffic isn’t really an option. Your best bet is seeing if someone in neighboring Walpole will rent you a parking spot at their home (it’s possible) and walking 25 minutes to the stadium (and back) or perhaps leaving the show a little early—if you can stand to miss the Midnights songs Swift closes with or one of her surprise (!) numbers.

What should I bring? What should I leave at home?

Let’s be honest: You’re going to want to be getting down to these sick beats , so you don’t want to worry about bringing and keeping track of a ton of items. Gillette also has a strict bag policy that will be in effect which means you can’t carry much in anyways. Only small wristlets, clear bags no bigger than 12-inch by 12-inch by 6-inch, and one-gallon plastic freezer bags are allowed in, so consider packing the basics like a portable phone charger and earplugs. (Trust, it’ll get loud.) But leave the fancy camera and umbrella at home, or else you won’t be able to stay, stay, stay .

Save yourself a massive headache and skip the merch.

Unless it’s really worth it to you to be able to walk out in the much-coveted Eras Tour sweatshirt , you might be better off ordering online than waiting to buy in-person (even though this merch will surely never go out of style ). If you really need a tour poster, don’t settle for waiting in the first hyper-long line you see. Some stands will have shorter lines than others, so it could be worth it to hunt those down. Otherwise, consider making and trading friendship bracelets (a nod to the iconic lyric “So make the friendship bracelets” in “You’re on Your Own, Kid”) with other fans. Many are doing this and it’s a much more personal touch than a T-shirt everyone else will have.

Eat beforehand, hydrate throughout, and don’t skip your bathroom breaks.

Gillette doesn’t let you bring in food or drinks , so best to eat and hydrate before you get inside. There’s plenty of restaurants at Patriots Place. Or you can join in on a time-honored football tradition and tailgate (or might we say Tay-gate?) before the show, an opportunity to mingle with fellow fans and enjoy some breakfast at midnight (I mean, 4 p.m.). Just don’t have any open flames. (They’re against stadium policy.)

When it comes to the issue of bathroom breaks, fans on TikTok have been sharing their tips since the tour opened in March on how to get in a quick visit without missing much of the show. The short version is this: Go before the show starts, drink in small sips (but make sure you’re staying hydrated) and check the setlist to find a scheduled time to make a break (many recommend after “Enchanted” during the long intro to the Red segment of the show). Maybe skip the cheap-ass screw-top rose or other alcoholic beverages that’ll make you have to go.

What to wear: comfy shoes, minimal layers, and lots of sparkle.

Eager Swifties have been crafting their costumes for this show for months, whether they’re mimicking one of Taylor’s iconic outfits—like the Junior Jewels T-shirt from the “You Belong with Me” music video—or channeling her sparkly tour aesthetic with some sequined gear and a signature red lip. Fans who’ve already attended recommend layers and comfy shoes, as you’ll surely be shaking it off and getting a little sweaty. Forecasts for the weekend also show the possibility of some midnight rain , so a jacket isn’t a bad idea either.

If you don’t have tickets, don’t try to sit outside.

Taylor Swift fans in Philly made headlines earlier this week for lining up outside the stadium to listen to her performance without paying the price of a ticket (though they did miss out on the stunning visuals and Swift’s sparkly costumes). But if you’re hoping to hunker down in Patriot Place and get a free show, think again. Staff will be checking tickets to make sure only attendees are parking in the lots, so don’t expect to do some vigilante shit to eavesdrop on the grounds.

Remember: It’s a concert. Have fun.

Don’t bother getting angry at the person in your aisle who gets up and squeezes by you four times during the over three-hour show. Instead, just enjoy everyone holding up their phone lights as Taylor sings “Marjorie,” the wind literally blowing in your hair and enacting the lyrics during the ten-minute version of “All Too Well,” or screaming “HE LOOKS UP GRINNING LIKE A DEVIL” with a bunch of other people who love the same music you do. Take it from someone who saw Taylor Sunday in Philly  (and from Taylor herself)— you need to calm down if you want to have a good time.

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• Song played from tape Bad Reputation ( Joan Jett and the Blackhearts  song) Play Video
• Song played from tape reputation ( Video Introduction ) Play Video
• ...Ready for It? Play Video
• I Did Something Bad Play Video
• Gorgeous Play Video
• Style / Love Story / You Belong With Me Play Video
• Song played from tape Look What You Made Me Do ( Video Interlude ) Play Video
• Look What You Made Me Do ( with Tiffany Haddish speech ) Play Video
• End Game ( Shortened ) Play Video
• King of My Heart ( with extended outro ) Play Video
• Delicate Play Video
• Shake It Off ( with Charli XCX and Camila Cabello ) Play Video
• So It Goes... ( Acoustic ) Play Video
• Ours ( Acoustic, Tour debut ) Play Video
• Blank Space Play Video
• Dress Play Video
• Bad Blood / Should've Said No Play Video
• Don't Blame Me Play Video
• Long Live / New Year's Day ( On piano ) Play Video
• Song played from tape Why She Disappeared ( Video Interlude, sequel to "Out of the Woods" music video ) Play Video
• Getaway Car Play Video
• Call It What You Want Play Video
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together / This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Play Video

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• Bad Blood / Should've Said No
• Long Live / New Year's Day
• Style / Love Story / You Belong With Me
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together / This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
• Blank Space
• Shake It Off

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Reputation Stadium Tour

• 1 Netflix original
• 3 Critical review
• 4 Awards and nominations
• 6 Setlist changes
• 7 Surprise songs
• 8 Special guests
• 10 Tour dates

Netflix original [ ]

On December 13, 2018, Taylor thanked everyone for her birthday wishes on Instagram and also announced that there was going to be a tour movie for the Reputation Stadium Tour that would be released on New Year's Eve, titled Taylor Swift: reputation Stadium Tour . It was filmed at the last Dallas/Arlington show, which was the final US leg date. It featured the surprise song " All Too Well ".

Taylor Swift designed her own stage, complete with an elevator, and a rapid changing room for her eight costumes.

The main screen was 110 feet tall and and made of 12 columns and 1,5OO LED tiles that split into 49 individual screens that moved depending on the song. The stage design is an X shape and it also features a B & C Stage that Taylor accessed with the floating constellation and snake gondolas during " Delicate " and the " Bad Blood "/" Should've Said No " mashup. The band played right behind the main screen and during certain parts of the show, the screen opened and the audience could see them.

During " Look What You Made Me Do ", there was a giant inflatable snake named Karyn on the stage as well as smaller inflatable snakes on the B & C Stage and for the show encore, a water fountain was installed on stage. There were also fire, smoke and fireworks effects throughout the show from the stage. The LED bracelets distributed to the attendees were interactive with the songs and stage visuals.

Critical review [ ]

"This might be her most astounding tour yet – even when she’s aiming for maximum stadium-rock razzle-dazzle bombast, she gives it all the vibe of a mass communion." - Rolling Stone

Awards and nominations [ ]

The Reputation Stadium Tour won five awards from eight nominations.

Set list [ ]

Official set list for the tour.

• " ...Ready For It? "
• " I Did Something Bad "
• " Gorgeous "
• " Style " / " Love Story " / " You Belong with Me "
• " Look What You Made Me Do "
• " End Game "
• " King of My Heart "
• " Delicate "
• " Shake It Off " (with Charli XCX and Camila Cabello )
• " Dancing With Our Hands Tied " (" So It Goes... " played at some shows)
• Surprise Song
• " Blank Space "
• " Bad Blood " / " Should've Said No "
• " Don't Blame Me "
• " Long Live " / " New Year's Day "
• Why She Disappeared (spoken poem interlude)
• " Getaway Car "
• " Call It What You Want "
• " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together " / " This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things "

Setlist changes [ ]

• On July 10, July 14, July 22, and many other dates, Swift performed " So It Goes... " instead of " Dancing With Our Hands Tied ".
• On July 14, Swift performed " Our Song " and " Wildest Dreams " a cappella after the levitating gondola used during " Delicate " malfunctioned. She did not go by the first B stage or do the crowd walk, and instead did every song she would've performed on the first B stage, on the C stage.
• On July 21, Swift performed " Clean " before the " Long Live "/" New Year's Day " mashup, because it was raining.

Surprise songs [ ]

The following songs were performed by Swift after " Dancing With Our Hands Tied ". The songs changed each night. A playlist of every surprise song is featured on streaming platforms called "Reputation Stadium Tour Surprise Songs Playlist".

• Glendale: " All Too Well "
• Santa Clara night one: " Wildest Dreams "
• Santa Clara night two: " The Best Day "
• Pasadena night one: " Red "
• Seattle: " Holy Ground "
• Denver: " Teardrops on My Guitar "
• Chicago night one: " Our Song "
• Chicago night two: " 22 "
• Manchester night one: " I Knew You Were Trouble "
• Manchester night two: " I Don't Wanna Live Forever "
• Dublin night one: " Mean "
• Dublin night two: " How You Get the Girl "
• London night one: " So It Goes... "
• London night two: " Fifteen "
• Louisville: " Mine "
• Columbus: " Sparks Fly "
• Landover night one: " State of Grace "
• Landover night two: " Haunted "
• Philadelphia night one: " Never Grow Up "
• Philadelphia night two: " Treacherous "
• Cleveland: " Babe "
• East Rutherford night one: " Welcome to New York "
• East Rutherford night two: " Fearless "
• East Rutherford night three: " Enchanted "
• Foxborough night one: " 22 "
• Foxborough night two: " Change "
• Foxborough night three: " Ours "
• Toronto night one: " Out of the Woods "
• Toronto night two: " Come Back... Be Here "
• Pittsburgh: " A Place in This World "
• Atlanta night one: " This Love "
• Atlanta night two: " The Lucky One "
• Tampa: " Invisible "
• Miami Gardens: " Breathe "
• Nashville: " Better Man "
• Detroit: " Jump Then Fall "
• Minneapolis night one: " Begin Again "
• Minneapolis night two: " Tied Together with a Smile "
• Kansas City: " The Story of Us "
• Indianapolis: " Forever & Always "
• St. Louis: " Hey Stephen "
• New Orleans: " Speak Now "
• Houston: " Wonderland "
• Arlington night one: " White Horse "
• Arlington night two: " All Too Well "
• Perth: " I Knew You Were Trouble "
• Melbourne: " I'm Only Me When I'm with You "
• Sydney: " 22 "
• Brisbane: " Starlight "
• Auckland: " Out of the Woods "
• Tokyo night one: " I Know Places "
• Tokyo night two: " Wildest Dreams "

Special guests [ ]

These artists joined Taylor on stage to sing a song together as a surprise to the fans.

• May 18, 2018 - Pasadena, California - Shawn Mendes - " There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back "
• May 19, 2018 - Pasadena, California - Troye Sivan - " My My My! "
• May 19, 2018 - Pasadena, California - Selena Gomez - " Hands To Myself "
• June 22, 2018 - London, England - Niall Horan - " Slow Hands "
• June 23, 2018 - London, England - Robbie Williams - " Angels "
• July 26, 2018 - Foxborough, Massachusetts - Hayley Kiyoko - " Curious "
• August 4, 2018 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Bryan Adams - " Summer of '69 "
• August 25, 2018 - Nashville, Tennessee - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill - " Tim McGraw "
• October 5, 2018 - Arlington, Texas - Maren Morris - " The Middle "
• October 6, 2018 - Arlington, Texas - Sugarland - " Babe "

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Tour dates [ ].

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Taylor Swift Announces More Dates For 'Reputation' Stadium Tour

The GRAMMY-winner pumps up her North American tour with seven additional dates across the U.S.

With an already massive tour planned in support of her sixth album, Reputation , Taylor Swift has given her fans even more opportunities to catch her live in 2018 by adding seven U.S. dates to her Reputation stadium tour.

The announcement comes the same week Reputation reclaimed the top spot on the Billboard 200, after being temporarily dethroned by Eminem 's Revival . Swift's Reputation tour was already on track to be one of the most talked-about tours of the year.

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The newly announced dates will expand the tour to add an additional show in each of these seven cities: Santa Clara, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Rutherford, N. J.; Foxborough, Mass.; Minneapolis, Minn.; and Arlington, Texas.

Advance ticket sales for the added dates will begin for fans registered for the Taylor Swift Presale via Ticketmaster Verified Fan starting on Jan. 5 and continuing through Jan.18. Tickets for the general public will go on-sale Jan. 31.

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Behind Ryan Tedder's Hits: Stories From The Studio With OneRepublic, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift & More

As OneRepublic releases their latest album, the group's frontman and pop maverick gives an inside look into some of the biggest songs he's written — from how Beyoncé operates to Tom Cruise's prediction for their 'Top Gun' smash.

Three months after OneRepublic began promoting their sixth album, Artificial Paradise , in February 2022, the band unexpectedly had their biggest release in nearly a decade. The pop-rock band's carefree jam, "I Ain't Worried," soundtracked Top Gun: Maverick 's most memeable scene and quickly became a global smash — ultimately delaying album plans in favor of promoting their latest hit.

Two years later, "I Ain't Worried" is one of 16 tracks on Artificial Paradise , which arrived July 12. It's a seamless blend of songs that will resonate with longtime and newer fans alike. From the layered production of "Hurt," to the feel-good vibes of "Serotonin," to the evocative lyrics of "Last Holiday," Artificial Paradise shows that OneRepublic's sound is as dialed-in as it is ever-evolving.

The album also marks the end of an era for OneRepublic, as it's the last in their contract with Interscope Records. But for the group's singer, Ryan Tedder , that means the future is even more exciting than it's been in their entire 15-year career.

"I've never been more motivated to write the best material of my life than this very moment," he asserts. "I'm taking it as a challenge. We've had a lot of fun, and a lot of uplifting records for the last seven or eight years, but I also want to tap back into some deeper material with the band."

As he's been prepping Artificial Paradise with his OneRepublic cohorts, Tedder has also been as busy as he's ever been working with other artists. His career as a songwriter/producer took off almost simultaneously with OneRepublic's 2007 breakthrough, "Apologize" (his first major behind-the-board hit was Leona Lewis ' "Bleeding Love"); to this day he's one of the go-to guys for pop's biggest names, from BLACKPINK to Tate McRae .

Tedder sat down with GRAMMY.com to share some of his most prominent memories of OneRepublic's biggest songs, as well as some of the hits he's written with Beyoncé , Adele , Taylor Swift and more.

OneRepublic — "Apologize," 'Dreaming Out Loud' (2007)

I was producing and writing other songs for different artists on Epic and Atlantic — I was just cutting my teeth as a songwriter in L.A. This is like 2004. I was at my lowest mentally and financially. I was completely broke. Creditors chasing me, literally dodging the taxman and getting my car repoed, everything.

I had that song in my back pocket for four years. A buddy of mine just reminded me last month, a songwriter from Nashville — Ashley Gorley , actually. We had a session last month, me, him and Amy Allen , and he brought it up. He was like, "Is it true, the story about 'Apologize'? You were completely broke living in L.A. and Epic Records offered you like 100 grand or something just for the right to record the song on one of their artists?"

And that is true. It was, like, 20 [grand], then 50, then 100. And I was salivating. I was, like, I need this money so bad . And I give so many songs to other people, but with that song, I drew a line in the sand and said, "No one will sing this song but me. I will die with this song." 

It was my story, and I just didn't want anyone else to sing it. It was really that simple. It was a song about my past relationships, it was deeply personal. And it was also the song that — I spent two years trying to figure out what my sound was gonna be. I was a solo artist… and I wasn't landing on anything compelling. Then I landed on "Apologize" and a couple of other songs, and I was like, These songs make me think of a band, not solo artist material. So it was the song that led me to the sound of OneRepublic, and it also led me to the idea that I should start a band and not be a solo artist.

We do it every night. I'll never not do it. I've never gotten sick of it once. Every night that we do it, whether I'm in Houston or Hong Kong, I look out at the crowd and look at the band, and I'm like, Wow. This is the song that got us here.

Beyoncé — "Halo," 'I Am…Sacha Fierce' (2008)

We were halfway through promoting Dreaming Out Loud , our first album. I played basketball every day on tour, and I snapped my Achilles. The tour got canceled. The doctor told me not to even write. And I had this one sliver of an afternoon where my wife had to run an errand. And because I'm sadistic and crazy, I texted [songwriter] Evan Bogart, "I got a three-hour window, race over here. Beyoncé called me and asked me to write her a song. I want to do it with you." He had just come off his huge Rihanna No. 1, and we had an Ashley Tisdale single together.

When you write enough songs, not every day do the clouds part and God looks down on you and goes, "Here." But that's what happened on that day. I turn on the keyboard, the first sound that I play is the opening sound of the song. Sounds like angels singing. And we wrote the song pretty quick, as I recall. 

I didn't get a response [from Beyoncé after sending "Halo" over], which I've now learned is very, very typical of her. I did Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé "II MOST WANTED" [from COWBOY CARTER ] — I didn't know that was coming out 'til five days before it came out. And when I did "XO" [from 2013's Beyoncé ], I found out that "XO" was coming out 12 hours before it came out. That's how she operates.

OneRepublic — "Good Life," 'Waking Up' (2009)

["Good Life"] was kind of a Hail Mary. We already knew that "All the Right Moves" would be the first single [from Waking Up ]. We knew that "Secrets" was the second single. And in the 11th hour, our engineer at the time — who I ended up signing as a songwriter, Noel Zancanella — had this drum loop that he had made, and he played it for Brent [Kutzle] in our band. Brent said, "You gotta hear this drum loop that Noel made. It's incredible."

He played it for me the next morning, and I was like, "Yo throw some chords to this. I'm writing to this today." They threw some chords down, and the first thing out of my mouth was, [ sings ] "Oh, this has gotta be the good life." 

It's the perfect example of, oftentimes, the chord I've tried to strike with this band with some of our bigger records, [which] is happy sad. Where you feel nostalgic and kind of melancholic, but at the same time, euphoric. That's what those chords and that melody did for me.

I was like, "Hey guys, would it be weird if I made the hook a whistle?" And everyone was like, "No! Do not whistle!" They're like, "Name the last hit song that had a whistle." And the only one I could think of was, like, Scorpion from like, 1988. [ Laughs .] So I thought, To hell with it, man, it's been long enough, who cares? Let's try it. And the whistle kind of made the record. It became such a signature thing.

Adele — "Rumour Has It," '21' (2011)

"Rumour Has It" was the first song I did in probably a four year period, with any artist, that wasn't a ballad. All any artist ever wanted me to write with them or for them, was ballads, because of "Halo," and "Apologize" and "Bleeding Love."

I begged [Adele] to do a [song with] tempo, because we did "Turning Tables," another ballad. She was in a feisty mood [that day], so I was like, "Okay, we're doing a tempo today!"

Rick Rubin was originally producing the whole album. I was determined to produce Adele, not just write — because I wanted a shot to show her that I could, and to show myself. I stayed later after she left, and I remember thinking, What can I do in this record in this song that could be so difficult to reproduce that it might land me the gig?

So I intentionally muted the click track, changed the tempo, and [created that] whole piano bridge. I was making it up as I went. When she got in that morning. I said, "I have a crazy idea for a bridge. It's a movie." She listens and she says, "This is really different, I like this! How do we write to this?" 

I mean, it was very difficult. [But] we finished the song. She recorded the entire song that day. She recorded the whole song in one take. I've never seen anyone do that in my life — before or since.

Then I didn't hear from her for six months. Because I handed over the files, and Rick Rubin's doing it, so I don't need to check on it. I randomly check on the status of the song — and at this point, if you're a songwriter or producer, you're assuming that they're not keeping the songs. Her manager emails my manager, "Hey, good news — she's keeping both songs they did, and she wants Ryan to finish 'Rumour Has It' production and mix it." 

When I finally asked her, months later — probably at the GRAMMYs — I said, "Why didn't [Rick] do it?" She said, "Oh he did. It's that damn bridge! Nobody could figure out what the hell you were doing…It was so problematic that we just gave up on it."

OneRepublic — "Counting Stars," 'Native' (2013)

I was in a Beyoncé camp in the Hamptons writing for the self-titled album. [There were] a bunch of people in the house — me, Greg Kurstin , Sia — it was a fun group of people. I had four days there, and every morning I'd get up an hour and a half before I had to leave, make a coffee, and start prepping for the day. On the third day, I got up, I'm in the basement of this house at like 7 in the morning, and I'm coming up with ideas. I stumble across that chord progression, the guitar and the melody. It was instant shivers up my spine.  

"Lately I've been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be" is the only line that I had. [My] first thought was, I should play this for Beyoncé , and then I'm listening to it and going, This is not Beyoncé, not even remotely. It'd be a waste. So I tabled it, and I texted the guys in my band, "Hey, I think I have a potentially really big record. I'm going to finish it when I get back to Denver."

I got back the next week, started recording it, did four or five versions of the chorus, bouncing all the versions off my wife, and then eventually landed it. And when I played it for the band, they were like, "This is our favorite song."

Taylor Swift — "Welcome to New York," '1989' (2014)

It was my second session with Taylor. The first one was [ 1989 's] "I Know Places," and she sent me a voice memo. I was looking for a house in Venice [California], because we were spending so much time in L.A. So that whole memory is attached to me migrating back to Los Angeles.  

But I knew what she was talking about, because I lived in New York, and I remember the feeling — endless possibilities, all the different people and races and sexes and loves. That was her New York chapter. She was so excited to be there. If you never lived there, and especially if you get there and you've got a little money in the pocket, it is so exhilarating.

It was me just kind of witnessing her brilliant, fast-paced, lyrical wizardry. [Co-producer] Max [Martin] and I had a conversation nine months later at the GRAMMYs, when we had literally just won for 1989 . He kind of laughed, he pointed to all the other producers on the album, and he's like, "If she had, like, three more hours in the day, she would just figure out what we do and she would do it. And she wouldn't need any of us." 

And I still think that's true. Some people are just forces of nature in and among themselves, and she's one of them. She just blew me away. She's the most talented top liner I've ever been in a room with, bar none. If you're talking lyric and melody, I've never been in a room with anyone faster, more adept, knows more what they want to say, focused, efficient, and just talented.

Jonas Brothers — "Sucker," 'Happiness Begins' (2019)

I had gone through a pretty dry spell mentally, emotionally. I had just burned it at both ends and tapped out, call it end of 2016. So, really, all of 2017 for me was a blur and a wash. I did a bunch of sessions in the first three months of the year, and then I just couldn't get a song out. I kept having, song after song, artists telling me it's the first single, [then] the song was not even on the album. I had never experienced that in my career.

I went six to nine months without finishing a song, which for me is unheard of. Andrew Watt kind of roped me back into working with him. We did "Easier" for 5 Seconds of Summer , and we did some Sam Smith and some Miley Cyrus, and right in that same window, I did this song "Sucker." Two [or] three months later, Wendy Goldstein from Republic [Records] heard the record, I had sent it to her. She'd said, very quietly, "We're relaunching the Jonas Brothers . They want you to be involved in a major way. Do you have anything?" 

She calls me, she goes, "Ryan, do not play this for anybody else. This is their comeback single. It's a No. 1 record. Watch what we're gonna do." And she delivered.

OneRepublic — "I Ain't Worried," 'Top Gun: Maverick' Soundtrack (2022)

My memory is, being in lockdown in COVID, and just being like, Who knows when this is going to end , working out of my Airstream at my house. I had done a lot of songs for movies over the years, and [for] that particular [song] Randy Spendlove, who runs [music at] Paramount, called me.

I end up Zooming with Tom Cruise [and Top Gun: Maverick director] Jerry Bruckheimer — everybody's in lockdown during post-production. The overarching memory was, Holy cow, I'm doing the scene, I'm doing the song for Top Gun . I can't believe this is happening. But the only way I knew how to approach it, rather than to, like, overreact and s— the bed, was, It's just another day.

I do prescription songs for movies, TV, film all the time. I love a brief. It's so antithetical to most writers. I'm either uncontrollably lazy or the most productive person you've ever met. And the dividing line between the two is, if I'm chasing some directive, some motivation, some endpoint, then I can be wildly productive.

I just thought, I'm going to do the absolute best thing I can do for this scene and serve the film. OneRepublic being the performing artist was not on the menu in my mind. I just told them, "I think you need a cool indie band sounding, like, breakbeat." I used adjectives to describe what I heard when I saw the scene, and Tom got really ramped and excited. 

You could argue [it's the biggest song] since the band started. The thing about it is, it's kind of become one of those every summer [hits]. And when it blew up, that's what Tom said. He said, "Mark my words, dude. You're gonna have a hit with this every summer for, like, the next 20 years or more." 

And that's what happened. The moment Memorial Day happened, "I Ain't Worried" got defrosted and marched itself back into the top 100.

Tate McRae — "Greedy," 'THINK LATER' (2023)

We had "10:35" [with Tiësto ] the previous year that had been, like, a No. 1 in the UK and across Europe and Australia. So we were coming off the back of that, and the one thing she was clear about was, "That is not the direction of what I want to do."

If my memory serves me correct, "greedy" was the next to last session we had. Everything we had done up to that point was kind of dark, midtempo, emotional. So "greedy" was the weirdo outlier. I kept pushing her to do a dance record. I was like, "Tate, there's a lot of people that have great voices, and there's a lot of people who can write, but none of those people are professional dancers like you are. Your secret weapon is the thing you're not using. In this game and this career, you've got to use every asset that you have and exploit it."

There was a lot of cajoling. On that day, we did it, and I thought it was badass, and loved it. And she was like, "Ugh, what do we just do? What is this?"

So then it was just, like, months, months and months of me constantly bringing that song back up, and playing it for her, and annoying the s— out of her. And she came around on it. 

She has very specific taste. So much of the music with Tate, it really is her steering. I'll do what I think is like a finished version of a song, and then she will push everyone for weeks, if not months, to extract every ounce of everything out of them, to push the song harder, further, edgier — 19 versions of a song, until finally she goes, "Okay, this is the one." She's a perfectionist.

OneRepublic — "Last Holiday," 'Artificial Paradise' (2024)

I love [our latest single] "Hurt," but my favorite song on the album is called "Last Holiday." I probably started the beginning of that lyric, I'm not joking, seven, eight years ago. But I didn't finish it 'til this past year.

The verses are little maxims and words of advice that I've been given throughout the years. It's almost cynical in a way, the song. When I wrote the chorus, I was definitely in kind of a down place. So the opening line is, "So I don't believe in the stars anymore/ They never gave me what I wished for." And it's, obviously, a very not-so-slight reference to "Counting Stars." But it's also hopeful — "We've got some problems, okay, but this isn't our last holiday." 

It's very simple sentiments. Press pause. Take some moments. Find God before it all ends. All these things with this big, soaring chorus. Musically and emotionally and sonically, that song — and "Hurt," for sure — but "Last Holiday" is extremely us-sounding. 

The biggest enemy that we've had over the course of 18 years, I'll be the first to volunteer, is, this ever-evolving, undulating sound. No one's gonna accuse me of making these super complex concept albums, because that's just not how my brain's wired. I grew up listening to the radio. I didn't grow up hanging out in the Bowery in CBGBs listening to Nick Cave . So for us, the downside to that, and for me doing all these songs for all these other people, is the constant push and pull of "What is their sound? What genre is it?" 

I couldn't put a pin in exactly what the sound is, but what I would say is, if you look at the last 18 years, a song like "Last Holiday" really encompasses, sonically, what this band is about. It's very moving, and emotional, and dynamic. It takes me to a place — that's the best way for me to put it. And hopefully the listener finds the same.

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"Let Yourself Be Idiosyncratic": Moby Talks New Album 'Always Centered At Night' & 25 Years Of 'Play'

"We're not writing for a pop audience, we don't need to dumb it down," Moby says of creating his new record. In an interview, the multiple-GRAMMY nominee reflects on his latest album and how it contrasts with his legendary release from 1999.

Moby ’s past and present are converging in a serendipitous way. The multiple-GRAMMY nominee is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his seminal work, Play , the best-selling electronic dance music album of all time, and the release of his latest album, always centered at night .  

Where Play was a solitary creation experience for Moby, always centered at night is wholly collaborative. Recognizable names on the album are Lady Blackbird on the blues-drenched "dark days" and serpentwithfeet on the emotive "on air." But always centered at night ’s features are mainly lesser-known artists, such as the late Benjamin Zephaniah on the liquid jungle sounds of "where is your pride?" and Choklate on the slow grooves of "sweet moon."  

Moby’s music proves to have staying power: His early ‘90s dance hits "Go" and "Next is the E" still rip up dancefloors ; the songs on Play are met with instant emotional reactions from millennials who heard them growing up. Moby is even experiencing a resurgence of sorts with Gen Z. In 2023, Australian drum ‘n’ bass DJ/producer Luude and UK vocalist Issey Cross reimagined Moby’s classic "Porcelain" into "Oh My." Earlier this year, Moby released "You and Me" with Italian DJ/producer Anfisa Letyago .  

Music is just one of Moby’s many creative ventures. He wrote and directed Punk Rock Vegan Movie as well as writing and starring in his homemade documentary, Moby Doc . The two films are produced by his production company, Little Walnut , which also makes music videos, shorts and the podcast "Moby Pod ." Moby and co-host Lindsay Hicks have an eclectic array of guests, from actor Joe Manganiello to Ed Begley, Jr., Steve-O and Hunter Biden. The podcast interviews have led to "some of the most meaningful interpersonal experiences," Moby tells GRAMMY.com.  

A upcoming episode of "Moby Pod" dedicated to Play was taped live over two evenings at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The episode focuses on Moby recounting his singular experiences around the unexpected success of that album — particularly considering the abject failure of his previous album, Animal Rights . The narrative was broken up by acoustic performances of songs from Play , as well as material from Always Centered at Night (which arrives June 14) with special guest Lady Blackbird. Prior to the taping, Moby spoke to GRAMMY.com about both albums.  

'Always centered at night' started as a label imprint then became the title of your latest album. How did that happen?  

I realized pretty quickly that I just wanted to make music and not necessarily worry about being a label boss. Why make more busy work for myself ?

The first few songs were this pandemic process of going to SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube and asking people for recommendations to find voices that I wasn’t familiar with, and then figuring out how to get in touch with them. The vast majority of the time, they would take the music I sent them and write something phenomenal.

That's the most interesting part of working with singers you've never met: You don't know what you're going to get. My only guidance was: Let yourself be creative, let yourself be idiosyncratic, let the lyrics be poetic. We're not writing for a pop audience, we don't need to dumb it down. Although, apparently Lady Blackbird is one of Taylor Swift 's favorite singers .   

Guiding the collaborators away from pop music is an unusual directive, although perhaps not for you?  

What is both sad and interesting is pop has come to dominate the musical landscape to such an extent that it seems a lot of musicians don't know they're allowed to do anything else. Some younger people have grown up with nothing but pop music. Danaé Wellington, who sings "Wild Flame," her first pass of lyrics were pop. I went back to her and said, "Please be yourself, be poetic." And she said, "Well, that’s interesting because I’m the poet laureate of Manchester." So getting her to disregard pop lyrics and write something much more personal and idiosyncratic was actually easy and really special .  

You certainly weren’t going in the pop direction when making 'Play,' but it ended up being an extremely popular album. Did you have a feeling it was going to blow up the way it did?

I have a funny story. I had a date in January 1999 in New York. We went out drinking and I had just gotten back the mastered version of   Play . We're back at my apartment, and before our date became "grown up," we listened to the record from start to finish.   She actually liked it.   And I thought,   Huh, that's interesting. I didn't think anyone was going to like this record .  

You didn’t feel anything different during the making of 'Play?'

I knew to the core of my being that   Play   was going to be a complete, abject failure. There was no doubt in my mind whatsoever. It was going to be my last record and it was going to fail. That was the time of people going into studios and spending half a million dollars. It was   Backstreet Boys   and   Limp Bizkit   and   NSYNC ; big major label records that were flawlessly produced.   Play   was made literally in my bedroom. 

I slept under the stairs like Harry Potter in my loft on Mott Street. I had one bedroom and that's where I made the record on the cheapest of cheap equipment held up literally on milk crates. Two of the songs were recorded to cassette, that's how cheap the record was. It was this weird record made by a has-been, a footnote from the early rave days. There was no world where I thought it was going to be even slightly successful. Daniel Miller from Mute said — and I remember this very clearly — "I think this record might sell over 50,000 copies." And I said, "That’s kind of you to say but let's admit that this is going to be a failure. Thank you for releasing my last record."   

Was your approach in making  'Play'  different from other albums?  

The record I had made before   Play ,   Animal Rights , was this weird, noisy metal punk industrial record that almost everybody hated. I remember this moment so vividly: I was playing Glastonbury in 1998 and it was one of those miserable Glastonbury years.   When it's good, it's paradise; it's really special.   But the first time I played, it was disgusting, truly. A foot and a half of mud everywhere, incessant rain and cold. I was telling my manager that I wanted to make another punk rock metal record. And he said the   most gentle   thing, "I know you enjoy making punk rock and metal. People really   enjoy   when you make electronic music." 

The way he said it, he wasn't saying, "You would help your career by making electronic music." He simply said, "People enjoy it." If I had been my manager, I would have said, "You're a f— ing   idiot. Everyone hated that record. What sort of mental illness and masochism is compelling you to do it again?" Like Freud said, the definition of mental illness is doing the same thing and expecting different results.   But his response was very emotional and gentle and sweet, and that got through to me.   I had this moment where I realized,   I can make music that potentially people will   enjoy   that will make them happy.   Why not pursue that?  

That was what made me not spend my time in ‘98 making an album inspired by Sepultura and   Pantera   and   instead make something more melodic and electronic.  

After years of swearing off touring, what’s making you hit stages this summer?  

I love playing live music. If you asked me to come over and play Neil Young songs in your backyard, I would say yes happily, in a second. But going on tour, the hotels and airports and everything, I really dislike it.   

My manager tricked me. He found strategically the only way to get me to go on tour was to give the money to animal rights charities. My philanthropic Achilles heel. The only thing that would get me to go on tour. It's a brief tour of Europe, pretty big venues, which is interesting for an old guy, but when the tour ends, I will have less money than when the tour begins.  

Your DJ sets are great fun. Would you consider doing DJ dates locally?  

Every now and then I’ll do something. But there’s two problems. As I've become very old and very sober, I go to sleep at 9 p.m. This young guy I was helping who was newly sober, he's a DJ. He was doing a DJ set in L.A. and he said, "You should come down. There's this cool underground scene." I said, "Great! What time are you playing?" And he said "I’m going on at 1 a.m." By that point I've been asleep for almost five hours.

I got invited to a dinner party recently that started at 8 p.m. and I was like, "What are you on? Cocaine in Ibiza? You're having dinner at 8 p.m .  What craziness is that? That’s when you're putting on your soft clothes and watching a '30 Rock' rerun before bed. That's not going out time." And the other thing is, unfortunately, like a lot of middle aged or elderly musicians, I have a little bit of tinnitus so I have to be very cautious around loud music.

Are you going to write a third memoir at any point?  

Only when I figure out something to write. It's definitely not going to be anecdotes about sobriety because my anecdotes are: woke up at 5 a.m., had a smoothie, read The New York Times , lamented the fact that people are voting for Trump, went for a hike, worked on music, played with Bagel the dog, worked on music some more went to sleep, good night. It would be so repetitive and boring. 

It has to be something about lived experience and wisdom. But I don't know if I've necessarily gotten to the point where I have good enough lived experience and wisdom to share with anyone. Maybe if I get to that point, I'll probably be wrong, but nonetheless, that would warrant maybe writing another book.

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The Environmental Impact Of Touring: How Scientists, Musicians & Nonprofits Are Trying To Shrink Concerts' Carbon Footprint

"It’s not just [about] a single tour, it’s every tour," singer Brittany Howard says of efforts to make concerts more sustainable. From the nonprofit that partnered with Billie Eilish, to an MIT initiative, the music industry aims to curb climate change.

Beloved by fans around the globe, yet   increasingly unaffordable   for many artists, concert tours are central to the world of entertainment and   local economies . After the pandemic-era   global shuttering of concert venues   large and small, tours are back, and bigger than ever.   

Taylor Swift ’s Eras Tour is   smashing records , selling more than four million tickets and earning more than $1 billion. But that tour made headlines for another reason: as reported in   Business Insider   and other outlets, for a six-month period in 2023, Swift’s two jets spent a combined 166 hours in the air between concerts, shuttling at most a total of 28 passengers.  

Against that backdrop, heightened concerns about the global environmental cost of concert touring have led a number of prominent artists to launch initiatives.   Those efforts seek both to mitigate the negative effects of touring and communicate messages about sustainability to concertgoers.  

A   2023 study   sponsored by Texas-based electricity provider Payless Power found that the carbon footprint of many touring bands was massive. In 2022, concert tours in five genres — country, classic rock, hip-hop/rap, metal and pop — were responsible for CO 2   emissions totaling nearly 45,000 metric tons. A so-called greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide contributes to climate change by radiative forcing; increased levels of CO 2   also contribute to health problems.   

No serious discussion of climate issues suggests a worldwide halt to live music touring, but there exists much room for improvement. Both on their own and with the help of dedicated nonprofit organizations, many artists are taking positive steps toward mitigating the deleterious effects that touring exerts upon the environment.   

Smart tour planning is one way to lessen an artist’s carbon footprint.   Ed Sheeran ’s 2022 European run minimized flights between concert venues, making that leg of his tour the year's most environmentally efficient. Total carbon dioxide emissions (from flights and driving) on Sheeran’s tour came to less than 150 metric tons. In contrast,   Dua Lipa ’s tour during the same period generated 12 times as much — more than 1800 metric tons — of CO 2 .   

In July, singer/songwriter and four-time GRAMMY nominee Jewel will embark on her first major tour in several years, alongside GRAMMY winner Melissa Etheridge . During the planning stage for the 28-city tour, Jewel suggested an idea that could reduce the tour’s carbon footprint.

"I always thought it was so silly and so wasteful — and so carbon footprint-negative — to have separate trucks, separate lighting, separate crews, separate hotel rooms, separate costs," Jewel says. She pitched the idea of sharing a backing band with Etheridge. "I’ve been trying to do this for 25 years," Jewel says with a laugh. "Melissa is the first person who took me up on it! "  

The changes will not only reduce the tour’s carbon footprint, but they’ll also lessen the cost of taking the shows on the road. Acknowledging that there are many opportunities to meet the challenges of touring’s negative impact upon the environment, Jewel emphasizes that “you have to find [solutions] that work for you.”

Sheeran and Jewel aren’t the only popular artists trying to make a difference. A number of   high profile   artists have become actively involved in creating the momentum for positive change. Those artists believe that their work on sustainability issues goes hand in hand with their role as public figures. Their efforts take two primary forms: making changes   themselves, and advocating for action among their fans.   

The Climate Machine  

Norhan   Bayomi   is an Egypt-born environmental scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a key member of the   Environmental Solutions Initiative , a program launched to address sustainable climate action. She’s also a recording artist in the trance genre, working under the name   Nourey .   

The ESI   collaborates with industry heavyweights   Live Nation, Warner Music Group and others as well with touring/recording acts like   Coldplay   to examine the carbon footprint of the music industry. A key component of the ESI is the   Climate Machine , a collaborative research group that seeks to help the live music industry reduce carbon emissions. "As a research institution, we bring technologies and analytics to understand, in the best way possible, the actual impact of the music industry upon climate change," says John Fernández, Director of the ESI.   

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"I’m very interested in exploring ways that we can   bridge between   environmental science, climate change and music fans,"   Bayomi   says. She explains that the tools at the ESI’s disposal include "virtual reality, augmented reality and generative AI," media forms that can communicate messages to music fans and concertgoers. Fernández says that those endeavors are aimed at "enlisting, enabling and inspiring people to get engaged in climate change."  

The Environmental Solutions Initiative cites Coldplay as a high-profile success. The band and its management issued an   "Emissions Update" document   in June 2024, outlining   its   success at achieving their goal of reducing direct carbon emissions from show production, freight, band and crew travel.   The established target was a 50 percent cut in emissions compared to Coldplay’s previous tour; the final result was a 59 percent reduction between their 2022-23 tour and 2016-17 tour.   

A significant part of that reduction came as a result of a   renewable-energy   based battery system that powers audio and lights. The emissions data in the update was reviewed and independently validated by MIT’s Fernández.   

Change Is Reverberating  

Guitarist Adam Gardner is a founding member of Massachusetts-based indie rockers   Guster , but he's more than just a singer in a rock band. Gardner is also the co-founder of   REVERB , one of the organizations at the forefront of developing and implementing climate-focused sustainability initiatives.   

Founded in 2004 by Gardner and his wife, environmental activist Lauren Sullivan,   REVERB  began   with a goal of making touring more sustainable; over the years its focus has expanded to promote industry-wide changes. Today, the organization promotes sustainability throughout the   industry  in   partnership with music artists, concert venues and festivals.   

REVERB initiatives have included efforts to eliminate single-use plastics at the California Roots Music & Arts Festival, clean energy projects in cooperation with   Willie Nelson   and   Billie Eilish , and efforts with other major artists. Gardner has seen sustainability efforts grow over two decades  

"It’s really amazing to see the [change] with artists, with venues, with fans," Gardner says. "Today, people are not just giving lip service to sustainable efforts; they really want to do things that are real and measurable."   

The   Music Decarbonization Project   is one tangible example of REVERB’s successes. "Diesel power is one of the dirtiest sources of power," Gardner explains. "And it’s an industry standard to power festival stages with diesel generators." Working with   Willie Nelson , the organization helped switch the power sources at   his   annual Luck Reunion to clean energy. At last year’s festival, Nelson’s headlining stage drew 100 percent of its power from solar-powered batteries. "We set up a temporary solar farm," Gardner says, "and the main stage didn’t have to use any diesel power."   

Billie Eilish was another early supporter of the initiative. "She helped us launch the program," Gardner says. Eilish’s   set at Lollapallooza 2023   drew power from solar batteries, too.   

With such high-profile successes as a backdrop, Gardner believes that REVERB is poised to do even more to foster sustainable concerts and touring. "Our role now," he says, "isn’t just, ‘Hey, think about this stuff.’ It’s more how do we push farther, faster?"   

Adam Gardner believes that musicians are uniquely positioned to help make a difference where issues of sustainability are concerned. "When you’re a musician, you’re connecting with fans heart-to-heart. That’s what moves people. And that’s where the good stuff happens."   

Small-scale, individual changes can make a difference — especially when they’re coordinated and amplified among other concertgoers. Gardner provides real-world examples. "Instead of buying a plastic bottle, I brought my reusable and filled it up. Maybe I carpooled to the show." Conceding that such steps might seem like drops of water in a giant pool, he emphasizes the power of scale. "When you actually multiply [those things for] just one summer tour, it adds up," he says. "And it reminds people, ‘You’re not alone in this;   you’re   part of a community that’s taking action."   

Gardner understands that REVERB’s arguments have to be framed the right way to reach concertgoers.   "Look," he admits, "It’s a concert. We’re not here to be   a buzzkill . Our [aim] now is making sure people don’t lose hope." He says that REVERB and its partners seek to demonstrate that, with collective action and cultural change, there is reason for optimism.   

"There’s a wonderful feedback loop between hope and action," Gardner says with a smile. "You can’t really have one without the other."   

Sustainable Partnerships  

Tanner Watt is Director of Partnerships at REVERB; he works directly with touring artists to develop, coordinate and implement initiatives that bring together his organization’s objectives and the specific personal concerns of the artists. "I get to come up with all the fun, big ideas," he says with a wide smile.   

Watt acknowledges that like every concertgoer, each touring artist has a certain level of responsibility where sustainability is concerned.   "And everyone can be doing something," he says, noting a number of straightforward actions that artists can put in place while on tour.   "They can eliminate single-use waste. They can donate hotel toiletries that [would otherwise] hit the landfill."   

Watt stresses that artists can lead by example. "Nobody wants to listen to an artist telling them what to do if they’re not doing it themselves," he says. "But we believe that everybody cares about something." He suggests that if an artist has cultivated a following, "Why not use [that platform] to be that change you want to see in the world?"   

Each artist has his or her own specific areas of concern, but Watt says that there’s a base level of "greening" that takes place on every REVERB-affiliated tour. Where things go from there is up to the artist, in coordination with REVERB. Watt mentions Billie Eilish and her tour’s sustainability commitment. "The Venn diagram of food security, community health, access to healthy food, and the impact on the planet is a big cause for her," he says. " So   there’s plant-based catering for her entire crew, across the entire tour."  

Speaking to   Billboard , Eilish's mother Maggie Baird said championing sustainability starts with artists. "If artists are interested, it does really start with them telling their teams that they care and that it’s foremost in their thoughts." In the same conversation, Eilish called the battle for sustainability "a never-ending f–king fight."   

Watt acknowledges that with so many challenges, it’s important for a concerned artist to focus on the issues that move them the most, and where they can make the biggest difference. " Jack Johnson   is   a great example," he says. While Johnson is a vocal advocate for many environmental issues, on tour he focuses on two (in Watt’s words) "cause umbrellas": single-use plastics solutions and sustainable community food systems. Each show on the tour hosts tables representing local nonprofit organizations, presenting concertgoers with real-world, human-scale solutions to those specific challenges.   

Four-time GRAMMY winner   Brittany Howard   is another passionate REVERB partner. "Knowing that I wanted to make my tours more sustainable was a start," she tells GRAMMY.com, "but working with REVERB really helped me bring it to life on the road. REVERB has helped us with guidelines and a green rider to keep our stage, greenrooms and buses more sustainable."  

After listing several other specific ways that her tour supports sustainability, Howard notes, "By supporting these efforts, I am helping ensure future generations have access to clean water, fish, and all that I love about the outdoors." A dollar from every ticket sold to a Brittany Howard concert goes toward support of REVERB’s Music Decarbonization project. "I’m also excited to see industry-wide efforts that are reducing the carbon pollution of live music," Howard continues. "Because it’s not just [about] a single tour, it’s   every   tour."  

There’s a popular aphorism: "You can’t manage what you can’t measure."   From its start, REVERB has sought not only to promote change, but to measure its success.   "As long as I’ve been at REVERB, we’ve issued   impact reports ," says Tanner Watt. "We include data   points, and   give the report to the artists so they understand what we’ve done together." He admits that some successes are more tangible than others, but that it’s helpful to focus on the ones that can be quantified. "We’re very excited that our artists share those with their fans."   

Watt is clear-eyed at the challenges that remain. "Even the word ‘sustainable’ can be misleading," he concedes, suggesting that the only truly sustainable tour is the one that doesn’t happen. "But if folks don’t step it up and change the way we do business in every industry — not just ours — we’re going to get to a place where we’re forced to make sacrifices that   aren’t   painless." Getting that message across is REVERB’s aim. "We can’t stop the world," Watt says. " So   we find ways to approach these things positively."   

Watt says that the fans at concerts featuring Jack Johnson and the   Dave Matthews Band   — both longtime REVERB partners — are already on board with many of the sustainability-focused initiatives which those artists promote. "But there are lots of artists — and lots of fan bases — out there that aren’t messaged to, or have been mis-messaged to," he says.   "I’m really excited to find more ways to expand our reach to them, beyond mainstream pop music.   Because these are conversations that are meaningful for everyone, regardless of political affiliation or other beliefs."   

Reimagining The Planet’s Future  

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Met does more than front   AJR , the indie pop trio he founded in 2005 with brothers Jack and Ryan. Met has a PhD in sustainable development and is a climate activist; he's also the founder/Executive Director of   Planet Reimagined , a nonprofit that promotes sustainability and activism through its work with businesses, other organizations and musicians.   

"I’ve spent years traveling around the world, seeing the direct impact of climate change," Met says. He cites two recent and stark examples. "When we pulled up to a venue in San Francisco, the band had to wear gas masks going from the bus into the venue, because of forest fires," he says. AJR’s road crew had to contend with a flash flood in Athens, Greece that washed out their hotel. "And in Rome, some of our crew members fainted because of the heat."   

Encouraged by representatives from the United Nations, Met launched Planet Reimagined. Met’s approach focuses on tailored, city-specific actions to empower fans and amplify diverse voices in the climate movement. Through social media and live shows, Met strives to galvanize climate activism among AJR fans. And the methods he has developed can be implemented by other touring artists.   

Met points out that one of the most climate-unfriendly parts of the entire concert tour enterprise is fans traveling to and from the concerts. And that’s something over which the artist has little or no control. What they can do, he says, is   try   to educate and influence. Working closely with Ticketmaster and other stakeholders, Met’s nonprofit initiated a study — conducted from July to December 2023, with   results published in April 2024   — to explore the energy that happens at concerts. "In sociology," he explains, "that energy is called collective effervescence." The study’s goal is to find ways to channel that energy toward advocacy and action.   

Polling a quarter million concertgoers across musical genres, the study collected data on attitudes about climate change. "Seventy-three percent of fans who attend concerts believe that climate change is real, and that we need to be doing more about it," Met says. "Seventy-eight percent have already taken some sort of action in their lives." He believes that if his organization can activate even a fraction of the estimated 250 million people annually who attend concerts around the globe, "that’s the ballgame."   

Met’s goal is to do more than, say, get concertgoers to switch from plastic to paper drinking straws. "At   scale   those things make a difference. But people want to see actions where there’s a track record," he says; a return on investment.   

AJR will be putting a plan into action   on   the second half of their upcoming arena tour.   Part of the initiative is encouraging concertgoers to register to vote, and then actually vote.   Beyond that, Met has specific actions in mind. "At every single stop, we’re putting together materials around specific policies that are being debated at the local level," he explains. "We give people a script right there, so they can call their elected representative and say, ‘I want you to vote [a certain way on this issue].’"   

He believes the initiative will lead to thousands of people contacting – and hopefully influencing – their representatives.   With regard to sustainability issues, Met is convinced that "the most impact that you can have as an artist is when you give fans ways to pick up the mantle themselves."  

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11 Artists Who Influenced Taylor Swift: Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Tim McGraw & More

From Paul McCartney to Paramore, Emily Dickinson and even "Game of Thrones," read on for some of the major influences Taylor Swift has referenced throughout her GRAMMY-winning career.

As expected, much buzz followed the release of Taylor Swift 's 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department , on April 19. Fans and critics alike have devoured the sprawling double album’s 31 tracks, unpacking her reflections from "a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time" in search of Easter eggs, their new favorite lyrics and references to famous faces (both within the pop supernova’s closely guarded orbit and the historical record). 

Shoutouts abound in The Tortured Poets Department : Charlie Puth gets his much-deserved (and Taylor-approved) flowers on the title track, while 1920s screen siren Clara Bow, the ancient Greek prophetess Cassandra and Peter Pan each get a song titled after them. Post Malone and   Florence + the Machine ’s Florence Welch each tap in for memorable duets. Relationships old (Joe Alwyn), new (Travis Kelce) and somewhere in between (1975’s Matty Healy) are alluded to without naming names, as is, possibly, the singer’s reputation -era feud with Kim Kardashian. 

Swift casts a wide net on The Tortured Poets Department , encompassing popular music, literature, mythology and beyond, but it's far from the first time the 14-time GRAMMY winner has worn her influences on her sleeve. While you digest TTPD , consider these 10 figures who have influenced the poet of the hour — from Stevie Nicks and Patti Smith to Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Arya Stark and more.

Stevie Nicks

If Taylor Swift is the chairman of The Tortured Poets Department , Stevie Nicks may as well be considered its poet laureate emeritus. The mystical Fleetwood Mac frontwoman earns an important mention on side A closer "Clara Bow," in which Swift ties an invisible string from herself to a pre- Rumours Nicks ("In ‘75, the hair and lips/ Crowd goes wild at her fingertips"), and all the way back to the 1920s It Girl of the song’s title.

For her part, Nicks seems to approve of her place in Swift’s cultural lineage, considering she penned the poem found inside physical copies of The Tortured Poets Department . "He was in love with her/ Or at least she thought so," the Priestess of Rock and Roll wrote in part, before signing off, "For T — and me…"

Swift’s relationship with Nicks dates back to the 2010 GRAMMYs, when the pair performed a medley of "Rhiannon" and "You Belong With Me " before the then-country upstart took home her first Album Of The Year win for 2009’s Fearless . More recently, the "Edge of Seventeen" singer publicly credited Swift’s Midnights cut "You’re On Your Own, Kid" for helping her through the 2022 death of Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie .

Patti Smith

Swift may see herself as more "modern idiot" than modern-day Patti Smith, but that didn’t stop the superstar from name-dropping the icon synonymous with the Hotel Chelsea and punk scene of ‘70s New York on a key track on The Tortured Poets Department . Swift rather self-deprecatingly compares herself to the celebrated Just Kids memoirist (and 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame nominee) on the double album’s synth-drenched title track, and it’s easy to see how Smith’s lifelong fusion of rock and poetry influenced the younger singer’s dactylic approach to her new album. 

Smith seemed to appreciate the shout-out on "The Tortured Poets Department" as well. "This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Thank you Taylor," she wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of herself reading Thomas’ 1940 poetry collection Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog .

Emily Dickinson

When it comes to iconic poets, Swift has also taken a page or two over her career from Emily Dickinson. While the great 19th century poet hasn’t come up explicitly in Swift’s work, she did reference her poetic forebear (and actual sixth cousin, three times removed !) in her speech while accepting the award for Songwriter-Artist of the Decade at the 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards.

"I’ve never talked about this publicly before, because, well, it’s dorky. But I also have, in my mind, secretly, established genre categories for lyrics I write. Three of them, to be exact. They are affectionately titled Quill Lyrics, Fountain Pen Lyrics and Glitter Gel Pen Lyrics," Swift told the audience before going on to explain, "If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson’s great-grandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that’s me writing in the Quill genre," she went on to explain.

Even before this glimpse into Swift’s writing process, Easter eggs had been laid pointing to her familial connection to Dickinson. For example, she announced her ninth album evermore on December 10, 2020, which would have been the late poet’s 190th birthday. Another clue that has Swifties convinced? Dickinson’s use of the word "forevermore" in her 1858 poem "One Sister Have I in Our House," which Swift also cleverly breaks apart in Evermore ’s Bon Iver-assisted title track ("And I couldn’t be sure/ I had a feeling so peculiar/ That this pain would be for/ Evermore").

The Lake Poets

Swift first put her growing affinity for poetry on display during her folklore era with "the lakes." On the elegiac bonus track, the singer draws a parallel with the Lake Poets of the 19th century, wishing she could escape to "the lakes where all the poets went to die" with her beloved muse in tow. In between fantasizing about "those Windermere peaks" and pining for "auroras and sad prose," she even manages to land a not-so-subtle jab at nemesis Scooter Braun ("I’ve come too far to watch some name-dropping sleaze/ Tell me what are my words worth") that doubles as clever wordplay on the last name of Lake Poet School members William and Dorothy Wordsworth.

Swift revealed more about why she connected to the Lake Poets in her 2020 Disney+ documentary folklore: the long pond studio sessions . "There was a poet district, these artists that moved there. And they were kind of heckled for it and made fun of for it as being these eccentrics and these kind of odd artists who decided that they just wanted to live there," she explained to her trusted producer Jack Antonoff . "So ‘the lakes,’ it kind of is the overarching theme of the whole album: of trying to escape, having something you wanna protect, trying to protect your own sanity and saying, ‘Look, they did this hundreds of years ago. I’m not the first person who’s felt this way.’"

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney and Swift have publicly praised one another’s work for years, leading to the 2020 Rolling Stone cover they posed for together for the special Musicians on Musicians issue . The younger singer even counts Sir Paul’s daughter Stella McCartney as a close friend and collaborator (Stella designed a capsule collection for Swift’s 2019 studio set Lover and earned a shout-out of her own on album cut "London Boy").

However, Swift took her relationship with the Beatles founder and his family a step further when it was rumored she based Midnights deep cut "Sweet Nothing" on McCartney’s decades-long romance with late wife Linda. While the speculation has never been outright confirmed, it appears Swift’s lyrics in the lilting love song ("On the way home, I wrote a poem/ You say, ‘What a mind’/ This happens all the time") were partially inspired by a strikingly similar quote McCartney once gave about his relationship with Linda, who passed away in 1998. To add to the mystique, the Midnights singer even reportedly liked a tweet from 2022 espousing the theory.  

The admiration between the duo seems to go both ways as well, with the former Beatle admitting in a 2018 BBC profile that the track "Who Cares" from his album Egypt Station was inspired by Swift’s close relationship with her fans.

From her days as a country music ingénue to her ascendance as the reigning mastermind of pop, Swift has credited the Chicks as a seminal influence in her songwriting and career trajectory. (Need examples? Look anywhere from early singles like "Picture to Burn" and "Should’ve Said No" to Evermore ’s Haim-assisted murder ballad "no body, no crime" and her own Lover -era collab with the band, "Soon You’ll Get Better.") 

In a 2020 Billboard cover story tied to the Chicks’ eighth album Gaslighter , Swift acknowledged just how much impact the trio made on her growing up. "Early in my life, these three women showed me that female artists can play their own instruments while also putting on a flamboyant spectacle of a live show," she said at the time. "They taught me that creativity, eccentricity, unapologetic boldness and kitsch can all go together authentically. Most importantly, they showed an entire generation of girls that female rage can be a bonding experience between us all the very second we first heard Natalie Maines bellow ‘that Earl had to DIE.’"

"Game of Thrones"

When reputation dropped in 2017, Swift was on a self-imposed media blackout, which meant no cover stories or dishy sit-down interviews on late-night TV during the album’s roll-out. Instead, the singer let reputation speak for itself, and fans were largely left to draw their own conclusions about their queen’s wildly anticipated comeback album. Two years later, though, Swift revealed the dark, vengeful, romantic body of work was largely inspired by "Game of Thrones."

"These songs were half based on what I was going through, but seeing them through a 'Game of Thrones' filter," she told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. "My entire outlook on storytelling has been shaped by ["GoT"] — the ability to foreshadow stories, to meticulously craft cryptic story lines. So, I found ways to get more cryptic with information and still be able to share messages with the fans. I aspire to be one one-millionth of the kind of hint dropper the makers of 'Game of Thrones' have been."

Joni Mitchell

Swift has long made her admiration of Joni Mitchell known, dating back to her 2012 album Red , which took a cue from the folk pioneer’s landmark 1971 LP Blue for its chromatic title. In an interview around the time of Red ’s release, the country-pop titan gushed over Blue ’s impact on her, telling Rhapsody, "[Mitchell] wrote it about her deepest pains and most haunting demons. Songs like ‘River,’ which is just about her regrets and doubts of herself — I think this album is my favorite because it explores somebody’s soul so deeply."

Back in 2015, TIME declared the "Blank Space" singer a "disciple of Mitchell in ways both obvious and subtle" — from her reflective songwriting to the complete ownership over her creative process, and nearly 10 years later, Swift was still showing her appreciation for Mitchell after the latter’s triumphant and emotional appearance on the GRAMMY stage to perform "Both Sides Now" on the very same night Taylor took home her historic fourth GRAMMY for Album Of The Year for Midnights .

Fall Out Boy & Paramore

When releasing the re-recording of her third album Speak Now in 2023, Swift cited two unexpectedly emo acts as inspirations to her early songwriting: Fall Out Boy and Paramore . 

"Since Speak Now was all about my songwriting, I decided to go to the artists who I feel influenced me most powerfully as a lyricist at that time and ask them to sing on the album," she wrote in an Instagram post revealing the back cover and complete tracklist for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) , which included Fall Out Boy collaboration "Electric Touch" and "Castles Crumbling" featuring Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams .

For one of Swift’s original career inspirations, we have to go all the way back to the very first single she ever released. "Tim McGraw" was not only as the lead single off the 16-year-old self-titled 2006 debut album, but it also paid reverent homage to one of the greatest living legends in the history of country music. 

In retrospect, it was an incredibly gutsy risk for a then-unknown Swift to come raring out of the gate with a song named after a country superstar. But the gamble clearly paid off in spades, considering that now, when an entire generation of music fans hear "Tim McGraw," they think of Taylor Swift.

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Taylor Swift Announces Concert Date At Gillette Stadium

November 13, 2017 / 9:44 AM EST / CBS Boston

FOXBORO (CBS) – Ready for Taylor Swift's return to New England?

The music superstar announced Monday that she's making a stop in Foxboro on July 28, 2018. It will be her eighth show at Gillette Stadium – she sold out her previous seven.

Taylor Swift's reputation Stadium Tour is coming to Gillette Stadium on July 28, 2018 as part of our Dunkin Donuts Concert Series! Register now at https://t.co/4SNiPxzCaE . pic.twitter.com/uBsBsgMy1i — Gillette Stadium (@GilletteStadium) November 13, 2017

Swift became the first female artist to headline Gillette in 2010.

Tickets for the North American portion of Swift's "reputation" tour go on sale to the general public Dec. 13.

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Zach Bryan Brings Fan on Stage to Duet 'Heading South' at Quittin' Time Tour Stop in Massachusetts

The country star is currently in the midst of his Quittin’ Time Tour

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One special fan of Zach Bryan's is certainly going to remember everything.

On Wednesday, July 17, the country star, 28, invited a fan to perform his 2020 track "Heading South" with him onstage during his concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

In fan-filmed footage shared to TikTok , they can be seen strumming the guitar in a white T-shirt and jeans and swapping spots with Bryan at the mic while alternating verses.

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"POV Zach Bryan invites you to play Heading South at Gillette Stadium," a voiceover says over the video.

"Thank you Zb 🙏," the concertgoer captioned the post.

The "Oklahoma Smokeshow" artist is currently in the midst of his Quittin' Time Tour , which kicked off on Wednesday, March 6, with two dates in Chicago and includes stops in Pittsburgh, Toronto, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Las Vegas, Denver, San Antonio, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and more.

The tour is set to wrap with a pair of dates in Brooklyn, New York, in December.

Special guests for select dates during the tour include The Middle East, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Turnpike Troubadours,  Sheryl Crow , Sierra Ferrell, Matt Maeson and Levi Turner.

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Lately, Bryan has experienced some unexpected moments during his tour.

During a concert last month in Columbus, Ohio, the singer/songwriter revealed he had a "massive" spider that crawled on him.

“Guys a whole ass spider climbed on me during my set last night and I stopped mid set to swat it off of me,” he wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) , alongside a video of the incident.

"I was scared to make a big deal of it because NOBODY saw it but here it is in all her glory it was massive," he continued.

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In Bryan’s clip, and in a  fan's TikTok video , the large spider can be seen crawling across his chest and up his shoulder during his performance of “Something in the Orange.”

At one point during the song, he stopped playing to swat it away and laughed as he eventually returned to the mic.

“There was a spider on me. I’m really sorry, you guys,” Bryan told the audience.

Bryan released his fifth studio album  The Great American Bar Scene earlier this month.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with GlobalWafers to Significantly Increase Production of Silicon Wafers in U.S.

Proposed chips investment would establish the first domestic source of 300mm silicon wafers for advanced chips and expand production of silicon-on-insulator wafers, strengthening the domestic supply chain for key semiconductor components.

Media Contact: Madeline Broas, madeline.broas [at] chips.gov ( madeline[dot]broas[at]chips[dot]gov ) .

Today, as part of the Investing in America tour, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and GlobalWafers America, LLC and MEMC LLC (“MEMC”), subsidiaries of GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. (“GlobalWafers”), have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide up to $400 million in proposed direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to help onshore critical semiconductor wafer production and advance U.S. technology leadership. President Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, a key component of his Investing in America agenda, to usher in a new era of semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, bringing with it a revitalized domestic supply chain, good-paying jobs, and investments in the industries of the future. The proposed CHIPS investment would support the construction of new wafer manufacturing facilities and the creation of 1,700 construction jobs and 880 manufacturing jobs. This proposed investment will support projects with total capital expenditures of approximately $4 billion across both states.

“President Biden is restoring our leadership in the entire semiconductor supply chain – from materials to manufacturing, to R&D. With this proposed investment, GlobalWafers will play a crucial role in bolstering America’s semiconductor supply chain by providing a domestic source of silicon wafers that are the backbone of advanced chips,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo . “As a result of this proposed investment, the Biden-Harris Administration is helping to secure our supply chains, which will create over 2,000 jobs across Texas and Missouri and ultimately lowering costs and improving economic and national security for Americans.”

“President Biden is taking historic action to bring semiconductor manufacturing back in the United States,” said Arati Prabhakar, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy . “The semiconductor wafers that will come from today’s announcement will be the foundation for the complex chips we need to compete in the global economy. We’re bolstering our national security, advancing our clean energy transition, and creating good jobs that support families in Texas and Missouri.”

Silicon wafers are critical components in the semiconductor ecosystem as they are a foundational input used in all chips. There are five leading companies, including GlobalWafers, that currently hold over 80% of the global 300mm silicon wafer manufacturing market and approximately 90% of silicon wafers are sourced from East Asia today. As a result of this proposed CHIPS investment, GlobalWafers would build and expand facilities in:

• Sherman, Texas: Establish the first 300mm silicon wafer manufacturing facility for advanced chips in the United States. Of note, 300mm silicon wafers are a key input used by foundries and integrated device manufacturers to manufacture leading-edge, mature-node, and memory chips.
• St. Peters, Missouri: Establish a new facility to produce 300mm silicon-on-insulator (“SOI”) wafers. Importantly, SOI wafers allow for significantly improved performance in harsh environments and are commonly used in defense and aerospace end uses.

Further, as part of the PMT, GlobalWafers plans to convert a portion of its existing silicon epitaxy wafer manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas to silicon carbide (“SiC”) epitaxy wafer manufacturing, producing 150mm and 200mm SiC epitaxy wafers. SiC epitaxy wafers are a critical component for high-voltage applications, notably including electric vehicles and clean energy infrastructure.

Supporting the development of a local semiconductor workforce in Texas, GlobalWafers is a member of the Southern Methodist University-led Texoma Tech Hub and is involved in the North Texas Semiconductor Workforce Development Consortium led by the University of Texas Dallas. GlobalWafers is also part of an innovative partnership with Sherman High School, Denison High School, and Grayson College to establish an electronics lab at the schools that provide targeted training towards technician certifications required for new hires in the semiconductor industry. In St. Peters, MEMC is likewise developing an apprenticeship program for Maintenance Technicians with the National Institute for Industry and Career Advancement (NIICA) and local high schools. Further, MEMC is collaborating with St. Charles Community College on a program named MegaTech, which supports dual-enrolled high school students as they step into careers involving advanced manufacturing and automation.

As explained in its first Notice of Funding Opportunity , the Department may offer applicants a PMT on a non-binding basis after satisfactory completion of the merit review of a full application. The PMT outlines key terms for a potential CHIPS incentives award, including the amount and form of the award. The award amounts are subject to due diligence and negotiation of award documents and are conditional on the achievement of certain milestones. After the PMT is signed, the Department begins a comprehensive due diligence process on the proposed projects and continues negotiating or refining certain terms with the applicant. The terms contained in any final award documents may differ from the terms of the PMT being announced today.

About CHIPS for America CHIPS for America has announced up to $30.1 billion in proposed funding across thirteen preliminary memoranda of terms to revitalize America’s semiconductor industry. These proposed CHIPS for America investments are already delivering significant results, including unlocking more than $300 billion in public and private investment between now and the end of the decade – far and away the most investment in new production in the history of the U.S. semiconductor industry.

Earlier this year, Secretary Raimondo announced that we anticipate that America will produce 20% of the world’s leading-edge chips by the end of the decade, meaning our innovation capacity will no longer be as vulnerable to supply chain disruptions as it is today. The Semiconductor Industry Association released a report saying that America is on track to triple its domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity from 2022 – when the CHIPS and Science Act was enacted – to 2032.

With these announcements, America now has four of the world’s five leading-edge companies making significant efforts to expand on our shores. No other economy in the world has more than two of these companies producing leading-edge chips on its shores.

The Department has received more than 670 statements of interest, more than 230 pre-applications and full applications for NOFO 1, and more than 160 small supplier concept plans for NOFO 2. The Department is continuing to conduct rigorous evaluation of applications to determine which projects will advance U.S. national and economic security, attract more private capital, and deliver other economic benefits to the country. The announcement with GlobalWafers is the thirteenth PMT announcement the Department of Commerce has made under the CHIPS and Science Act, with additional PMT announcements expected to follow throughout 2024.

CHIPS for America is part of President Biden’s economic plan to invest in America, stimulate private sector investment, create good-paying jobs, make more in the United States, and revitalize communities left behind. CHIPS for America includes the CHIPS Program Office, responsible for manufacturing incentives, and the CHIPS Research and Development Office, responsible for R&D programs, that both sit within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the Department of Commerce. NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. NIST is uniquely positioned to successfully administer the CHIPS for America program because of the bureau’s strong relationships with U.S. industries, its deep understanding of the semiconductor ecosystem, and its reputation as fair and trusted. Visit https://www.chips.gov to learn more.