Summary

• Taylor Swift removed six songs from the Eras Tour setlist to make room for the new The Tortured Poets Department set, five of which were featured in the extended cut of her concert movie, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version), on Disney+.
• The only song Swift cut from the setlist that was never featured in The Eras Tour movie is "'tis the damn season" from Evermore.
• Two of the songs now cut from the setlist, "The Archer" and "Long Live," were initially excluded from the theatrical release of The Eras Tour movie. "Long Live" also wasn't added to the setlist until three months into the tour.

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

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

The only song from the permanent setlist that was absent in all three versions of The Eras Tour movie is "'tis the damn season" from Evermore, which Swift has now removed from the setlist.

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

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

“Seven (Interlude),” a pre-recorded, spoken word rendition of Swift’s song “seven” that served as the intro for the Folklore era at the live shows, has also been cut from the Eras Tour show. Like “'tis the damn season,” this interlude was part of the permanent setlist but was not featured in The Eras Tour movie either.

5 The Archer

The Lover Era

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

When the movie hit streaming in March 2024, "The Archer" and the other missing songs in theaters (except "no body, no crime") were finally included in their respective eras in The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) on Disney+.

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

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

4 Tolerate It

The Evermore Era

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

Swift would then be joined by Raphael Thomas, one of her backup dancers on the Eras Tour, who played the role of the narrator's neglectful lover.

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

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

"Tolerate it" is the other "track 5" song that Swift has now removed from the Eras Tour setlist, along with "The Archer."

3 Long Live

The Speak Now Era