Lover The track, a mainstay on the Eras tour for its first year, was among the casualties when the setlist was shuffled to include Department of Tormented Poets songs
Taylor Swift revived “The Archer” at her July 4 show in Amsterdam for the first time since March, when Lover The track was one of the setlist sacrifices to make room for songs from Department of Tormented Poets.
For more than 80 Eras tour shows spanning the first year of the trek, “The Archer” (Swift's 23rd best song) is featured on Lover part of the setlist — from the first concert of the Eras tour in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023, to Swift's three-night stand in Singapore in March 2024.
However, when the tour resumed after its release Department of Tormented Poets“The Archer” — with me Folklore/Forever Songs like “Tolerate It,” “The Last Great American Dynasty,” “Tis the Damn Season” and “Cardigan” — were among the casualties.
When “The Archer” reappeared on Thursday at the Amsterdam show, it was moved to the Surprise Songs section of the concert rather than its former part. Lover Unity. And as is custom with Surprise Songs on this leg of the tour, the track was paired live with another track from Swift's song, in this case Midnight“Question…?”, which had only been played one other time, at an Eras tour stop in Foxborough, Massachusetts in May 2023.
The Eras tour continues in Amsterdam on Friday and Saturday, before heading to Zurich, Milan and a trio of German cities. The European leg itself will conclude on August 20, the final night of a five-concert repeat leg at London's Wembley Stadium. Swift previously played three shows at the venue in June. After a two-month hiatus, the Eras tour will then kick off its final North American leg on October 18 out of Miami.
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