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This is probably wrong, but...I always think of the Viet Nam War when I listen to this.

Think about it--tanks would simply "roll up" and take soldiers away...when one was drafted, their ticket could be seen as an "invitation to make a reservation"...and the lines "we've got everything we need, satisfaction guaranteed" could be used ironically, how the government used propaganda to make the war, and the army, seem desirable...

Also, soldiers leave on "tours" of duty during wartime..."Magical Mystery Tour" could signify that when soldiers left on their tours, they were not completely sure what would happen to them--perhaps something "magical" or "mysterious." And the last lines--"The Magical Mystery Tour is dying to take you away"--could have some literal meaning to it--how so many died in the Viet Nam War.

Anyway, that's just my interpretation.

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metallicaman123 no metallica fan (or that big of a fan) would know the significance of the beatles, because metallica didn't have such deepness and musicality

I think the song is just like Sgt. Peppers L H C B, just an introduction to a show for a fake band...

This was Paul's idea for a third movie, this time made by the Beatles themselves. Although filmed in color, it was shown on British TV in black & white, which did it no justice. It was attacked by critics at the time, but has now been recognized for it's pre-Pythonesque humor.

The song is merely the theme for the film, based on Mystery Tours which people in England took at the time. It was sort of an adventure weekend bus tour for tourists.

The Magical Mystery Tour was the sequel to Sgt. Pepper and a good one that almost ranks up to the same level as it's predesesor. "Roll Up" I think is refering to rolling a marijuana cigarette. I don't think The Beatles would ever refer to heroin especially in 1967 when heroin wasn't a mainstream drug. Magical Mystery Tour is a place you go to when your stoned and at a different frame of mind.

I believe this song is about drugs, I mean think of it: "Roll up for the mystery tour" , and its saying how the 'mystery tour is hoping to take you away'. I just think its about them offering pot or something to anyone who wants a good time loll. And yes, I love this song, as well.

Once you hear the lyrics, it sounds more sinister. I had a shower epiphany where I realised it sounds like a song about Jews being taken away to Nazi death camps, only to be told they were going to "work camps" or something similar ("they've got everything you need [...] satisfaction guaranteed"). They're coming to take you away, take you today. They're not asking you to come on this Mystery Tour, they're forcing you.

THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR IS COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY!

May god help us all...

I LIKE THIS SONG-IF ANY OF YOU HAVE REALLY HEARD IT YOU WOULD TOO-SO FUCK ALL YOU POSERS!

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Magical Mystery Tour

Recorded just four days after the completion of the Sgt Pepper album, ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was Paul McCartney ’s attempt to maintain momentum within The Beatles and to give them a new direction and sense of purpose.

John and I remembered mystery tours, and we always thought this was a fascinating idea: getting on a bus and not knowing where you were going. Rather romantic and slightly surreal! All these old dears with the blue rinses going off to mysterious places. Generally there’s a crate of ale in the boot of the coach and you sing lots of songs. It’s a charabanc trip. So we took that idea and used it as a basis for a song and the film.

Inspired by Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and their LSD-fuelled bus, McCartney decided The Beatles should try something similar. He devised a rough concept for the new project, which would involve the group travelling around the England in their own coach, filming whatever took place.

I used to go to the fairgrounds as a kid, the waltzers and the dodgems, but what interested me was the freak shows: the boxing booths, the bearded lady and the sheep with five legs, which actually was a four-legged sheep with one leg sewn on its side. When I touched it, the fellow said, ‘Hey, leave that alone!’ these were the great things of your youth. So much of your writing comes from this period; your golden memories. If I’m stuck for an idea, I can always think of a great summer, think of a time when I went to the seaside. Okay, sand sun waves donkeys laughter. That’s a pretty good scenario for a song.

The resulting TV film was a mess, and critically panned, though the soundtrack double EP (expanded to a full album in the US) was a best-seller.

‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was co-written by John and I, very much in our fairground period. One of our great inspirations was always the barker. ‘Roll up! Roll up!’ The promise of something: the newspaper ad that says ‘guaranteed not to crack’, the ‘high class’ butcher, ‘satisfaction guaranteed’ from Sgt Pepper . ‘Come inside,’ ‘ Step inside, Love ‘; you’ll find that pervades a lot of my songs. If you look at all the Lennon-McCartney things, it’s a thing we do a lot.

The title track was McCartney’s initial idea, based on ideas written on an overnight flight from America on 11 April 1967 , though what he took to the studio was little more than the title and three chords. He attempted to rouse the other Beatles into contributing lyrics, but their enthusiasm was low and later completed the lyrics alone.

Because those were psychedelic times it had to become a magical mystery tour, a little bit more surreal than the real ones to give us a licence to do it. But it employs all the circus and fairground barkers, ‘Roll up! Roll up!’, which was also a reference to rolling up a joint. We were always sticking those little things in that we knew our friends would get; veiled references to drugs and to trips. ‘Magical Mystery Tour is waiting to take you away ,’ so that’s a kind of drug, ‘it’s dying to take you away’ so that’s a Tibetan Book of the Dead reference. We put all these words in and if you were just an ordinary person, it’s a nice bus that’s waiting to take you away, but if you’re tripping, it’s dying, it’s the real tour, the real magical mystery tour. We stuck all that stuff in for our ‘in group’ of friends really. ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was the equivalent of a drug trip and we made the film based on that. ‘That’ll be good, a far-out mystery tour. Nobody quite knows where they’re going. We can take ’em anywhere we want, man!’ Which was the feeling of the period. ‘They can go in the sky. It can take off!’ In fact, in the early script, which was just a few fireside chats more than a script, the bus was going to actually take off and fly up to the magicians in the clouds, which was us all dressed in red magicians’ costumes, and we’d mess around in a little laboratory being silly for a while.

In the studio

The first ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ session took place on 25 April 1967 . The Beatles spent much time rehearsing and improvising the song, with Paul McCartney at the piano suggesting ideas to the others in the group.

Eventually they recorded three takes of the basic rhythm track: two guitars, piano and drums. Take three was the best. After this they raided the Abbey Road sound effects collection, creating a tape loop of the sound of coaches to be added at the mixing stage.

On 26 April McCartney recorded his bass part, and all The Beatles plus Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans played percussion instruments, including tambourine, maracas and cowbell. McCartney, John Lennon , and George Harrison also taped extra vocals.

The following day still more vocals were added. McCartney taped his lead, with backing from Lennon and Harrison.

An overdub of four trumpets was added on 3 May . The session began by McCartney humming notes to the brass players to let them know what he wanted, but he mostly failed to get his intentions across.

In the end the players were sent away while McCartney and George Martin worked out the notation on the piano in Abbey Road’s studio three. One of the trumpeters, Gary Howarth, reportedly became so impatient that he wrote a score himself. According to Philip Jones, a friend of the session musicians, that was the idea The Beatles ended up using.

The recording of ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was completed on 7 November . During the editing of the film, Lennon had added a spoken introduction: “Roll up, roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour! Step right this way! Hurry, hurry, hurry!” It was decided that this should be added to the record release too.

McCartney recreated Lennon’s spiel, although he left out the “Hurry, hurry, hurry!” section. A tape loop of traffic noise, assembled back on 25 April, was also added. The song was then mixed in stereo and mono.

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Hi all! Does anyone know what mix of this song was used in the ‘Anthology’? I have the original vinyl (Canadian) and the remasters, and the mix in ‘Anthology’ definitely has different panning; in my two versions the electric guitar is on the left with the drums, percussion, etc. In the ‘Anthology’ clip (chapter 7, 23:20-24:06,) the drums appear in both speakers, the percussion and piano remain on the left and the electric guitar is hard-panned to the right with the trumpets. By giving greater exposure to the electric guitar, piano and percussion in this way (the guitar and piano notes being in roughly the same range,) the mix “moves” more than the other one, creating more of a rock song. Does anyone A) notice this difference and B) know where to find this mix in its entirety? Thanks…

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i’ve just checked my Anthology and it’s not on there as i thought, but the version of this song in the film is different to the released version, maybe it’s this mix you refer to? as it has been widely bootlegged.

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i think the Anthology was the movie version. I myself have 3 versions of the song.

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‘Magical Mystery Tour is waiting to take you away,’ so that’s a kind of drug, ‘it’s dying to take you away’ so that’s a Tibetan Book of the Dead reference.’

I love Paul as a musician, but quotes like this are just stupid.

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no its not. its really true. with a comment like that we can see , you know nothing about the beatles…

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It’s not so stupid… ingesting LSD and other psychedelics produces a state of consciousness paralel to the one the brain experiences when it is dying. Hence the tibetan book of the dead reference.

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No you are stupid not him. You clearly know nothing about the drug and the book yet u made a silly clueless comment.

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Thank you dude Someone had to say it

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Yeh I agree, I feel the fact John is constantly held up as the lyrical genius gets to him, and he feels the need to prove himself (including with his new book!). Such a talented musician, he doesn’t need to prove himself to anyone.

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Yeah, I feel that way too. It’s the same as with “Got To Get You Into My Life”, which I don’t really believe was a love-letter to pot, despite Paul’s claims. Paul, to me, seems to feel the need to prove his edginess and counteract any suggestion that he’s a lightweight – like it’s not enough to be a brilliant musician and songwriter

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Agreed, 100%. A real shame Paul made these retrospective comments…or felt he needed to. Lyrically, the songs don’t even fit the story he put out. ‘Got to get you into my life’ is the classic example…it’s a great uptempo love song and that’s it.

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I disagree completely… just read the lyrics of the first verse! Even John posited that Got To Get You Into My Life was about LSD, so if anything Paul is retreating and making himself less edgy by saying it was pot. I think it’s telling when people conclude deceitful motives when none are apparent… sometimes you see what you want to see.

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You are correct. It’s about acid, but Paul has downplayed that to say it’s an ode to weed, which is fine. Whoever said it’s just a love song is clueless.

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I Think Paul knows what He wrote his songs about than us. Even Lennon said Got To Get You Into My Life was a drug song.

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The rest of the song is good, but oh God just that coda in the end is sooo magical… incredible really. 😮

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That’s always been my favorite part of the song, the haunting piano coda!

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Who wrote/played that coda? It has a very emotional effect on me

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Paul played the piano at the end there, I believe

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Isn’t it, though? Amazing little thing. Beautiful

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It really is, sounds like something that The Doors might do :] But what’s most impressive to me is drumming and this part, kind of 8 when Paul sings: “You got everything you need…”. It’s really good.

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That piano coda sure sounds like Mike Garson. Listen to the piano solo in Aladdin Sane.

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Paul gave John significant credit for helping to write this “Paul” song – one of the few examples where he does that.

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Love Me Do, Paperback Writer, What You’re Doing, Here There And Everywhere, Good Day Sunshine, Penny Lane — even When I’m 64 could also be mentioned, but you’re right; there aren’t *that* many…songs that Paul seems to give John more credit than John himself seemed to feel he deserved.

John, it has to be said, did take *a lot* of credit. Was he right to? Possibly, but slightly more would be pushing it a bit, and I guess the same goes for Paul.

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I am one of the rare people who actually likes this song better than SGT. Pepper. You gotta love the raw, heavy guitar on Pepper but there is just something about MMT, especially on the remasters. Also, its obvious that the beatles (other than Paul, and maybe Ringo) quit on there potential on some of their later songs. Too bad because MMT could have really been a masterpiece. I love Johns chorus at the end. His voice tone really cuts into me and I absolutely love the second part where he says “…dying to take you away…” Just think how much better this song could have been if he and George werent so distracted by this point.

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Is that really John singing the last two “The Magical Mystery Tour is … “? I always thought so.

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I agree, Nolan. Just think about how much better the entire MMT ALBUM would have been if John and George had been at least a LITTLE more enthusiastic. I imagine these recording sessions being dominated by Paul (partly out of necessity), while John and George yawned and constantly glanced at their watches. If they had been more “into it,” the whole album would have ended up more, uh… “magical.” Of course, Paul probably DID come off like an overbearing alpha dog, so the distaction of the rest of the group is not surprising.

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Frankly the only “magic” in the soundtrack portion of MMT for me is John’s “I Am The Walrus” and George’s “Blue Jay Way”. I am grateful for the contributions of the “distracted” ones. As for the 1967 singles portion of MMT, John’s contributions of “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “All You Need Is Love” (plus his half of “Baby, You’re A Rich Man”) are outstanding to say the least.

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I agree with you, Joseph Brush. I think “Strawberry Fields Forever” and especially “All You Need Is Love” are the great songs. But I don’t like Blue Jay Way.

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well Fool on the Hill and Your Mother Should Know, not to mention the previously-released Hello Goodbye, are all very typical Paul songs with great sing-along qualities and each has a bit of weirdness to keep it in line with the whole concept of the film/album. Add the singles and it’s really a great, great album. I don’t know if it’s fair to single out the John and George compositions and simply write off Paul’s efforts on this one.

I have to say that “Walrus” and “Strawberry Field” are phenomenal compositions by John and George Martin with the rest of the band doing their thing to back them up flawlessly. I just give Paul the slight overall edge in his contributions. He represents the frontman for me…Looking at all the beatles post work including Paul’s, it doesn’t even matter. Without all 4 of them together with the chemistry they had in relationship to one another, inspiring and demanding eachothers A+ game no matter what was going on, we wouldn’t even be having ongoing conversations like this 40 years later. Granted there are exceptions and if I ever get bored enough with their compact and complete catalogue, I would get a kick in naming the top 50 or 100 worst beatles songs. Paul would dominate that list as well but he also takes the cake in many of my all time favorite beatles songs. That’s why I love Paul’s work the most. He could afford produce some real clunkers because he could always make up for it ten times over with masterpiece after masterpiece. Hearing the remastered mono recording of MMT is really like experiencing this song for the first time for me. Comparing it to the 87’s is simply put an absolute disaster vs and absolute work of art. I always liked this song as a young boy. But I never loved it like the seemingly hundreds of other fantastic Beatles songs I got to experience over and over growing up.

“I am the Walrus” is certainly a fantastic song, but the most magical moment on MMT is the title song’s coda melting into “Fool on the Hill.”

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I always liked the Walrus , Strawberry Fields and A Day in the Life. Lennon’s backing vocals make certain songs sound quite awesome. See how they run? It couldn’t get no worse? She’s leaving home ,bye,bye. I too felt the impact The Beatles made in the 60’s. They definitely had a different sound than their contemporaries. Obviously they were better together than apart. MMT was an interesting album. Capital records made a good decision by putting 1967’s singles on one side. Baby You’re a Rich Man is underrated. I agree with you regarding the mono mixes.

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Dying is the ultimate Magical Mystery experience.

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Love this song. It is just so fast paced and catchy.Basically a McCartney song. I also love the EP , film and album of the same name.

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And the bassline, all the way through. One of Macca’s absolute best performances

Great title track for film, E.P. and album. Very 1967, would have been a hit if released as a single.

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favorite song of all time, especially love John’s slow verse

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Needless to say, I did ‘roll-up’ for the Magical Mystery Tour.

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Which Beatle is the one giving the “Roll up” introduction at the beginning of the song? Does anyone out there know?

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It was John in the film, but Paul on the record. Paul’s version was recorded on 7 November 1967 .

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On the Cheap Trick cover of this song, on the bridge section I can clearly hear two voices overlapping, one is saying “Mystery Tour”, the other “Taking aTrip”. It’s harder to disentangle on the Beatles’ version, but is that what is happening? It actually sounds like Mystery Trip, but I think Cheap Trick have done us all a favour ?

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Wow! I clearly hear “taking a trip” at slightly less volume than “mystery tour”. For years I’ve wondered what that garbled sounding second vocal was singing and now I know. Thanks!

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It always sounded like ” a mystery trip” to me. (shrug).

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There is no lead guitar in this song. Just two rhythm guitar parts.

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Hello everyone! Can anyone explain why Magical Mystery Tour (song) is not treated as a Beatles hit, since the double EP with this recording as the title track entered the singles chart and shot to number 2. After all, this is an achievement equal to the success of the singles Please Please Me, SFF/PL or Let It Be. Moreover, like the single Please Please Me, in top music weekly newspaper Melody Maker, it reached number 1 for one week (January 13, 1968).

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Even though the Magical Mystery Tour EP got to number 2 in the UK singles chart it is considered an EP and not a 45 stand alone single and therefore it does not qualify as a hit single.

Thanks for your reply, I know all of what you wrote, but my question still doesn’t have a clear, convincing answer. It is obvious that MMT was a double EP from a formal or technical point of view, but in terms of musical competition, i.e. classification on the charts, it was undoubtedly treated as a single. Thus, the title track should be considered another huge hit by The Beatles.

I understand what you say and ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ is a very well known song but as I said previously it was not a single. It was a Double EP. EP’s would often climb into the singles chart as all the early Beatles EPs did. ‘Long Tall Sally’ EP from 1964 is another example. It got to No.1 in the singles charts but is not considered a huge hit in the UK. The ‘All My Loving’ EP from 1964 also reached No.1 but ‘All My Loving’ is not considered a single. The fact that they wrote ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ makes no difference. All EPs were considered as singles in as much as they got into the singles chart in the UK and they all had single chart placings. ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ gets plenty of airplay on radio. I don’t think it gets treated any differently apart from the fact that it was not a single so is therefore not included on Beatles single compilations. See Here for more info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play?wprov=sfti1

Sheldon, thank you kindly. The matter is clear to me now.

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I honestly think there could be 2 meanings of this song, none of them include the use of drugs. The first one is that it's just a mystery. At the time, John Lennon was annoyed that all the fans wanted to know was the meaning of a song. So they made this entire album, just means absolutely nothing. The other theory and I'm going out on a limb here, it could be about the holocaust. This theory goes only for this song though. Think about it. The phrase in the song that says, "The magical mystery tour, is dying to take you away." The Germans were dying to take the Jewish population away. The bus resembles the trains used to transport Jews.

The magnificent ''Magical Mystery Tour'' of The BEATLES was to promote Their music as something new of the old to experience. Heading towards the mysteries of the Illuminati's enlightenments to explore with the new Generation of kids. By way of the Mystery Tour Bus that was dropping new psychedelic rock music of peace and love. Sub-merged in subterranean waters of the occult. That wanted to rise to the surface and expand our minds knowledge. And when this new stuff was beginning to rise out of our hands control. In those same times, there was always Scooby Scooby Do coming to the rescue when needed. With his own 'mystery machine van''. Riding around with his Heroes to solve the many mysteries and problems that the ''magical mystery tour'' of the Beatles rise to power, Re-emerged strange and spooky beliefs of the occult. Which at times took us on the left hand path of trouble.

It's probably a reference to the Mystery Schools. The "magik" practiced by those occult religions was passed down from Babylon. The infamous Alistair Crowley - OTO and Golden Dawn leader is on the cover of the album. The music industry was/is heavily influenced by those cults - Jimmy Page having even bought Crowley's mansion. Jay-Z today even has a clothing line promoting Crowley's Satanic slogans and symbols. Crowley was into child sacrifice. "The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away, take you today" might be a reference to the sacrifices. David Bowie sang "I'm closer to the Golden Dawn, Immersed in Crowley's uniform of imagery"!(Quicksand)

The Magical Mystery Tour, when I think about it is possibly The Beatles addressing the Vietnam War. I mean many of the vets smoked a lot of marijuana there possibly the "magical part" but probably not. But I think it mainly pokes fun at the draft for taking away the boys of America to the war which they make light-hearted because it was thought it would be fun and quick. That is not the case clearly. Got this idea from the helicopter noises in the middleish?

Magical Mystery Tour is as drug-related as they come. Along with Tour being another word for Trip, it tells you to roll a joint (or your sleeve), with a direct reference to marijuana: "It's got everything you need, satisfaction guaranteed."

The Beatles are inviting people to come and join them on a bus tour were the passengers don't know were they are going. And magical things happen. Paul said he got the idea from mystery bus tour in Liverpool where only the driver knew where they were going that way people could see place they never had before. Also the Merry pranksters went around in a bus and putting LSD in people's drinks and see what happens this is better know as the eletric acid kool aid test. Magical mystery tour was inspired by mystery bus tours in liverpool and the counterculture in the 1960s.

This song just making me feel that they're taking someone to the summer camp. The part of: "The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away, coming to take you away, the magical mystery tour is dying to take you away dying to take you away take you today..." Make me feel that John or Paul was warning off their children that if they don't eat the spinach or the broccoli, the magical mystery tour will come to take them away. LOL...

Give me a break. For those of you who think this album is not about a drug trip, you're fools. This album was made during the Beatles acid tripping heyday. Magical Mystery Tour, just analyze those words while you notice the trippy colors and the lyrics that all refer to an altered state of mind. For those of you who have never had the pleasure of listening to this album with a free flowing mind, I feel bad for you. The way the music is put together and flows is unbelievable. It was no coincidence, this album is about a drug trip. You can deny it all you want, but when you get the chance, stop being a moron entwined in the grasp of what is acceptable in society, and look at it from a different perspective. The Beatles were absolute geniuses and if they wanted us to believe this was not about a drug trip, there would be no argument. LISTEN TO THE LYRICS, HELL WATCH THE VIDEOS FOR FUCKS SAKE, THIS ALBUM IS ABOUT DRUGS! You people who think otherwise make me sick.

I came to the realization that this whole album is about a drug trip, LSD induced. Magical Mystery Tour, get your shit ready, were about to blow your minds, did they not? The Fool on the Hill, First stop, loneliness. No one likes us because we free our minds. Its ok though, no one is wrong, we are just different people doing different things.. no harm in that is there? Flying, the only serious instrumental by the Beatles (excluding yellow submarine). Now that you feel alone, let go because we are about to go for a ride. The song is airy, floating on the air, comfortable, no? Blue Jay Way, now that you are floating away, it will be hard to find your friends. We are all split up and none of us are willing to wait for the other, this tour is getting groovy huh? Your Mother Should Know, now that you're all worried and tense, mother is a safe place to bring you. Now you feel comfortable and nurtured. All rejuvenated, on we go! I am the Walrus, this song makes no sense at all. Its a complete masterpiece for he whos mind is flowing. Pure brilliance. Hello, Goodbye, a reference to a ego-loss. Hello to this new fabulous world, goodbye to your past. We are free now, its a new beginning. What a great party at the end, haha, now I feel so happy!! As do you, eh? Strawberry Fields, absolute bliss. Go to your strawberry fields and be. Just be and you will see all. Confusion sets in, but its easily brought back to central.

The magical mystery tour is Life. Touring around in the magical mystery to the birth of this universe. Thats the magical mystery. The Magical Mystery Tour is the psychedelic trip. This album is a psychedelic trip. Pieced together beautifully.

Again that must have been some good stuff they had.they are welcoming or warning you about the album you are about to hear much along the lines of Bob's Mr. Tambourine man. In other words close your eyes and let me paint you a picture, I can still see in my mind Dylan dancing around in circles of his own choosing in wet sand at Jones beach holding a bottle of wine victoriously over his head .so boys and girls light up, sit back, close your eyes and enjoy the tour.

The Magical Mystery Tour is "waiting to take you away" to a new world of peace and love, but nobody especially "dear Prudence" wants to know the "fool on the hill", "they don't like him" because he tells you "you've got to be free" from your attachment to the material world, looks like "my friends have lost their way" "you were diverted". "I look at you all and see the love that is sleeping and my guitar gently weeps", "isn't it a pity how we break each others hearts" You know the Beatles were trying to do to something that's why you search their words for meaning, but just how unimaginably divine, you haven't understood it yet.

I hate it when people say it's about "rolling a joint" or "rolling up their sleeves to take a hard drug" no they were on a tour one of their VERY first tours and they sold tickets at music store. So in interpretation roll-up just means to roll-up and pick someone up

Knock it off with the drugs! Unbelievable! It's just a good song, maybe about a fair or show or something innocent as that! Sheesh!

"Roll up" is a reference to rolling up one's sleeve to take an injection of a hard drug.

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What are Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine lyrics about? The meaning explained

8 March 2024, 18:17 | Updated: 11 March 2024, 18:29

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Ariana Grande opens up about her new album Eternal Sunshine

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In 'Eternal Sunshine', Ariana Grande appears to sing about her relationships with Dalton Gomez and Ethan Slater.

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Ariana Grande fans are losing it over the title track of her new album. What are her 'Eternal Sunshine' lyrics about though?

With her new album Eternal Sunshine , Ariana Grande gives fans a glimpse into her life over the last few years. From her split from her ex-husband Dalton Gomez to her new relationship with Broadway star Ethan Slater, Ariana does not hold back. In the record, Ariana also pokes fun at people's perception of her, shuts down fake rumours and reclaims her narrative.

Ariana gets particularly candid on the song 'Eternal Sunshine' and the meaning behind the song's lyrics is heartbreaking.

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What are Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine lyrics about? The meaning explained

'Eternal Sunshine' is directly inspired by the 2003 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in which a former couple both undergo a procedure to erase their memories of each other. In the song, Ariana appears to try to erase the memory of her ex-husband Dalton Gomez as she starts a relationship with her current boyfriend Ethan Slater.

In the first verse, Ariana sings about how she and her ex weren't meant to be. It goes: "I, I don't care what people say / We both know I couldn't change you / I guess you could say the same / Can't rearrange truth'. She also calls him out adding: "I've never seen someone lie like you do / So much, even you start to think it's true."

Ariana then sings about how they've both moved on in the pre-chorus: "So now we play our separate scenes / Now, now she's in my bed, layin' on your chest'. In the chorus, she adds: "Hope you feel alright when you're in her / I found a good boy and he's on my side / You're just my eternal sunshine, sunshine."

The chorus appears to be a double entendre where Dalton is Ariana's 'Eternal Sunshine' in the sense of trying to forget a former flame, like in the film, whereas Ethan is the literal sunshine in Ariana's life. Ethan also shares the same initials as 'Eternal Sunshine' so it's possibly a reference to him.

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In the second verse, Ariana makes the link to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind even clearer. Seemingly referring to her attempts to forget her relationship with Dalton and leave it in the past, she sings: "So, I try to wipe my mind / Just so I feel less insane / Rather feel painless / I'd rather forget than know, know for sure".

In the bridge and outro, Ariana appears to encourage herself as she finally moves on from her past relationship. She repeats: 'Rewind / Won't break, can't shake / This fate, rewrite / Deep breaths, tight chest / Life, death, rewind." However, with the final line, there's no "rewind", she ends by singing "Life, death".

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VERSE 1 I, I don't care what people say We both know I couldn't change you I guess you could say the same Can't rearrange truth I've never seen someone lie like you do So much, even you start to think it's true Ooh, get me out of this loop, yeah, yeah

PRE-CHORUS So now we play our separate scenes Now, now she's in my bed, layin' on your chest Now I'm in my head, wonderin' how it ends

CHORUS I'll be the first to say, "I'm sorry" Now you got me feelin' sorry I showed you all my demons, all my lies Yet you played me like Atari Now it's like I'm lookin' in the mirror Hope you feel alright when you're in her I found a good boy and he's on my side You're just my eternal sunshine, sunshine

VERSE 2 So I try to wipe my mind Just so I feel less insane Rather feel painless I'd rather forget than know, know for sure What we could've fought through behind this door, hm-mm So I close it and move, yeah, yeah

PRE-CHORUS So now we play our separate scenes Now, now he's in your bed, layin' on my chest Now I'm in my head, wonderin' how it ends, ends, ends

BRIDGE Won't break, can't shake This fate, rewrite Deep breaths, tight chest Life, death, rewind Won't break, can't shake This fate, rewrite Deep breaths, tight chest Life, death

OUTRO Rewind Won't break, can't shake This fate, rewrite Deep breaths, tight chest Life, death, rewind Won't break, can't shake This fate, rewrite Deep breaths, tight chest Life, death, rewind Won't break, can't shake This fate, rewrite Deep breaths, tight chest Life, death

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‘I wanted to understand what was behind that strangeness …’ Ado’s anime-style alter ego.

‘I express purely through my songs and silhouette’: Ado, the platinum-selling pop star with a secret identity

She’s a massive success in her native Japan, but has never revealed her face. As she plays the UK for the first time, Ado explains her ultra-catchy rage-filled songs – and her hopes for gen Z

A do was recently walking through a music store in Taipei and saw her latest album on a huge display. “I thought, ‘The staff who made that display have no idea I’m here right now.’ But I’ve got used to that feeling. It makes me happy.”

The Japanese pop singer is a superstar in east Asia and online – 10 platinum-selling singles, and more than six million global monthly listeners on Spotify – but Ado’s identity is a closely guarded secret. She never appears in photos or videos, and at concerts only her silhouette is visible. During our video interview, her camera is off. She’s an engaging conversationalist and powerful live performer, but clearly something of an introvert. “No one knows anything about my personal life, so it was a shock to hear my own voice playing in public places at first,” she admits, as she gears up for her first overseas tour, which reaches the UK this month.

After coming up as a bedroom artist, the day before her 18th birthday in 2020 she released her debut single Usseewa to huge and instant success, racking up nearly 170m Spotify streams to date. The song title means “shut up”, and features a brash punk tempo, lyrics that question authority and Ado’s piercing screams. It hit a raw nerve in Japan, where social pressure to conform is extreme, and Ado was branded the voice of non-conformist gen Z. “Usseewa was a song about rage, sung by a female singer with a [raw] voice like mine, and I guess that seemed rare at the time,” she says.

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She doesn’t write her songs, but she performs them with relish, hitting notes in over four octaves and bringing lyrics to life with the enthusiasm and dramatic vocal range of an anime voice actor. Indeed, Ado uses an anime-style avatar in lieu of an artist photo and provided the singing voice of a pop-idol character named Uta in the 2022 animated movie One Piece Film: Red (the synthwave-tinged spin-off single from that film, New Genesis, hit No 1 and is her biggest hit to date).

Her musical awakening dates to four or five years old, when she became hooked on Vocaloid music: software with synthetic voices that can be made to sing anything. She cites virtual pop singer Hatsune Miku, an animated avatar of a 16-year-old girl whose voice is brought to life with the technology, and who “performs” as a projection alongside a live band in front of thousands of screaming fans. “When I heard voices such as Hatsune Miku’s for the first time, it felt … not uncomfortable, but unusual,” says Ado. “I wanted to understand what was behind that strangeness. I couldn’t understand whether it was anime or a human being, or who made the music. That air of mystery made me want to learn more.”

She began singing covers of Vocaloid songs, and the software’s eerie synthetic-human quality informed her mysterious identity. She found “there are some things that only a Vocaloid can sing,” referring to the super-fast delivery or impossible vocal range of virtual singers, but rearranged them for her human voice. She caught the attention of producer Syudou with her vitriolic 2019 cover of his song Jama, and he went on to write and produce Usseewa. Since then she has expanded her creative team and used her songs to explore the struggle to overcome self-doubt. On Gira Gira, she sings “when God drew my face he used his left hand”, but later finds empowerment in refusing to fit in with the demands of judgmental society; on I’m a Controversy, she argues that being labelled a “problem child” is actually a badge of pride. She says she’d like to try covering a song by Billie Eilish, who has been similarly candid about her self-worth.

The decision not to show her face might appear to be tied up with that struggle, but it’s actually done to align with the Vocaloid scene, and to focus more squarely on her artistry. “When I perform live, it’s about what can be expressed purely through the songs, the lighting and my silhouette,” she says. “I hope audiences overseas can enjoy this new kind of culture.”

Ado typifies Japan’s gen Z: a more individualist and progressive group than millennials, they are trying to defy endless recession and collapsing birth rates. “It really feels like times are changing,” Ado says. “When I was a kid, I had hopes for the future, but the future we’ve got is different – for better and for worse. As a high-schooler, I felt so much angst. I’ve been lucky enough to achieve my ambitions, but a lot of young people in Japan might not even know what their ambitions are . The unknown future fills them with anxiety, and even the prospect of a normal life feels stifling. You see this online especially, with so much toxicity and so much information overload.

“I hope the future brings more opportunity for people to live how they want to live. I’m still young, but through my music, I want to light the way and offer hope to others.” As AI looks set to erode employability, and create artificial pop stars that make the Vocaloid singers look positively quaint, Ado is firm. “There are some things,” she says, “only a human can do.”

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What Ariana Grande's New Single"We Can't Be Friends" Actually Means

Her latest studio album was inspired by the heartbreaking 2004 film starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

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Ariana Grande is living her Clementine dream and starring in a remake of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — well, kind of.

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On Friday, March 8, the former The Voice Coach released her seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine , referencing the Oscar-winning 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. The heartbreaking movie's inspiration is even more apparent in the new music video for the album's second single, "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)."

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On the Robyn-esque melancholic dance bop Grande sings about the end of a relationship, and realizing how she won't even be able to continue a friendship with her former partner since she can't be her true self around them.

" I didn’t think you’d understand me/ How could you ever even try?/ I don’t wanna tiptoe, but I don’t wanna hide/ But I don’t wanna feed this monstrous fire/ Just wanna let this story die/ And I’ll be alright ," she sings in the first verse, ending it with a glimmer of hope.

What Ariana Grande's "We Can't Be Friends" means

Eternal Sunshine is Grande's first album since her divorce in summer 2023, and there are hints of the relationship all over the collection of songs. 

In an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, he said the "We Can't Be Friends" was a "classic, emotive dance floor moment." When Lowe asked Grande how the track fits into the concept of the album, Grande said it fits "in a different way for me than it does for most of my friends and most of my family and people who have listened."

"They all sort of interpret it a little bit differently which I love about that song because I think it can be applied to any kind of relationship," she continued. "Especially when you se the video you'll understand the importance of it. The video is the album in a video."

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The music video by Christian Breslaur, who also directed the "Yes, and?" video, shows Grande signing up for a memory-wiping procedure, like the one in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , so she can forget her ex, who is played by Dahmer 's Evan Peters. The "We Can't Be Friends" video then recreates some of the film's most iconic scenes, and even adds the birthday cake kiss scene from the '80s teen classic,  Sixteen Candles .

“I think the movie is so beloved because so many people can relate to knowing that something isn't right, but loving so much, and wanting to stay, and wanting to figure it out, and that cycle that can happen in the film," Grande told Lowe when asked about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . "I think that's why the film is so beloved. It's because so many people can relate to it, and I think it kind of fell into place that these songs had little tidbits of that theme. I just felt really inspired by it.”

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I didn’t think you’d understand me How could you ever even try? I don’t wanna tiptoe, but I don’t wanna hide But I don’t wanna feed this monstrous fire Just wanna let this story die And I’ll be alright We can’t be friends But I’d like to just pretend You cling to your papers and pens Wait until you like me again Wait for your love My love, I’ll wait for your love Me and my truth, we sit in silence Mm Babygirl, it’s just me and you ’Cause I don’t wanna argue, but I don’t wanna bite My tongue, yeah, I think I’d rather die You got me misunderstood But at least I look this good We can’t be friends But I’d like to just pretend You cling to your papers and pens Wait until you like me again Wait for your love My love, I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love My love, I’ll wait for your love Know that you made me I don’t like how you paint me, yet I’m still here hanging Not what you made me It’s somethin’ like a daydream But I feel so seen in the night So for now, it’s only me And maybe that’s all I need We can’t be friends But I’d like to just pretend You cling to your papers and pens Wait until you like me again Wait for your love My love, I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love My love, I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love I’ll wait for your love

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"Magical Mystery Tour" is a song by the Beatles, the opening track and theme song for the album, double EP and TV film of the same name. Unlike the theme songs for their other film projects, it was not released as a single.

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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. They became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the history of popular music. Their best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, they later utilised several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication, they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions. more »

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Here Are All the Surprise Songs Taylor Swift Has Played on the ‘Eras’ Tour

The Grammy-winning artist plays an acoustic set at each show with two unique songs

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By this point, the “Eras” tour surprise songs Taylor Swift hasn’t played yet on the Eras tour have dwindled considerably, given that Los Angeles was Taylor Swift’s last stop on the first United States leg of the stadium tour. Among a 4-hour set comprised of all 10 albums Swift has released, the songstress takes some time to play two “surprise songs” on the guitar or piano. The titles remain a mystery until the moment in the show when she takes time to strip down the production for her audience.

Swift has also flubbed lyrics to some songs, claiming that any song she messes up can be played again later on in the tour. With the international leg of the “Eras” tour fast approaching, Swift will run out of songs eventually. Many options still stand by for the set of shows in LA this weekend and next week.

Here’s the list of which surprise songs Swift performed and when, stretching back to the very first “Eras” show in Arizona:

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* Underlined songs mark titles Taylor messed up lyrics to

* Bolded titles mark repeat songs, Bold and Italicized titles mark three-peats

* Bold Italicized and Underlined titles mark four-peats

* Italicized Albums mark Swift’s announcements of when she would release her re-recorded albums, which has happened twice now so far on tour.

First Round of United States Leg

  • March 17 in Glendale, Ariz. — “Mirrorball” and “Tim McGraw”
  • March 18 in Glendale, Ariz. — “State of Grace” and “This Is Me Trying”
  • March 24 in Las Vegas, Nev. — “Our Song” and “Snow on the Beach” 
  • March 25 in Las Vegas, Nev. — “Cowboy Like Me” with Marcus Mumford and “White Horse”
  • March 31 in Arlington, Texas — “Sad Beautiful Tragic” and “Ours”
  • April 1 in Arlington, Texas — “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and “Clean”
  • April 2 in Arlington, Texas — “Jump Then Fall” and “The Lucky One”
  • April 13 in Tampa, Fla. — “Speak Now” and “Treacherous”
  • April 14 in Tampa, Fla. — “The Great War” with Aaron Dessner and “You’re on Your Own, Kid”
  • April 15 in Tampa, Fla. — “Mad Woman” with Aaron Dessner and “Mean”
  • April 21 in Houston, Texas — “Wonderland” and “You’re Not Sorry”
  • April 22 in Houston, Texas — “A Place in This World” and “Today Was a Fairytale” 
  • April 23 in Houston, Texas — “Begin Again” and “Cold as You”
  • April 28 in Atlanta, Ga. — “The Other Side of the Door” and “Coney Island”
  • April 29 in Atlanta, Ga. — “High Infidelity” and “Gorgeous”
  • April 30 in Atlanta, Ga. — “I Bet You Think About Me” and “How You Get the Girl”
  • May 5 in Nashville, Tenn. — “Sparks Fly” + “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” Announcement and “Teardrops on My Guitar”
  • May 6 in Nashville, Tenn. — “Out of the Woods” and “Fifteen”
  • May 7 in Nashville, Tenn. — “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” with Aaron Dessner and “Mine”
  • May 12 in Philadelphia, Penn. — “Gold Rush” and “Come Back…Be Here”
  • May 13 in Philadelphia, Penn. — “Forever & Always” and “This Love”
  • May 14 in Philadelphia, Penn. — “Hey Stephen” and “The Best Day”
  • May 19 in Foxborough, Mass. — “Should’ve Said No” and “Better Man” 
  • May 20 in Foxborough, Mass. — “Question…?” and “Invisible” 
  • May 21 in Foxborough, Mass. — “I Think He Knows” and “Red”
  • May 26 in East Rutherford, N.J. — “Getaway Car” with Jack Antonoff and “Maroon” 
  • May 27 in East Rutherford, N.J. — “Holy Ground” and “False God”
  • May 28 in East Rutherford, N.J. — “Welcome to New York” and “Clean”
  • June 2 in Chicago, Ill. — “I Wish You Would” and “The Lakes”
  • June 3 in Chicago, Ill. — “You All Over Me” with Maren Morris and “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”
  • June 4 in Chicago, Ill. — “Hits Different” and “The Moment I Knew”
  • June 9 in Detroit, Mich. — “Haunted” and “I Almost Do”
  • June 10 in Detroit, Mich. — “All You Had to Do Was Stay” and “Breathe”
  • June 16 in Pittsburgh, Penn. — “Mr. Perfectly Fine” and “The Last Time”
  • June 17 in Pittsburgh, Penn. — “Seven” with Aaron Dessner and “The Story of Us”
  • June 23 in Minneapolis, Minn. — “Paper Rings” and “If This Was a Movie”
  • June 24 in Minneapolis, Minn. — “Dear John” and “Daylight”
  • June 30 in Cincinnati, Ohio — “I’m Only Me When I’m With You” and “Evermore”
  • July 1 in Cincinnati, Ohio — “Ivy” with Aaron Dessner, “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” with Gracie Abrams and “Call It What You Want”
  • July 7 in Kansas City, Miss. — “Never Grow Up” and “When Emma Falls in Love”
  • July 8 in Kansas City, Miss. — “Last Kiss” and “Dorothea”
  • July 14 in Denver, Colo. — “Picture to Burn” and “Timeless”
  • July 15 in Denver, Colo. — “Starlight” and “Back to December”
  • July 22 in Seattle, Wash. — “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” and “Everything Has Changed”
  • July 23 in Seattle, Wash. — “Message in a Bottle” and “Tied Together With a Smile”
  • July 28 in Santa Clara, Calif. — “Right Where You Left Me” and “Castles Crumbling”
  • July 29 in Santa Clara, Calif. — “Stay Stay Stay” and “All of the Girls You Loved Before”
  • August 3 in Los Angeles, Calif. – “I Can See You” and “Maroon”
  • August 4 in Los Angeles, Calif. – “Our Song” and “You Are in Love”
  • August 5 in Los Angeles, Calif. – “Death By a Thousand Cuts” and “You’re On Your Own Kid”
  • August 7 in Los Angeles, Calif. – “Exile” and “Dress”
  • August 8 in Los Angeles, Calif. – “I Know Places” and “King of My Heart”
  • August 9 in Los Angeles, Calif. – “New Romantics” + “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” Announcement and “New Year’s Day”

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International Leg 2023

  • August 24 in Mexico City, Mexico – “I Forgot That You Existed” and “Sweet Nothing”
  • August 25 in Mexico City, Mexico – “Tell Me Why” and “Snow on the Beach”
  • August 26 in Mexico City, Mexico – “Cornelia Street” and “You’re on Your Own, Kid”
  • August 27 in Mexico City, Mexico: “Afterglow” and “Maroon”
  • November 9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina: “The Very First Night” and “Labyrinth”
  • November 10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Cancelled Due to Rain
  • November 11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina: “End Game” and Mash-Up of “Out of the Woods” & “Is It Over Now?”
  • November 12 in Buenos Aires, Argentina: “Better Than Revenge” and “Slut!”
  • November 17 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “Stay Beautiful” and “Suburban Legends”
  • November 19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “Dancing. With Our Hands Tied” and “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”
  • November 20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “Me!” and “So It Goes”
  • Nov. 24 in São Paulo, Brazil — “Now That We Don’t Talk” and “Innocent”
  • Nov. 25 in São Paulo, Brazil — “Safe and Sound” and “Untouchable” 
  • Nov. 25 in São Paulo, Brazil — “Say Don’t Go” and “It’s Time to Go”

At the end of 2023, Swift teased that she would be wiping the slate of surprise songs clean starting in 2024 when she went back on tour in Tokyo, meaning any and all songs are fair game once more.

International 2024

  • February 6 in Tokyo, Japan : “Holy Ground” and “Dear Reader”
  • February 7 in Tokyo, Japan : “Eyes Open” and “Electric Touch”
  • February 8 in Tokyo, Japan: “Superman” and “The Outside”
  • February 9 in Tokyo, Japan: “Come In With the Rain” and “You’re On Your Own Kid”
  • February 16 in Melbourne, Australia: “Red” and “You’re Losing Me”

* As of Feb. 18 in Melbourne, Swift made a public service announcement that she didn’t want to limit herself to the songs left on the list, confirming that she will do away with the no repeat rule. She also began to combine three or more songs in a surprise set.

  • February 17 in Melbourne, Australia : Mashup of “Getaway Car”/”August”/”The Other Side of the Door” and “This Is Me Trying”
  • February 18 in Melbourne, Australia : Mashup of “Come Back… Be Here”/”Daylight” and “Teardrops on My Guitar”
  • February 23 in Sydney, Australia – “How You Get the Girl” and Mashup of “White Horse/Coney Island” with Sabrina Carpenter
  • February 24 in Sydney, Australia – “Should’ve Said No (Naur)” and Mashup of “New Year’s Day/Peace”
  • February 25 in Sydney, Australia – Mashup of “Is It Over Now/I Wish You Would” and Mashup of “Haunted/Exile”
  • February 26 in Sydney, Australia – Mashup of “Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve/Ivy” and Mashup of “Forever & Always/Maroon”
  • March 2 in Singapore – Mashup of “long story short/The Story of Us” and Mashup of “Clean/evermore”
  • March 3 in Singapore – Mashup of “Mine/Starlight” and Mashup of “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever/Dress”
  • March 4 in Singapore – Mashup of “Foolish One/Tell Me Why” and Mashup of “This Love/Call It What You Want”
  • March 5 in Singapore – Mashup of “Death by a Thousand Cuts/Babe” and Mashup of “Fifteen/You’re On Your Own Kid”

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Songs That Haven’t Been Played Yet:

From “Taylor Swift” (her debut album):

  • “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)”
  • “A Perfectly Good Heart”

“Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

  • “The Way I Loved You”
  • “Superstar”
  • “We Were Happy”
  • “That’s When (feat. Keith Urban)”
  • “Don’t You”
  • “Bye Bye Baby”

“Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)”

  • “Foolish One”

“Red (Taylor’s Version)

  • “Girl at Home”
  • “Forever Winter”
  • “Run (feat. Ed Sheeran)”

“1989 (Taylor’s Version)” – All Songs Have Been Played Once!

“Reputation” – One non-rerecord song remaining!

  • “I Did Something Bad”
  • “London Boy”
  • “Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. The Chicks)”
  • “It’s Nice to Have a Friend”
  • “Happiness”
  • “Long Story Short”

“Midnights”

Grab-bag (songs not attached to specific albums):

  • “I Heart ?”
  • “Only the Young”
  • “The Alcott”
  • “Beautiful Eyes”
  • “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “Sweeter Than Fiction”

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Murder at Archly Manor: Chapter 4 + Sherlock Holmes Reading Recommendations Mystery Books Podcast

⛲️ Love an English stately home? Then come with me on a tour of Chatsworth House and find out how the English country home inspired not one, but two book series in this “Story Behind the Story” of Chapter 4 of Murder at Archly Manor, a 1920s historical mystery. Plus reading recommendations for Sherlock Holmes fans! 🕵️‍♀️ Recent read: The Missing Maid by Holly Hepburn (Affiliate link) and thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for a review copy. All opinions are my own. Read-alikes: The Baker Street Letters series (Affiliate link). Murder mystery game: Death by Croquet Mallet.  Next chapter in the next episode!  If you want the rest of the mystery right now, you can get Murder in Archly Manor in ebook, audio, and print at SaraRosettBooks.com.  Support the show📚 Buy Sara's books: SaraRosettBooks.com 🔎 Get more mystery in your life when you sign up for Sara's updates.

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