Taylor Swift Sends Direct Message to Chiefs Fans During First Night of the Eras Tour in Tokyo

The Eras Tour is officially back on track for 2024, which means TikTok is once again awash in viral concert content as Swifties livestream the shows for one another and eagerly anticipate the return of the Errors Tour.

With the kickoff of this year’s dates happening on the evening of Feb. 7 Tokyo time—making it the early morning hours across the United States—many fans on the western hemisphere awoke to new Eras content for the first time since Taylor Swift wrapped up her South American performances in Nov. 2023.

The “Karma” songstress doesn’t often deviate from her script during the highly rehearsed three-hour set, but while sitting down at the piano where she plays “Champagne Problems”—a brief transition that often results in several-minutes-long standing ovations from the crowd and allows for a little bit of improv from the performer—Swift took the opportunity to address her upcoming 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD), which she announced at the Grammys earlier this week, and which has apparently already garnered criticism, even though nobody has heard it yet.

In a snippet of the moment uploaded to TikTok, Swift gave attendees a little insight into the technical process of finalizing an album, which involves turning it in to the label “months in advance,” leaving her plenty of time after completing Midnights to start working on TTPD before her 10th album even hit shelves.

She continued working on it throughout the US leg of her tour, often spotted outside of Electric Lady Studios in New York City in the days between tour stops, working essentially nonstop to ensure it was “perfect” for fans.