For the previous 21 months, Taylor Swift has been shifting pop music and tradition with The Eras Tour – a live performance tour she concluded on December 8 in Vancouver, Canada. As somebody who was fortunate sufficient to attend one in all her Wembley Stadium dates in London, I am not ashamed to confess that I’ll miss opening TikTok and seeing which songs she chooses for the shock acoustic set, however due to the greatest streaming companies the Taylor Swift fever would not have to finish.
Within the wake of the ultimate Eras Tour date, I’ve swept all the key platforms together with Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus and Prime Video to mix a listing of flicks and exhibits that respect Taylor identical to you do. Every of my seven picks make clear a number of the singer’s hottest songs, in addition to bringing consideration to her deeper cuts that mirror completely different phases of affection, heartbreak, and self-growth.
With my listing, you possibly can ease your approach out of your post-Eras Tour melancholy with small doses of Swift from the greatest Netflix exhibits, greatest Prime Video exhibits, and extra. Simply do not fall into the entice of ‘by accident’ watching Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour film for the one hundredth time – I am going to plead responsible to that.
The Bear
The place to stream: Hulu (US); Disney Plus (UK and AU)
Simply one of many greatest Hulu exhibits, The Bear has risen to the highest as a well-liked favourite amongst viewers for a large number of causes. Possibly you take pleasure in it for the depth of its writing or highly effective appearing performances, however one in all my favourite points of the present is the up-and-down relationship between Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Richie (Ebon Moss- Bachrach) – and who would’ve thought that Richie could be a secret Swiftie.
Taylor Swift will get not one, however two mentions throughout the present’s three seasons, the primary one being within the ‘Forks’ episode in season two. Sitting within the driver’s seat of his automotive, Richie belts the lyrics to ‘Love Story’ from her album Fearless after finishing a interval of coaching at a wonderful eating restaurant – an expertise that marks a private transformation and maturation of his character.
However it would not finish there. Within the season three episode ‘Violet’, Swift’s music ‘Lengthy Reside’ from the Communicate Now album performs within the background of a dialog between Richie and his ex-wife’s new associate, to whom he exhibits nice respect as he prepares to simply accept him as stepfather to his daughter.
Heartstopper
The place to stream: Netflix (US, UK and AU)
It was solely a matter of time earlier than Heartstopper included a Taylor Swift ballad in with its soundtrack, which is not a nasty assortment of songs I’ll say. Within the season two finale after a cliché, but nonetheless romantic faculty journey to Paris, the younger {couples} are in that stage of romance the place emotions are rising stronger and a sure three-word phrase is spoken for the primary time.
Whereas the present’s main couple, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Package Connor), are nonetheless coming to phrases with their emotions Darcy and Tara lastly attain the ‘I like you’ stage which units the queue for Swift’s music ‘Seven’ from Folklore. A music that is rooted in reminiscing in childhood reminiscences and innocence, it is the right music to not solely deliver the second season to an in depth however marks the start of the subsequent chapter for the younger romance.
Bridgerton
The place to stream: Netflix (US, UK and AU)
Of all of the greatest Netflix exhibits, Bridgerton (government produced by Shonda Rimes) isn’t any stranger to a fastidiously curated soundtrack, however what units it other than different exhibits is its classical and orchestral renditions of contemporary pop songs. It is coated Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Madonna and naturally, Taylor Swift.
In Bridgerton, Taylor Swift enters her Regency period (I needed to) on three separate events. The primary being within the very first season, the place steamy romance and honeymoon scenes between the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Web page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) are set to a string ensemble of ‘Wildest Desires’ from 1989. Nonetheless the newest season options two covers of Swift; ‘You Belong With Me’ from Fearless, and ‘Snow On The Seaside’ from Midnights.
Gray’s Anatomy
The place to stream: Hulu, Netflix (US); Disney Plus (UK and AU)
That is proper, the longest-running scripted primetime collection has two completely different connections to Taylor Swift, however solely one in all them is music associated. Not solely is Gray’s Anatomy Taylor Swift’s favourite TV present of all time to the extent the place it has impressed the names of her cats, however a two-part premiere particular options one other music from Fearless.
Season 5’s two-part premiere episodes, Swift’s guitar and piano ballad ‘White Horse’ performs because the present’s characters Cristina and Owen share a primary kiss. For a music that Swift herself has said recollects ‘falling in love and the fairy tales that you will have with this particular person’, it units the tone excellently.
It Ends With Us (2024)
The place to stream: Netflix (US)
A current addition to Netflix’s library, It Ends With Us had a theatrical launch earlier this yr so its cinema-to-streaming transition has occurred relatively easily. I admit that the trailer for this film did not do sufficient to entice me – that is till ‘My Tears Ricochet’ from Folklore made an look, and I instantly purchased my ticket.
Whereas I discovered the film’s depiction of home abuse was executed relatively poorly, that is to not say that the film’s music cues had been off. Swift’s music about an “embittered tormentor displaying up on the funeral of his fallen object of obsession” performs as protagonist Lily (Blake Energetic) offers with the aftermath of separating from her abusive husband whereas closely pregnant.
The Summer season I Turned Fairly
The place to stream: Prime Video (US, UK and AU)
Prime Video’s romance drama The Summer season I Turned Fairly wins the Swiftie competitors by a landslide, that includes a whopping 14 songs throughout its two seasons in addition to bonus songs ‘August’ and ‘Again to December’ featured in its teasers and trailers. I suppose you possibly can name it Taylor Swift: The Unauthorized Musical.
The most effective half in regards to the present’s appreciation for Swift is that it would not resort to at least one or two completely different albums, however contains songs from seven completely different albums, thus highlighting the completely different phases of affection and heartbreak. For a coming-of-age romance set within the current day, are you able to blame the present’s creator Jenny Han for tapping into Swift’s discography?
Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Classes (2020)
The place to stream: Disney Plus (US, UK and AU)
At the least one of many entries in my listing needed to characteristic Taylor herself, and whereas I may’ve simply chosen her 2019 Netflix documentary Miss Americana or the extra apparent Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) film. However her stay live performance and documentary hybrid film from 2020 sits on high for me – and I even gave it a point out in my listing of favourite music films.
When Swift surprise-released Folklore in the summertime of 2020, it noticed a shift in the way in which she approached her music writing and the way she collaborated with fellow producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner to create a brand new sound for her. In Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Classes, Swift, together with Antonoff and Dessner, discuss us via every music’s which means and music writing course of adopted by a stay acoustic efficiency.
