Taylor Swift has levitated across the stage on the moving platform — dubbed the “TayRoomba” by fans — during two shows on the Eras Tour since the device debuted on stage in France in May.
After reading Eras Tour book after the release on Friday, Nov. 29, Swifties were surprised to learn that a person was inside the “rover” as Swift, 34, performed on it amid Department for tortured poets time of the show.
“The ‘Rover’ platform I travel on is actually operated by a crew member, who lies inside the platform and drives it from the inside,” the 14-time Grammy winner revealed on page 159 of her travel book.
One fan reacted to an unexpected fact about the tour X (formerly known as Twitter)writing, “oh my god this revelation makes me cringe. what do you mean someone in a tayroomba drives around like in a video game?”
Taylor Swift performs “Down Bad” while kneeling on her rover in May 2024.
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“TayRoomba” debuted on May 9 in Paris, after Swift revamped her Eras tour setlist to include songs from TTPDher 11th studio album which she released in April when the tour was on hiatus.
Since then, the rover has appeared at every tour stop, rising from the stage during the song “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” to help Swift “float” as she sings, “Jump off the gallows and float down your street, crash the party like a record as I scream, ‘Who’s afraid of me little old lady?’ It should be.”
Swift then gets down on her knees for “Down Bad,” during which the stage production simulates her return to Earth after an alien abduction as a metaphor for being bombarded with love and then abandoned in real life.
“I wanted to create the illusion of an alien abduction, a battle scene, a religious institution, a mental institution, a haunted house, and the girls’ locker room routine,” Swift wrote in the tour book, describing the visuals for all TTPD songs on her career-spanning 45-song set list.
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Taylor Swift performs ‘Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?’ on the Eras Tour in November 2024.
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“It was ambitious as hell, but we pulled it off, creating what I think was the most dramatic, cathartic, female rage-driven part of the night,” she added.
Now that they knew a crew member was lying inside the rover, fans went back to watch Swift’s “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart” music video to see if she had been hinting at that fact all along.
To their surprise, after 37 seconds, Swift can be seen exercising on the rover as two feet stick out from the bottom of the rover.
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Screenshot from the ‘I Can Do It with a Broken Heart’ music video.
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In the tour book, Swift elaborated on how it is TTPD were created visual.
“We conceptualized and rehearsed it in secret, and we surprised the crowd in Paris with it when we started our European leg of the tour. I wanted it to be minimalistic, white, sharp and bold,” explained the “Fortnight” singer.
“There’s been nothing like this on the show, and it was such an exciting challenge to try and improve on a show that I already loved,” Swift added.
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