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> I had friends who went to the first show, and I think she played 45 songs — it was 3+ hours ... She’s sold out 6 straight shows here in Los Angeles

I'm surprised it is physically possible to sing for 3 hours, 6 nights in a row.

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That's style dependent. Nobody's belting or doing fry/false chord distortion for 3 hours, but a gentle throaty style of singing could easily be sustained for longer with water breaks.

Small clarification: that's 6 shows over 7 nights. 3 nights, then off one night, then 3 more nights. So she does get a break, but in general I completely agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eras_Tour#Tour_dates

I saw Taylor Swift play years ago, it was an incredibly impressive show, choreographed down to the minute I'm guessing, even her crowd banter was seemingly predetermined. She's a professional through and through it seems, and I guess she's figured out how to make it work without destroying her vocal chords.

I wonder if it is partially lip syncing. Apparently when Celine Dion was performing nightly in Vegas she mixed lip syncing in to her performances to give her voice a break.

(I don’t have a source on that, just something I remember hearing years and years ago)

Enrique Iglesias was called out by Howard Stern for crappy vocals in his concert 23 years ago (good lord!).[0] Enrique explained that they overdubbed some of his songs so much in concert that you couldn't tell he was deliberately singing off key, that is until someone gave Howard Stern a copy of the mic feed.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UWTDFaEYo

I don’t think she’s substantially lip-syncing (maybe here and there, but not continuously). I was at the Detroit show and she confessed to having a bit of a cold during the interim into Evermore. And indeed, she coughed and sniffled a bit during other songs it was picked up by her mic. She also got a little short of breath during heavy dance numbers.

Maybe I’m easily fooled, but if she was lip-syncing a lot I don’t think they’d leave these imperfections.

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