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CHICO — Kelsie Piver spent her Saturday morning at Discovery Bar’s Eras brunch watching the movie “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” for the fifth time.
The movie shows a complete performance of Swift’s Eras Tour show. It is compiled from performances that took place at three separate Los Angeles concerts.
In her 3.5-hour-long Eras Tour show, Swift performs songs from each of her albums. The show consists of multiple costume changes and dance routines.
At the Eras brunch, Discovery Bar served 10 specialty cocktails that each represented a Swift era, and displayed the movie on a large screen for this special themed brunch. The drinks were named playfully after Swift’s songs including “Teardrops on my Margarita” and “Champagne Problem.”
Piver saw the Eras Tour live in Vegas, and plans to see it again later this year in New Orleans.
The tour, and later the film, became a meteoric cultural phenomena that continues to sweep the nation. Multiple attendees at Discovery Bar’s Eras brunch saw the live concert and had seen the movie multiple times.
However, the brunch consisted of more than just diehard “Swifties” (the name given to Swift’s fans).
Jenifer Stockwell, who accompanied Piver to the brunch, had never seen the movie or the concert.
“I am fully open to embracing all of it,” Stockwell said.
What Piver and Stockwell do have in common is their affinity for Discovery Bar and the trivia nights that take place each Tuesday.
Zachary Thomas, like Stockwell, hadn’t seen the movie prior to the Eras brunch and didn’t know the movie was going to be shown Saturday morning. He said Discovery Bar has a good brunch and it seems like a lot of people don’t know about it.
Elizabeth Aguirre-Quezada, who donned a black-and-white Taylor Swift shirt to the brunch, came with her husband Adrian. Her favorite Taylor Swift Eras are the albums “Red” and “Folklore.”
“I think you can see the crowd’s a lot older than people think her fans are,” Aguirre-Quezada said. “(The Eras Tour movie) is everything that maybe you didn’t get a chance to see when you were younger and you’re getting to see it now.”
Aguirre-Quezada didn’t think there was that big of a Swift following in Chico, but when she went to see The Eras Tour movie “all the shows were like jam packed.” When she saw the movie attendees were out of their seats dancing.
“(The movie theater employees) came in and shut the show down, and said ‘you guys got to sit down because of safety’ which is totally understandable,” Aguirre-Quezada said.
Swift will continue performing The Eras Tour throughout the year, ending in Vancouver, Canada on Dec. 8.
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