Type a prompt, and artificial intelligence will create a life-like image. Ask it a question, and it lists the answer. Give it each setlist from Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour, and — maybe — it could predict the future.
Swift is headed to New Orleans for three shows this October, just a short drive from South Mississippi.
So we asked an AI chat bot to predict Swift’s New Orleans setlist, based on her setlists for each previous stop on The Eras Tour. We asked it to include songs from each of the following albums: Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, reputation, folklore / evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights, plus a prediction for songs she could pick to surprise the audience. And we asked the chat bot to consider what city she previously performed each song in, and how that might predict what she will play in New Orleans.
Here’s what it said.
Predicted Setlist in New Orleans
Lover
1. Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
2. Cruel Summer
3. The Man
4. You Need to Calm Down
5. Lover
Fearless
6. Fearless
7. You Belong With Me
8. Love Story
Red
9 Red (Intro with elements of “State of Grace”, “Holy Ground”)
10. 22
11. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
12. I Knew You Were Trouble
13. All Too Well (10 Minute Version)
Speak Now
14. Speak Now (Intro with elements of “Castles Crumbling”)
15. Enchanted
reputation
16. ...Ready for It?
17. Delicate
18. Don’t Blame Me
19. Look What You Made Me Do
folklore / evermore
20. cardigan
21. betty
22. champagne problems
23. august
24. illicit affairs
25. my tears ricochet
26. marjorie
27. willow
1989
28. Style
29. Blank Space
30. Shake It Off
31. Wildest Dreams
The Tortured Poets Department
32. Female Rage: The Musical (contains elements of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”, “loml”, “So Long, London” and “But Daddy I Love Him”)
33. But Daddy I Love Him / So High School
34. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
35. Down Bad
36. Fortnight
Midnights
37. Lavender Haze
38. Anti‐Hero
39. Midnight Rain
40. Vigilante Shit
41. Bejeweled
42. Mastermind
43. Karma
Surprise songs
44. Begin Again
45. Breathe