Taylor Swift had a few more tricks up her sleeve during her final performance Eras Tour.
The 34-year-old pop star hit the stage at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday, December 8, marking her final show of the tour. In a touching moment, Swift performed a three-way medley for Sunday’s surprise song, giving lucky fans a rendition of “Long Live” mixed with “New Year’s Day” and Tortured Poets Department. bonus track, “The Manuscript”.
As one fan pointed out via Xher latest surprise song on Eras Tour was quite fitting: “The first surprise song: Tim McGraw, the last surprise song: The Manuscript, the first and last songs of her discography.”
Swift also paid tribute to her long-running tour by changing the lyrics of “Long Live” from “It was the end of a decade” to “It was the end of an era / But the beginning of an era.”
John Shearer/TAS24/Getty Images Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour made headlines not only for its record-breaking global success, but also for its many viral moments. Swift embarked on her most ambitious concert tour to date with back-to-back shows in Glendale, Arizona in March 2023. Her second night of performances gave fans one of the first (…)
We’re closing the show, Swift thank the fans for ‘being a part of the most exciting chapter of my life so far – my love Eras Tour.The pop star then recorded one final song, “Karma,” taken from 2022. midnightand as he did during the tour he called out softly to his friend, Travis Kelceby singing “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs”.
Swift began Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona in March 2023, performing in the United States through August 2023. The singer then embarked on the international leg of the tour, making stops in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe from November 2023. until this August. In October, Swift returned to North America for a few final shows in the US and Canada.
In total, Swift performed 149 sold-out concerts on five continents over nearly two years, making Eras Tour the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Swift previously opened to TIME in December 2023 on her mission to “super serve the fans” with her biggest tour yet. (The three-and-a-half-hour concert took attendees through her musical eras through a massive 45-song setlist that, following the April release of Tortured Poets Department.included hits from her latest album and a cameo from her NFL star boyfriend.)
“They had to work very hard to get the tickets,” she explained at the time. “I wanted to play a show that was longer than they thought it would be because it makes me feel good when I leave the stadium.”
Swift gushed that Eras Tour made her “the most fulfilled I’ve ever felt” in my life.
Some Swifties have been luckier than others when it comes to the surprise set of songs from Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour. Since kicking off her record-breaking tour in March 2023, Swift has used the penultimate leg of her show to perform songs from across her discography not included in the concert’s extensive setlist. Sometimes, (…)
“I know I’m going on that stage whether I’m sick, hurt, heartbroken, uncomfortable or stressed,” she added. “It’s now part of my identity as a human being. If someone buys a ticket to my show, I’ll release it unless we have some force majeure.
In June, Swift confirmed that the tour would be over in December, calling the endeavor “the most exhausting, all-consuming, yet most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life.”
Ethan Miller/TAS23/Getty Images Taylor Swift may be a billionaire, but she’s still a queen to match. Since kicking off her Eras Tour in March 2023, Swift has won over fans and critics alike with her impressive record-breaking concert that lasted over three and a half hours. The tour has reportedly already grossed $1.04 billion, generating (…)
“I think this tour has really become my whole life,” she continued. “It has taken over everything. I think I used to have hobbies, but I don’t know what they were anymore. All I do when I’m not on stage is sit at home and try to come up with clever combinations of acoustic songs and think about what you would like to hear.”
On the back of her record-breaking tour, Swift achieved a range of professional achievements, including the chart-topping releases of her 11th studio album, Tortured Poets Department. – which inspired her redo your whole show to include the new music — and its re-recordings of Speak Now (Taylor Version) and 1989 (Taylor Version). She also ensured that the tour will continue for years to come through her concert film.
Swift has also dealt with a few changes in her personal life since Eras Tour began, most notably being her relationship with Kelce35, which began after he attended one of her concerts in the summer of 2023.
