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21 months, 152 shows, 5 continents, more than 10 million attendees, 10 eras and a lifetime of memories.
The piece of pop culture that has been a constant in the lives of so many fans all across the world officially came to a close last night as Taylor Swift took her final bow on The Eras Tour stage in Vancouver.
While most of the megastar's final performance played out like so many that had come before – though fans were ravenously waiting for the surprise announcement that one of her final two re-recorded albums (her self-titled debut and Reputation) may be arriving in the near future – the evening was filled with Swift's signature magic and music as the record-breaking chapter of her career came to a close.
“We have toured the entire world with this tour, we have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life,” Swift told the final crowd at BC Place Stadium. “I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date — my beloved Eras Tour.”
During her final "Surprise Song" set, which became one of the most tantalizing 15-minute periods every night of the career-spanning tour, the 'Lover' hitmaker had a special moment in store for the venue's 60,000 fans.
Starting with a mashup of 'A Place In This World' from her debut album and 1989's 'New Romantics' on acoustic guitar, she took it to a whole new level when she arrived at her piano for the last time. As the melody to the beloved coming-of-age anthem 'Long Live' rang out to, Swift changed the lyrics to what's become the title track of The Eras Tour, singing “It was the end of an era / But the start of an age,” in place of "decade." Adding on to the emotion, the Pennsylvania native combined the tear-jerker with a familiar tune in 'New Year's Day,' a mashup that Swifties know well as it was a staple made famous on her behemoth Reputation Tour back in 2018. However, the sentimental moment didn't end there, as the often fan-dedicated hit 'The Manuscript,' also got its time to shine.
Gracefully singing “The only thing that’s left is the manuscript, one last souvenir from my trip to your shores / Now and then I reread the manuscript, but the story isn’t mine anymore,” Swift created the perfect end to the earth-shattering story that she's written through The Eras Tour, a nearly two-year-long effort that now belongs just as much to her dedicated Swifties as it does to her.
Welcoming approximately 10,160,008 fans across its dates and raking in a jaw-dropping $2,077,618,725 in ticket sales, the three-hour long show reads like a time period that should be studied in history class.
Taking over the largest stadiums on the globe weekend after weekend as fans braved the elements and got to take in the coveted "rain shows," Swift all but cemented her place as a larger-than-life music juggernaut during The Eras Tour. From releasing a record-breaking concert movie, publishing a just-released tour book and popping out a trio of albums during its tenure – the re-recorded versions of Speak Now and 1989, as well as her lauded 11th record, The Tortured Poets Department – The Eras Tour was a hotspot for celebrities from all around, ranging from Prince William to Adam Sandler and truly everyone in between.
Since we first uttered the words "The Eras Tour," the world has seen Ticketmaster flounder and fail, thousands of TikTok lives capturing the spellbinding moments, sequins and glitter galore and a shared experience among millions of fans young and old that's felt like a little glimmer of hope and happiness in some of our most darkest times.
Though The Eras Tour may have finally come to an end, the memories made will always remain. We'll always have the friendship bracelets to show for it... and the tour movie to stream on repeat for all of eternity.
As Swift takes a much needed and deserved break after the effort that kept her busy for just shy of two years, the Swiftie universe sits poised on the edge of their seats for the next highly-anticipated era of Taylor Swift's illustrious and inexplicable career.
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