So Long, Eras Tour
After 21 months on the road, Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour has come to an end. On Sunday, she played her final show in Vancouver, offering fans one final opportunity to shed glitter tears — and freckles — to the tune of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” Since March 2023, Swift has entertained 10,168,008 fans across five continents, raking in $2,077,618,725 in ticket sales. (Per the New York Times, that’s double the ticket sales of any other concert tour in history.) On hand to bid the pop star’s magnum opus adieu were Aubrey Plaza, The Office’s Jenna Fischer, and opener Gracie Abrams. “It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life,” Swift told her 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.”
????| “Thank you so much for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life MY BELOVED ERAS TOUR!”
— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) December 9, 2024
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The Eras Tour naturally cemented Swift as a music-industry behemoth, but it also became a pop-culture character in its own right. Over the course of nearly two years, the tour spawned a booming friendship-bracelet marketplace, an attempted political movement for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and a new spirited contingent of NFL fans. It saw the rise and fall of Swift’s questionable situationship with “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” and, later, the birth of Traylor and the couple’s accompanying world tour. The Eras Tour became home to Travis Kelce’s tears and contentious attendees (hi, Ivanka) and served as a celebrity watering hole for everyone from Tom Cruise to Prince William. It also survived a busted terror plot, a rumored MAGA friendship, and a $40 coffee-table book made so shoddily even Swifties were unimpressed.
Whether or not you bought into the hype, you have to admire the sheer stamina of the Eras Tour — a cultural phenomenon so ubiquitous that it crashed Ticketmaster and outlasted the entire life cycle of Harris’s presidential campaign. I will certainly miss sightings of Gladiator Trav whooping for his girl from the VIP section. In the meantime, can someone get Taylor a water bottle and a K-beauty overnight mask? I’m exhausted for her.
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