My beloved Eras Tour.
Then she took her final bow and said goodnight and meant it.
Nobody really believed it was over until the house lights came on.
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Eras Tour on Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver.Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images
(Is this the ending of all endings?)
It was an epic night to crown an epic tour.
Then she turned it into New Romantics, the fan-favorite bonus track from1989.
She sang the key line with 60,000 voices joining in Heartbreak is the national anthem/We sing it proudly.
What a moment to witness and the entire final night lived up to that level.
People around the world have been dying to see how this one ends.
But there was an overall sense of finality.
It was emotional all around.
Opening act Gracie Abrams asked the crowd, Have all of you been crying all day like me?
She didnt do any gimmicks at the end.
She didnt even drop any Taylors Version news not her debut, notReputation, not the long-anticipatedDebutation.
Paint us a blue sky, then go back and turn it to rain, etc.
Why are we ever surprised?)
But the whole night full of tiny goodbyes.
But tonight he yelled, For the last time, no!
As Taylor said, the communal fan experience around the Eras Tour has had a life of its own.
With your traditions, with your passion, with the way you care about this tour its unparalleled.
Ive never experienced anything like it.
As she said, the fan rituals go way beyond anything she could have imagined.
That is all you.
That excitement was electric, all through the stadium.
We have toured the entire world with this tour.
We have had so many adventures.
We are about to go on one last grand adventure together.
Those one-more-time moments kept coming.
The last time the dancers ride around on their glowing Blank Space bikes.
The last time the umbrellas come out for Midnight Rain.
The last time the Swiftie dads do a double take at Paul Sidotis Eddie Van Halen guitar during theReputationinterlude.
She explained that when she began writing Folklore, the cabin was a pretend escape place in my mind.
She spent thoseFolkmoresongs trying to get out of herself.
I tend to be main-character-y in my songs I dont know if youve noticed?
But these songs gave her some distance to say, Im just a narrator.
I just work here.
People have been chasing this tour since the beginning.
But it goes deeper than that.
Hell, even the flight to Vancouver was a party plane full of Swifties.
My entire row spent the flight making friendship bracelets and guessing about final-show surprises.
The flight attendants conducted a Taylor Trivia contest.
Travis Kelce shows up to sing Betty?
An announcement of an Eras Tour birthday encore next week on Dec. 13?
A surprise song added to every era of the night?
Gullible fans around the world praying for aDebutationannouncement that never comes?
(Well, that last one came true.)
But so much changed during the Eras Tour, as Taylor Swifts music kept warping and evolving.
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, with its lights camera, bitch smile!
Theres no emotional peak in the whole show like the goth seance of the My Tears Ricochet/Marjorie/Willow trilogy.
Taylor also yelled one last Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me.
One came during The Man.
(The kid liked The Man but she was a lot more into Lover.
Shes no fool.)
That kid is going to learn the word patriarchy from fuck the patriarchy.
You couldnt ask for a better encapsulation of what the Eras Tour was all about.
Theres no going back to the world before the Eras Tour.
(Of course friendship bracelets!
Of course surprise song mashups!
And one that only her audience could have made real.
