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Taylor Swift still had a few tricks up her sleeve during her last performance Eras tour.
The pop star, 34, took the stage at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada, on Sunday, December 8, marking her final show of the tour. In a poignant moment, Swift performed a triple mash-up for Sunday’s surprise song, giving lucky fans a rendition of “Long Live” mixed with “New Year’s Day” and The department of tortured poets bonus track, “The Manuscript.”
As one fan noted via Xher last surprise song on the Eras tour was rather fitting: “First surprise song: Tim McGraw, 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 has made headlines not only for its record-breaking global success, but also for its plethora of viral moments. Swift kicked off her most ambitious concert tour yet 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 thanked fans because I am “part of the most exciting chapter of my life yet – my loved ones Eras tour.The pop star then segued into one final song, 2022’s “Karma.” Midnightsand as she has done throughout the tour, she gave a little shout out to her friend: Travis Kelceby singing, “Karma is the Chiefs man.”
Swift kicked the Eras tour in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023, and performed in the United States until 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 August. In October, Swift returned to North America for a handful of final shows in the US and Canada.
In total, Swift performed 149 sold-out concerts on five continents over the course of nearly two years, making the Eras tour the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Swift opened up earlier TIME in December 2023 about 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 via a massive 45-song setlist that, following the April release of The department of tortured poetsincluding 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 would last longer than they ever thought, because I would leave the stadium with a good feeling.”
Swift gushed that the Eras tour made her “the most fulfilled I have ever felt” in my life.
Some Swifties have had more luck than others when it comes to the surprising songs from Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. Since the record-breaking tour kicked off in March 2023, Swift used the penultimate part of her show to perform songs from across her discography that aren’t included in the concert’s extensive setlist. Occasionally, […]
“I know I’m going to go on that stage whether I’m sick, injured, heartbroken, uncomfortable or stressed,” she added. “That is now part of my identity as a human being. If someone buys a ticket for my show, I will play it, unless there is force majeure.”
In June, Swift confirmed that the tour would end in December, calling the venture “the most exhausting, all-encompassing, yet most joyful, most rewarding, and 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 recognizable queen. Since embarking on her Eras Tour in March 2023, Swift has wowed fans and critics alike with her impressive, record-breaking concert, which lasts over three and a half hours. The tour has reportedly already grossed $1.04 billion […]
“I think this tour has really become my whole life,” she continued. “It has taken over everything. I think I once had hobbies, but I can’t remember which ones. All I do when I’m not on stage is sit at home and try to come up with clever acoustic song mash-ups and think about what you might want to hear.
During her record-breaking tour, Swift achieved a slew of professional achievements, including chart-topping hits from her eleventh studio album, The department of tortured poets – which inspired her to revamp her entire show with the new music – and her re-recordings of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) And 1989 (Taylor’s version). Moreover, she ensured that the tour lived on for years to come through her concert film.
Swift has also faced several changes in her personal life since then Eras tour began, most notably her relationship with Kelce, 35, which began after he attended one of her concerts in the summer of 2023.