End of an era as 'proud' Taylor Swift finishes tour

Taylor Swift thanked her fans for making the Eras Tour "the astir exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, astir challenging" acquisition of her life, arsenic she played the closing amusement successful Vancouver.

Prior to playing All Too Well, Swift told the assemblage successful Canada that she had been "touring since I was 15 years old", but the experiences of the past 21 months had been "completely unrecognisable" from thing she'd ever done before.

"I ne'er thought that penning 1 enactment astir relationship bracelets would person you guys each making relationship bracelets, making friends and bringing joyousness to each other.

"That is the lasting bequest of this tour," she added. "I couldn't beryllium much arrogant of you."

The lyric astir relationship bracelets, from the opus You're On Your Own Kid, spawned a cottage manufacture of hand-crafted accessories, which were swapped and traded by the millions of fans who attended the circuit - including, astatine 1 London show, Sir Paul McCartney.

Swift said that the assemblage her fans had created would ever beryllium "what I deliberation astir erstwhile I deliberation astir this tour".

They responded by serenading Swift with a chorus of Happy Birthday - up of her turning 35 adjacent Friday.

"You guys adjacent sang a blessed aboriginal day to Taylor?" noted the tour's authoritative societal media account. "We emotion you truthful much!"

The Eras Tour kicked disconnected successful Arizona successful March 2023 with an epic, 44-song setlist that lasted much than 3 hours.

The appetite for tickets had been truthful large that Ticketmaster's systems broke down, prompting a proceeding into the company's practices successful the US Senate.

Despite that, much than 10.1 cardinal tickets were sold for the tour's 149 shows, spanning 5 continents, implicit astir 2 years.

Last December, it became the archetypal circuit successful past to surpass $1bn (£786m) successful summons sales. At its conclusion, that fig is expected to apical $2bn (£1.5bn), according to Forbes.

Merchandise has besides proven to beryllium a lucrative root of revenue, with estimates that it has brought successful an other $400m (£314m).

The last halt was watched by much than 60,000 fans successful Vancouver's BC Place stadium. One fan-hosted live-stream from the venue was followed by different 389,000 radical connected YouTube.

Swift was successful a nostalgic temper throughout, calling the amusement "one past expansive adventure" with her fans.

As she played Cardigan, from her pandemic-era medium Folklore, the world of the concern started to descend in.

"It's conscionable brainsick to deliberation I'm going to sing the past opus I ever sing successful the Folklore cabin," she said. "That's wild. Oh my God!"

And she paid tribute to her band, dancers and crew, "who each near their families" down and "performed erstwhile they were sick [or] thing was going connected successful their lives" to support the amusement connected the road.

For the acoustic acceptable - which showcases songs missing from the modular setlist - the prima said she had tried to take tracks that "really encapsulate however I feel" astir the last show.

On guitar, she played a mash-up of A Place In This World, from her debut album, and 1989's New Romantics, with the apposite lyric: "Heartbreak is the nationalist anthem / We sing it proudly."

Moving to the piano, she played Long Live, tweaking the words from "It was the extremity of a decade" to "It was the extremity of an era" - prompting a immense cheer from the audience.

Continuing the theme, she added elements of New Year's Day, a opus astir holding onto memories, and The Manuscript, whose communicative of heartbreak became a metaphor the circuit coming to an end.

"Now and past I re-read the manuscript / But the communicative isn't excavation anymore."

Fans noted that the enactment meant the acoustic sets had kicked disconnected successful 2023 with Tim McGraw, the archetypal opus successful her discography, and ended with The Manuscript, the astir recent.

Only six songs from her 11 workplace albums were not performed connected the tour: That's When, Bye Bye Baby, Girl At Home, Ronan, Forever Winter and Soon You'll Get Better.

Swift was watched from the assemblage by her parent Andrea - but her boyfriend, American Football subordinate Travis Kelce, had to miss the amusement to play (and win) a location crippled with his team, the Kansas City Chiefs.

Fans had predicted she would usage the past performance to denote her adjacent vocation move. Top of their wish-list was the uncover of Reputation (Taylor's Version) - the latest successful the star's program to re-record the archetypal six albums successful her discography.

In the end, determination were nary large surprises oregon peculiar guests.

Instead, the Eras Tour got to bow retired connected its ain presumption - celebrating 18 years of euphony that has agreed radical astir the world.

As she cued up the set-closer, Karma, Swift thanked her fans 1 past time.

"I privation to convey each azygous 1 of you for being a portion of the astir thrilling section of my full beingness to day - my beloved Eras Tour."

She dedicated the opus to Kelce, changing the lyrics to sing: "Karma is the feline connected The Chiefs coming consecutive location to me," arsenic she has done respective times since they started dating past year.

Over the dying notes of the song, Swift shared an affectional hug with her dancers and backing singers. And alternatively than making her accepted exit, of being lowered beneath the stage, she opted to locomotion retired with her team.

It was, rather literally, the extremity of an era.