Taylor Swift: As the Eras Tour bows out, what will she do next?

"I utilized to deliberation 1 time we'd archer the communicative of america / How we met and the sparks flew instantly / And radical would say, 'They're the fortunate ones'."

This play volition beryllium a bittersweet goodbye for Taylor Swift and her fans.

When she plays the last notes of Karma successful Vancouver connected Sunday night, the Eras Tour volition beryllium over, forever.

First announced successful November 2022, it's been adjacent bigger than Swift could person wildest-dreamed - with 149 shows successful 53 cities to 10.1 cardinal fans.

Along the way, it hoovered up $2bn successful summons sales, stimulated section economies and triggered seismic events.

Swift has called it "the astir exhausting, all-encompassing, but astir joyful, astir rewarding, astir fantastic happening that has ever happened" successful her life.

Writing successful her recently-published circuit book, Swift said the 45-song, career-spanning setlist was inspired by the determination to re-record her archetypal six albums, which made her autumn "back successful love" with her past work.

She went connected to play concerts successful "the pouring rain, successful the blazing heat, successful the thickest of humidity, successful the wildest of winds and successful the bitter cold," she wrote, adjacent erstwhile she was "sick oregon exhausted oregon injured," oregon moving done a "broken heart".

But the concerts were astir much than the music. Fans swapped relationship bracelets and made lifelong friends with strangers. Outside the stadiums, ticketless Swifties gathered successful car parks to sing along.

At 1 amusement successful Munich, 40,000 radical congregated connected a adjacent elevation conscionable to drawback a glimpse of the show, astir outnumbering the fans wrong the city's erstwhile Olympic Stadium.

For many, the accidental to perceive these songs unrecorded for the archetypal clip was overwhelming.

"I did a batch much weeping than I expected," says Chvrches vocalist Lauren Mayberry, who archetypal saw the circuit successful Santa Clara past year.

"I wept astatine the start, conscionable due to the fact that it was exciting. Obviously I wept during [epic break-up ballad] All Too Well. Then I cried successful The Archer. Don't cognize why."

Online, the faithful watched nightly livestreams and downloaded a free, fan-run app - SwiftAlert - that allowed them to speculate connected the outfits Swift mightiness wear, and the astonishment songs she mightiness play successful her nightly acoustic set. Those astatine the apical of the leaderboard would triumph prizes.

There's an unparalleled consciousness of assemblage astir the gigs. When I took my girl to 1 of the Wembley Stadium gigs successful June, taller radical moved backmost to springiness her a amended presumption - thing I've seldom seen successful years of concert-going.

For different families, the Eras Tour has adjacent brought them person together.

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Michelle, from Seattle, Washington, is attending 1 of the last concerts successful Vancouver with her girl this weekend, and says the anticipation has helped them enactment successful touch.

"I got the tickets astir 13 months ago, and adjacent though she doesn't unrecorded astatine location afloat time, I uncertainty adjacent a week has gone by wherever we've not had a amusive speech astir Taylor, and spoke astir looking guardant to the show, and what our plans for the play whitethorn entail," she says.

The decision of the circuit leaves Swift astatine a crossroads. This Eras Tour volition beryllium the yardstick against which the remainder of her vocation volition beryllium measured - and her adjacent determination volition beryllium watched intimately by fans and critics alike.

So what options does she have?

"Taylor is simply a precise future-minded thinker, truthful I ideate she has the adjacent fewer years already wholly planned out." says Bryan West, a dedicated Taylor Swift newsman for USA Today and The Tennessean, who has seen the Eras circuit 89 times.

Noting Swift's inclination to dovetail her projects, helium thinks determination volition beryllium immoderate benignant of "news-making" announcement astatine her last show.

Most likely, this volition beryllium the uncover of Reputation (Taylor's Version) - the latest instalment of her re-recorded medium series, implicit with bonus tracks from the vault.

That said, fans person been anticipating that announcement each twelvemonth and the medium is yet to materialise, contempt numerous, tantalising hints it's connected its way.

West has immoderate different theories, too.

"We've seen movie crews astatine galore of the gigs, truthful I'd not beryllium shocked if she's been shooting a documentary this full time.

"And successful her caller book, she said, 'See you adjacent era', truthful determination person been reports that she's moving connected caller music."

A longer word imaginable is that Swift volition pivot to film. In December 2022, she signed a woody to nonstop a movie for Searchlight Pictures, based connected her ain archetypal script.

Making the announcement, Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield called her "a erstwhile successful a procreation creator and storyteller", but the way has gone acold since then. Perhaps she'll instrumentality to the director's seat successful 2025?

West has besides tracked respective trademarks filed by the prima this year, including Taylor-Con and Female Rage: The Musical "which could beryllium thing from a tv amusement to a documentary bid to a Broadway production".

But possibly we're expecting excessively much?

"She needs to instrumentality immoderate clip off, archetypal and foremost," says Jack Saunders, big of Radio 1's New Music Show, "because it's wholly unrealistic to expect a quality being to run astatine the show level that she has been doing for the past mates of years and dive consecutive backmost in.

"We've heard a batch from Taylor - truthful it's steadfast for america and it's steadfast for her to measurement backmost and instrumentality immoderate clip away, truthful that she tin substance herself for whatever's next."

Indeed, Swift has hinted she's tiring of the euphony manufacture grind.

Clara Bow, a way from her latest medium The Tortured Poets Department, is simply a barbed commentary connected the industry's lust for caller blood.

Other songs find her daydreaming astir wedding rings and "pushin' strollers" - truthful there's each anticipation Swift volition instrumentality a twelvemonth disconnected to absorption connected her romance with American shot prima Travis Kelce.

"She astir apt volition instrumentality a break," says West, "but she's not 1 that needfully sits still. She's ever creating. She's ever coming up with caller projects."

If Swift does caput backmost to the studio, singer-songwriter Self Esteem hopes she'll walk the taste (and financial) superior she's built up implicit the past 2 years to bash thing unexpected.

"If I was her, I'd indulge myself successful making euphony successful each the antithetic genres and styles I hadn't been capable to research due to the fact that of branding and expectations," she says.

"And it sounds truly worthy, but I can't hold until I person capable wealth to money moving people radical who can't get entree to euphony - truthful if I was her, I'd bash that."

(It's worthy noting that Swift has a past of charitable giving, including donations to section foodbanks connected every stop of the Eras tour).

Whatever happens, a left-hand swerve makes sense; successful her Eras Tour book, the prima says she "hates to bash the aforesaid happening twice".

But for this weekend, Michelle conscionable wants to savour the last moments of a one-off phenomenon.

"We emotion concerts successful my family. I emotion the buzz of being successful a full assemblage of radical excited astir the aforesaid thing," she says, "but this feels different.

"I emotion however the circuit has brought radical each implicit the satellite together.

"It volition surely beryllium absorbing to spot what her adjacent determination is," she adds, "but I can't bring myself to speculate.

"I'll conscionable hold and spot - because, immoderate she does next, Taylor and her squad should beryllium precise arrogant of the joyousness that was brought to truthful galore during the Eras Tour run."