Taylor Swift thanked her fans for making the Eras Tour “the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging” experience of her life, as she played the closing show in Vancouver on Sunday. Prior to playing All Too Well, Swift told the audience in 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 anything she’d ever done before.
“I never thought that writing one line about friendship bracelets would have you guys all making friendship bracelets, making friends and bringing joy to each other. That is the lasting legacy of this tour. I couldn’t be more proud of you,” she added.
The tour, which kicked off in Arizona in March 2023, has been a huge commercial success, selling more than 10.1 million tickets worldwide, and breaking multiple records in the process. The final show was watched by over 60,000 fans in Vancouver’s BC Place stadium, with many more tuning in online.
The Eras Tour has also seen Swift pay tribute to her band, dancers, and crew, who “all left their families” behind and “performed when they were sick [or] anything was going on in their lives” to keep the show on the road.
For the acoustic set, Swift played a mash-up of A Place In This World and New Romantics, with the apposite lyric: “Heartbreak is the national anthem / We sing it proudly.” She also played Long Live, tweaking the words from “it was the end of a decade” to “it was the end of an era” – prompting a huge cheer from the audience.
The singer dedicated her final song to boyfriend Travis Kelce, changing the lyrics to “Karma is the guy on The Chiefs coming straight home to me”, as she has done several times since they started dating last year.
Swift thanked her fans one last time, saying “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.”
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