After 152 shows, Swift’s global tour has been the most successful of all time. At the final dates, fans explain their devotion
Taylor Swift performing in Vancouver, where she ended a tour that had spanned US, Australia, Asia and Europe before finishing off in Canada.Taylor Swift performing in Vancouver, where she ended a tour that had spanned US, Australia, Asia and Europe before finishing off in Canada.launched what would become the highest-grossing tour of all time, you could be forgiven for thinking both “wait, Taylor Swift isAfter all, the Eras era has spanned an epoch, at least in ever-quickening internet time.
Not that you would know it from downtown, which – like every city before it in the US, Australia, Asia, Europe and finally Canada – morphed into a temporary mecca for hundreds of thousands of sequined, jubilant Swifties. Much has been said about how the Eras Tour became its own two-yearin person. According to the unscientific estimate of a US border agent who asked me how Taylor was before even looking at my passport, “99.
“The energy is just … I think everybody is feeling it,” said Maline Davis, 27, of St Louis, Missouri, at a loss for words over the last show. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I just don’t know that this will happen again.”Probably not, at least not in this way.
For the entirety of its run, getting tickets was an infamously gruelling gauntlet and, for many, the final dates were less sentimental than practical. “We didn’t even realise that it was going to be the last weekend,” said Hayley, 19, who came with her family from Dayton, Ohio, after they were unable to get tickets for the regional show in Cincinnati.
If anything, the dissonance intensified the reverence. In its second year, the Eras Tour settled into a semi-religious event. Fans ritualised the show with Rocky Horror-esque timed participation – when to shout out unofficial additional lyrics, when to hold up one’s phone flashlight . When to give the eardrum-shattering, minutes-long ovation so that Swift can bask, earpieces out, in the worship that she built.
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