How will The Eras Tour end?
Here on Dec. 6, 2024, on a Friday night in Vancouver — home of Taylor Swift‘s final three Eras shows (Nos. 150-152, for those counting) — we’re among about 60,000 kindred spirits at BC Place.
“You and I, we’re about to go on a little adventure,” Swift, in a bedazzled blue-and-gold Lover bodysuit, teases the crowd. “That adventure is gonna span 18 years of music, and we’re gonna be doing this one era at a time. How does that sound to you, Vancouver?”
Professional camera setups and operators scurrying behind the star on stage indicate this event is being professionally filmed. The Jumbotron is up and running high above the middle of the floor. It’s showing a feed focused on just Swift, so those further back or in upper levels can see her framed in a closeup and take in the full stage spectacle. Some ticket buyers are out only $16 CAD for late-release “no view” seats that turn out to be better than imagined, with slight glimpses at the Eras diamond or end stage, plus screens to watch.
There’s someone sobbing behind me. There’s happiness and sadness in the air being at this concert and knowing this is it.
Swift seems to feel that way, too, with a gaze that glistens when she pauses to take in the crowd for an extended moment post-“Champagne Problems.” She’s used the word “dreamscape” to describe the era of Folklore and Evermore, and in recent captions on Instagram posts and her tour book. From her perspective tonight, that’s got to be how it feels: surreal, even 630 days since The Eras Tour’s debut.
These were the best moments from the first of three dates in Vancouver, the beginning of the end (of Swift’s Eras Tour), from someone who can compare seeing the tour in 2023 vs. 2024.
