Taylor Swift Has 1 Last Surprise at Final Stop on ‘Beloved Eras Tour’ in Vancouver: ‘End of an Era’
Taylor Swift had a few more tricks up her sleeve during the final performance of her Eras Tour.
The pop star, 34, took the stage at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada, on Sunday, December 8, which marked her last show of the tour. In a poignant moment, Swift performed a three-way mash-up for Sunday’s surprise song, giving lucky fans a rendition of “Love Live” mixed with “New Year’s Day” and The Tortured Poets Department bonus track, “The Manuscript.”
As one fan pointed out via X, her final surprise song on the Eras Tour was rather fitting: “First surprise song: tim mcgraw, last surprise song: the manuscript, the first and last song of her discography.”
Swift also paid homage to her long-running tour by changing the lyrics of “Long Live” from, “It was the end of a decade,” to, “It was the end of an era / But the start of an age.”
Closing out the show, Swift thanked fans for “being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my life to date — my beloved Eras Tour.” The pop star then segued into one last song, “Karma,” lifted from 2022’s Midnights, and as she has done throughout the tour, gave a little shout-out to her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, by singing, “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs.”
Swift kicked off the Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023, performing throughout the United States until August 2023. The singer then embarked on the international leg of the tour, making stops in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe from November 2023 to this August. In October, Swift returned to North America for a handful of final shows in the U.S. and Canada.
In total, Swift performed 149 sold-out concerts across five continents over the course of nearly two years, making the Eras Tour the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Swift previously opened up to TIME in December 2023 about her mission to “superserve the fans” with her biggest tour ever. (The three-and-a-half hour concert took attendees through her musical eras via a massive 45-song setlist which, after the April release of The Tortured Poets Department, included hits from her latest album and a cameo from her NFL star boyfriend.)
“They had to work really hard to get the tickets,” she explained at the time. “I wanted to play a show that was longer than they ever thought it would be because that makes me feel good leaving the stadium.”
Swift gushed that the Eras Tour made her “the most fulfilled I’ve ever felt” in my life.
“I know I’m going on that stage whether I’m sick, injured, heartbroken, uncomfortable or stressed,” she added. “That’s part of my identity as a human being now. If someone buys a ticket to my show, I’m going to play it unless we have some sort of force majeure.”
In June, Swift confirmed that the tour would come to an end in December, calling the venture “the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life.”
“I think that this tour has really become my entire life,” she continued. “It’s taken over everything. I think I once had hobbies, but I don’t know what they were anymore. All I do when I’m not on stage is sit at home and try to think of clever acoustic song mash-ups and think about what you might want to hear.”
Amid her record-breaking tour, Swift achieved a bevy of professional accomplishments, including the chart-topping releases of her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department — which inspired her to revamp her entire show to include the new music — and her rerecordings of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Additionally, she ensured that the tour will live on for years to come through her concert film.
Swift has also dealt with several changes in her personal life since the Eras Tour began, with the most notable being her relationship with Kelce, 35, which began after he attended one of her concerts in the summer of 2023.
