Anyone with an ear tuned to the world of pop music knew the Eras Tour was going to be a big one.eightstorm
It was Taylor Swift’s first tour in almost five years, the longest gap of her career. And Swift, long the biggest star in pop music, had become even bigger, transcending the Top 40 to become a cultural phenomenon.
Now, almost two years later, Swift started the final show of the tour on Sunday night in Vancouver, Canada, with her standard opener, “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince.”
“It’s a pretty cool night to be in Vancouver, huh?” she asked.
Meghan O’Keefe of Philadelphia was attending her fifth Eras show on Sunday night. She paid only $15 for the tickets, but they came with a catch. No view. “They’re behind the stage, but I am here,” she said. “I totally didn’t expect that.” (She ended up being allowed to move to a full-view seat.)
The tour included extensive music, not just from Swift’s most recent album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” but from her entire career, from the country of “Fearless” to the pop of “1989” and the indie pop of “Folklore.”
While the set list stayed fairly static, Swift added “surprise songs” every night; at Sunday’s final concert they were “A Place in This World,” “New Romantics,” “Long Live,” “New Year’s Day” and “The Manuscript.”
The first concert came in March 2023 in Glendale, Ariz., and it was even bigger than anyone imagined: three hours, 15 minutes without intermission and more than 40 songs.
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