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\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Swift opens the Eras Tour with her backup dancers pulling sweeping, beautiful sunset-colored feathers from her as she sings, \u201cMiss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince.\u201d The entire stadium explodes with screams and cheers. Everyone in the audience feels the excitement and joy of the people surrounding them, and the whole world seems to stop, as Swift shouts, \u201cWelcome to the Eras Tour!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Taylor Swift is a phenomenon. Even if you don\u2019t like her music or Swift as a whole, it\u2019s hard to deny the respect she deserves for her impactful songwriting and all her accomplishments. Her tour, the Eras, became the first tour ever to gross over $2 billion, she\u2019s the only person to win Album of the Year four times at the Grammys (she\u2019s seeking her fifth win this year) and she was named Spotify\u2019s most streamed artist in 2024 for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 8 marks the last show of the Eras Tour. By the end of 2022, Swift released four albums that she did not get the chance to tour due to COVID-19, so she decided that this tour would cover her eleven \u201ceras\u201d and each album. The mega three-and-a-half-hour show includes forty-four songs and two \u201csurprise songs,\u201d which Swift changes each night, before performing her final era of the night, \u201cMidnights.\u201dAs her tour progressed, Swift began combining surprise songs, creating artistic mashups with her music. For example, she played a mix of \u201cMaroon\u201d from \u201cMidnights\u201d and \u201cCowboy Like Me\u201d from \u201cEvermore\u201d for her second night of her Indianapolis show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swift began her legendary tour on March 17, 2023. In the past year and (almost) nine months, Swift played at 152 sold-out stadiums in 51 cities on five continents, performing over five hundred hours of music for over ten million fans. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Taylor Swift singing her \u201c1989\u201d set
(Source: Tallulah Echtenkamp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n


The Eras Tour is the biggest tour in music history, reaching over $2 billion in revenue, and impacting the economy of every city it was played in. To put the economic impact of the Eras Tour in perspective: every $100 spent on the concert yielded $300 generated throughout the hosting city or town on commodities like hotels and food. In comparison, fans attending the Eras Tour spend an average of $1,300 to $1,500 on outfits, merchandise and travel. The smallest venue that Swift played in the Eras Tour held 43,000 people, boosting local economies by millions of dollars in a few short days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economics aside, Swift created a community for her fans. With just one song lyric, \u201cSo make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it,\u201d Swift inspired fans to start making and trading hundreds of friendship bracelets. Friends, strangers, security guards and anyone willing would shed the bracelets on their wrists, exchanging them with their fellow fans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about why she loves Swift, Ella Klebaner (Form IV), who experienced the Eras tour says, \u201cSome of her music is really nostalgic so seeing the Eras tour and experiencing my old favorite songs was really special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marin Hertzan (Form IV) appreciated the Eras tour, sharing that \u201cit was so special because it was a way for multiple generations of her fans to enjoy all their favorite songs from throughout her whole career.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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Taylor Swift singing her \u201cEvermore\u201d set
(Source: Tallulah Echtenkamp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Traditions fill the concert, from fans screaming \u201cYou forgive, you forget, but you never let it (pause) go!\u201d during \u201cBad Blood\u201d and when the audience claps twice in \u201cYou Belong With Me.\u201d Every aspect that the fans creatively came up with throughout the tour makes the experience more memorable and impactful for the audience and the people around Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although these pockets of joy every weekend of the concert ended, the community that Taylor Swift created with her music will not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mia Seshadri (Form IV) shares her perspective, \u201cHow do I feel about the Eras tour ending? It’s a bittersweet moment, it\u2019s sad because this giant event that has brought together such a strong community is over now, after almost two years, where so much time has passed and so much has happened in the world, so to see that conclude is pretty sad but it is also something to celebrate. This tour has had such a lasting impact on the music industry and the places that she\u2019s visited and it has pushed Taylor Swift up to legend status, like she is a legend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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