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Music|For Taylor Swift, It’s the End of the ‘Eras’
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/arts/music/for-taylor-swift-its-the-end-of-the-eras.html
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Anyone with an ear tuned to the world of pop music knew the Eras Tour was going to be a big one.
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.
Moreover, this tour would include extensive music, not just from her most recent album, “Midnights,” but from her entire career, from the country of “Fearless” to the pop of “1989” to the indie pop of “Folklore.”
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.
And the excitement just kept building, with frenzied anticipation in every city, attendance records broken and vast economic impacts in regions and even entire countries.
Tickets vanished in seconds, then quickly popped up on the secondary market at 10 times the price. Fans who couldn’t obtain or afford tickets came to the venues anyway, content to commune with others like them and sing along with the amplified music coming from inside.
Now, almost two years later, the tour is coming to an end on Sunday night in Vancouver, Canada.
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