Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” ends after 2-year run
After a two-year run that brought in a record-breaking $2 billion, Taylor Swift wrapped up her “Eras Tour” on Sunday night in Vancouver. Nancy Chen looks back at the historic show.
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What happened
Who said what
“Vancouver, I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date,” Swift said before her final song. There is “no simple way to encapsulate” Swift’s run of lavish, 3-plus-hour productions, The Associated Press said. “The tour shattered sales and attendance records and created such an economic boom that even the Federal Reserve took note.”
The Eras Tour earned about $2 billion in ticket sales, and pumped billions more into local economies, The Wall Street Journal said, but it also made Swift, 34, a “cultural phenomenon on par with Michael Jackson in the 1980s and the Beatles in the 1960s.” The tour “came at a time,” following the pandemic, “when people needed it most,” CNN said. Her fans literally “cause earthquakes.”
What next?
“Music executives say Swift has raised the bar for the concert industry,” the Journal said. But right now “she deserves her rest,” Adele said recently. “That’s been a long f—ing tour.”
