As the Eras Tour winds down, Taylor Swift is getting emotional about saying goodbye to everyone who made it a special journey.
After a standing ovation for her performance of “Champagne Problems” on Saturday, November 23, the 34-year-old pop star attempted to thank fans on behalf of herself and members of her band. Swift, however, became too overcome with emotion, per social media footage, to continue on as tears ricocheted down her cheek.
After wiping the tears, Swift continued her speech.
“To my band and to my crew, everybody who’s put so much of this into this tour, and I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore,” Swift said. “I’m just having a — sorry. … It’s not even the last show!”
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She continued, “My band, my crew [and] all my fellow performers, we have put so much of our lives into this, and you put so much of your lives into being with us tonight and to giving us that moment that we will never forget. We loved our time in Toronto; it’s been so amazing. I love you, guys, thank you so much for that.”
Saturday was Swift’s sixth and final Eras Tour concert in Toronto, during which she enchanted attendees with surprise mash-ups of “Sparks Fly” and “Message in a Bottle” on guitar and a piano rendition of “You’re Losing Me” combined with “How Did It End?”
Taylor crying makes me cry
we are SO proud of you and the band, crew, dancers, and all the production staff. YOU ALL DESERVE THE WORLD
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The 14-time Grammy winner will perform three concerts in Vancouver early next month, wrapping on December 8. It will serve as the official conclusion of the Eras Tour.
“This tour is going to end in December. Like, that’s it,” Swift previously revealed during a June concert in Liverpool, England. “[It’s been] the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life.”
She added at the time, “I think that this tour has really become my entire life. 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.”
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Swift launched her Eras Tour, a three-hour concert honoring all of her past and present albums, in March 2023.
“Every part of you that you’ve ever been, every phase you’ve ever gone through, was you working it out in that moment with the information you had available to you at the time,” Swift told TIME in a December 2023 profile of revisiting her old tracks. “There’s a lot that I look back at like, ‘Wow, a couple years ago I might have cringed at this.’ You should celebrate who you are now, where you’re going, and where you’ve been.”
Her Eras concerts have also become a place for her friends and family to congregate, including her parents, her brother and celebrity best friends like Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid. The tour was also the catalyst of how Swift met her boyfriend, NFL tight end Travis Kelce.
“Taylor’s shows are unbelievable,” Kelce, 35, exclusively gushed to Us Weekly in May. “If you haven’t been to them, you got to try it.”
Kelce, who made his stage debut one month later during one of the Wembley Stadium shows in London, has also shown that magic to his family. Both of Kelce’s parents, Donna and Ed, have hit up separate performances, as well as the Kansas City Chiefs star’s brother, Jason, with his wife and kids.
