‘Vancouver, I want to thank every single one of you for being part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date,’ Swift told the crowd
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It’s the end of an era. After nearly 150 concerts spanning five continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour came to a close in Vancouver Sunday night at B.C. Place.
“Can you believe this is the last night of the Eras Tour? I can’t,” opening act Gracie Abrams said to the crowd adding: “Have all of you been crying all day like me?”
The singer has joined Swift on 49 of the Eras Tour dates, including Toronto and Vancouver, and clearly wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye.
It’s a sentiment that was most certainly shared by fans.
“We spent the entire year of 2024 travelling the world,” the superstar singer-songwriter said in concert on Friday. “And we thought to ourselves: ‘Where have the crowds been so generous, so welcoming, so warm-hearted — where they know every single word, they not only sing them, but they scream them? Oh, we’ve got to go back to Canada.’ And so now here we are in beautiful Vancouver.”
And those fans certainly must have met — if not exceeded — Swift’s expectations on Sunday night.
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What was the set list?
Rumours abounded before the final night that the already-lengthy set list would go even longer.
The rumours, it turns out, were false. In true Eras fashion, the show started punctually and ran with a familiar set list. Save for the “Surprise Songs,” which featured five song mash-ups instead of four, it played out as expected.
Lover
1. Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
2. Cruel Summer
3. The Man
4. You Need to Calm Down
5. Lover
Fearless
1. Fearless
2. You Belong With Me
3. Love Story
Red
1. 22
2. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
3. I Knew You Were Trouble
4. All Too Well
Speak Now
2. Enchanted
Reputation
1. … Ready For It?
2. Delicate
3. Don’t Blame Me
4. Look What You Made Me Do
Folklore/Evermore
1. Cardigan
2. Betty
3. Champagne Problems
4. August
5. Illicit affairs
6. My Tears Ricochet
7. Margorie
8. Willow
1989
1. Style
2. Blank Space
3. Shake It Off
4. Wildest Dreams
5. Bad Blood
The Tortured Poets Department
1. But Daddy I Love Him/ So High School
2. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
3. Down Bad
4. Fortnight
5. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
6. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
Surprise Songs
1. A Place in this World / New Romantics
2. Long Live / New Year’s Day / The Manuscript
Midnights
1. Lavender Haze
2. Anti-Hero
3. Midnight Rain
4. Vigilante Shit
5. Bejeweled
6. Mastermind
7. Karma
Were there any special guests?
On Sunday, it was all Swift.
“It’s feeling like a pretty cool night to be in Vancouver,” Swift said with a smile following a long (long!) pause for cheers from the sold-out crowd. All eyes remained on the superstar all night long.
After all, Swift did call the tour her “beloved Eras tour,” so you can’t blame her for wanting the final night to be all her’s (well, and her fans’).
Were there any special announcements?
Despite much fan speculation online and at the show about special appearances by musical guests, an onstage engagement, album announcements and other fanciful what-ifs, the final night in Vancouver stuck close to the script.
But that didn’t mean it was boring. Not even close.
The energy in B.C. Place was electric. In fact, during the Reputations era, it was almost palpable.
“Oh my god! SO. GOOD!,” a nearby fan screamed joyously toward the end of the Red era.
The singalongs reached a level that, at times, seemed to rival Swift herself. Those who snagged a ticket to the final night seemed to skew more toward super fans than casual concert attendees, remaining on their feet throughout the three-plus hour concert while dancing and loudly singing. Every. Word.
As the Eras evening — and, therefore, the Eras Tour — came toward its close, Swift had one last question for fans.
“Would you give us one more song please?”Swift asked enthusiastically before slipping in to the last song of the set, Karma. (Fans screamed with glee when she changed a line in the song to “Karma is a guy on the Chiefs,” a reference to her boyfriend, NFL player Travis Kelce.)
Pausing a few extra moments on stage for extended hugs and smiles with her sparkle-clad dancers and background vocalists, Swift had a few words of thanks for the 50,000-plus fans who had packed into the stadium to see the final night.
“Vancouver, I want to thank every single one of you for being part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date,” Swift said.
The pleasure was all ours.