The End of an Era Episode 6 Recap: “Remember This Moment”
Podcast Episode: December 29, 2025
Episode Description
The final episode of The End of an Era is here. Episode 6, “Remember This Moment,” follows Taylor Swift through her last three performances in Vancouver as The Eras Tour comes to a close.
In this episode of the Swiftly Sung Stories Podcast, we explore what this tour truly meant – not just to Taylor, but to the Eras Tour family that carried it across the world…and to me, because I make a very special appearance in the docuseries!
I share how I became part of The End of an Era, what it was like to see myself on screen for the first time, and how that moment reshaped my experience of this tour forever.
From there, we dive into an extended recap of the final chapter of the greatest show on earth, unpacking what this journey demanded of Taylor, what it gave back, and what it reveals about where she’s headed next.
We also get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the final surprise-song set—one last act of storytelling before the curtain falls. So come along with me as we close this era, honor everything it took to get here, and remember this moment together.
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Episode Transcript
“I was in the Eras tour documentary, you guys! The final episode of The End of an Era is here, and your girl made a very special appearance midway through the episode. I am so excited to recap this episode for you, and give you the full storytime on how they used my tiktok video, and just what an incredible series this has been, and what we’ve learned both about the tour and about Taylor in this really revealing, vulnerable and candid docuseries. I’m so excited, So let’s get into it.
Story Time: How I Was Featured in The Eras Tour Documentary
Let’s start with the storytime about how I was featured in episode 6, and then we’ll go straight into the recap.
About 6 months ago, I was contacted by a producer through my website, Swiftly Sung Stories . com, who asked if she could license one of my tiktok videos for a documentary about music tours and what they mean to fans. I was surprised by this, because it wasn’t a viral video, and the contents of this particular video wasn’t universal – it was very specific to Taylor Swift and The Eras Tour, and here it is.
“You’re not grieving the loss of some silly little pop star performance. You’re grieving the loss of a big event that brought you joy, and distraction, and hope, and cameraderie, at a time where it feels like none of those things should be able to exist. You’re grieving right now, and that’s normal. Don’t let anyone make you feel small, or make you feel silly for being sad right now.”
So like any true Swiftie, I did a little digging. This person was legit with credits on IMDB, but the documentary and the company she said she was working for, neither of those things existed. But my spidey senses were tingling, because we know that everything in Taylor’s world is kept under wraps until it drops. There’s code names, and fake companies set up, and the lot. Everything is zipped up tight.
I had only one clarifying question to ask, and it was: what is the tone of the documentary, and what is the attitude toward Taylor Swift and the Swiftie community? And she replied that it was all positive, and both are painted in a positive light. If you’ve ever posted anything about Taylor Swift online, you know that haters gonna hate, so I just wanted to make sure that my video wasn’t going to be used in a negative way.
Question answered, I signed the release, they sent me a check, I told her best of luck with the documentary, she is absolutely lovely by the way, and then I heard nothing. Crickets, until The End of an Era was announced. We all kind of knew that something like this would be coming, but it was so cool to see confirmation. But I didn’t want to say anything publicly because number one, I didn’t want to jinx it. But number two, if it was a Taylor project, I didn’t want them to see me as this person who will spoil the surprise and blab to the world about this secret project, and yank my video out of the edit if indeed that’s what they were using it for. So I kept quiet.
Episodes 1 and 2 dropped, nothing, but they did use fan videos. So that got my hopes up that they might use mine. Episodes 3 and 4 dropped, nothing, but the trajectory was heading toward the final two episodes capturing the end of the eras tour and the final performances, and my video was about exactly that – the end of the eras tour. So I still had my fingers crossed.
The 23rd comes, and I live in the UK, so the episodes are going to drop for me at 8am. But my 4 year old had crawled into bed with me and I woke up at like 3am and couldn’t get back to sleep. At 8am, I watched episode 5 with him which was incredible, but still nothing, I’m not in it. I’m like, okay, if I am in the next episode, I’m not going to be able to take a nap today, and I really need it to function. So I tell my husband not to watch ahead and I’m going to watch episode 6 when I wake up.
Wake up from my nap, come into the tv room, the tv is paused, and my husband has been crying. Happy crying, but crying. I’m like, what is going on, and my 4 year old says – I wish I had this on video – he says “momma, you were on TV with Taylor Swift!”. But I mis-heard him, still half asleep, and I said, “yeah buddy, i might be.” And my husband says, “did you hear what your son says?” He repeats it. “You were on tv with Taylor Swift!”
So my husband rewinds it, sits me down on the couch, and I was both mad at him for watching ahead and spoiling the surprise, but also glad because he took a video of my first time seeing it. So here that is.
Apparently when I’m very happy I fling myself off the couch onto the floor and both laugh and cry at the same time.
But anyway, that’s how I made it into the documentary, that’s how I found out, and I just want to say a huge thank you to Taylor and her team – you have no idea how much this means to me. I still haven’t quite processed it, but I can say that it is the absolute best Christmas gift I could have ever gotten.
Okay. Let’s rewind back to the beginning of the episode and begin our recap. This is the end of an era, episode 6, remember this moment.
Episode 6 Recap: “Remember This Moment”
We open the episode with an empty stadium, with the manuscript playing over scenes of semi trucks rolling into BC place in Vancouver, and this montage of setting up the stage. We get some newscaster voiceovers, which say, “it is the music tour that changed the industry. Changed entire economies, at least temporarily, and if you ask some Super Swifties, may have even changed some lives.”
Now the montage is spliced with performance videos, she’s at the evermore piano, she’s bowing for Karma, etc, all spliced with setting up the stage, and the voiceover continues: “The eras tour has danced through sold out stadiums in fifty cities on five continents, the highest grossing tour of all time, stretching 633 days, and rocketing Swift from megastar to cultural phenomenon.”
Now we’re getting shots of the crowds cheering, Taylor performing, AND setting up the stage and the stadium. “It is the end of an era,” another newscaster says, “Taylor Swift will end her record-shattering Eras Tour this weekend, we are just one day away from Taylor Swift kicking off her final Eras Tour shows.” And then the doors open from backstage to reveal the catwalk, and we get a voiceover from Taylor, “are you ready for it?”
Then we get our title card: the end of an era, episode six, remember this moment.
If you’re like me, you’re already crying, just from them playing the manuscript over this whole montage. And get your tissues ready, because we’ve got our time markers, we’re setting up for Vancouver, and we’re about to learn what the entire cast, crew, family, and team members are feeling about this.
Now we get some overhead shots of the stadium, and then we get what will be one of many of these neon signs that were set up around Vancouver that will serve as sort of chapter markers for this episode. It’s very cinematic and I love how they’ve framed this episode using these different signs around the city. This one says, “shake it off,” so we know we’re about to talk about shaking off all these big emotions.
The subtitle says, 3 shows left, and we see Taylor hiding under a half-collapsed umbrella climbing into the car. “Three left,” she says, “that’s it.” She’s talking to Austin, and she says, “I don’t know how I’m gonna feel but I also really don’t know how other people are gonna feel. But they’re gonna need me to respond in a way that supports however it is that they feel at any given moment. So I’m just sort of bracing myself for…” Then Austin interjects, “how DO you feel?” Because this whole conversation, she’s been worried about everyone else, so I’m glad that Austin got right to the point. Like, how does she feel?
“I just feel so proud, but so ready,” she replies, “like SO ready for this. This is the perfect ending.” I can imagine she feels elated, but also, like ready for this to be over. It’s been almost 2 years of the most grueling, intense tour anyone has ever done.
Now we’re getting shots of the crew inflating and installing that giant friendship bracelet that adorned the outside of BC place, and we get a voiceover from Taylor: “This show created a bonding experience for like 70,000 people all at once. I don’t know how that happened. There are times where you make something so cool, and you know it’s cool, and you’re really proud of it, but you’re flying into the wind, and you’re just always up against some friction.”
Now we’re getting some shots of the crowds starting to form outside the stadium, and the fans in costumes, and the happiness and joy of the eras tour, and she continues, “Then there’s times, these very rare instances where you make something and the wind is at your back. Somehow, culture and timing and whatever mood there is out in the world about you that you can’t control all lines up for this to go well.”
So she’s speaking in metaphors again, with the wind trying to blow you down, versus the wind propelling you forward. And we can see she really leans into nature metaphors when she’s talking about the kind of fate and destiny of it all, right? She had the tectonic plates metaphor in the first episode, which we will hear again in this episode, and here she’s using wind as another metaphor for things falling into place.
But she’s talking here not about the contents of the tour, which was incredible, but all of the other factors. What the public thinks of her, what politically and culturally is going on in the world, and those are factors she can’t control. They can work either for or against her, and in this case, the world was in a very dark place and we desperately needed joy. And that’s what this tour brought to us, which is also what I’m going to talk about when we hear my voiceover midway through the episode.
Now we’re backstage in Vancouver, and Taylor has gotten more flowers from Travis. We knew he doesn’t even have to sign them anymore, it seems he sends her flowers before every show, but this time he sends an incredible letter, and she reads parts of it out loud for us.
“So many memories on this unbelievable tour, but my favorite one is seeing you in concert for the first time. Being mesmerized and swept off my feet by a woman who doesn’t even know me. I selfishly say thank you for creating this legendary tour, and to Robert for making you stop through Kansas City, Missouri. That night too in KC was the beginning of me meeting the love of my life.”
She doesn’t read the rest for us, but you can tell she treasures this letter. But what this clip does is tie back into the fate and karma of it all that have been these ever-present themes through every episode. If she doesn’t do the eras tour, she doesn’t meet Travis. If she doesn’t meet Travis, the sky stays onyx and not opalite. You get the gist. The wind has been at her back, and it blew her into the exact right place at the right time. It’s the fate of ophelia playing out before our eyes.
She puts down the letter and says, “Oh my god. So much for no emotions on the last three shows, huh?” Now she’s talking to her mom in the dressing room and she says, “I feel like I’m just preparing for tears in a way that’s making me feel confused. Like, I’m prepared for happy tears and gratitude. But I’m like, ‘this is not supposed to bring anyone sadness.’ Even though it’s never going to happen again, so I guess it is sad. I’m getting weird jitters, they’re strange.”
And Andrea kind of helps clarify this for her, and she says, “because there’s an end in sight. Change, it kinda messes with people.” And we can see in these clips that Taylor just hasn’t processed it yet. Remember in the last episode she said live it, feel it, wonder about it, write about it. At the point she’d written Showgirl, as we saw in the last episode, she hadn’t written about the end yet, because the end hadn’t happened yet. So I hope that on TS13 we do get to close the book on the eras tour in song. And as we learn in the very end of the episode, there will definitely be a TS13 to look forward to.
Now Taylor is preparing the acoustic set for night 1, and she says to her mom, “this is one you requested, this mash up.” She starts playing Never Grow Up, which is, of course, about Taylor’s relationship with her mom and her relationship with leaving childhood and moving into adulthood. This is the perfect song for this moment, because Taylor’s mom has just talked about change, and how much it can throw you off kilter.
She gets to the second verse, and they just both lose it. Andrea starts crying and says, “you can’t do this to me.” She’s singing this incredibly emotional and nostalgic song to her mom, and the tour is ending, and emotions are already high. Then Taylor breaks, “I can’t do it either, dude.” And it’s at this moment that Austin and Scott walk in, as they’re having this emotional mother daughter moment. Turns out, they were watching the whole time. So now we’re having a whole family emotional break, and they’re all crying. It’s good tears, happy tears, but it’s hitting all of them that this family tour is really over.
Taylor continues playing, and she gets to the “I have an excellent father,” and we see Scott crying proud tears, and “God smiles on my little brother,” and we see Austin in tears. It’s a beautiful moment. “And I had the best days with you,” she goes on singing, and this song is really narrating the end of the tour for her family, and thanking her family for being there with her and doing it with her.
“Those tickets should come with a warning,” Austin jokes once she’s done, and Taylor jokes, “they should just be printed on tissues.”
Now we zoom over to the dancers and the band, and they’ve been asked to describe the eras tour in one word. Kamilah says, “magical.” Raphael says, “remarkable and phenomenal.” Natalie says, “joyous. It’s a celebration of all that’s happy in the world.”
But my favorite is Melanie, who is one of the background vocalists. She says, “this is an unprecedented big.” And that, to me, is the best, most accurate description. An unprecedented big. Because it describes not just the physical size of it, but the emotional size of it, and the size of the impact. I’m going to use that from now on to describe any huge, momentous event in life. An unprecedented big.
We hear from more of the crew, from the dancers, from the band about what this has meant to them, and they all discuss this tour family feeling that they all have. And we see Whyley again, who says, “We are in this together, that is what she said to us on that first day, just shaking hands and saying hi I’m Taylor.”
So she created this team, this family, and we can see by now that part of what made the tour so magical was this dynamic she established between everyone who worked on the show, making them feel this way, like they were all connected. Because the fans feel that, right? There wasn’t just one star on that stage, there were many. And we loved them all, because they loved what they were doing and they loved each other, and it really showed.
Tori says, “This tour, this boss, has like made us feel seen, worthy, and like treated with the utmost respect.” And with it’s nice to have a friend playing over these clips of the dancers and Taylor on the stage, this is a beautiful moment where we feel this bond, and we feel the happiness within this whole tour family.
Now we see the dancers walking into work into this sort of backstage lounge. And they all gasp as they walk in the room, and we shortly see why: Taylor has created them each their own Eras Tour poster, with their faces where Taylor’s face usually is, in this like mosaic of photos in different colors. And it has their name, and eras tour dancer where it usually says Taylor Swift The Eras Tour.
And this is such a cute surprise, but what it represents is even cooler: it means that they are all the stars. Remember how in an earlier episode, she said she wanted the dancers to pull focus, and she wanted the fans to feel like they just saw a whole cast of superstars on the stage? This poster is symbolic of that. And it’s celebrating this road that they’ve traveled together as they head into these last 3 shows.
Now we get an interview with Jan, or Jan Malone, as we affectionately referred to him in TTPD, and he’s talking about being the first one on the stage, when he walks out with that huge wing on. And Taylor told him, like you’re gonna be the first one out, so be ready. And he says he can’t even describe what that was like to walk out on that stage for the first time, he was holding back tears because it was just so beautiful to see all these lights and feel the energy of all of these people and their excitement.
And reflecting on the end of the tour, he’s saying after every job you think it was the best one, but he says “But I think this one IS the one.” And it truly was a career-defining tour for everyone, and for him – he’s gone on to do so many cool things and he’s really blown up since then. Jan’s wife, by the way, posted a video a while ago of him returning after being on tour, and his kids just running up and hugging him which was so sweet. They seem like an incredible family, and it’s so cool to see Jan get so much love and recognition, and see all of the eras tour cast go on to do such incredible things.
Now we’re in the huddle for Vancouver night one, and Taylor says, “You guys, this is our last first show of the weekend. For me, this is our victory lap. We did the hard shit, the scary things, the ups the downs, we did all that, I couldn’t be happier to get to play this last first night with you. It’s probably the happiest I’ve been on a first night. Cuz it’s the last one.”
I think we can still see that Taylor is in this place of not really knowing how to process this ending. But she’s also trying to set a tone of positivity and happiness for the whole crew, because she sets the tone overall. So framing it as joy and happiness? That’s purposeful, whether she’s really feeling it inside or not. She doesn’t want everyone losing it, because they still have 3 more shows to do, just as perfectly as the first 146.
Next we hear from Karina from the band in the huddle, and she leads them through a deep breath to calm everyone down. And then she says, “I was thinking about change, because we have a big one coming up. But when I think about what change means, that’s what eras are. Eras are evolutions, and they are meant to come to an end in some ways. But this will always have been our eras era.”
And if this resonated with you, like it resonated with me, i think this is why: it makes change less scary. To frame it number one as an era, and number two as something that is supposed to change, because that’s how you grow, you can look at your life not as this series of ups and downs, but these chapters that each do something to propel the plot. And Taylor knows this better than anyone, and while she has more defined eras than the average Jane, it is helpful to look at your life like this. Because it’s reassuring, you know? I’m just in my sad folklore era, or I’m in my reinvention 1989 era. Taylor has always sort of narrated the chapters of our life for us, her music is the book and the soundtrack, and the eras tour was just a big, happy celebration of that.
They do their f-shit up cheer, and that’s all we get from night one. We get some shots around Vancouver, and we see another neon sign that says Anti-hero, and the subtitle says 2 shows left. So we’re turning the page and entering a new chapter in this episode. And Taylor says, “this tour will live on as probably the pinnacle, foremost important thing that I’ve done. I get very depressed about pop culture’s obsession with youth culture, and we designate extremely young people to be the ones who have to tell us where culture is going. And then the idea that an artist had, in my case, the privilege of developing to the point where you’re in your 30s and you do know yourself a bit more, and then you were able to make the thing that they’ll know you for. There’s something very special about that.”
I found this snippet about youth and pop culture really interesting, because Taylor has always had this worry about the shelf life of a pop star. She’s been worried about it since The Lucky One and Nothing New from her Red Era, how long will this last? Can I maintain this career when I’m nothing new, or will the shiny mirrorball shatter on the floor?
Her antidote, of course, has been her eras. To totally reinvent herself every two years, with a new album, and a new sound, and a new look, and a new attitude. So she’s really reflecting on what all this means, that she’s reached the height of her career at a time past the point where most pop stars expire. That she’s had this much success nearly 20 years into her career is not only remarkable, it’s unheard of. So what does it mean that her eras era is over? We’re going to find out a bit more as the episode goes on.
She continues, “this was a seismic, momentous period of time in my life and of the performers and the crew members and anyone who this tour touched. And it’s never going to happen again this way.” And what I think she means when she says this is not that she’s never going to tour again, because we’ve learned to never say never with Taylor, but I think she means the magic that this tour captured. These tectonic plates, with the wind at their back. It’s the alchemy of the eras tour that she might not be able to replicate, and it’s because of the place in her life when she started, and the place in her life where she is now. She can’t ever replicate that, because this period of time – this “seismic, momentous” moment – changed her forever.
And through the fate and karma and destiny of it all that is woven throughout all of these episodes, she’s looking back and seeing that things might never fall into place in exactly the same pattern again. The power that this tour had, the chokehold it had on pop culture, she doesn’t know if she can replicate that, nor does she know if she wants to. It’s like how a sequel is always subpar against the original. Do you leave the original be as a one-off, or do you try to replicate that magic? And if you try to make a sequel, does it dilute the original? It’s a conundrum.
And now we get to hear from Jeslyn again, who, over clips of her performing on stage, says, “It’s more than just a job. It’s more than just a show. It’s what we are, and the joy and the magic that happens in that space…I never want it to end.” Jeslyn, girl, us neither. WE don’t want it to end! And we saw the joy and the magic that you and all of your fellow crew members were up there, and we see you, and we are just so grateful that we got so see it while it lasted.
Now we are back in the dressing room with Momma Swift and Taylor, and she’s talking about doing another duet with Gracie. But this moment was really interesting – we get a close up of the 22 hat, and Taylor has signed it on the underside of the brim, so you can’t see it when she’s wearing it, but the fan gets to treasure that forever. Which is so special.
So she and Gracie are practicing a mashup of one of Gracie’s most popular songs – I love you, I’m sorry, and they’re mashing it up with Last Kiss, and these songs fit together so beautifully, and they’re both just geeking out about how great this is. They both say they have chills and like cold sweats, because they’ve puzzle pieced these songs together like magic. And when they finish, Taylor says she’s soaked under her sweatshirt, she’s so excited that she’s just been pouring sweat. And this is a moment of the magic of music, really, and it’s so cool to see that it affects her playing it just as much as it affects us hearing it.
And then we get to hear from Gracie about what this all means, and the tour coming to an end. “The light and the joy that she has provided. There’s just been nothing like this cultural phenomenon in a tour ever. It’s like changed people’s lives.” And now we’re getting shots of what I’m assuming is Vancouver night 2. The crowds have arrived, and they’re filing in, and they’re trading friendship bracelets, and everyone is just so excited.
And now we hear from Taylor, “The people who came to these shows wanted to have a good experience, and wanted others to have a good experience too. There’s something very pure about that.” And under this voiceover, we’re seeing clips of the crowd and just this massive joy, and hugging, and crying, and cheering. And what she’s talking about here is really not just the camaraderie of the tour, but the camaraderie of the Swiftie community. Because there really is something unique about this fandom.
And then we hear from Andrea, over clips of some of the most incredible outfits on fans we’ve ever seen, and she says, “Those fans, to see them get dressed in the way that they do, seeing them make the effort to commune with each other, to help each other. It is that sense of truly connecting with each other.” If you wore a cool outfit to the eras tour, Momma Swift probably saw you. Just know that.
Now we’re seeing clips of fan reactions during the show, and she goes on, “I think that’s the thing that compelled people to make such a big deal out of the eras tour. Yes, it’s a pretty frickin cool show. But you know what else is really cool about it? Everybody who comes to it.” We get the sense that Andrea was watching the fans more than watching Taylor, and she’s just so proud of it and taking in all that it’s become.
Then Taylor says, “Hearing the stories about the positivity rush that people felt. Talking about how they blacked out during the show. And they just got this euphoric rush of joy that felt chemical. I specifically created this tour on a molecular level to make people feel that sense of escape. But to have it land like that, you’re like ‘YES.’”
I love these quotes from both Taylor and her mom, because it really shows how much they had the fans in mind when they created this. It was all about the fans. All the blood, sweat, and tears, that’s for the fans. And I’ve never seen an artist display this much thought and do this much work to be able to connect with fans. And what Taylor had in mind was this sort of out of body experience that she wanted to provide, she wanted this to be a place where the energy was so high, and the visuals were so magical, and the songs were so powerful, that when they all combine, you’re knocked over. You black out.
And even if you didn’t get to go, like I didn’t get to go, we saw that energy, and we felt that energy through the screen. That’s how far it reached. Not only the nosebleed sections, but all the way to us, at home on our couch. Like remember how Jeslyn told us that when she was going through chemo, she was on the livestream every night? It’s because she wanted to feel that joy again, and it’s contagious even from far away. That’s a pretty powerful thing. That’s the power of the eras tour, and that’s the power of Taylor.
Now we hear from Robert, of 13 Management, and we see clips of him just looking around at the crowd and beaming. He says, “I perhaps spend more time looking at the audience than I do looking at the show. It’s really fulfilling, and her outreach and the fanbase and the community that she’s grown, what more could you ask for in a career?” And he’s tearing up as he says this. He’s so proud of Taylor, and he’s been with her since the beginning. Since the Scott Borchetta, big machine days, so he’s been here for it all, and he’s watched her build and help her build this remarkable phenomenon, and to see how grateful he is for this job is just magic.
Now Taylor says, over clips of the intro to 22, “Every person in that audience, hopefully, is being shaped positively in some way by something that they see or something that they hear or something that they feel during that 3.5 hours.” So now we’re leading into the significance of 22 and the hat. And she says, “The 22 moments stems from a hat that I wore on the Red tour. So I wanted to really bring back that moment of just kinda like have a moment with a fan where I actually like get close with them.” Like she’s told us before, it’s about connection. She wants to connect.
“What’s really interesting about that moment is I never know what kid I’m gonna meet. I’ve got people in the audience scouring the crowd for the first couple of eras, trying to find a kid who knows every single word to the songs and having the time of their life at this show. Because that kid is basically like a representative of every kid in that crowd that night. It could be, like, a little kid that gets really shy when all of a sudden they’re seeing 60,000 people for the first time, or it could be, there are kids that just like bloom under the bright lights, and they’re just like ‘oh my god, I’m a pop star now’.”
We see some clips of the 22 hat moments over different shows, and they’re all just so magical. Some of the kids are just up there dancing and screaming the lyrics as Taylor walks toward them, and some are just nervous, hands over their mouths, eyes wide. But no matter how they react, it’s about that moment of connection. Taylor continues, “it’s always so wild to be, like, in this moment with this person that I’ve never met before, this little kid. And everything’s going on around us, and somehow we’re able to just like able to have this moment be completely between us. We’re just kind of like, meeting each other, and everyone else kind of disappears for a second. It just reminds me why I do it.”
So we’ve heard it all – how this tour was meticulously designed for there to be no bad seats, how she wanted to reach all the way to the nosebleeds not with proximity but with emotion, and here she’s talking about this other type of emotional connection, and it’s not just with one fan. It’s through this one fan that we all feel that connection. We feel proud of this kid, we feel excited for this kid, and it’s really a moment of vulnerability and humanity from Taylor to see her have this interaction with a child. And that reaches all of us, even us all the way at home on our couches. And that’s pretty cool, and she says it reminds her why she does it. It also, from our perspective, reminds us all over again why we love her.
Now we are in Taylor’s hotel room after Toronto night 2, and she’s debriefing with Austin. And this is one of my favorite moments in the whole episode, second only to when I make my appearance in a few minutes.
“The hat girl,” she says, “the kid that got the hat really, like shook my reality. I came up to her, I hug her, and she goes, (whisper) ‘is this real life?’ And she really was wondering.”
Austin just stares at her wide eyed, like wow, that’s crazy, like is this real? “And it just made me be like, ‘actually, I don’t know.’ Do you know what I mean?” She’s like, is this a simulation, where I’m just a pop star and the world’s most famous person, and if I take off the like VR headset, will it end? Because that’s what she’s really asking here, as she comes up on the end of the most powerful tour of all time, is will it end? Not just the tour, but this life. This career. Because this has always been something in the back of Taylor’s mind is how long is this massive amount of success sustainable.
It’s such a huge amount of success and popularity that it does feel otherworldly and like some alternate reality, because no one on earth has seen this level of stardom before. And then she created this tour, the most massive tour the world has ever seen, and that also feels like something impossible. And now that it’s coming to an end, was it real? Did that really happen? Was it all a dream? Like the fans blacked out from euphoria at the shows, has Taylor blacked out and is this all a dream?
And now Snow on the Beach starts playing, which is the perfect song for this moment because it’s talking about this sort of otherworldly, ethereal quality of life and love. Like it’s so beautiful that it must be fake. And we’re getting some shots of Vancouver, and the subtitle says, “Final Show.” And y’all, I’m about to talk about what the end of an era meant to all of us, in this documentary. You’re about to see my face not on this podcast, but on Disney plus. It’s crazy.
So now we’re getting a few social media clips from fans about the eras tour coming to an end. We’re on the last day, and we see a flight full of Swifties coming to the show, we see a fan on Tiktok say, “if you’re friends with a Swiftie, please call them and check on them and make sure they’re okay today. Because today is the last day of the eras tour, and we are in morning.”
And that is the perfect video to tee up this next montage, which is all about this collective grief we were all experiencing over the end of the tour that was so meaningful to all of us. We see another fan in a purple fringe dress, solemnly drinking wine on the floor, and sitting in the shower totally drenched, which is hilarious but accurate. We see another fan say, “I’m not ready, I’m not ready!” Which yes, girl, same. We see another creator say, “I can’t believe the end is here.” And we get a few more. And then we get another chapter marker, using these signs around Vancouver, and this one says, Delicate. Great song, but it cues up this theme of how we’re all feeling fragile around this point. And I’m about to pop on the screen to tell you about why.
Next my tiktok pops up on the screen, and I say, “don’t let anyone make you feel small or feel silly for being sad right now.” And then they use my voiceover over the next couple of clips, and I continue, “You’re not grieving the loss of some silly little pop star performance. You’re grieving the loss of a big event that gave you joy and distraction and hope and camaraderie at a time where it feels like none of those things should be able to exist.”
And then I die. I fall on the floor dead, totally out of words, because Taylor Swift has seen my face, and heard my voice, and used my voice to tell this story of the end of an era. But what I’m getting at here, I usually say what Taylor’s getting at here but this time it’s me, what i’m getting at here is this collective grief we were all feeling, because at this time, just like right now, the world is falling into a burning pit of fiery dumpster fire. And the one thing we had that we could count on to make us feel better, and to bring us joy, and give us something to look forward to, was The eras tour. We had those tickets in the future, or we had that livestream on Friday night. And now that the last scrap of hope and joy was going away, we all felt kind of bereft.
And more than that, our community was about to kind of fade away. We had all this connection, whether in person or in the comments of the livestream – we were together, because we had a reason to be together, united by our shared passion. And now, we were all kind of going our separate ways, and going back into a world that felt, and still feels, really overwhelming and depressing.
Now we’re seeing clips of an empty BC Place before the final performance. We see Taylor climb into the car to head to the stadium, and she sighs, “last day.” As they’re driving through the streets of Vancouver, fans are lining the streets, and she waves to them, and you can see tears forming in her eyes, she’s getting choked up, and she says, “oh my god.”
Then we hear from Andrea, “I hope the fans know that this has been her giving them everything she had.” Oh Momma Swift, we knew. And we appreciated it so much, you have no idea.
Taylor says, “Guess what day it is?” And we all know what day it is. It’s the last day of the Eras tour. But just when we think she’s about to say something beautiful about the final performance, she pulls open her jacket revealing this big Chiefs sweatshirt, and she says, “Sunday!” So Travis is playing somewhere while she’s doing this final show. Two stars at the top of their game.
And we hear from Andrea again in a voiceover, “And she never stops writing music, so they have more to look forward to.” We all knew she’d never stop, but god that was amazing to hear, because this feels like a retirement moment, right? Like going out on top? No, not for Taylor. She’ll never go out. Never. “But right now,” Andrea says, “I hope they honor that little bit of time, just for her.” Dude, she could take a decade off, so well deserved, and she never owes us anything. But if we’ve learned anything through this series, it’s that she just can’t stop. She’s a passionate, hyperactive person, and this is what she loves. She’d end up taking a little bit of time off, then popping right back out to the top of the charts with The Life of a Showgirl. Taylor, girl, rest. You gotta rest.
So she arrives at the stadium, and her first question to her team is, “you got the game on?” That’s her number one concern at this moment. She’s gotta watch the game.
Then we hear from her in a voiceover, “I think that after this tour, it would be nice to grow back some of the things that I’ve had to cut out of my life. And so I’m interested in regaining some of that because I know I used to have hobbies, and like a personality, outside of this tour. I can’t remember what they were. I’ll let you know.” She will let us know, on the press tour for showgirl, and it’s sourdough. She’s bread girl on her time off, as it turns out.
So we’re in the dressing room, and watching the game while getting ready, and Scott says, “so this is your last day, and we’re watching football. Did you ever think this was gonna…” And Taylor interjects, “I never thought that you and I would talk about sports in my life ever. I mean it hadn’t happened by the time I was 32.” And Scott jokes, “I just kinda waited.”
And so they’re just watching the game together, cheering Travis and the chiefs on, and Scott says, “this is amazing.” And he’s not talking about the game, or the last performance of the tour. He’s talking about this moment with his daughter, bonding over football. That’s amazing. And Taylor smiles and says, “I know.” It’s such a sweet father daughter moment.
Now it’s time for Taylor to start her final surprise song rehearsal, but she has to keep the game on, “so I can prioritize both things,” she says. Hilarious, because of what we’re about to see.
I wish I could play this clip for you but Disney would disappear me because they don’t play with copyright, but I’ll reenact it for you. She’s playing A Place in this World from debut, “I’m just a girl on a mission but I’m ready to fly,” she hits this long note, and then suddenly stops and yells, “that’s pass interference!” And then she’s playing New Romantics, “but trust me mine is better…get this first down please.” So now she’s singing football commentary. She goes on, “we need love, but all we want is danger, throw it! We team up… SCREAMS. Touchdown!”
Her dad is laughing in the background, and we are all laughing on the couch at home, because she’s hilarious. Her brand of humor is just everything. Everything. And she says, “if this goes my way,” referring to the game, “the kind of day I’m about to have?” Umm, Taylor, girl. You’re about to have an incredible kind of day either way. But then the tone switches a little bit, because now we’re thinking about what comes later that day. Wer’re about to leave the humor behind, and get really sentimental.
She starts playing long live on the piano. You know, “I said remember this moment,” it’s this canonical song in her catalogue, and really the first song she ever wrote about the magic of performing. She used to play this in the setlist in the Speak Now set before TTPD was added, so bringing it back for the final show, there could be no better fit. And a lyric from this song is our episode title, “remember this moment.” So this scene is key, for so many reasons.
She gets to the lyric, “it was the end of a decade, but the start of an age,” and Andrea pipes in, “I have an idea. Instead of the end of a decade, say it was the end of an era.” Taylor gasps, “that’s a great idea!” So Momma Swift, you said you don’t have a creative bone in your body, but you came up with the most memorable lyric, and one of the most memorable moments of the entire tour. How incredible that they caught this on film, the changing of this lyric – I just can’t believe it. And if you’re not crying by now, the screen is at least getting a little blurry. At least it is for me.
She gets to the end of the mashup and she ends with The Manuscript, “the story isn’t mine anymore.” And this is the perfect last line because of what it really means: the eras tour isn’t her story anymore. It’s ours. Our memories, our moments. What it means to us. She did it, she crafted these moments, but they live on in our memories just for us, because it was always all for us. Like Andrea says, I hope the fans know that was giving us all she had. She did, we took it, and we held it. We hold onto the memories. It’s perfect. We remember these moments, always. And now we also have this docuseries to see her moments, her memories. We get both sides of the story, and this mythology of the eras tour, in that way, lives on forever. The story isn’t just hers. It belongs to all of us.
Now we’re outside BC place, fans are singing shake it off, and the energy is high. There’s a huge sign on the outside of the stadium that says, “long live all the magic we made.” So this sign, just like the neon sign chapter markers before, are turning the page. And we’re about to get into the long live of it all: what this means to everyone involved. We go into the dressing rooms where the dancers are warming up, and touching up makeup, and crying, and hugging, and just being together one last time before they have to go on.
And we get an interview with Karen, one of the dancers, who is so cute and beautiful and articulate and talented, I love her and I loved watching her on stage. And she’s talking about all of the different genres of music and movement that go on in this performance and she says, “it’s a reminder that we’re multitudes. We get to have all these different aspects of our personalities that get to come out within the show. And it helps people connect with it even more.” And I think we saw that, and we felt that, we get the catharsis of the sad songs, and the beautiful movements that happen during those, and then we get the energy and the release of the higher octane happy songs, and we get the anger and rage of the rage songs, so we get to feel all of these things, and the dancers both get to feel them to and portray them for us. It does help us connect, in this really beautiful way.
Now we’re into Taylor’s dressing room, and she has a funny cat sign on her door that says “beware: cats”, which is just this chill cat in sunglasses, might be one of her cats in the photo, I don’t know. And this probably means that Taylor’s cats are loose in the dressing room and just to watch out for them so they don’t escape, but it’s really cute.
Taylor is in the makeup chair, she already looks stunning, her hair is perfect, her skin is perfect, god she’s gorgeous. And she says, “I’ve been preparing for the end of this for about 6 months. Every single day, I’ve known we’re this much closer with this. Like I’ve been very in the moment about knowing how much closer we were getting to the end of it.” So what this says to me is that she’s been grieving all along.
And not to get morbid, but if you’ve had a loved one die over a long period of time, or even if you’ve had a breakup that was a long time coming, a lot of that grief happens while they’re still with you, so when it finally happens, you’re not in the thick of it. You have some perspective, because you’ve done a lot of the emotional work already. So I see this as similar to where Taylor is at this point. She’s not super emotional in a sad way, because she’s known this was coming, and what it means, for a long time.
She says, “I think the football game is kind of taking my mind off of it,” and then she says. “We use the mechanisms we have at our disposal at the time.” And she’s talking about the distraction here, the football game, but when we zoom out, that’s all all of us can do at any given time. Use what we have, when we have it, and do the best we can.
Then we see that striking red lip go and the winged eyeliner go on, and suddenly, she’s pop star Taylor. She’s transformed before our eyes. And I love this transition because we see the girl become the showgirl in real time, and she says, “I’ve been holding my breath for a year and eight months, just hoping that we’d be safe. We wouldn’t be injured, no harm would come to the tour, for me it’s just overwhelming. Just feeling thankful.”
And though it wasn’t all smooth sailing, and some really big events shook this tour, she’s just grateful they made it. She stands up, and says so casually, “okay, is it time for me to get in my little outfit?” Like, is it time for me to just casually hop into one of the most iconic outfits of all time, that Lover Versace bodysuit? And complete this pop star transformation? Incredible.
And while she’s doing that, we’re going to hear from some of the dancers for the final time. Kam says, “Taylor’s impact is limitless. She has celebrated us in our moments in such big ways that her fan base knows us by name. That does not happen for dancers.” And he’s right. Can you name any other backup dancers or singers, anywhere? No. You can’t. But you can name Kam, and Whyley, and Karen, and Jeslyn, and Jan, and Kamilah, and Natalie. And they’re all going on in their careers with more recognition and bigger jobs and more visibility, not just because they performed on the eras tour, but because Taylor shone that spotlight on them and let us get to know them. “Because you did that,” he continues, “the type of people that are showing up are of different sizes, are of different ages, races, background experiences, and can come to this show for 3.5 hours and feel the same. You leave it different. You leave it better. You leave it warmer. You leave it more giving, more kind, more tolerant. That is the stuff of legend.” Kam’s words are just so beautiful here.
Now we see Taylor in her little outfit, still watching the game, but it’s curtain call. She’s gotta go. And Andrea is running after her, to wish her luck one last time, and Taylor just kind of shrugs it off, she’s totally distracted just kind of in her own little world and she says, “I love you, bye” as she walks away. But then she like snaps out of it, and goes back and says, “Is it time? Mom, did I do the thing?” Andrea says no, Taylor goes “here you go, love you.” She either fist bumps her mom, or she hands her something. Hard to say which. But we get the sense that this is a ritual she has to do before each show. Andreas says, “I love you, have a good show.” It’s some kind of superstition that they have.
As she’s walking out, all the crew says, “one last time.” And we get a subtitle: “15 minutes until showtime, the final huddle.” We see Taylor walk into the room, everyone cheers for the boss, she circles up. She’s leading this final huddle, and gives one final speech. She says, “I wanna say that I’m constantly reminded of one of my favorite quotes which is that ‘everyone’s jealous of what you’ve got. No one is jealous of what you had to do to get it’.”
And what does this remind you of? Wishlist. “They want that spring break that was f-ing lit, and then that video taken off the internet, they want it all.” People want the success, they want the power, they want the recognition, but they’re not willing to sacrifice to get there. Because that’s what it takes: extreme sacrifice, and hard work, and constantly challenging yourself to get better. That’s how Taylor got to where she is.
And we can talk about karma and kismet and fate and destiny, but what she’s learned in the life of a showgirl is that the fate was in her hands the whole time. It wasn’t some magic, mysterious force that propelled her here: she propelled herself here. Are there otherworldly forces that helped? The karma of it all? Yeah, of course. But the truth is that she’s worked her ass off, and these dancers have worked their ass off. And the band. And the crew. And Taylor’s family. That’s how they got this magic. There are no shortcuts.
Taylor continues into part of this speech that we’ve seen before, and we saw it in the first episode, “Everyone likes to talk about phenomenons like the eras tour almost as if it were pieces falling into place in some sort of destined, accidental confluence of events that just happened, right? When I’m thinking about the people that are in this circle, I don’t think about it as pieces that fell into place. I think of each of you as, like tectonic plates on the earth. And the eras tour wasn’t when all the pieces fell into place. That was just when every single one of us who had done so much work to where this tour was just when we all clicked together.”
This is what brings us full circle. We began episode 1 with this speech, and we’re ending the episodes with this speech, and all the in between? That’s seeing how these tectonic plates have shifted to click into place. All the hard work, and the preparation, and the creativity, and the sacrifice, we’ve gotten to see what they had to do to get it. We’ve seen both sides of the coin: watching the eras tour, and watching Taylor’s career in real time, that was wanting what she has. But this docuseries is showing us what it took to get what she has. So she’s circling back around and telling us the full story, which is a beautiful thing.
She continues, “We have traveled the entire world. We’ve gone through America twice. We have set every attendance record in every huge stadium. We have broken every single record you can break with this tour.” And then we hear her say that iconic line from the trailer that gave us chills: “The only thing left is to close the book.” They are about to close the book on their eras era. And they’re all in tears as they go in for one last cheer.“I love you guys so much,” she says, “let’s go out there and f-shit up, f-it up, up, up, up, uppppp!” What does that “up,up,up” remind you of? Opalite, “this life will beat you up, up, up, up, it’s alright you were dancing through the lightning strikes.” I think that’s her homage to her team right there in that lyric.
We see the police motorcade driving her to the venue, she hops out in the versace sparkles one last time, and we see her climb into the cleaning cart. But I have a question here for someone who knows more about this kind of thing: I assumed that all of this getting ready was inside the stadium in the dressing/locker rooms. Are they in a separate building when they’re getting ready and warming up? Or is she in another part of the stadium and they have to drive her around to the other side so she can get through without being seen? I’m confused, if they’re getting ready somewhere else, where is it?
Anyway, if you have insight, let me know in the comments. But we see her inside the cleaning cart, and she looks incredibly nervous, like this is all just now hitting her. She takes a deep breath, she’s wide-eyed, and this is spliced with clips of the crowd and the stage. We see the clock on the screen, we get an overhead view of the stage, and then we go back underneath. And “it’s been a long time coming” is playing in the stadium, and it has been a long time coming to get to this moment: the final show.
She hops out of the cleaning cart, mounts the stairs, and her whole backstage crew is celebrating her as she walks through. We see her sitting under the stage near the lift, just taking a moment before she steps on and pops up and begins the final show of the most epic tour the world has ever seen.
We see all the band and the dancers getting in position, and they’re in tears. But when they get up there, the band and the backup singers, they’re elated. They start waving to the fans, and holding heart hands, so the energy is big, and they’re ready. Sad, but ready. Taylor steps onto the platform, the crowd has never been louder, and then the noise fades, and just as we think we’re going to watch her appear one last time, we cut away. We get a night shot of the stadium from the outside.
This segment is just calming the big energy because they’re about to show us the final surprise song set, Long Live, New Years Day, and The Manuscript. She’s at the piano, and she begins, “I said remember this moment.” And the crowd is deafening. This is our episode title, and this is what will propel us to the finish line of these episodes thematically.
We see a bunch of shots of the crowd during this set, and when she sings, “the crowds in stands went wild,” the stadium erupts. It’s really beautiful. And when she sings that changed lyric, “it was the end of an era” that her mom suggested, they get even louder, and their hands are up to their faces, and they just can’t believe it. It’s the perfect lyric that encapsulates all of this. It’s kismet.
Now in this montage of Taylor singing the final surprise songs, we see clips of the entire eras tour family. We get a shot of the band and the singers and dancers watching from the side of the stage, and the lyric is “you held your head like a hero on a history book page” when we see them, and it’s this beautiful tribute to all of their hard work and how this tour is one for the books, forever.
“Long live all the magic we made,” she goes on in the song, and we see more shots of the crew just watching her, and it’s this celebration of all that they’ve done, “we will be remembered.” And as she goes into New Years Day, the lyric is, “hold on to the memories they will hold on to you,” and we see shots of everyone – the band, the fans, her parents – hugging one another. Holding onto the memories.
She sings the final line, “now and then I reread the manuscript, but the story isn’t mine anymore.” Everyone, tears streaming, crying, hugging, trying to breathe. She stands from the piano, and takes her final surprise song bow, and dives into the stage. For the final time.
We see the crowd in the aftermath of this final acoustic set, and we get a voiceover from Taylor, “I have very clear distinctions about being the leader of this show that’s this mass exodus of emotional catharsis.” And what she’s getting at here is that she’s the leader, but she has to conduct the emotions. She doesn’t get to partake in the emotions. So when she says she has clear distinctions about being the leader, she’s saying, I am performing, and while on stage, I don’t get to have emotions about performing. But she is highly aware of what she does to the crowd, and what this show as a whole does to the crowd, and how heavy that can be.
She goes on, and we’ve heard this part of this quote before in a previous episode, but we hadn’t heard the whole thing: “What’s interesting is like there’s some joy in the show, but there’s also a lot of like snarling, angry bitterness, despondent, heartbroken, wistful theatrical magic. And I think being able to feel those things and scream those lyrics, there’s something that brings you joy in doing that.” Here, I think she’s trying to define what made this such a powerful show, but I think it’s so much more than just the show for all of us.
What is was is not just the contents of the songs and the performances on that stage, but it was added to the fact that these songs grew up with us, and these songs narrated our own stories. These songs found us at a time in our lives when we needed them, and as her eras changed, we changed, and the meaning of the songs – how we interpreted them, how we felt them – that changes, too.
So the joy that we feel in shouting the lyrics at the eras tour, it’s part memory. It’s like a massive memory processing session, where we can acknowledge all of those emotions, and all of those past selves, and it’s like our brain refiling all of that trauma and all of – what she calls it, “snarling, angry bitterness, despondent, heartbroken, wistful magic” – it’s refiling all of those into joy. It’s like EMDR, because we’ve now heard these songs that were so meaningful to us, and seen this person that is so meaningful to us, and our brain now files that under happy, joyful memories, instead of like, crying in the bathtub listening to all too well. It’s now filed under singing my lungs dry at the eras tour.
She calls it a mass exodus of emotional catharsis, and that’s exactly what it is, but it’s because of what all this meant before the tour, so then we experience it in a different way, not on our own in our headphones but in this huge stadium with others going through the same thing, it allows that all to release and us to reframe it.
Taylor continues, “I think it’s about passion, and I think it’s about the show being accepting of all kinds of passion that we feel throughout our human experience. There’s something so unifying about that.” We see the final song being performed, Karma, and then we get a closeup of Taylor right before they’re about to take their final bow. And she’s just amazed, like taking this all in, and she mouths, “oh my god.” And then the tears come.
Only after the show is officially over, that’s when she breaks. And she is crying these tears of joy and overwhelm, and she huddles her team on the stage, just like they huddle backstage every night, this time we get to see it. And in that huddle, she hugs each and every one of the dancers and says “I love you” to each of them.
We hear more from her in a voiceover, “I’m used to doing tours that are successful. I’ve never been a part of a phenomenon before.” We see her do one last solo bow, one last wave, and then she skips off the stage with her team. Backstage, they’re all hugging and crying and Taylor says, “it’s history.” But it wouldn’t be a Taylor line if it didn’t have at least two meanings, and what that is here is both its history, like it’s in the past now, we’re moving on, and also we just made history. We just did that. And one of the team replies exactly that, “girl, you did it.”
Now we see more of the aftermath of this final show, and Austin runs up to her and gives her the biggest hug. And when her dad hugs her, he says, “the Chiefs won, honey” and she starts laughing, and says, “it’s been such a good day!” Andrea is in tears and she hugs her daughter.
Now they all have champagne, they toast to the end of an era, and Taylor climbs into the car. We see the dancers exit on golf carts, zipping through the stadium drinking bubbly and celebrating, and we get to be with Taylor in her car. “Oh my god,” she says, “we really did all of it.” And remember the 22 hat moment earlier in the episode, where the little girl was like, “is this real life?” This is Taylor’s reply to her. She finally has an answer. “We really did all of it.” Like it was real, it really did happen, and I can’t believe it was actually real, and now it’s over. I conquered the mountain. I slayed the dragon. 149 shows. 3.5 hours a pop.
And I had to do some calculations here, because it’s incredible. That’s 521.5 hours on stage alone, not including all the preparation it takes to get ready each time, and the travel, and not counting the rehearsals for months and months. That’s over 21 days, 24 hours a day, on stage performing the eras tour. Three weeks, non stop morning, noon and night performing this show, all over the world. That is incredible, and it was real.
And then we get one last quote from Taylor, and she says, “You have to just take life, you know, one era at a time. See what happens.” Which is the perfect quote, said perfectly to sum up this whole thing. And then happiness, from evermore, starts playing over a montage of all of these moments of Taylor throughout her career. But this montage is cinema, because the images on the screen are helping to narrate this song like a music video. It’s basically a music video for happiness.
And the tears start flowing again for all of us. Because that song is about losing something or someone you loved, and trying to accept that it’s over. It’s about honoring the joy that you had, and accepting that you will find joy again, just not in the same way. And the most crucial line in that song is, “I haven’t met the new me yet.” I don’t know what’s coming next, but I’ll take it one era at a time. There will be grief, and there will be loss, and there will be joy, and you just have to roll with it.
But I love this little detail, one of the lines in that song is, “showed you all of my hiding spots,” like I told you all of my secrets, and during that line, it’s her getting into the cleaning cart. A hiding spot. And in “I was dancing when the music stopped” it’s a montage of her dancing on stage over the years, and in “I can’t face reinvention, I haven’t met the new me yet,” it’s a montage of her different looks throughout her different eras and albums.
“There’ll be happiness after you,” the song says, “but there was happiness because of you.” And we see this montage of both the eras performances, and the crowd, and her family. All of it. There was happiness because of this tour, and we’ll have happiness again, but maybe not the same kind.
During “Haunted by the look in my eyes that would have loved you for a lifetime,” we see her haunted eyes on the screen during Who’s Afraid of little old me. And throughout this whole montage, each dancer, and crew member, and family member gets their own little clip. We get to say goodbye to all of them in this part of the story, and it’s beautiful.
And in the final clips, it’s just the instrumental part of happiness, it’s Taylor opening her first guitar on Christmas Day, and then we cut to Taylor being handed a guitar before Fearless, and she skips out of those double stage doors, and the doors close behind her, leaving us in darkness. And then we cut to an empty stadium.
And we get some final subtitles that say, “On December 8, 2024, after 149 shows in 21 countries around the world, the eras tour had its final curtain call. On May 30, 2025, Taylor purchased all of her previous work, thanking her fans for their support in making it possible. On August 26, 2025, Travis and Taylor announced their engagement. On October 3, 2025, Taylor released her 12th studio album “the life of a showgirl”, the biggest album of her career.” And then we get a pause, and then on the screen appears, “to date.” So we know more is coming, but she’s taking it one era at a time.
And the episode closes with the lights going out inside this empty stadium, symbolizing the end of an era. And it’s over. That’s the final episode of this docuseries. It really is the end of an era, and the end of the eras tour.
Summary & What’s Coming Next
Are you crying? Because I don’t think I had a dry eye for more than 10 minutes in each episode. I’m just so happy that she shared this with us, and we just got so much more of the story that we didn’t know before.
But what was your favorite moment of this final episode? Mine is of course my appearance, but there were so many beautiful, cinematic and candid moments in this one. And even if this wasn’t the episode I was in I think it would be my favorite, because she’s looking back not just on the tour but on the whole story she’s been telling over decades, and trying to figure out what it means. And in the end she just kind of shrugs, like I don’t know what’s coming next, but I know I want to keep doing this.
Such a great episode, and I think it really did help us process this collective grief over the tour being over. At least it did for me. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. If you’re watching this on youtube remember to subscribe on your podcast apps too, and if you’re listening on podcasts, hop over to youtube and hit the notification bell so you won’t miss my next episode that will drop in January.
Right now, just like Taylor, I’m going to need a bit of a break, but I’ve had such fun these last few months with you guys. Thank you so much for spending your time with me, it means everything. I’ll be back in a few weeks and if there’s a particular song or album you want me to cover next, let me know in the comments. I’d love to hear from you. See you next time.
