If there’s one thing Taylor Swift likes, it’s giving surprises. The 35-year-old Pennsylvania singer loves to wow her fans, dropping clues (sometimes years in advance) to keep them searching and thinking. And this Monday, just 10 days after releasing his last album, the path of all those lures and easter eggsas he calls them, has culminated in a great announcement: a documentary.
Starting next December 12, on Disney+, the streaming platform streaming from Disney, you can see six episodes of The End of an Era, where the singer will tell the ins and outs of her The Eras Tour. That tour, which during almost 150 concerts took her to give performances before 10 million people, from March 2023 in Arizona to December 2024 in Vancouver (Canada), became the highest grossing in history and made her a billionaire. During many of his main shows, Fans saw professional recording equipment take the stage or enter the audience, so they have been waiting for this material for months.
Now, one year after the end of that tour, Swift will close the stage with the documentary. But in addition, that last concert held at the BC Arena in Vancouver on December 8, recorded in full, can also be seen on Disney+.
The artist has already worn the The Eras Tour to theaters (and, later, to the same platform) in October 2023. That became a great film-musical phenomenon that drew millions of people to theaters around the world. This time, in principle, it will only be in homes. But he will incorporate for the first time the new part that he added to the tour in spring 2024, when he began his European leg: as in April 2024 he released his 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, In subsequent concerts he also incorporated a series of his songs. He show This could be seen in the concerts in Europe, some in the United States and those in Canada, including the last one in Vancouver, which will be the one that reaches the audience.
“It was the end of an era and we knew it,” Swift wrote on her social networks to announce the launch. “We wanted to remember every moment until we reached the culmination of the most intense and important chapter of our lives, so we allowed the cameras to capture this tour and all the moments that were interwoven as it ended. And film the entire final concert.” As Disney announced in a statement, the six episodes will chronicle “the development, impact and ins and outs that gave rise to the phenomenon that was The Eras Tour”.
The first two episodes of the documentary can be seen that Friday, December 12, the next two on the 19th and the last two on the 26th. In them, as shown in the small clip of 89 seconds that the artist has posted on networks, you can see the rehearsals and preparations for the concerts, and friends and companions appear on stage such as Ed Sheeran and Sabrina Carpenter, as well as her partner, the American football player Travis Kelce, who had a special appearance at one of her London concerts, at Wembley Stadium.
On Sunday the 12th, the program Good Morning America, The ABC network (owned by the Disney conglomerate) made it known on its networks that it had an important announcement for Monday, October 13, which is also considered Taylor Swift Day in the United States. Normally, Swift makes big announcements in that space of morning television, and since she herself has ruled out going on tour in interviews given in recent weeks, many voices pointed to this documentary. Finally, that’s how it happened.
According to the specialized media Variety, the series Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era is directed by Don Argott, co-directed by Sheena M. Joyce and produced by Object & Animal. For its part, the concert is directed by Glenn Weiss and produced by Taylor Swift Productions in association with Silent House Productions.
Swift’s energy seems inexhaustible. While on tour, he released a 31-song album that he wrote and recorded between shows, and then incorporated into them. But he also recorded another album, the 12th of his career, The Life of a Showgirl, which he recorded in Sweden precisely during the breaks of the Eras Tour and that launched on day 3; With it he has broken records, selling four million records in the United States and placing himself at the top of the streaming musical global.
As if that were not enough, I also created a VIDEO and a series of behind-the-scenes content that he put together into a small 89-minute documentary film (it is one of his favorite numbers) and that could be seen in theaters on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of this month, grossing 260 million dollars worldwide, 180 in the US. And still, he promises, there are surprises left.