Taylor Swift’s tears and her fragility is what is shown in the documentary ‘The End of an Era’, in which the singer shows her pain for the death of three girls in England or her fear of what could have been a massacre in one of her concerts in Vienna.
Six episodes of which two can be seen from this Friday on Disney+ and in which the most intimate side of the artist is shown during the preparation and development of ‘The Eras Tour’, with 149 concerts between March 2023 and December 2024 attended by 10 million people and which became the highest grossing tour in history, with more than 2,000 million dollars.
The documentary goes inside the star’s room before and after the first of five concerts he performed in August 2024 at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Just a few days earlier, the three dates scheduled to take place in Vienna from August 8 to 10 had to be canceled due to an imminent terrorist threat. And on July 29, an attack had taken place in the English town of Southport (northern England) during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. Three girls aged 6, 7 and 9 were killed.
“It’s a strange feeling to play these last five shows in Europe, because it feels like we’ve played 128 shows already, but this is the first time I feel like…I don’t know, like I’m skating on a thin sheet of ice. We’ve had a series of very violent and scary things during the tour,” Swift says excitedly.
“We got away with what could have been a massacre. So I’ve been a bit disoriented,” she recalls of the events in Vienna, sitting on a sofa in her London hotel.
And she can’t help the tears when she refers to the “horrible attack” near Liverpool. “They were little girls….,” laments the singer, who remains silent for a few seconds.
Taylor Swift mourns tragedy of murdered girls
Swift met with some survivors and family members of victims of that attack before each of her concerts at Wenbley. “I’m going to meet some of the families tonight and then I’m going to do a pop concert,” she says, before adding that she wants to end the tears before the concert.
“I’ve been singing for 20 years but, mentally, being afraid of something happening to your fans is a new challenge (…) I live in a reality that most of the time is very unreal but it’s part of my job to be able to manage all these feelings and then fill myself with energy to perform again,” she says.
In these situations she has the support, from a distance, of her boyfriend, the soccer player Travis Kelce, with whom she has some telephone conversations that appear in the film.
“There are people who take vitamins, I have these conversations with you,” says the singer in one of those chats, before the concert.
And when her first date at Wembley is over and everything has gone well – before it starts she is seen lying down because she says she is so nervous that even her hands are shaking – the first thing she does from the car is call Kelce.
“I’m so happy and so relieved…it’s like the public knew what I needed. I’m glad to be back to doing this again in a functional way,” she tells him.
It seems like the end of the most complicated period of a tour that began to take shape in his head two years before the first concert, driven by two unpleasant things that had happened to him.
On the one hand, the fact that his first record label had sold the entire catalog of his first six albums, without counting on it, which led him to reveal himself and record everything again. On the other, the pandemic, which prompted him to “write songs as if it were a kind of lifeline”.
Those two ideas came together to stand up a tour five years after 2018’s ‘Reputation Stadium Tour’. The result, a celebration of the different eras of his life and career: ‘The Eras Tour’.
In the documentary we see the preparations for the tour, how each stage was conceived and each item of clothing of the singer. How she prepared intensively on a physical level from six months before the first concert and how she developed a close relationship with all the members of her team.
A gigantic project in which the singer pushed endlessly for each concert to be better than the previous one and which led her to a state of excitement that was difficult to control.
And, after each concert, he would arrive at his hotel, play with his cat, take a long relaxing bath and try to wind down, something he didn’t achieve until 4 a.m., after signing 2,000 records to tire himself out, an example of his sleeping methods: “Some people take drugs, not me,” reported Agencia EFE.
Here you can see the moment Taylor Swift breaks down and cries.
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