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Taylor Swift's new docuseries, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | The End of an Era, was released on Friday, Dec. 12
The first two episodes of the six-part series are now available on Disney+
The show gives a behind-the-scenes look at Swift's life while on the record-shattering tour
Taylor Swiftis letting fans in on an emotional moment she shared with her Eras Tour crew.
On Friday, Dec. 12, the pop superstar released the first two episodes ofher new Disney+ docuseries,Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | The End of an Era.And the first episode opens with Swift backstage in Vancouver, huddling with her team before the tour'sfinal concerton Dec. 8, 2024.
"I wanna says, we have done something that no one has ever done. We have performed for over 10 million people in person. That's not like, 'Oh, 10 million people watched a TV show,' which is pretty amazing, too. We performed for 10 million-plus people, and I think about every single one of you as little kids," Swift, 35, said to her dancers, band and background vocalists during the pre-show ritual. "I think about the moment that you decided that dancing was your calling and the moment that you first saw a band and thought, 'Man, I wanna save up for an instrument.'"
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Swift added, "Every single one of us has picked professions that, categorically, people, for the majority of the time, they tell you you shouldn't do it. They tell you, 'You should not try to do this.' You have to love the thing so much that you override 85 to 95 percent of the advice you are given along the way, by oftentimes people that you respect, people that you trust, people in the field — everyone in dance, everyone in music will tell everyone younger, 'If there's anything else you can do, do that.' And so I'll see you getting rejected, not getting the job, not getting the part, not getting the solo. I'll see all of those things that happened all along the way — the doors that were shut, the doors that were open, the windows you pried open."
Growing emotional, Swift continued, "And then sometimes I'll see you when you're older. And I'll think about what ... what you're gonna tell your family or the people that you mentor because every single person in here has the spirit to mentor others and to tell them, 'Yes, do it. Try it. Go for it, if you have that same love for it.' And I think about whether that's to your grandchildren or to the little neighbor kid that just wants to talk to you about what that was like."
Wrapping up her speech as some of the crew began to cry and nod along, Swift said, "Everyone likes to talk about phenomenons, like the Eras Tour, almost as if it was pieces falling into place in some sort of 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 that took millions of micro decisions and forces of you pushing and pushing, inch by inch, closer together. And the Eras Tour wasn't when all the pieces fell into place. That was just when every single one of us had done so much work to where this tour was just when we all clicked together. It is our job to make this look accidental, and it is our job to make this look effortless. But i just want every single one of you to know that I, in no way, shape or form, look at this as the pieces just falling into place. You put the pieces where they are. This is the biggest challenge any of us have ever done. Tonight, we complete that challenge."
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The first two episodes of the show illustrate just how long Swift has worked with some of her crew members — and shows the distinctive bond she's built with them, particularly while on the road for the Eras Tour, on which they performed 149 shows during its run from March 2023 to last December.
Swift evenreunited with her Eras Tour crewon Tuesday, Dec. 9, when they (along with her parents and brother) gathered for a special screening of the docuseries in New York City.
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The show's first episode lifts the curtain on Swift's private world throughout the Eras Tour, exploring some of the behind-the-scenes highs and lows the superstar faced. It also gives fans a look at how the tour came together. Swift reveals she had the idea for the Eras Tour two years before it launched, and it was inspired by the sale of her master recordings — which spurred her to rerecord her early albums — and the coronavirus pandemic, which deterred Swift from touring her 2019 albumLover.
The first two episodes of the six-part docuseries are now streaming; two new episodes will drop weekly. On Dec. 12, Swift also releasedThe Eras Tour | The Final Show, a concert film that captured her last performance in Vancouver, now also streaming on Disney+. The projects come two months after Swift released herrecord-breaking12th albumThe Life of a Showgirl.
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