NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – OCTOBER 25: Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Caesars Superdome on October 25, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Erika Goldring/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
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If you know anything about Taylor Swift, you will know that she’s a content repurposing machine. After already releasing a previous version of The Eras Tour on Disney+, now she’s coming out with a new project before the end of the year, The End of an Era.
It’s sort of a combination of sorts. Part of this is The Eras Tour: The Final Show, which will feature the entire set of The Tortured Poets Society, which was not released when the tour originally started, so not everyone in attendance got those songs. But the real show is The End of an Era, which is a six-episode behind-the-scenes documentary of the end of the Eras tour, which will release on December 12, 2025, alongside The Final Show.
This is, however, actually going to be a week-to-week series, as it’s only the first two episodes out on December 12. Here’s how Swift describes it in the announcement and accompanying trailer:
“It was the End of an Era and we knew it. We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed filmmakers to capture this tour and all the stories woven throughout it as it wound down. And to film the final show in its entirety.”
Swift has just released The Life of a Showgirl, a new, somewhat divisive album that broke a bunch of records regardless, including the best single-day album sales in modern US history with 2.7 million sold across physical and digital. It also broke single-day records on Spotify for the entire album, plus its lead single, The Fate of Ophelia, broke that record for an individual song.
Obviously, The Life of a Showgirl did not make it into the Eras tour, and Swift has not announced a new, post-Eras tour. Given how many years that ran, we would not see another tour for an extremely long time. I imagine a lot of the behind-the-scenes footage will reveal just how exhausted she is after the whole thing. I think people may also be wondering just how much Travis Kelce is featured as he was a big presence by the end of the tour, attending multiple shows while dating Swift. No doubt he was behind the scenes as well.
This will be a well-watched event, and Disney is stretching things out for at least a month to get viewers to tune in for more than just a one-day offering. I’m guessing that will pan out for them.
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