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Taylor Swift’s Final Night of Eras Tour Is a Quintessential ‘Long Live’ Moment in Pop History’s Greatest Road Show: Concert Review
Taylor Swift's final Eras Tour show in Vancouver was as special as, well, every other date, but had its sentimental 'This is the last time' moments.
But the true emotional climax on the third and final night of a BC Place stand might have come earlier, during the “secret songs” segment, when Swift veritably wrapped her arms around the audience by making them part of a mashup centered around “Long Live,” her salute to tours that actually last forever in memory — a fairly ancient song that she turned into an anthem just for the occasion, by changing the “end of a decade” line to “end of an era,” which brought down the house and threatened to become one of those Richter-scale moments the tour has become famous for. Swifties find ways to have their own ownership over individual shows, and so fan groups had formed online to dream up group efforts for the final show — one of which was singing “Happy Birthday” (she was five days away from turning 35) during the minutes-long pause for applause that typically follows “Champagne Problems.” But the loveliest moment of the night might have come during “Willow,” when hundreds of crowd members held up illuminated orange or yellow balloons, roughly echoing the production design that has Swift’s berobed coven of dancers cavorting with glowing orbs during that lilting “Evermore” number. In the opening “Lover” segment, Swift gave what amounts to her standard stump speech, making the claim that while these songs had been attached to specific user memories up to this point, from now on, they would always remind attendees of this particular night in this particular stadium.
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