00:00We have broken every single record you can break with this tour.
00:03The only thing left
00:05One, two, three, one
00:07is to close the book.
00:09This is Streamline, your weekly guide to what's actually worth watching
00:13across TV, film, and everything in between.
00:16And my god, it has been a long time coming.
00:20Swifties are finally getting a peek behind the curtain
00:23in the upcoming Eras Tour documentary.
00:25This was a seismic, momentous period of time in my life
00:29and in the lives of anyone who this tour touched.
00:32It is officially Swifty Christmas
00:38and we are getting not one, but two new projects
00:41celebrating the finale of this epic tour.
00:45First up, a six-part behind-the-scenes docu-series
00:49titled The End of an Era.
00:51Over the course of the series, we get to go behind the curtain
00:54from rehearsal rooms to tour buses,
00:56from backstage moments to the emotional highs and lows of life on the road.
01:01Viewers will meet not just Taylor,
01:03but the many people who helped make the Eras Tour a worldwide phenomenon.
01:07Bandmates, dancers, crew, even friends and collaborators.
01:12And let's not forget adorable moments with her now fiancé,
01:14the boy on the football team.
01:17Travis Kelsey.
01:18He brings a lot of happiness.
01:19We're basically the same job.
01:21You've got teammates, I've got teammates.
01:22You've got Coach Reed, I've got my mom.
01:26And that's not all.
01:28Dropping at the same time is Taylor Swift,
01:30The Era's Tour, The Final Show,
01:32the full concert film from the final night of the tour filmed in Vancouver.
01:36This version, for the first time ever,
01:38includes the full live performance of her 2024 album,
01:43The Tortured Poets Department.
01:44So for the Swifties who have been waiting for these songs to hit the screen
01:48since watching the 2023 Netflix performance of the Era's Tour,
01:52this is it.
01:53This is the full Era's Tour experience.
01:56My main goal is to give something to the fans that they didn't expect.
01:59I'm going to get past a phone.
02:01I'll be like, aren't you playing a show right now?
02:02Yeah, about that.
02:03Why aren't you here with us?
02:05I'm somewhere where everyone is screaming so loud.
02:07As Taylor would say herself,
02:10honey, life is just a classroom.
02:13So to understand why Taylor's influence goes way beyond the music,
02:17let's get academic.
02:18We spoke to Professor Stephanie Burt,
02:20who literally teaches a course at Harvard called Taylor Swift and Her World.
02:24That class of last year,
02:26I thought we were going to have 15 Swifties
02:30and five students who wanted to study songwriting.
02:33And we ended up with, you know, 200 and change.
02:35What do you think that says about, you know,
02:38the impact that her music has on people,
02:41though, the fact that, you know,
02:43200 or people turned up to your classes initially?
02:46People being so into her shows how good she is at writing songs,
02:52at creating hooks and crafting two and a half to four minute,
02:59and in one case, 10 minute structures,
03:01that people just want to hear again and again and live inside.
03:05And if she couldn't do that before she was famous,
03:08she wouldn't be famous.
03:09The people who heard Love Story and You Belong With Me and 15
03:13didn't know who the heck this was.
03:15They just knew they wanted to hear the song again
03:16because it spoke to them,
03:18because it was beautifully constructed as a piece of music.
03:22She is able to be both relatable and aspirational.
03:26A lot of us see ourselves in the versions of her and her songs,
03:29and we imagine that we could be more like her.
03:33We could be that famous.
03:34We could be that pretty.
03:35We could have her problems instead of our problems.
03:38For the fans,
03:39the era's tour was more than just a concert.
03:42It was a cultural moment spanning 21 months,
03:4511 albums,
03:465 continents,
03:4850 cities,
03:49149 shows,
03:51with a total of 10.1 million attendees,
03:54breaking countless records,
03:56including highest grossing tour of all time
03:58at over $2 billion.
04:0110 points if you can guess which era I went.
04:03I said hello!
04:07What do you think sets the Swifty fandom apart?
04:11When I talk about other fandoms that it goes everywhere
04:14from Sabrina Carpenter and Chapel Roan stans
04:18to Man City supporters.
04:21What sets Swifties apart for me is
04:24Swifties don't see ourselves as outcasts.
04:27And one of the really lovely things
04:29about being part of this enormous and devoted
04:32and rich and deep fandom
04:33is it is quite inclusive.
04:37It is multi-generational and it is enormous,
04:39but we're not going to say
04:41you're not a real Swifty if you don't
04:44or if you can't recite the lyrics to All Too Well.
04:46What is it about the era's tour
04:48that made it so much more than just a tour?
04:51She figured out not just how to put on a show,
04:55but how to put on so many shows,
04:57how to dramatize visually and even choreographically
05:01all of the different kinds of songs
05:05that she has written
05:07and different ways that she has tried to be.
05:11That meant that the era's tour,
05:13even more than any of her albums,
05:14was about how many versions of ourself that we try on.
05:18And it was about how hard it is to try to be yourself
05:23when you also are changing for people's approval,
05:25which is an experience a lot of us go through.
05:27In a crazy twist,
05:29we saw the word Swiftonomics coined
05:31after economies literally grew when she was in town.
05:35It's estimated that the overall UK economy
05:38grew by £1 billion.
05:41Not only did Taylor Swift reportedly pay out
05:43over $197 million to her touring and production crew,
05:48but she also donated to over 1,400 food banks
05:51and local organizations in the UK alone,
05:54who said the donations were beyond their wildest dreams.
05:57For fans like me, who have followed every lyric,
06:00every Easter egg,
06:02this series really does feel like getting
06:04the deluxe album version of her life,
06:07complete with false tracks.
06:09The drop date is December 12th, 2025.
06:12That day, the first two episodes
06:14of the Era's Tour docuseries drop,
06:16then two more episodes will be released each week
06:19until the docuseries wraps up.
06:21And yes, the final show streams the same day.
06:24So whether you want to deep dive
06:26into the behind-the-scenes moments
06:27or watch that final performance in full,
06:30December 12th is the date to mark.
06:32The down verse of long live
06:33and to hold on to the memories they will hold on to you
06:36into long live chorus,
06:37but slow down to halftime.
06:39New Year's Day chords underneath it
06:41into the last verse of the manuscript.
06:45That's complicated.
06:47Thanks so much for watching.
06:49Don't forget to like and subscribe.
06:51And we'll be back next week
06:52with a whole new set of recommendations.
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