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00:00oh that is wonderful she likes those higher notes yes you know what this means you're
00:12gonna have to get a piano what's that mom you're gonna have to get a piano are you sure
00:18that's wonderful that's wonderful
00:48good at all once i get a cold i just have it for a while they just kind of linger
01:12do you like a coffee from the world's most depressing coffee shop
01:22oh absolutely what do you want just i mean when you sell it that way yeah have you ever heard of
01:29spatchcocking a turkey i think i might be trying that this thanksgiving i don't know if we should
01:35get jazzy with the turkey remember when we tried to fry one that was a disaster but yeah i think we
01:41had an oil patch in our yard for about six months but besides that it was inedible and can you make
01:49those big ribs for travis i am making the ones he affectionately refers to his dinosaur bones texas
01:55size ribs for a texas size man oh my god touring is something that really brings my family together
02:04in a lot of ways for me part of the eras tour is a celebration of my family ultimately i just don't
02:16see any of this happening if all of my family hadn't been involved that's my stage that's my brother
02:24i mean we work together we're we're kind of a family business for 20 years this next song is by the
02:29dixie chicks oh water her mom gets mad when she doesn't drink water my parents didn't know anything
02:35about the music industry but they were like yeah it's hard yeah we know nothing about it right now
02:40we'll we'll get some books and read like it's pretty insane my mom does this every night draws
02:47the 13 on so now it's going to be shiny and new in an industry as cutthroat as a music industry
02:55learning hard lessons and experiencing ups and downs and triumphs and failures it was a huge
03:01challenge for my whole family but everybody was so locked in for my whole life they all banded together
03:09to be like no she wants this we want this for her this tour it's an honor to work on it it's a real
03:18privilege and we know that because none of us would be doing anything that we're really good at doing
03:23if it wasn't for what she does that she's incredibly good at doing it's incredible fun
03:30but mostly it's a way for us to be together as a family and to sort of honor this thing we've
03:35committed our entire lives to i think me and gracie are going to change up the thing that we're going to
03:44do oh we think we want to do the song us instead of because we just got nominated for the grammy for us
03:50so a few days before we played toronto uh the grammy nominations came out we were very lucky we got
03:56six nominations and one of those was for a song that i did with gracie while we were still on the
04:04eras tour a year ago this time last year she and i went out to celebrate in between shows
04:15we ended up having a lot of drinks wait what do i do about this okay you're gonna fire extinguishers
04:20i think we're gonna die just press it i don't know yeah and then we ended up writing a song that
04:36we're really proud of and just got nominated for a grammy so i just thought wouldn't it be cool to
04:46do that song in toronto kind of create a little kind of special moment mash it up with one of the
04:53other songs that the fans really love she had this idea to do us and out of the woods which like
04:58out of the woods is in my like top three favorite songs of all time hey dude i have a cold so i'm
05:08just gonna like briefly go through so we do double chorus like mashup of out of the woods and us and
05:13i think it works in this key right so like um do that whole chorus and then we can do back to back
05:27bridges right like
05:46wait for it
05:49anyway so we do double double bridges and then we go into like a double chorus like mashup of out
06:05of the woods and us and it'll be so so cool
06:08then what does she do though the first chorus
06:21it's just insane she just like can do that in her sleep where it's like i'm gonna chop up two
06:26to five songs and make them all how did she mastermind i don't know because she's just a mastermind
06:32i need to like write in sharpie on my arm like don't pass out don't pass out
06:38the structure of the song be like me verse me chorus taylor verse taylor chorus me bridge taylor bridge
06:48taylor verse me oh my god oh my god
06:52catch me projectile vomiting on the arrows stage
06:54catching my breath
07:08catching my breath
07:10staring out and up and into catching my death
07:14and then i couldn't be sure i had a feeling so peculiar so that this pain would be forever more
07:39i don't for the life of me understand how she does it
07:55i have no idea because i couldn't do it if my life depended on it i couldn't do it
08:01it's like the background music for like a horror flick
08:18you want me to sign that now yeah i was completely the opposite i went into business
08:32in school i don't have a musical background or play instruments but i do have this sort of intimate
08:40knowledge of of the psyche of someone who really has to do this then it goes back to my mother marjorie
08:54she was an opera singer she was a music major out of college and went straight to work live radio
09:10performing out of new york but she married my dad and they started moving around the world
09:16so wherever they were living she would star in local operas everywhere we went she was absolutely beloved
09:28my sister and i were often brought along and put in the front row listening and on the way home
09:35i remember she would say to me so andrea during that part of the delivery did it make you want to cry
09:44and i would say well mom um a little bit a little bit you know she was always looking for feedback
09:53but from an eight-year-old like the opera
10:04so i would give her what i could but i knew that i had a job to do because i was going to be quizzed on
10:10the way home it was a beautiful relationship i had with my mom but it was all with a full awareness
10:19that my mom was this person who loved singing who loved to perform and that people love
10:24so it began with my mother and i think that that prepared me probably better than anything that
10:43could have for having a child like taylor
10:46who pretty much wanted to follow in my mother's footsteps taylor always knew she wanted to perform
10:59and she was already writing her own music without any co-writers this is a song i wrote yesterday i
11:06wrote this song yesterday this is a song i wrote like a week ago it's called one-sided goodbye this
11:11song is called beautiful days and the title is kind of self-explanatory so and then at 11 is when
11:18taylor looked at me and said we got to go to nashville please please take me to nashville
11:24that is where faith hill went very quickly i realized this is where my past with my mother was going to
11:36really really come into play i think taylor wanted to experience something that she thought was
11:45i hate to say the word destiny i do think that at a very young age we tend to know where we're going
11:55in life and it's it's good to listen to them and where their dreams are even at that age
12:08so we're in toronto in my hometown
12:10everything that i own i don't realize because it's just always here it's a part of the fabric of
12:17my life but truly everything is dance related everything is dance this is a i believe a christmas
12:25tree ornament i'm such a dance geek i think more than just loving dance i'm a true dance nerd
12:32yes too much i think you have to have a certain personality to tour
12:36truly it's like one thing to be a dancer or a musician but it's another thing to be able to
12:43handle what a tour entails and it's not for everybody it was always for me i did great i loved being on the
12:50road my whole life it was my dream to tour like this and i've loved performing in this show
12:58but after this tour my dance career is coming to an end it's like that beautiful bittersweet i think is
13:08how how it'll end for me everything that i saw had dance on it so i knew from a young age that
13:17this is what you wanted to do before you could even write you drew yourself dancing
13:23and the teacher wrote amanda wants to be a dancer oh i like dancing because it is fun i dance good
13:34my mom takes me to dancing and sometimes my dad does thanks for sometimes taking me
13:40dad thanks for always taking me mom you're welcome are you guys excited to come oh my gosh of course
13:47saturday i'm gonna try to to wave to you guys a little bit yeah yeah but watch your step though i'll fall
14:05so as we go into these last few shows here i can't help but think that this is potentially the
14:11last time that i will ever do this in front of my family and friends you know um but i think we all
14:18know how rare and special opportunities like this are and tay you are oh god
14:31you are all things kindness and all things grace and absolutely my life is different from now moving
14:39forward because of you so have an incredible show you too i love you guys let's enjoy
14:45thank you for on retiring oh my favorite pop star you are my favorite pop star
14:53let's go out there
14:59if you love like that
15:13now we got
15:27for taylor it's always been about the audience making sure that she felt an intimate connection
15:45with them meeting people talking to them hugging them but with the heiress tour
15:51that could no longer be possible because of covid and the risk that it brought to everybody
15:59backstage that you know you've got this massive production having it shut down would be a disaster
16:06i decided that if i couldn't meet fans in the crowd in the show
16:14and then i i have to come up with different ways
16:16to still give people an intimate experience
16:22ethan tobeman is a brilliant production designer i've been working with him mainly i started on music
16:29videos this was the biggest undertaking that we had
16:32i'd like to build worlds around a storyteller their relationship with their fans our relationship with the songs
16:41if every idea that you have creates an emotional response
16:45you are able to make people in the last row feel like they're in the first row
16:49i wanted to make sure that our production was accessible from every part of the stadium
17:00well these people are all the way up here so we make the floor video and the video screen on the
17:05floor so now as they look down they get this incredible view but now the people on the floor
17:10can't see and so we're going to get a camera that's overhead we'll be able to shoot the floor we'll put
17:14up on the screen i mean we have a cinematographer for this tour which we've never had before so
17:20many people are going to be watching those screens so we know which shots are cooler than other shots
17:38and then also i was like do some wild card stuff ethan i want there to be a moment where the fans are
17:43like what just happened and that's when he comes up with things like me diving into the stage
17:49at which point i'm like ethan that this is not going to work how how does that even work
17:58you get red lights until you get the green lights green lights tell you that you're not going to run
18:03into anything oh my god and then you're into a bag oh yeah what that looks like from the top
18:09you have to make sure i'm on downstage from the top yes yeah and it looks cool it looks even better
18:16like as if i'm coming back to the piano i'm walking here and i just
18:21look at this did it look good i love it so much do it again yeah if you're comfortable with it
18:36people scream
18:53it's happening right in front of your eyes
18:54that creates joy
19:04and that's i think what great shows do make adults feel like children
19:16what we were trying to do with this tour
19:17was make it the biggest thing we've ever done but truthfully none of it happens without a song
19:28and a person up there willing to sing it
19:31i love songs i love songs
19:37i love songs
19:38storytelling for me is one of the key aspects that makes me feel like life is worth living
19:48because our song is a slamming screen door sneaking adelaide tapping on
19:53here's a window when we're on the phone and he talks real slow it's just it's that important to me
20:03drag me headfirst fearless and crafting a song is just at the happiest i ever am hi okay so let's go
20:23sorry hold on i just wrote this 15 minutes ago if you're in a writing session with me like i'll go
20:29into my lyric space and it's just sort of like just rocking back and forth in a corner muttering
20:33and this is what it ends up too let's take take my time what if what if you start over with the
20:41same melody so it's so it's in the middle of the night yeah so it starts over yeah yeah yeah yeah
20:46it's very it i've never lost that sense of just like i don't know i it's for me it's um
20:54it's endlessly fascinating i never get bored of it
21:03songwriting happens whether i'm on tour or not because my life has just always
21:11been a kind of free-flowing state of you live it you feel it you wonder about it you write about it
21:20i started going to sweden in between my shows and it just felt like the most exciting
21:26way to make a secret album it would just be the three of us and we would write and we would record
21:36do you want to hear the vocals yes please all right you don't don't have to hold back on the violence
21:42this will go go more violent i mean it was always like you were a little i think i was trying to be in
21:47tune i didn't have the click track yeah i can be more violent trust me all right making the album
21:55while i was on the eras tour i was in a place in my life where life felt so full of possibility and it
22:02felt like i was figuring things out and it felt like so romantic and magical and passionate and i wanted
22:08to encapsulate that feeling on this album
22:30we hadn't made any music together since reputation which came out in 2017.
22:35so going back and working with max and shellback our relationship is very much that i feel like
22:43they've always been mentors and i've always felt like their apprentice and they are so brilliant
22:49good job everyone mostly dog it's really a very respectful relationship that you would have with
23:09people that you you know they're your peers but you also look up to them okay so this is a swedish
23:15christmas dinner what is this this is uh i don't know about dinner i mean this is the this is the first
23:25station first station of swedish christmas so we put nuts and raisins in the cup and then we put
23:33the spiced wine in there and it's hot and we drink it yes i'm excited that's absolutely delicious
23:45this is this is incredible yeah
23:46i was really ready for that sort of challenge to go back in with these two people and really try to
24:01stretch and challenge myself as much as possible to make hopefully the best album that i could possibly
24:06make i think it should be high good thing you know what i mean like so that it's it's got something
24:16weird and creepy about the high oh i'm obsessed with this jesus
24:24i usually hear about new music within five minutes of it being written
24:37that is the best thing i can possibly think of and also the scariest because now i know something
24:45that nobody else knows other than the people who are in that room and that's a massive responsibility
24:50it's like i don't no don't send no don't send it to me i don't want it on my phone no no no or like
24:54i'm immortal now baby dolls like that you're still talking to all those girls yeah but i'm a mortal now
25:02baby dolls i couldn't if i tried that i like that other one that you went to yeah i could if i tried
25:13thank you for the lovely bouquet i think i think you put uh bring the beat back out on bouquet
25:23damn it i i just love it i love being hyper detailed and having having several overarching themes that
25:34are woven throughout and i think the fans have really gotten into that obsessive nature of my storytelling too
25:43i think for a lot of people they feel such a personal connection to her her deeply personal
25:49writing the drama that she's been through the heartbreak and regret that she shared with people
25:55and i think it must be meaningful to her for that to resonate yeah all right this is going to be my
26:03last song for today taylor swift is one of my favorite singers and inspiring me to sing one of her songs
26:08i think a lot of people can relate to this i wanted to give a compilation of lyrics that
26:14i still have yet to recover from when you were young they assume you're nothing
26:19one of the things that sets her apart from a lot of other people is how she writes
26:34her writing is personal and it's vulnerable
27:04i don't remember a time existing without her music
27:22every chapter of my life is marked by an album of hers that came out around the same time
27:26i started writing music when i was eight i remember my friends saying would you rather
27:34have 10 trillion dollars or like write a song with taylor swift i'm like
27:39like write a song with taylor swift oh this is gonna be a fun one hello hi hi hi hi hi how's your dress
27:54thanks man oh how are you feeling i'm you know i'll i'll get there this is gonna pull me through my
28:00cold this is a medical thing for me um so what i would do is i'd start out by like talking to them
28:07about how we're so excited because we just got nominated for a grammy together so we thought
28:14what better than to play a little song for you now and then i'll be like gracie come out
28:19what what the way they do oh it's crazy no the double bridge is gonna send me off a cliff
28:31if i'll just like a joke i'll show you don't and now we're talking it still feels surreal to be here
28:40you know she is just the easiest person to be around she's such a dear friend i
28:44fucking love her and then sometimes i'm like how is it that we're singing this song for me this is
28:52it's like a dream
28:57i always got like so smiling it's gonna be great
29:01i think you'll remember
29:29i think you'll remember the genius for the young lady you saw earlier tonight
29:34gracie abrams
29:38please welcome to the stage once again
29:42gracie abrams
29:51oh no you know it felt just like a joke
29:56there's something that happens between friends who make music it's this kind of like undeniable bond that
30:09you have
30:13with gracie we've had so many special moments
30:22i love you
30:32i love you grace you know my opening acts on this tour are kids that were like 10 years old at my show
30:39and now that we're singing together like you just can't believe the way that everything's falling
30:46into place in the way you never could have dreamed it would
30:53be out of the woods yet our way out of the woods are we in the clear yet are we in the clear yet in the clear yet in the clear yet in the clear yet go on
31:05you know i look forward to seeing
31:24i look forward to seeing the different ways that the fans react from night to night
31:28you see the tears and you see the hugging each other and it just i love it
31:32for me personally watching the show that moment that taylor appears and there she is
31:40that to me is absolutely worth everything it makes me feel like this was my calling in life
31:53whether it was taylor or my mom it was to be around someone who loves entertaining
31:59and is extraordinarily talented it was just just ditto it just happened all over again
32:11you know taylor sings marjorie which is dedicated to my mother and you know we
32:17the experience writing marjorie was i was kind of a wreck at times writing it i'd sort of break down
32:40sometimes she died when i was 13 when i was on a trip to nashville to try and make it
32:55so i've always just sort of felt like she was um seeing seeing this you know
33:02one of the things that still rips me apart when i listen to it is that she's singing with me on this song
33:07i wrote these lyrics and if i know better i think you were singing to me now
33:19then you hear her actually sing
33:26it's things like that that just make you feel like your whole heart is in this whole thing
33:30during the tour she does marjorie and i said to her god taylor i don't know if i can make it through
33:41the tour crying every night when you sing that song it just gets me
33:51it started off as something very simple
33:52you know we didn't even have lights prepared for that song we didn't know that the fans were going
34:01to honor that song with the reverence that they do
34:08that they were going to hold their phones up
34:09it just became a very loving tribute to her grandmother we do marjorie every night you know i
34:27think about family my dad passed away last year she's singing about her grandmother but those of us
34:33that have gone through something similar in the recent years like that's always kind of an emotional
34:38moment in the night um my papa was a big part of the family my favorite person in the whole world
34:46and he unfortunately passed every single time i'm on that stage i definitely feel his presence
34:51especially the first night just this big rush fell over me and i was like it's my grandpa marjorie is
34:59about taylor's grandmother but it's personal to me and i think that's a testament to taylor's writing
35:06because it really feels like it's your own experience the idea that you have a loss
35:16and yet they are still here with us is kind of what i need to cling to in every night
35:23i've been performing with taylor for 12 years and truly the era's tour was a surprise
35:40to all of us we had had covid we all wanted to be together to make music again i know i very much
35:47needed to be here to make music again i lost my mother september of 21 so when rehearsal started not
35:59only did i need music and need to be with my my band family
36:04i needed to heal
36:17music is the thing that is the most healing to me
36:21music is the most healing to me
36:29i for the past few years have been really learning to accept and lean into
36:39that two different things can be true at one time
36:42music and last year that really uh smacked me in the face because we started this tour
36:51and we were all making memories and falling in love with each other and i
36:55was the happiest i had been in some time and at the same time i was heartbroken every moment
37:05because my mother wasn't here to experience this joy and to uh see the heiress tour
37:15um yeah like if you saw me sobbing somewhere you would never know that i was the happiest i had been
37:23in a while and um if you saw my joy it was often that i was pretty devastated and so
37:33so knowing that i just want to i don't know give permission to feel both to be here
37:43feel what we feel be as present as you can in these next four shows thank you to all of you
37:50things come back
38:01all right
38:03guys you heard her let's go out there
38:09oh
38:30never be so kind and forget to be clever
38:39never be so clever you forget to be kind
38:53i think you were
39:06i think you were still around
39:08what died didn't say that
39:13what died didn't say that
39:15what died didn't say that
39:25you're alive so alive
39:30the autumn chill wakes me up
39:32you love the amber sky so much
39:35long limbs and frozen swims you always go past the feet you can touch
39:40and i complain the whole way there
39:42the car right back and up the stairs
39:45i should have asked you a question
39:47i should have asked you how to be
39:51asked you to write it down for me
39:53should have kept every grocery store receipt
39:56cause every scrap of you would be taken from me
40:01watch as you signed your name marjorie
40:03all your closets are back
40:05all your closets are back of dreams
40:06and how you left them all to me
40:10what died didn't say that
40:13what died didn't say that
40:15you're alive you're alive in my head
40:20what died didn't say that
40:23what died didn't say that
40:25you're alive so alive
40:30my mom's voice is in that song
40:56and uh she would have loved to have seen all of this
41:01she'd be so proud and i think she'd also be really really stoked that
41:08she's now singing in the stadium every night
41:30and uh
41:40well
41:40yeah
41:42amazing
41:53yeah
41:54Tawana, we're at the very end of this tour, so you doing that, you have no idea how much it means to me, and to my band, and to my crew, and everybody who's put so much of this into this tour.
42:24I don't even know what I'm saying anymore, I'm just having a bit of a moment, sorry.
42:35It's not even the last show.
42:44I love you guys, thank you so much for that.
42:56Oh, that was fun.
43:16Oh, I got emotional.
43:18I felt like a dumbass.
43:19That was the best part.
43:21I couldn't put words together, Austin.
43:23That was kind of embarrassing.
43:24That was nice of you to say, though.
43:26You're a very supportive person.
43:27That was the best part of the whole thing.
43:30That was nice of you to say that.
43:32You know what got me was, like, Camila made this speech before the show where she was talking
43:39about how her mom died, like, her mom died recently, and she was just saying, like, how
43:44heartbroken she is that her mom never got to see the Aerosaur, never got to see her do
43:49this, and I was just thinking about it all night.
43:51And I knew that, and we always used to, like, make eye contact on Marjorie, me and Camila
43:56because of her mom, but it put it in perspective, like, I don't know, like, the fact that mom
44:03did get to see it, and, like, Travis got to see it, and dad got to see it, and, like, I
44:11just felt so lucky, and that's what, it's, like, cracked me.
44:14It cracked me wide open.
44:19Oh, my God, it was unreal.
44:20It was just incredible.
44:22It really was, and I think you have every right to feel emotional because it has to be
44:26hitting you, honey, that this has been the dream tour of your life.
44:30Yeah, it has.
44:31I just never thought, I never thought we'd ever do something this good.
44:35I mean, it's going to be an emotional time from here on out to the end.
44:39It's so crazy that, like, all this has happened, and we all got to experience it together.
44:44We love you.
44:44Love you.
44:45Love you, too.
44:45Love you, too.
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