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I want to say 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.

I think about the moment that you
decided that dancing was your calling

moment that you first saw a band and
thought, man, I want to save up for an

instrument. 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 % of the advice you are given
along the way by oftentimes people that

you respect, people 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

not getting the solo.

I'll see all of those things that
happened all along the way, the doors

were shut, the doors that were open, the
windows you pried open.

And then sometimes I'll see you when
you're older and I'll think about what

you're going to 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.

Everyone likes to talk about phenomenons
like the Heirs 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

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 heiress 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

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.

I think I came up with the idea for the
Aerith tour about two years before the

tour started.

There were two main factors that
culminated in the Aerith tour. Both of

were unpleasant.

We think that these bad things are
happening to me or to us. If you flip it

around correctly and you react in a
certain way, those things can be

for you.

The first one being my entire... The
catalog of my first six albums was sold

from under me to somebody else, and I
decided to sort of defiantly re -record

all of my music.

You know, when you revisit something,
you go back into that world. All this

is so indicative of the time I was in in
my life. I feel like I'm reading my old

diary, thinking about all the different
girls I was until I was this one.

So that planted a little seed inherently
in my mind.

The idea of celebrating your past.

I think the second factor being the
pandemic.

We built a home studio in my house. I
clung to songwriting as a sort of life

raft. Stop it. Stop. Stop. I'm recording
vocals.

Folklore came out three or four months
into the pandemic.

We put out Evermore four months later.

I hadn't toured in five years, and the
fans had created such demand for it.

been loving Taylor Simpson.

tour again and i just thought to myself
what if i did a tour that celebrated all

of these different moments in my life
and career where you have chapters

up by albums and everything changes when
the chapter changes she had said to us

this is going to be over three hours and
we were just like oh my god how do we

do this not just planning but executing
a tour of this size is mind

-boggling. The process of putting
together this tour happened in many

phases, all over the world, happening
simultaneously all at once. You had me

doing my physical training six months
before we even go into rehearsal. At

time, the choreographer goes in with the
dancers. We've got the staging and the

production design happening
simultaneously, all to coincide with the

date.

The first day of rehearsal...

She got out of her car and had tears in
her eyes already.

I'm weirdly emotional right now. It's so
nice to meet you. I'm Taylor. Hey.

I'm Kevin. So nice to meet you. I'm
Taylor.

Hey. I'm Sam. Nice to meet you. I mean,
I've been doing this for almost 20

years. A bunch of different artists. I
have never seen that. I have never seen

the boss come into rehearsal crying with
tears of happiness and passion.

about their job.

We haven't done what we love on a stage
in five years.

Let's go do this. The fans have been so
amazing and are so excited for the tour.

I wanted to over serve the fans.

That was my main goal.

I wanted to over serve them in terms of
the amount of songs they were going to

hear, the length of the show, what kinds
of production they were going to see,

different styles of dance, different
worlds of dance, wardrobe, how far I was

going to push myself.

Oh, my God.

Okay. Do it, my friend. Here we go. When
you come up with a goal like that, you

just have to make a choice and decide
there's no going back on that choice.

Good

morning,

America. It's Taylor.

I wanted to tell you something that I've
been so excited about for a really long

time. I've been planning for ages, and I
finally get to tell you I'm going back

on tour.

Oh, my God.

We're doing something very stressful
today. Today is Aira's pre -fail day.

One minute left.

192.

Oh, my God. We got row five.

Oh, my God.

I think I thought fans would be excited
about the idea of the era tour.

That's not real.

Yeah. It is?

Yeah. Really?

This was a completely different thing
than I've ever experienced.

Fans of Taylor Swift crashed the
Ticketmaster website today.

The demand to see Taylor at that point,
I don't think anybody in the industry,

expert or otherwise, would comprehend.

There was enough demand.

to do 255 stadiums. I'm actually not in
Glendale. I'm in Swift City.

Officials actually changed the name from
Glendale to Swift City in honor of the

megastar kicking off her tour. So we go
from a detail -oriented, methodical,

exhaustive process, and all of a sudden,
in the last week leading up to the

first show, everybody is firing on all
cylinders.

And then we had opening night.

Just thinking about for years, you know?

Welcome to the Heiress Tour.

Truly, everyone will tell you that none
of us knew what the Heiress Tour was

becoming. Kansas City, welcome to the
Heiress Tour.

She's a once -in -a -generation type of
artist. I would almost compare it to The

Beatles. When people start comparing
this to The Beatles and MJ, you just

expect that what you're getting into is
going to be that.

Yeah.

Seattle, Washington, welcome to the
Aaron tour.

Yeah, for sure, the crowd is kind of
always at banana level.

This is a whole other gear, you know, or
two.

All the Swifties started jumping around
during the song. They caused the

equivalent of a 2 .3 magnitude
earthquake.

Los Angeles, California.

Taylor Swift, she's more than just a pop
icon.

She's a business powerhouse.

Swift's U .S. tour could generate $4 .6
billion in consumer spending.

That's more than the GDPs of Granada,
Belize, and Tonga combined, something

experts have dubbed Swiftnomics. The
Taylor Swift takeover seen across the

country, leading to the emergence of
Taylor Gating. Even fans without tickets

are traveling to tour stops.

I've never seen this before in my life.
It's like one of the most beautiful

things I've ever seen. It's like
Woodstock, but without the drugs.

The thing that's so special, it is that
community where they get into that

stadium and celebrate not just what's
happening on that stage, but what's

happening with them and how they honor
each other and love each other. It just

became this movement.

I thought that this would be a tour I
was very proud of. It was like more than

tour. It's like a force to be reckoned
with in global culture.

So never in my life did I think we would
have a terrorist plot.

We are continuing to follow breaking
news. Three upcoming Taylor Swift

in Vienna, Austria have been canceled.

After Austrian authorities arrested two
suspects, who they say had plans to

carry out a terrorist attack at the
concert site.

According to officials, they found
chemical explosives, detonators, and

propaganda at the main suspect's home.

Now the big question is, what's going to
happen to the rest of her European

tour? Well, at this point, all of her
shows are going ahead as scheduled,

including her concert right here in
London.

We're in London at my hotel, and
basically it's just kind of a

weird feeling going into these last five
shows in Europe because it sort of

feels like we've done like 128 shows so
far, but this is the first one where I

feel like, I don't know, like I'm
skating on thin ice or something. We've

series of very violent, scary things
happen to the tour.

We dodged, like, a massacre situation.

And so I've just been kind of all over
the place. Like, there was this horrible

attack in Liverpool at a Taylor Swift
-themed dance party.

And it was little kids that...

The latest on a knife attack. There's
left at least three children dead,

multiple people injured at a Taylor
Swift -themed dance class in England.

The youngsters, aged 6 to 11, were
dancing to Taylor Swift songs when an

attacker, armed with a knife, launched a
frenzied assault.

I'm gonna, um, like, meet some of these
families tonight and...

put on a pop concert, you know?

It's going to be fine because when I
meet them, I'm not going to do this. I

swear to God, I'm not going to do this.
I'm going to be smiling.

So any of this gets out of the way
before you ever go on stage. You lock it

three and a half hours.

They don't have to worry about you. It's
like you're like a pilot flying the

plane. And if you were like, oh, there's
turbulence up ahead. I don't know if

we're actually going to land in Dallas.

I'm going to try hard, but I don't know
if I can actually, like, figure out how

to land through this turbulence. Like,
everyone on the plane is going to freak

out. You just have to have a calm, cool,
collected tone of, like, we will be

landing in Dallas at 6 .05 p .m., got a
little turbulence up ahead, but it's

nothing we haven't seen before. Just
keep your seatbelts fastened, and

to the Aeros Tour.

There's something special about this
tour, this iteration, this combination

people, this show.

And I think about, like, how much love
everybody here is pouring into what they

do. The people who build the stage and
hang the PA and the people who wash the

clothes and play the instruments and do
all the dancing. And the only thing

we're trying to do is to make the world
go away for a little while and make

people feel seen and let them scream
lyrics that they love at the top of

lungs.

It's so beautiful to find something so
positive that can be an escape for

like this can.

And it's amazing that what we've been a
part of can do that for people.

So what happened in Vienna and the idea
of someone being able to rewrite the

entire headline of this whole experience
with one awful act, I feel so grateful

that it got stopped. But I also felt
just so horrible for the fans.

I know that it sounds so stupid to be so
upset about this, but, like, that

environment of, like, the era where,
like, everyone's so kind and, like, just

having fun and, like, girlhood.

Like, that was so much of what I wanted
to experience.

Something this moving, this powerful,
this rich in feeling and experience

represents more than just people coming
to see an artist perform songs.

And so we have a large responsibility to
do this show and still show up for fans

in the way that we can and know how.

Without getting too far into this, I do
feel like the world right now is really

torn. But I think being a part of this
tour, we're shining enough light.

that it actually feels like, well, man,
this is absolutely affecting a lot of

lives. And I think for all of us that
are in it, that's a pretty good

perspective. After Vienna, all right,
let's get out and do these shows because

this is why we're doing it.

Bringing out special guests is something
that I really enjoy.

Like, when I get to be on stage with
someone like Ed Sheeran, we can create a

unique, special moment, and it really
just gives something to the fans that

didn't expect.

Take me into your loving arms.

I don't know if he thinks he's doing the
harmony the whole time, and I'm doing

the melody. It's very cool that he would
come and do this, because I think it's

just going to, like, really delight
people. And I think in a moment when,

a lot of the fans need, like, a pick -me
-up, because...

I know I do.

Baby!

How you doing?

So I get to, I'm going to the stadium
and I'll do a little, I know, we'll do a

little dressing room rehearsal.

I love you.

I don't know, how do you, how do you
remember 36 ,000 plays that are all...

tactical missions and then just go do it
the same it's basically the same job i

got songs to remember you got plays to
remember you got teammates i got

teammates you've got coach reed i've got
my mom

i want you to be

here i want to be there why do you have
to be in the nfl

so i'm gonna be scouring

I'm so excited.

I'm so excited.

But have a great practice.

I love you so much. I love you so much.

Thank you.

I know this was like some people get a
vitamin drip. I got this conversation.

So I usually wrap this in the shower
because I'm trying to respect Canada's

and teeth with everyone else.

So if I need to do something noisy, I go
somewhere that people aren't that much,

and showers are a good enough bet.

You know, I'm just trying to get some
distance from everybody.

I started playing for Taylor in 2007.

Amos? Yeah.

Hey, Tay. Are you wearing my headband
again? I'm wearing our headband.

I think if I look... back at it now the
thing that remains really constant is

there's not a challenge that she isn't
going to meet head -on and kind of

to conquer and having that kind of
energy in the in the lead spot has

can say me personally to do a lot of the
same things this diamond here is where

i'm coming up for the first night for
the first thing when we were in

for the Erez tour, and we didn't quite
know yet what it was going to be, what

was going to be called.

I remember a meeting, I think we were
all sitting on the floor, where she kind

of cast the vision.

So it's going to start with a chorus
of... It's really hard, really hard Miss

Americana chorus, like hard.

It's you and me, that's my whole world.
They whimper in the hall when she's a

bad, bad girl. Okay!

And she's like, here's my vision, it's
what we're going to do.

Just going to hit them with...

We're doing something from every album.

And we got a list

of about 40 songs.

Internally, certainly, I scoff. That's
almost three hours.

This is insanity.

What are we going to cut?

And I think we added three songs.

It seems obvious now because it did
work.

But at the time, it's a big risk to
decide we're going to do a three -hour

show, we're going to do it in stadiums,
and we're going to do it all over the

world. And so...

A lot of tenured professionals are doing
their very best to quantify what it is

about what she's doing that's connecting
to everybody.

It's just a show. It's just music. But
there's something more profound than

going on here.

Security is being stepped up for Taylor
Swift's upcoming London concert. And

this is why it's such a big deal. This
is her first performance since that

thwarted terror plot to attack a show in
Vienna.

Swifties are already moving in. All of
them going to be carefully screened as

they enter this stadium. Police telling
us they want to make sure that they know

what everyone is doing inside that
stadium.

And what are the fans there saying? Are
they concerned?

Some of the Zwifties said that they were
acutely aware of what happened in

Austria, but they're excited.

We've been here for like four or five
hours. We've spoken to people from

Scotland and England and Israel.

I feel like what's happening right now
with everyone waiting for hours and

exchanging bracelets and just like
everyone making friends, a 10 -hour wait

in five minutes, honestly. I'm actually
quite a new Zwifty.

My flatmate hates me now because I just
play Taylor Swift all the time. She

said, if you play Karma one more time,
you're going to get evicted.

I want to cry for life's joy.

His joy is what I want.

It's been such a long time coming. I
booked my ticket over a year ago.

Just seeing her face.

I know.

It's like she's not a real person.

I'm just so excited to breathe the same
air as her.

I've been performing for, you know, 20
years.

From a mental standpoint, being like
afraid something's going to happen to

fans at any moment, this is a new
challenge.

I want to keep all of the nerves I have
away from the crowd, because

when you're sort of the ringleader of
this show, they can sense any kind of

shift energetically in you, and you have
to really...

Focus on that and factor that in, that
you're at the air tour.

Nothing's wrong.

Hey.

Hi.

How you doing?

No,

I'm trying to calm down. I'm having a
very physical reaction to my nerves.

Why? I'm just, like, my hands are shaky
and... Nerves felt like what happened

last week?

Yeah, it's weird.

I just have to get this first show over
with.

No, it's the same way right now. I
can't. Right?

Yeah. I can't relax.

I'm just like twitchy and fidgety and
just... Get the show over with tonight.

Get back on the horse.

Hey!

Hey!

Oh, my God.

Just what the doctor ordered. I'm so
excited.

Thank you for doing this.

You guys good?

Yeah. Yeah, sure, yeah, sure. You just
kind of flies on the wall for

It's basically like every day that I
have. Not in Vienna though, right?

They were supposed to start in Vienna,
but I didn't get to go.

Oh, you weren't even in the country?

No, I was on the plane headed there.
Damn. It was like... I was just...

You know, it's like I just need to get
this I just need to do this show we like

remember the joy of it because I'm a
little bit just like Yeah, and you get

off I get two months off after this
which I need I need more than ever

you've seen my schedule like It's like
heavy.

Yeah, where you gonna are you gonna
choose somewhere to go? You're just

live in I'm just gonna go somewhere. No
one can find me.

I just don't want to be tracked like an
animal. Yeah I just have felt very,

like, hunted lately.

I feel like people have forgot that,
like, you're a human being amongst all

this as well.

100%. Yeah.

Yeah.

You know?

It's high.

Yeah, it's high. So I can sing the
melody if you want to sing the harmony.

would be great.

I'll do the first verse and first chorus
by myself just to build tension.

And they're going to be like, oh my God,
oh my God, oh my God, Izzy, Izzy, Izzy.

And then after the first chorus, I'm
going to be like, guys, like I could

like stop playing. Be like, guys, it's
just, there's something, something's

something's missing from this. And
that's when they're going to start

their heads off.

When I'm like, something's missing. I
just feel like, I feel like I can't do

this alone tonight.

I just want to know, you better know,
you better know, you better now.

I just want to know, you better know,
you better know, you better now.

I just want to know you, know you, know
you.

All I know is it's simple.

Your eyes look like coming home. All I
know is it's simple, baby.

And everything has changed.

and we can, like, catch our breath and,
like, take as long as you want and I'll

follow you.

I fucked up a chord in Everything Has
Changed.

I just want to know, you better know,
you better know.

And you actually came up with that, so.

And then you just move one finger to
there and take that one off.

Okay. We found love right where

we are.

So you just sort of move one finger
down.

Okay.

I know you helped them.

I know it doesn't seem like it, but I
know you helped them.

From a mental standpoint, I just do live
in a reality that's very unreal a lot

of the time.

But it's my job to kind of be able to
handle all these feelings and then perk

immediately to perform.

That's just the way it's got to be.

Okay, that was awesome.

See, you've gotten me feeling really,
really, really powerful.

I'd be the man.

I'd be the man.

together.

But I just feel like I'm not really
doing it justice like I feel like

Take them down take them down open up
the door

I just wanna know you better know you
better know you better now

I just wanna know you better know you
better know you better now I just

wanna know you better know you better
know you better now I just wanna know

So many hundreds of moments of
individual eye contact throughout the

the show.

I see the mass quantities of joy that
everyone's feeling.

What's interesting is, like, there's
some joy in the show, but there's a lot

emotions in this that aren't just, like,
put on your smiley face and come to the

air tour.

It's so much more.

You look out into the crowd, and this
isn't just like a...

blob of light.

These are millions of stories and all
these counter narratives all colliding

one place where we feel safe to be
demonstrative about a whole spectrum of

emotion.

That stuff is really powerful.

Life contains multitudes, and we're kind
of exploring all of the dramatic edges

of those things.

That's what might be unlocking feelings
of joy, feelings of euphoria.

And it still gets me. It does.

happy they all were. They were losing
their minds.

that happens we don't know about nothing
nothing's going down all right you

gotta go all right okay bye -bye thank
you

I'm so happy.

I'm so relieved. Baby, it's like the
crowd knew that I needed a pick -me -up.

When I walked out on stage, they were
wilder than I've ever seen.

I'm so happy to be back. I'm so happy to
be back doing this in a functional way.

I was so happy that I thought I was
going to forget how to play guitar and

I know.

I know.

I was at work.

Basically what happens now is, like,
I'll not be able to get to sleep because

can't, like, come down.

This is why people need drugs, but I
don't do drugs.

So I just, like, let it ride.

I just am like, oh, go to sleep when I'm
tired. And when I'm tired, it's, like,

4 in the morning.

So I bought tons of TVs.

I get room for the same bed.

I sign a box of 2 ,000 CDs.

And then I'm tired.

And then we do the whole thing again.