Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era

-Yeah. -

-Oh... -

That is wonderful.

- She likes those higher notes. -Ooh, yes.

-You know what this means? - Hmm?

You're gonna have to get a piano.

-What's that, Mom? -You're gonna have to get a piano.

-Are you sure? -Yes, I'm sure.

Yes. It's wonderful!

That's wonderful!

One, two. C stage, C. One...

Once I get a cold, I just have it for a while.

They just kind of linger.

Would you like a coffee from the world's most depressing coffee shop?

Oh, absolutely.

-What do you want? Just cold brew? -I mean, when you sell it that way, yeah.

Have you ever heard of spatchcocking a turkey?

I think I might be tryin' that this Thanksgiving.

I don't know if we should get jazzy with the turkey.

Remember when we tried to fry one?

That was a disaster, but yeah.

I think we had an oil patch in our yard for about six months.

-But besides that, it was... inedible. -Ugh!

And can you make those big ribs for Travis?

I am making those big ribs for Travis.

The ones he affectionately refers to as dinosaur bones.

Big, Texas-size ribs for a Texas-size man.

Oh, my God.

Touring is something that really brings my family together in a lot of ways.

For me, part of The Eras Tour is a celebration of my family.

Ultimately, I just don't see any of this happening

if all of my family hadn't been involved.

I mean, we work together.

We're kind of a family business for 20 years.

This next song is by the Dixie Chicks. Oh, water. Yay.

Her mom gets mad when she doesn't drink water.

My parents didn't know anything about the music industry,

but they were like, "Yeah, it's hard, yeah.

We know nothing about it right now. We'll get some books and read."

Like, it's pretty insane.

My mom does this every night.

Draws a thirteen on, so now, it's gonna be shiny and new.

In an industry as cutthroat as the music industry,

learning hard lessons and experiencing ups and downs,

and triumphs and failures.

It was a huge challenge for my whole family,

but everybody was so locked in for my whole life.

They all banded together to 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 privilege, and we know that

'cause none of us would be doing anything that we're really good at doing

if it wasn't for what she does, that she's incredibly good at doing.

It's incredible fun, but mostly it's a way for us to be together as a family

and to sort of honor this thing we've committed our entire lives to.

I think me and Gracie are gonna change up the thing that we're gonna do.

But we think we wanna do the song Us. instead of...

'Cause we got, just got nominated for the Grammy for Us.

So, a few days before we played Toronto, uh, the Grammy nominations came out.

We were very lucky, we got six nominations.

And one of those was for a song that I did with Gracie

while we were still on The Eras Tour, a year ago.

Yeah.

This time, last year, she and I went out to celebrate in between shows.

We ended up having a lot of drinks.

Wait, what do I do about this?

Okay, you're gonna fire extinguish it.

Okay, great. I think we're gonna die.

- Just press it. -I don't know.

Yeah-Yeah. Oh, my God!

What about... I'm good.

And then we ended up writing a song that we're really proud of.

-How I want it. How I... -How...

And it just got nominated for a Grammy,

so I just thought, wouldn't it be cool to do that song in Toronto?

Kind of create a little, kind of, special moment,

mash it up with one of the other songs that the fans really love.

She had this idea to do Us. and Out of the Woods,

which, like...

Out of the Woods is in my, like, top three favorite songs of all time.

Hey, dude, I have a cold, so I'm just gonna, like, briefly go through...

So we do double chorus, like, mashup of

Out of the Woods and Us., and I think it works in this key.

So, right? So, like, um, do that whole chorus

and then we can do back-to-back bridges, right? Like...

Wait for it.

Anyway, so we do double ve... double bridges,

and then we go into, like, a double chorus, like, mashup

of Out of the Woods and Us., and it'll be so, so cool.

Uh... Then what does she do, though? The first chorus...

It's just insane. She just, like, can do that in her sleep.

Where it's, like, I'm gonna chop up

-two to five songs and make them all... -

I don't know, 'cause she's just a mastermind.

I need to, like, write in Sharpie on my arm, like...

"Don't pass out, the structure of the song..."

Be, like, "Me verse, me chorus, Taylor verse, Taylor chorus.

"Me bridge, Taylor bridge, Taylor verse..."

- Oh, my God. Wake up. -

Catch me projectile vomiting on the Eras stage.

Evermore and Peter? Jesus.

I don't, for the life of me, understand how she does it.

I have no idea, because I couldn't do it if my life depended on it.

I couldn't do it.

There wasn't a creative bone in my body.

It's like the background music for, like, a horror flick.

-I agree. -

-You want me to sign that now? -Yeah.

I was completely the opposite. I went into business in school.

I don't have a musical background or play instruments,

but I do have this sort of intimate knowledge

of the psyche of someone who really has to do this.

Then it goes back to my mother... Marjorie.

She was an opera singer.

She was a music major out of college and went straight to work.

Live radio, performing out of New York.

But she married my dad, and they started moving around the world.

So wherever they were living, she would star in local operas.

Everywhere we went, she was absolutely beloved.

My sister and I were often brought along and put in the front row, listening.

And on the way home, I remember she would say to me,

"So, Andrea, during that part of the delivery,

did it make you wanna cry?"

And I would say, "Well, Mom, um...

a little bit, little bi..."

You know, she was always looking for feedback,

but from an eight-year-old. Like the... Opera.

So I would give her what I could.

But I knew that I had a job to do

because I was gonna be quizzed on the way home.

It was a beautiful relationship I had with my mom,

but it was all with a full awareness that my mom was this person

who loved singing, who loved to perform, and that people love.

- Oh! -

Thank you.

So it began with my mother.

Blow kissies.

And I think that that prepared me, probably better

than anything that could have, for having a child like Taylor...

who pretty much wanted to follow in my mother's footsteps.

Taylor always knew she wanted to perform...

...and she was already writing her own music without any co-writers.

This is a song I wrote yesterday.

I wrote this song yesterday.

This is a song I wrote, like, a week ago.

It's called One-Sided Goodbye.

This song is called Beautiful Days.

And the title's kind of self-explanatory. So, here it goes.

And then at 11, is when Taylor looked at me and said,

"We gotta go to Nashville. Please, please take me to Nashville.

That is where Faith Hill went."

Very quickly, I realized this is where my past with my mother

was gonna really, really come into play.

I think Taylor wanted to experience something that she thought was...

I hate to say the word, but destiny.

I do think that at a very young age, we tend to know where we're going in life.

- -Thank you all so much.

And it's, it's good to listen to them

and where their dreams are even at that age.

So we're in Toronto, in my hometown.

Everything that I own...

I don't realize 'cause it's just always here.

It's a part of the fabric of my life,

but truly, everything is dance-related.

Everything is dance... This is a, I believe, a Christmas tree ornament.

I'm such a dance geek.

I think more than just loving dance, I'm a true dance nerd.

Yes, too much.

I think you have to have a certain personality to tour.

Truly, it's like one thing to be a dancer or a musician,

but it's another thing to be able to handle what a tour entails.

And it's not for everybody.

It was always for me. I did great. I loved being on the road.