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Like so many others, I’ve spent way too much of my life trying to analyze\u00a0Taylor Swift. When a childhood friend played \u201cShould\u2019ve Said No\u201d for me on the school bus in fourth grade, it kicked off 17 years of combing through the singer\u2019s works for meaning. It began with\u00a0searching her lyric booklets\u00a0for hidden clues and has since evolved into\u00a0studying her concert tour outfits\u00a0to predict what rerecorded album she will release next. As a Taylor Swift fan, it\u2019s easy to become\u00a0obsessed with the puzzles\u00a0and how they forecast her next move. But with the\u00a0biggest success\u00a0in her career thus far\u2014her record-shattering\u00a0Eras Tour\u2014finally coming to a close, I\u2019m realizing that Swift\u2019s next chapter might not be so easy to predict. In fact, her next move might be to disappear from music entirely, at least for a bit.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, I went to one of the final Eras Tour shows in Indianapolis. The energy was just as electric as when I first saw the concert a year and a half ago. The success of the Eras Tour has been covered ad nauseam\u2014how it\u00a0boosted local economies,\u00a0influenced other stars\u2019 touring strategies, brought on a\u00a0legal case against ticket-distributing monopolies, and more. But while you might expect audiences to have Taylor fatigue, the energy at Lucas Oil Stadium on Friday night was unmatched. A\u00a0record-setting 69,000 fans\u00a0gathered to see the singer as she kicked off her final trio of U.S. shows, and all of them seemed hyped to be there.<\/p>\n

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I can still remember when Swift first announced the Eras Tour, kicking off\u00a0my frantic attempt to score tickets. I suspected that this would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and that hunch was right. Each time I saw the show, I was amazed by the hordes of fans in elaborate outfits, their ages ranging across decades, trading friendship bracelets and sharing a sense of genuine love. Now, I find myself lucky enough to have attended the show twice.<\/p>\n

Still, despite my excitement, it was hard not to feel like this is a final bow of sorts for Swift. \u201cWe got to bring this tour in front of the most dedicated, passionate, enthusiastic, excitable, loud fans,\u201d she told the crowd that night. \u201cSo we decided that the very last U.S. city on the Eras Tour would, in fact, be right here in Indianapolis, Indiana. And I can already tell we made the best decision possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since March 2023, Swift has managed to run her show like clockwork. But she is not the same woman she was when she started the Eras Tour almost two years ago. Currently, Swift finds herself the only artist to have\u00a0won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year four times, the only artist to have\u00a0sold over $1 billion in concert sales\u00a0from a single tour, and the only artist to have\u00a0seven albums sell over one million copies\u00a0in a single week. She has perhaps the most supportive partner she\u2019s ever had,\u00a0Travis Kelce, who\u2019s unafraid to join her onstage or tell journalists\u00a0which of her songs are his favorites. Businesswise, she started quietly working on her\u00a0directorial film debut, from a screenplay she wrote herself, while also\u00a0unveiling a new book-publishing company\u00a0called Taylor Swift Publications. Even politically, she\u2019s taken more risks, having\u00a0put her support behind Kamala Harris\u2014her first full-fledged public endorsement of a presidential nominee since she\u00a0voiced her support\u00a0of President Joe Biden in a\u00a0V Magazine\u00a0interview and baked Biden-Harris cookies back in 2020.<\/p>\n

When Swift first announced the Eras Tour, many commented on the surprising format. It\u2019s not often that musicians do a tour highlighting their various releases unless they\u2019re embarking on a retirement tour or a Las Vegas residency. For Swift to revisit her former records at the top of her critical and commercial game was a twist, but one that obviously paid off in the long run. As Swift told the crowd at Indianapolis, she envisioned this tour as a way to please her longtime fans, while also inviting in the new ones. While some followers have been coming to Swift\u2019s shows for years, she envisioned the Eras Tour as a way for everyone to catch up.<\/p>\n

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Now, with millions celebrating almost two decades of musical output, it feels like Swift is ready to let that legacy simmer. For the past two years, she\u2019s had the heat turned all the way up, but once the Eras Tour wraps and she releases the \u201cTaylor\u2019s Version\u201d of\u00a0Reputation\u00a0and her debut, I think her biggest surprise yet would be to step back\u2014without any sort of Easter egg.<\/p>\n

This year, Swift\u00a0received some flak\u00a0when her team released various acoustic versions and remixes of songs from her latest album,\u00a0The Tortured Poets Department,\u00a0seemingly as a way to keep that record at number one and prevent other artists from reaching the top of the chart.\u00a0Throughout her career, Swift\u2019s relationships with fellow artists have often been examined, and as she sang herself on \u201cNothing New,\u201d she\u2019s often feared that young starlets would eventually replace her. \u201cAnd will you still want me when I’m nothing new?\u201d she\u00a0asks\u00a0on the\u00a0Red\u00a0vault track.<\/p>\n

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But when choosing her openers for Eras, Swift notably picked a number of rising stars, like\u00a0Sabrina Carpenter,\u00a0Gracie Abrams, and\u00a0Girl in Red, whose careers have all considerably blown up since, in part thanks to Swift\u2019s endorsement. For Abrams\u2019s second album, Swift even collaborated on one of the tracks, titled \u201cUs,\u201d which Abrams called a \u201cdream\u201d to make when she opened for the singer in Indianapolis. Clearly, with age and wisdom, Swift has gotten more comfortable in herself and her position, and more willing to champion new artists. Now, maybe she\u2019s ready to take a pause and let these newcomers shine.<\/p>\n

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I mean, who could blame her if she wants to sink into romantic bliss with Kelce and enjoy her relationship\u00a0away\u00a0from the spotlight? Maybe she\u2019s ready to make films behind the scenes for a few years or put money behind emerging authors. Imagine if she adopted a Fiona Apple\u2013style music-release strategy, waiting a decade to return with a tight collection of new songs, a move I\u2019m convinced would actually break the internet. With the Eras Tour, Swift has given us her everything for three hours a night for over 21 months, and fans have been trying to soak up every minute. Now, we\u2019re all getting the feeling that she could quickly step away.<\/p>\n

Of course, Taylor was born to make music, and even if she does leave, she\u2019ll eventually return to grab that pen and old napkin and craft even more great American hits. When she does, the world will be ready to listen.<\/p>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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