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When we reached the last night at Wembley Stadium in London, all of us

satisfaction.

We've had so many special moments where just like, it just reminds me what a

concert can do if you give it your all.

Then again, no matter how good a tour is, it's a huge, massive undertaking.

It's hard work.

That's the challenge, that's the adventure, and that's what every person

tour is doing.

Every single night, no matter what's going on, we're going to do everything

our power to blow your mind.

My goal for the ERA tour is that I didn't want the fans to leave thinking

they missed out on anything.

One thing I've always tried to do is, like, give something to the fans that

didn't expect.

When we had done the first half of the tour, what the fans didn't know at the

time was that I was writing a brand -new album, the tour for Poets Department.

And in the middle of me releasing the album, we had to be all hands on deck,

creating a brand -new ERA to put into the show to represent that album.

We're doing theater.

Doing all of this completely secretly, all in like a tiny little break that we

had between Asia and Europe.

Are there sounds from Fortnite that are not the synth sound?

Or do we go into like strings?

Like this feels like a highly elevated chapter.

We build this top secret rehearsal facility for us to lock in the set list.

Go. Who's afraid?

A little bit of down bass, probably a verse and a chorus, or a pre -chorus and

chorus, that might be it.

Like, I would kind of do surgical tweaking to each song, be like, okay,

songs, but cut out the bridge and the second verse of this.

And then, so tell me everything is not about me.

To make it so that we could fit this many songs in the show.

And say they didn't do it to her.

me everyone in and i want and and and double as big for i want it's not like

gonna have a mental breakdown during the song like it's gonna be so fun and then

we put together all new choreography learning choreography all just hearing

in our heads because they can't play the music on speakers because it's not out

yet the first line is did you really beam me up what i want

It's for a light to spotlight right on me like it's the alien ship. Right into

this, like, crazy, like, alien light.

And then I found that right back. Woo!

Yeah.

There's an entirely new order of the chapters.

So I'm relearning the entire show, essentially.

It feels...

Crazy to like take all the pieces apart and then put them together in different

order Yeah, and I think I'd rather feel this way where I'm a little bit confused

a little bit like what what?

Then being like it's on autopilot. Yeah, cuz I could do the show we were doing

in Asia I could do in my first we're all like we all fear change, but then

Because we accepted challenges our whole lives. Oh my god, that was a rift that

could have gone so bad

There was the danger that it could have felt like we had sort of shoehorned

something in or that, you know, people didn't like the new show as much as they

liked the old show. I swear to God, if I heard people online being like, I

missed the old show, I was going to be like, oh, my God, you have no idea how

hard this was to do.

We're going to get to watch 45 ,000 people experience the fact that they're

seeing something that's never been seen before.

I went out to play our first show of the new set.

In Paris, the crowd has no idea that we've added a completely new section and

rearranged things.

And I am so, so excited.

I love having a good secret.

When we brought out this new show in Paris, it was so rewarding because all

of that secrecy and all of that working during our only time off paid off so

much because the fans were so excited. It was such a dynamic new addition to

show.

Now, going into the last show in London, I have the opportunity to add to their

experience, even on top of that.

Taylor wants to make the last London show as powerful as possible.

She's like, I want to blow this thing out. We're going to do this right.

She wants to do Florida with Florence Welch, Florence and the Machine.

Performing Florida with Florence is something I've wanted to do ever since.

The two of us wrote that song. And then it just so happened that she was going

to be available in London.

You're not nervous about the show. You know how it runs, and suddenly it's

something like Florence coming to do Florida.

The choreography meets the music, meets automation, which is the stage movement,

and is starting from scratch again. I know that when I say to them, I want to

perform Florida with Florence, and I really want to do it with full

I know that it's... some kind of creative brainstorming sessions, but I

it's doable because all the dancers, the choreographers, the production

designers, the crew, the entire band, every person we have is the best one

it in the entire industry.

This is kind of funny.

We have to rehearse the song.

kind of do what we usually do in the comfort of a studio from the road, but

also trying to keep things from leaking before the surprise.

It's a stadium with no roof, so there's, like, fans outside, and so you have to

turn the PA off, and we have to do it quietly, you know?

It is so much extra work to keep things a

surprise. Let me tell you.

I need a nap just thinking about it. But it's so worth it when we can actually

pull it off.

Your programming sounds.

At Soundcheck, the dancers are finding a place to work on choreography for it

where people can't find out what's happening.

You know, before you know it, I'm in a random ballroom in the middle of a hotel

with Amanda at like 9 .30 at night.

Maybe then, maybe you'd come off there.

Florence, open up on the, into the diagonal, maybe?

Yeah.

With choreography, I asked one of my friends, Emma Stone, who's done a lot of

work in dance in her films, you know, who have you worked with that you would

recommend for this? And she's like, there's only one person that needs to be

your list, and it's Mandy Moore.

I never would have thought that I would be in the same sentence as Taylor Swift

ever in my life. You know, I've always been a big fan, but I...

Funny enough, I come from really more film and television. I don't really do

artist performance.

Now I understand why I was brought in, because she really wanted to do

different. And she likes the storytelling.

I mean, her songs are mini movies.

So when I listen to them, it's just lyrics and melody swirling with ideas in

head. And then you just start making something.

And there's something about that, like, that.

And then all of a sudden, it comes out.

Do you want to do seven?

Beautiful.

Gorgeous, Amanda. Up. Like one, two, three. Amanda Balin, the first time that

saw her do her thing, she was choreographing the tour. She was not a

job was to show me what I'd be doing with the dancers.

I would just get so much inspiration from what she was doing as a performer.

I just kept saying, like, you're such a pop star, Amanda.

In the middle of the night, in my dreams.

This was my dream.

Truly. It was my dream to do live shows and tour like this. More so than

Broadway or anything. I just, I always was drawn to this.

I actually haven't looked at these. I just keep throwing them in.

I started out by doing small things.

And then I booked a job as a swing for a Janet Jackson tour, which was...

Oh, I'd always wanted to dance for her.

I went on to tour with Celine Dion.

What else have I done?

Oh, oh, I danced for Lady Gaga for five plus years.

I toured for five years straight.

I worked on Glee, which was a longstanding dancing TV show for a

a wonderful job. I went on to do some films like La La Land.

I've performed at probably every major award show with different artists.

And I've been a part of many tours.

As much as you want it to last forever, dance isn't a forever career.

The demand on your body is not sustainable.

If we can get this strong when you do all those, you know, wild movements,

this can stabilize your spine, helping... I have two labral tears in my

flexors. Like, things are just breaking down.

I kind of just decided it was a very tough decision, but to gracefully start

to...

peel myself away from being a professional dancer and to do things

scenes.

I remember asking Mandy, I wonder if Amanda would ever dance with us. And

was like, ah, she's retired.

She hung up her dancing shoes a while ago.

At some point, Mandy came to me and said, hey, the team wants to know if you

want to do the show.

My first response to being asked to the tour was a chuckle and a, oh, hell no.

I don't even know if I could do it.

Being involved in the behind the scenes and then doing it on stage, those are

two different things.

I had doubts in my ability. I was worried that I wasn't going to be as

was when I was dancing.

But at the end of the day, even though there was a lot of fear, it was just too

wonderful of an opportunity.

A second chance, I get chills.

It was a second chance that most people don't get to have.

We're counting this song in fast pace. So it'll be a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. A

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8. She says, and a 5, 2, 3, 4. On 5,

it's the word weed. And you guys are going to kind of do like a little bit of

deflate. And my friends all smell like weed.

Yeah, yeah.

Weed or little babies.

And you'll roll up.

And on the five of the fifth. And my friends all smell like wee or little.

two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay? Just so you have an idea.

And then, guys, what looks...

Amanda and I were in, like, an empty ballroom last night, just like, okay,

just get open.

Like idiots.

Amanda and I. As you can imagine, this is normal.

Okay. Florida won't gang, gang, gang, gang.

It's a hell of a drug.

It is always weird, I think, with choreography, because it is true. It's

literally a week ago, this thing didn't exist.

And my friends all smell like weed. Okay, so with the exact.

Oh, do you already do this? Just roughly, but. Oh, freaking great.

I was like, why do they all do this?

And then the dancers become the accessories to Taylor and to the stage

the whole experience.

So it's a really important thing, and I take it very seriously.

I always get nervous when I'm showing Taylor something for the first time

because ultimately I just want to do well. I want to make her happy because I

just have so much respect for her. I love her.

I mean, I was really terrified the first time I had to show her something.

We can figure this out together.

But luckily, you know, since the very early stages of this, her and I have a

really nice communication.

We'll put something in here.

Together we'll figure this out.

Actually, I'm going to need to travel back to A stage during this part. Okay.

Taylor can give me.

thoughts or colors or ideas and i think i'm able to understand what she wants

visually i want to kind of channel like uh rights of spring florence machine

like like like taking our body yeah like like fully like like reaching you know

like like kind of like um like girl in an insane asylum slash wood nymph love

yeah so i mean yeah wasn't nervous i'm always nervous i'm always sweating i'm

like oh god did i make the right thing this is bad choices

Hello.

How are you? Really good. How are you doing? I'm good.

All right. I'm excited. Do you want to watch one? I would love to. And kind of

see. I'll do a quarantine track.

We're just doing the speaker right here. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. Okay, guys.

Ready to move?

Yeah. Okay. Go for 43.

One, two, three.

Stand by for 42. Six points.

And my friends all fell like weed, oh, little baby.

Oh, I love that. Go. And the city reeks of driving blind of me.

Little did you know your home's really only a town you're just a -getting.

So you work your life away just to pay for a time dead down in Bedford,

I didn't feel like you guys can play here.

And then, yeah, we made this like wave.

Wow. Could it be kind of cool, huh? Cool.

I hate that it's happening without us there.

Could do it earlier if you want.

Just didn't know if it was. Whoa.

So epic back there, and no one's going to look at it.

No, because they're going to be looking at you.

And I almost wish that me and Florence could be on that.

I mean, that would be fucking amazing. And she's up for it, yeah.

I'm worried if me and Florence are here, people aren't going to look at it, and

that bothers me. And also, I think Florence is going to be really, she's

down for being in the mix and doing cool stuff. And I did my best.

And there.

All of the bodies that have been within my body and in my mind, they think into

the moon.

That would be awesome if it goes down.

That a bad thing to say in the song. Then it rises. Little did you know.

Totally, right?

Then it all rises at the same fucking time. And it's awesome. And everyone

it. Good. OK.

Let's run one more time. And now that I've had this chat with Taylor, then I

fix up. We have all the elements.

I just now need to rework them, OK? Good job, guys. Great job.

A lot of the time when you are casting for a tour, you know, Choreographers

will sometimes have it in their head that they want a specific body type,

want a specific look, they want only women, they want only men.

People can get very opinionated about things looking very uniform.

That's not what I wanted to do with the Eros tour.

I feel like when you look up on stage as a fan, if you see people that represent

you, your friends, the people you see in the world, that's...

I think much more emotional and more connective and powerful.

I really wanted everyone to look up on that stage and think, I see myself in

that person.

Spaces like the space that Taylor is curating on a night -to -night basis, I

wish we had more of that, right?

Even outside of entertaining, it's so important to be seen, to be heard, to be

understood.

My background as a dancer, I had a lot of teachers and professors who were not

so kind, mostly around my size.

And if I wanted to be a professional dancer, I would need to lose weight.

I remember doing an audition, and the director of the company said to me,

so what are we going to do about your body in life? Some people are going to

to tear you down. They want you to do something else other than the things

you are in love with.

And then there are kind people who ground you.

And in my experience, that's my mom and my brother, it's important to know I

came from a family with an excess of love, right? My mother sacrificed a

lot for my brother and I to just have experiences.

And so my brother, he fell in love with sports.

I fell in love with dance, and we were sort of navigating our training at the

same time, middle school, high school, college.

And it has been the joy of my life to watch him

thrive in something that he loved so, so much.

Now he plays in the NFL, and I watched my brother go to the Super Bowl three

times.

I graduated college and thought I was going to be teaching dance for the rest

my life.

And I remember getting an email that said, there's a closed audition.

We cannot disclose who the artist is when it's being choreographed by Mandy

Moore. I didn't have, like, a dollar to my name at the time.

And I called my brother. I was like, listen, I don't know what this is,

but something is telling me that I have to be in this

room. He was like, OK.

We will make it happen.

And he bought me a flight.

When he came into the audition, I was like, he's magnetic.

I mean, he's a great dancer. His smile is like the thousand watt smile.

You know, he's really well trained. He just embodies what I felt was like the

spirit of what these people need to be.

Pam is someone who absolutely lights up not only the stage, but just our entire

vibe as a tour.

He's just so himself.

I don't want dancers that blend in. I don't care about them pulling focus. I

want them to pull focus. I want you to feel like you saw an entire crew of

individual stars on the stage.

Now, knowing that space is like this, do exist for me that

allow me to be the fullest version of me with all I have to offer in

this body as it exists right now, this feels like my super

goal.

I woke up with a cat on my head.

Bonus

day

is so important because setting a precedent with the Aris tour is really

important to me because people who work on the road, if the tour grosses more,

they get more.

of a bonus and these people just work so hard and they are the best at what they

do so every single person on the crew i've handwritten them a note it took me

couple weeks but it's fun to write the notes it's like fun to to think about

everybody's lives that they're going to go back to and the time off they're

going to have and you know the kids they haven't seen because they've been away

from months and it's just making that worthwhile for them is like really

It just, it feels like Christmas morning when you finally get to say thank you.

A little bonus day, a little bonus day. So each one is in its own baggie, and I

was thinking we can lay them out.

Oh, let me see the wax seal.

You wax sealed every one of these things? Yeah.

And the fire department almost had to come.

show you this taylor six of the audio guys got this tattoo says cruel summer

shows oh my god and then i don't know crazy i don't know if you remember but

reputation why is it a grim reaper i have no idea they have to keep it like

scary they can't like have like a tattoo of like a butterfly and a kitty cat i

think what that means is 152 days almost killed them but they made it

That's exactly what it is. That's what it means. That's the reality of it.

I'm going to go behind today.

Get rid of the bag. It's a bit forensic.

Everybody has the same message on their card, so I was hoping you could open it.

But before you look at yours, I just wanted to say, guys, this leg of this

has been harder than anything I've ever done in a live setting. And you guys

have taken this on with such excitement and such curiosity and such the

endurance you've shown.

But the spirit you've shown, how much you've given to these crowds, that gives

to me every single night. The tour has done really well.

Thanks to all of our hard work. So if you will kindly read today's message.

Taylor Swift.

Okay.

Oh.

There's Cam. We traveled the world like we set out to do. We dazzled the crowds,

but we missed family too.

My full gratitude doesn't come from a bank, but here's...

Father was the one that presented the checks to

our drivers and He presented handwritten letters from Taylor. It's incredible.

I know tour truck drivers, and I've asked, do artists usually give out these

bonuses?

Unheard of.

Turn back.

He's emotional.

Oh, my God. Do you need a hug? Are you okay? I'm going to pass out.

And so the first walk, you know, it felt nice that you were going to slow first

and then you round the corner.

Everybody's got their thing they're good at.

It's taken me a really long time to be even fine at choreography.

Mandy knows how to approach teaching me choreography from a lyrical perspective.

what were you doing with these little steps yeah they're just steps um yeah so

just starting with your uh did you think oh yeah i

don't do eight counts i learn based on what

syllable of the lyric i'm attaching a movement to and i can't really learn any

other way i've tried texas florida should be yeah i didn't know if it

like

Sing it, then throw to them, or sing, floor it up. There you go, that's what I

thought. To get out there and learn the choreography in 30 minutes, and remember

to hit this spot, hit this mark, this dancer's going to come over and stand

to me for this moment, in front of 90 ,000 people, like my brain would

It's an absolute challenge.

Not to mention, the whole time she's doing this, she's singing and doing all

these things at the same time.

So it's a lot like juggling for three and a half hours.

Learning the choreography, it's not just doing a step for the sake of doing a

step. It's all very visual, and it made sense to me, narratively.

It also is interesting to be in a position where, like, you know, this is

of experts.

And there's something about that that keeps me on my game and focused and

in. It's one of the elements of, like, where that kind of pressure is a

privilege because they're not messing up, so it better not be me.

Okay, so I feel good.

Is it okay if I? Yeah, because we're going to put Florence in tomorrow, so

have you with her there. Okay, perfect, perfect.

We're happy if you go. I love it. I love it. I love it. I think it's going to be

so special.

Beautiful job, guys. Beautiful job.

Thanks for the song.

My only job.

I'm excited about seeing the show again.

The driver asked me, oh, is this your first time to the show?

I was like, uh, no.

I don't, you know, my knee is doing better.

And I don't really want to be in the wheelchair.

I need it a little bit.

But. To get you there. Yeah. But I want to dance. Tell them. I'm going to tell

them. Because I feel like a hypocrite if I'm sitting in the wheelchair section

and I start popping off, you know. I think they'll come and take the

You're going to start what?

Popping off.

And is that the move?

Something like that.

At what? Sometimes it's a shimmy. Uh -huh. Sometimes it's a roll.

And when does that, when do?

It is. I have so many. And a lot of times it's you guys' choreography too,

It's this way.

Something like that. I do that. Shake it off. Yeah. Shake it off. Shake it. I do

that move too.

Oh, are you ready for it?

That's my song.

I love that one.

This experience has been really amazing for me.

I've watched you make so many sacrifices.

It's OK.

So many for us to be able to do what we're doing and to

follow those dreams with every part of us.

I'm grateful that you're here to see it.

Yeah.

Because Colin and I, being able to do what we love to do in such grand

places, it's a product of how you love us.

And do.

So I'm grateful that you're able to see the

fruits of your labor in this way.

And I will never not have you in these spaces with me and celebrating with

me.

Because just as hard as I've worked, I'm very clear and very

conscious of how hard you've worked for us to be able to do so.

Which is why I try my hardest to take so much care of you. I know. I know.

I love you so much. I love you.

It's going to be a good show. I know. You're going to enjoy it.

I'm going to dance. I know.

Oh, yay.

You're here.

You made it.

Hi. I'm Mandy.

This is Lauren. Oh, my gosh. What an honor. Hi.

Hi. I saw the show the other night, and it was so amazing.

This is going to be amazing.

So big.

This is so big. No, it is.

It is. And it's also, it's like a lot of ground to cover here.

So we're going to show you. And then like the choreography is like we do

something and it affects them. Like where we're just like Florida.

And they're like.

I have performed on big stages, but this is not like.

I thought I'd just show up and I'd run around.

Like, because that's what I do at my own shows. I just show up and I run, like,

I just run around.

You're going to come up on that back lift, but you'll see it.

I have never done a lift. You haven't?

Oh, that's so fun.

You're going to have so much fun.

When I got there, I was like, okay, now this is your choreo. I was like, oh, no,

no, wait, wait, you got me confused.

I don't do this.

I'm going to fuck this up.

Jenny, one, two, three.

You split.

Good.

You're good.

Great.

Okay. Great.

So now, this is Karen, and Nat, and Tamia's behind you, and Raph here. So

guys are nice and safe.

This is going to start rising up on, so I did my best, okay? Oh, great. And

she's going to lay down, or she's going to kind of come into, if you're okay

with this, and she's just going to lay her head here. And it would be great if

you wanted to connect to her head. I did my best to lay to rest all of the

bodies that have ever been on my body. So it kind of makes sense. So I did my

best to lay to rest. Good.

All of the buddies that have been on my body and in my mind.

They think into the swamp. Raise your arms up.

Beautiful. No, sorry.

Is that a bad thing to say in a song? Sorry about that, yeah. So think into

swamp, you're still down.

Yes. Think into the swamp.

Song up.

Okay, good. Now it's good.

Let me pack your life away.

Sit on back and check.

Beautiful.

Back center.

Do it again.

What a treat.

We're similar in that the persona is huge, but the person is soft.

And so I think that's why we get along.

Externally, this thing is really big.

But when we're together, we're just silly and goofy.

Seeing the show, the most beautiful thing was the crowd.

It was just like the love and the vibe.

I was just like, all the pockets of girls in their dresses dancing.

There's so much joy and femininity. There's no shame around

it. It was so beautiful.

Natalie and Odie are standing right here. She just heads to the back to the

girls.

And then you're going to have your footprint right there, and you just got

in the middle. And I think turn back front.

Yeah, and then we'll take you down.

And then Dewey will be there to get you at the end, okay?

Yeah.

Oh, God, this is going to be so fun. Can we?

Yes, I would love. Taylor, are you good to run this, too, from the top with the

lifts and everything? No, that was all we got.

Can you imagine? You're like, Florence, good luck. It's going to be great.

I'm sure you'll be fine.

Good. You want to try one?

All right.

Yes.

Ready to go down?

Let's go.

And are you okay if I kind of talk you through and I go right?

Perfect.

What?

I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come as

in my head. I don't know what to think. Even out to the ground and roll down the

ranks and marry me. Juliet, you never have to be alone. I love you.

I still love you. And I'm like, I'm just, I mean, this is exhausting.

You know, like we are never getting back together.

Nah, bro.

Welcome, let's be true.

And my friends all smell like weed or little babies.

And the city reeks of driving myself crazy.

Little did you know, your home's really only a town you're just a guest in.

So you look your back and wait to pay for a time set down.

Thank you.

I got drunk and I dated to watch more.

They're hated in the bathroom where the bottle was.

Well, me and my ghost, we had a hell of a time. Yes, I'm haunted, but I'm

feeling just fine.

All my girls got their laces and their cries.

My cheating husband disappeared when no one asked any questions.

Thank you.

of coming up for the first time in that lift it was kind of landing on mars

because i'd never seen the stage lit up before the sound of the crowd that was

really extraordinary you know it's like you see this cultural moment from the

outside and i suddenly was like inside of it it was wild but it was it was

really fun and completely terrifying also taylor's my friend and i know her

this like very cozy person and i came out of that lift i was like oh my god

fucking Taylor Swift.

You know, I used to kind of be leaving the shows and seeing people walk home

think, I really hope they got what they've been waiting for.

I hope they got what they've been saving up their money for.

There's a feeling I have of such pride and satisfaction because when I leave

Eretor, I never wonder that.

They're just like this magic in the air.

All these particles of shimmer and glitter and confetti and girlhood

and friendship bracelet beads and, you know, magic in the air.