01x02 - Magic in the Eras

[bunniefuu]

[♪ Gentle piano music playing]

[Taylor] When we reached the last night
at Wembley Stadium in London,

all of us felt such 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
on this tour is doing.

Every single night,
no matter what's going on,

we're gonna do everything in our power
to blow your mind.

-[♪ Opening music builds up]
-[audience cheering]

[♪ Music fades]

[♪ Captivating music playing]

[Taylor] My goal for "The Eras Tour"
is that I didn't want the fans to leave

thinking that they missed out on anything.

One thing I've always
tried to do is, like,

give something to the fans
that they 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 Tortured 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.

[all laughing]

This is so fun.

-We're doing theater.
-[Mandy] Oh, yeah.

[Taylor] Doing all of this
completely secretly,

all in like a tiny little break
that we had between Asia and Europe.

Like, are there sounds from Fortnight
that are not the synth sound?

Or do we go into, like, strings?

Like this feel... 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? Little bit of Down Bad.

Probably a verse and a chorus
or a pre-chorus and a chorus.

That might be it.

Like I would kind of do
surgical tweakings to each song

and be like, "Okay, these songs",

"but cut out the bridge
and the second verse of this."

[vocalizing]

And then...

♪ So tell me everything is not about me ♪

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

[imitates drums]

♪ And say they didn't do it to hurt me
Everyone... ♪

[in a deep voice] And! And!

♪ I want... ♪

And... and double as big for...

♪ I wanna snarl... ♪

Like, I'm gonna have a mental breakdown

-during this song.
-[woman] Yes.

Like, it's gonna be so fun.

And then, we put together
all new choreography.

Learning choreography,
all just hearing it in our heads

'cause 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 is for a... a light
to spotlight right on me like it's...

[Mandy] The alien ship.

Right into this, like,
crazy, like, alien light.

-And then...
-Yeah, I don't know...

♪ Now I'm down bad crying ♪

Yeah! Ooh!

-[crew member claps]
-Yeah.

[Taylor] There's an entirely new order
of the chapters.

So, I'm re-learning
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... [stammering]

-...than being, like, on autopilot.
-[Baz] Yeah.

'Cause I could... The show we were doing
in Asia I could do in my sleep.

[Baz] Yeah. At first, we're all like,
"We all fear change,"

-but we're like, "We got this."
-You're like, "But we're here."

Because we accepted challenges

-our whole lives.
-[man] f*ck yeah.

Oh, my God. That was a risk.
That could've gone so bad.

There was the danger that we...
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 miss the old show,"
I was gonna be like,

"Oh, my God, you have no idea
how hard this was to do."

We're gonna get to watch 45,000 people

experience the fact that they're seeing
something that's never been seen before.

-[crew members exclaiming]
-We're going 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...
[chuckling] ...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...
-[audience cheering]

...all of that secrecy

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

'cause the fans were so excited.

It was such a dynamic new addition
to the show.

[♪ Intriguing music playing]

Now, going into the last show in London,

I have the opportunity

to add to their experience
even on top of that.

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

She's like, "I wanna blow this thing out.
We're gonna do this right."

She wants to do Florida!!!
With Florence Welch.

Florence and the Machine.

[Taylor] 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 gonna be available in London.

You're not nervous about the show,
you know,

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 it's, uh, starting from scratch again.

[Taylor] I know that when I say to them,

"I want to perform Florida!!!
With Florence,"

and I really wanna do it
with full production,

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

but I know 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
doing it in the entire industry.

-[inaudible]
-[indistinct conversation]

[Mike] This is kind of funny.
Uh, we have to rehearse the song.

We 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, we have to turn the P.A. off

and we have to do it quietly,
you know. [chuckles]

[chorus] ♪ Town
you're just a guest in... ♪

-[vocalizing]
-[Taylor] It is so much extra work

to keep things a surprise.

[sighing] Let me tell ya. I...
I need a nap just thinking about it,

but it's so worth it
when we can actually pull it off.

[chorus] ♪ Time-share down in Des... ♪

[Mike] You're programming sounds
at sound check.

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 s... random ballroom

in the middle of a hotel with Amanda
at, like, 9:30 at night.

[song playing over speaker]
♪ And my friends all smell like weed... ♪

Maybe then she...

-Maybe you come off there.
-Yeah.

♪ Florida!!! ♪

Florence open up on the...

-into the diagonals, maybe?
-Yeah.

♪ Is one hell of a drug ♪

With choreography, I asked
one of my friends, Emma Stone,

who's done a lot of work
in dance in her films,

"Who have you worked with
that you would recommend for this?"

She's like, "Only one person
needs to be on 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's performance.

Now I understand why I was brought in

'cause she really wanted to do
something different,

and she likes the storytelling.
I mean, her songs are mini movies,

-so, when I listen to them...
-[song playing faintly]

...it's just lyrics and melody
swirling with ideas in my head,

and then, you just start making something.

-Yeah.
-Is there something about that like,

-"f*ck" that being the...
-Yeah.

[Mandy] And then all of a sudden,
it comes out.

[over speaker]
♪ All smell like weed... ♪

[Mandy] Then...

♪ Or little babies ♪

Yeah, do you wanna do...

[grunts, hums]

Seven. Beautiful.

Gorgeous, Amand. Love.
Like one, two, three...

[Taylor] Amanda Balen, the first time
that I saw her do her thing...

Here we go.

...she was choreographing the tour.
She was not a dancer.

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

-♪ In the middle of the night ♪
-♪ Middle of the night ♪

[both] ♪ In my dreams ♪

-[Taylor] I would just get so much...
-One, two, three...

inspiration from what she was doing
as a performer.

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

[both] ♪ 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... [grunts]
I had always wanted to dance for her.

I went on to tour with Celine Dion.

[clicks tongue] Uh, what else have I done?

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

We toured for five years straight.
I worked on Glee,

which was a long-standing
dancing TV show for a while.

That was 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.

-[trainer wincing]
-[Amanda groaning]

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,

then this can stabilize
your spine, helping...

[Amanda] I have two labral tears
in my hip flexors,

like, things were 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 behind the scenes.
-And then I walk... on my right.

-So, with the hand on my neck... that way.
-Okay.

I remembered asking Mandy, "I wonder
if Amanda would ever dance with us,"

and Mandy was like,
"Ah, she's... she's retired."

"She hung up
her dancing shoes a while ago."

[Amanda] At some point,
Mandy came to me and said,

"Hey, the team wants to know
if you wanna do the show."

My first response to being asked
to the tour was a chuckle

and, "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 gonna be as good
as I 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 chan... I get chills.

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

[♪ Gentle music playing]

We're counting this song
in fast eight. So, it'll be

a one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight...

-[feet tapping]
-...oh, one, two, three, four,

five, seven, eight.

She says, um,
and a five, two, three, four.

On five, it's the word "weed,"

and you guys are gonna kinda do,
like, a little bit of a deflate.

[in sing-song voice]
♪ And my friends all smell like weed... ♪

Yeah, yeah, yeah. [chuckles]

♪ Weed or little babies ♪

And you'll roll up. Uh-huh.

And my... On the five of the fifth.

♪ And my friends
all smell like weed or little... ♪

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

-Okay, just so you have an idea.
-Yeah.

And then, guys...

-Yes!
-[all cheering]

-Whoo!
-[crew member] Yeah!

[Mandy] Hey.

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

just like, "Okay, it's just..."

-[all laughing]
-Like idiots.

You should have seen Amanda and I.
As you can imagine, it's the normal.

-Okay.
-[Amanda] Hold.

♪ Florida!!!
One, g*ng, g*ng, g*ng, g*ng ♪

♪ It's a hell of a drug ♪

It is always weird,
I think, with choreography,

'cause it is true. Literally, a week ago,
this thing didn't exist.

♪ And my friends all smell like weed ♪

Okay, so with... exactly.
Oh, did you already do this?

[Amanda] Just roughly but...

-Oh, freakin' great!
-[dancers laughing]

I was like,
"Why did they all just do..."

-And then, like, the dancers become...
-Yeah, yeah.

-...the accessories to Taylor...
-Pull, go, go, go.

...and to the stage
and to the whole experience.

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

You know, I always get nervous

when I'm showing Taylor something
for the first time because I...

Ultimately, I just want to do well,
you know, like, I wanna make her happy

because I just... You know,
so much respect for her. I love her.

I mean, I was really terrified
the first time

-I had to show her something.
-[feet tapping]

-[music playing over speaker]
-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.

Makes a little witchy something in here.
Together we'll figure this out.

Actually, I'm gonna need
to travel back to A stage

-during this part.
-Okay. Okay.

Taylor can give me thoughts

-or colors or ideas...
-Middle part, that I love...

...and I think I'm able to understand
what she wants, visually.

I wanna kind of channel, like,
a Rites of Spring, Florence Machine.

-Love it.
-Hmm. Hmm.

-Like it's taken our bodies!
-Yeah, like, like, fully, like, like,

-reaching, and... [grunts] ...you know...
-Great. Love it.

Like, kind of, like, um... [smacks lips]

...like a girl in an insane
asylum-slash-wood nymph.

-Love it. [chuckles]
-Yeah.

-[man] That's a great...
-So, I mean, yes, was I nervous?

I'm always nervous. I'm always sweating.

I'm like, "Oh, God. Did I make her
the right thing? Is this bad choices?"

Hello.

-[Mandy] How are you?
-Really good. How are you doing?

-I'm good.
-You're right. I'm excited.

-You wanna watch one?
-I'd love to.

-I'll do, uh, Florence's track.
-Should I get my ears?

-We're doing the speaker right here.
-You're doing the speaker. Love it.

-[Mandy] Whoo!
-Okay, guys, ready to move?

[Amanda and Mandy] Yes.

Okay, go for forty-three-oh-six.

[crew member] One, two, three.

[song playing over speaker]
♪ You can beat the heat ♪

[Rick] Standby, forty-three-oh-six.

♪ If you beat the charges too ♪

♪ They said I was a cheat
I guess it must be true ♪

♪ And my friends all smell like weed... ♪

[Rick] Point one.

♪ Or little babies ♪

-Ooh, I love that.
-Go.

♪ And this city reeks... ♪

[Rick] BPM is down.

♪ Of driving myself crazy ♪

[Rick] Go.

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

♪ So you work your life away just to pay
for a time-share down in Destin ♪

BPM moved up.

♪ Florida!!!
Is one hell of a drug ♪

[Rick] Go.

♪ Florida!!! ♪

Oh, my God!

♪ Can I use you up? ♪

Then whenever it's here, Taylor...

♪ Name when it... ♪

♪ Little did you know
your home's really only... ♪

[Taylor] Whoa.

♪ The town you'll get arrested ♪

♪ So you pack... ♪

[Mandy] And then, feel like
you guys can play here.

And then, yeah.

-We made this, like, wave. [chuckles]
-Wow.

[Mandy] Gotta be
kinda cool, huh? [chuckles]

I hate that it's happening
without us there.

[song playing faintly]

[Mandy] We could do it earlier
if you want.

-I just didn't know if it was...
-Whoa!

So epic back there

-and no one's gonna look at it.
-No, 'cause they're gonna

-be looking at you. [chuckles]
-No one's gonna see it.

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

-That would be f*ck' amazing.
-Do you know what I mean?

And she's up for it, yeah. I'm worried
if... if me and Florence are here...

-No one's gonna care.
-...people aren't gonna look at it.

-[all laugh]
-[Taylor] And that bothers me.

And also, I think Florence is, like,

-gonna be really...
-She'll be in. Yeah.

She's totally down for... for, like,
being in the mix and doing cool stuff.

♪ And I did my best... ♪

Like, in there.

♪ Lay to rest ♪

[both] ♪ All of the bodies that have... ♪

Yes.

♪ Ever been on my body
and in my mind ♪

♪ They sink into the swamp ♪

It would be awesome
if it goes down into...

♪ Is that a bad thing to say in a song? ♪

Then it rises.

[both] ♪ Little did you know and it... ♪

-Yes. Oh.
-Totally, right?

♪ Then it all rises
at the same f*cking time ♪

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

♪ And it's awesome and everyone sees it ♪

-[chuckles] Good, okay.
-[Amanda] Cool.

Let's run one more time,

and now, uh, that
I've had this chat with Taylor,

then I can fix... We
have all the elements.

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

-Thank you so much.
-Great job. This looks amazing.

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

you know, choreographers
will sometimes have it in their head that,

uh, they want a specific body type,
they want a specific look,

they want only women,
they want only men. It's...

They... People can get
very opinionated about, um,

things looking very uniform.

That's not what I wanted to do
with "The Eras 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 day... on a night-to-night basis,

I wish we had more of that, right?

Uh, even outside of entertaining,

it's so important to be seen,
to be heard, to be understood.

[♪ Gentle music playing]

My background as a dancer,
I had a lotta teachers

and professors who were not so kind,
mostly around my size,

and... and if I wanted
to be a professional dancer,

I would need to lose weight.

I... I remember doing an audition,

and the director of the company
said to me,

"Okay, so what are we gonna do
about your body?"

In life, some people
are going to try to tear you down.

They want you to do something else,

other than the thing
that 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 loves 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 gonna be
teaching dance for the rest of my life.

And I remember getting a email that said,

"There's a closed audition.
We cannot disclose who the artist is,"

"but 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,
"Okay, we will make it happen."

And he bought me a flight.

[♪ Electronic music playing]

[Mandy] When he came into the audition,
I was just 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.

Kam is someone who absolutely lights up

not only the stage,
but just our entire vibe as a tour.

He's just... [chuckles] ...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.

[audience cheering]

[Kam] Now...

knowing that spaces like this
do exist for me

that allow me to be
the fullest version of me with...

with all I have to offer in this body
as it exists right now,

this feels like my Super Bowl.

[audience cheering]

But, um, didn't leave my hotel room.
So, yeah.

I woke up with a cat on my head.

-[laughs]
-[chuckles]

[man 1] Let me get you
a temporary rental van.

-Yes.
-[man 2] Morning.

Hi.

Bonus day is so important,
because setting a precedent,

uh, with "The Eras 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 a couple weeks,

but it's fun to write the notes.
It's, like, fun to...

to think about everybody's lives
that they're gonna go back to

and the time off they're gonna have
and, you know, the kids they haven't seen

because they've been away
for months, and it just,

making that worthwhile
for them is, like, really,

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

Bonus day! I love bonus day.

-Okay.
-[Andrea chuckling] Oh, my...

-So each one is in its own baggie...
-[Andrea] Honey...

...and I was thinking,
we can lay them out.

Aw, let me see the... the wax seal.

You wax sealed every one of these things?

-[Taylor] Yeah. And I...
-You gotta be kidding me.

[Taylor] And the fire department
almost had to come.

[Erica] I wanna show you this, Taylor.

Six of the audio guys got this tattoo.

It says, "Cruel Summer, 152 shows."

-Oh, my God.
-[chuckles]

-And then, I don't know...
-That's crazy.

...if you remember, but on Reputation,

-they all got a snake.
-Why is it a Grim Reaper?

I have no idea. [chuckles]

They have to keep it, like, scary.
They can't have, like...

[Erica] It goes with their...

...a tattoo of, like,
a butterfly and a kitty cat.

[Andrea] I think what that means
is 152 dates almost k*lled them,

-but they made it through.
-[sighs]

-My God, that is exactly what it is.
-[Erica] That's what it means.

-[Andrea] That's the reality of it. Jesus.
-Yeah. Yep.

-[Erica] I'll be behind you guys.
-Let me get rid of the bags.

-It's a bit forensic.
-Got the one with the numbers on it?

[Andrea chuckles] That's so cool.

-[crew members exclaiming excitedly]
-[woman] Five, six, seven, eight.

[indistinct conversation]

-[man] Yeah, all right.
-[woman] Here we go.

[Taylor] So, everybody has
the same message on their card.

So, I was hoping you could open it.

-[excited chatter]
-But before you look at yours,

I just wanted to say, guys,
this... this leg of this tour

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...
uh, the endurance you've shown.

Um, 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...
-[man] Okay...

-[all laughing]
-...this message.

"Taylor Swift."

[all laughing]

Okay. Oh... [smacks lips]

"Dearest Kam, we've traveled the world
like we set out to do.

"We've dazzled the crowds,
but we've missed family too.

"My full gratitude doesn't come
from a bank. But here's..." [chuckles]

[breathes deeply, chuckles]

"[bleep] dollars just to say thanks.
Love, Taylor."

-[♪ Joyful music playing]
-[crew members exclaim]

[crew members laughing, exclaiming]

I love you guys so much.

[woman] We love you so much.
This is crazy.

[Mike Scherkenbach] Father was the one
that presented the checks to our drivers,

and he presented handwritten letters
from Taylor. It's incredible.

[Timothy Dooner] I know
tour truck drivers, and I've asked,

"Do artists usually give out
these big bonuses?" Unheard of.

[woman 1] What's wrong, Max?

[woman 2] He's emotional.
He's just emotional.

[woman 1] My God, do you need a hug?

-[woman 2] Are you okay, son?
-I'mma pass out.

[crew members laughing, exclaiming]

[sobbing]

[woman] I love you guys so much.

[sobs, sniffles]

[♪ Electronic pop music playing]

And the first walk's, uh,
you know, it felt nice

if you were kinda slow at first
and then you round the corner.

♪ You can beat the heat... ♪

-Good.
-[Taylor] Everybody's got their things

they're good at. Uh... [clicks tongue]

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

-All right, so...
-[Taylor] Mandy knows how to approach

teaching me choreography
from a lyrical perspective.

What were you doing,
these little step-touch things?

Yeah, they're just steps.

Uh, yeah, so just starting
with your, uh...

♪ Did you think... ♪

[both] ♪ Know your home's really only... ♪

The... That's it. You did it.

♪ A town you'll get arrested ♪

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.

♪ ...back in Texas
Florida ♪

[Mandy] Yeah, I didn't know
if it should be, like, th...

♪ Sing it ♪

Then throw to them or sing, um...

♪ Florida!!! ♪

-[imitates expl*si*n] Yeah.
-That's what I thought.

-Oh. [imitates expl*si*n, chuckles]
-Sorry.

[Mike] To get out there and learn
the choreography in 30 minutes

and remember to hit this spot,
hit this mark,

this dancer's gonna come over
and stand next to me for this moment,

in front of 90,000 people,

like, my brain would explode.

[♪ Upbeat music playing]

[Andrea] 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.

[Taylor] Learning the choreography,

it's not just doing a step
for the sake of doing a step.

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

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

this is a team of experts.

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

and focused and locked in.

It's one of the elements of, like,

where that kind of pressure
is a privilege, because... [scoffs]

They're not messin' up,
so it better not be me. [laughs]

Um, okay, so, uh, I feel good.

-Okay.
-Is it okay if I...

Because we're gonna put
Florence in tomorrow,

-so we'll have you with her there.
-Okay, perfect.

-We're happy if you...
-I love it.

-I love it.
-[Mandy] Thank you, Taylor.

[Taylor] I think it's gonna be so special.

Beautiful job, guys. Beautiful job.

-Thanks for the song.
-[all chuckle]

-Hey, you know...
-[woman] Yeah!

-[Mandy] Yeah. You guys rock. [chuckles]
-It's my only job. Um...

[Kim] I'm excited
about seeing the show again.

-[Kam] Yeah.
-Uh, the driver asked me,

"Oh, is this your first time to the show?"

-I was like, "Uh, no."
-No.

-Yeah.
-I don't...

-You know, my knee is doing better.
-Mm-hmm.

And I don't really wanna be
in the wheelchair.

I need it a little bit.

-But...
-To get you there.

-Yeah, but I wanna dance.
-Mm-hmm. Tell 'em.

I'mma tell 'em.
Because I feel like a hypocrite

if I'm sitting in the wheelchair section
and I start popping off, you know.

-Mm-hmm.
-I think they'll come

-and take the wheelchair.
-You're gonna start what?

-Popping off.
-And is that the move?

-Something like that.
-[laughs]

-And when...
-You know, sometime it's a shimmy.

-Uh-huh. And... And...
-Sometime it's a roll.

And when does that, when do... [laughs]

-When do you do that?
-It is. I have so many.

And a lot of times,
it's you guys' choreography too, like...

[scats]

-It's this way.
-Uh...

♪ Something... ♪

-That. I do that.
-Mm-hmm.

-For Shake It Off.
-Yeah.

♪ Shake it off, shake it off
Uh-uh-uh ♪

Uh-huh.

I do that move too.

Oh!

-♪ Are you ready for it? ♪
-♪ Dum, dum, dum ♪

-[grunts]
-[laughing]

That. That's my song.

I love that one.

This experience has been really amazing.

-[grunts]
-For me.

That's okay.

[sniffles, breathes deeply]

[clears throat]

I've watched you make
so many sacrifices. [sobs]

[softly] That's okay.

So many, for us to be able to do

-what we're doing.
-Mm-hmm.

[sniffles] And to, um,
follow those dreams...

-Mm-hmm. Yes, yes.
-...with every part of us

and... [breath shuddering]

[sniffles]

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

-[sobs]
-Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Because Khalen and I being able to do
what we love to do

-in such grand spaces... [sniffles]
-Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Um, it's a product of... [voice shaking]
...how you love us.

And do.

[breathes deeply] So I'm...

I'm grateful that you're able to,
um, see pro... the...

[breathes deeply, clears throat]
...fruits of your labor in this way.

Mm-hmm.

And I will never not have you...

-Mm-hmm.
-...in these spaces with me

-and... and celebrating with me.
-Mm-hmm.

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. [crying]
-Yeah. I know. I know, I know.

-I love you, son.
-I love you.

-[Kim groans softly]
-[sniffles]

-[Kim] Yeah.
-This gonna be a good show.

-I know.
-You gonna enjoy it. [sniffles]

I'mma dance. I know.

-[Mandy] Aw, yay!
-Hi.

[clapping]

[Mandy] You're here! You made it.

-Hi.
-This is Florence.

-Oh, my gosh. What an honor. Hi.
-Hi. I'm Florence. So nice to meet you.

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

[Taylor] Guys, this is Flo,

-these are the dancers.
-[cheers] It's so nice to meet you.

This is gonna be amazing.

-[Florence] It's so big.
-[Taylor] Crazy, right?

-This is so big. [chuckles]
-No, it is.

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

So, we're gonna show you and then like,

the choreography is like,

we do something and they, they...
And it affects them.

Like we're, we're just like "Florida,"

and they're like... [grunts]

-[laughs]
-[Taylor] Um...

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

I thought I'd just show up
and I run around like,

'cause that's what I do at my own shows.

I just show up and I run ar...
Like, I just run around.

You're gonna come up on that back lift,
but you'll see it and we'll put your...

You know I have never done a lift before.

-You haven't? They're so fun.
-Pop star lift,

-pop star lift.
-[Mandy] You'll have so much fun.

-And we'll...
-[Florence] When I got there,

it was like, "Okay, this your choreo."

I was like, "Oh, no, no, wait, wait,
you have me confused. I don't do this."

[laughing] Like, "I'm gonna f*ck this up."

Ooh.

-Ready? One, two, three, you split.
-One, two.

♪ The hurricane with my name
When it came ♪

♪ I got drunk
And I dared it to wash me away ♪

♪ Barricaded in the bathroom
With a bottle of wine ♪

♪ Well, me and my ghosts
We had a hell of a time ♪

[Mandy] Good. You're good.

[Florence singing]
♪ ...I'm feeling just fine ♪

♪ All my girls
Got their lace and their crimes ♪

♪ And your cheating husband disappeared ♪

♪ No one asks any questions here ♪

[Mandy] Great. Okay, great.

So, now, this is Karen.

-[laughs]
-Hi, Karen.

And, and Nat and Tamiya's behind you
and Raph here.

So, you guys are nice and safe.

This is gonna start rising up on,
"So I did my best," okay?

-Oh, great. Okay.
-And she's gonna lay dow...

Or she's gonna come into,
if you're okay with this.

-Yeah.
-[Mandy] And she's just gonna lay

her head here. And it'd be great
if you wanted to connect to her head.

On, like, "So I did my best
to lay to rest, all of the bodies...

-Yeah.
-"...that have ever been on my body."

So, it kind of makes sense.

♪ So I did my best to lay to rest... ♪

[Mandy] Good.

♪ All of the bodies
That have ever been on my body ♪

♪ And in my mind
They sink into the swamp ♪

[Mandy] Raise your arm up. Beautiful.
No, sorry. On, uh...

♪ Is that a bad thing to say in a song? ♪

[Mandy] Sorry about that. So,
"Sink into the swamp," you're still down.

-[Mandy] Yes. [chuckles]
-Yes. Okay.

♪ Sink ♪

[Mandy] Sink into the swamp.

♪ Song ♪

[Mandy] Song, up.

♪ Sink, song ♪

-I got it.
-[Mandy] Okay, good. Now, good.

[Florence singing]
♪ So you pack your life away ♪

♪ Just to wait out the shitstorm
Back in Texas ♪

-♪ Florida ♪
-♪ Florida ♪

[Mandy] Boom, beautiful.

♪ Is one hell of a drug ♪

[Mandy] Back center. Do it again.

♪ Florida ♪

Ooh.

-♪ Can I use you up? ♪
-♪ Can I use you up? ♪

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

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

E-Externally the thing is really big,

but like, when we're together,

we're just like,
silly and goofy. [laughs]

♪ One hell of a drug ♪

-[Florence] Seeing the show
-[sighs]

The most beautiful thing was the crowd.

I, like, it was just like
the love and the vibe.

-[Taylor] Yeah.
-Like, I was just like this...

All the pockets of like,

girls in their dresses, like, dancing.

-I was like, "This is so amazing."
-[Taylor] There's so much joy and like...

And like, like, femininity that's not...

-[Florence] Yes. No. It was so beautiful.
-There's no shame around it.

[Taylor] Yeah.

[Mandy] Natalie and Odee
are standing right here.

So, you just head to the back two girls,

and then you're gonna have
your footprints right there.

And you just gotta go in the middle.

-[Florence] Oh.
-[Mandy] And I think turn back front.

Yeah, and then we'll take you down.

-And then Dewey will be there...
-[Taylor chuckles]

...to get you at the end, okay?

Yeah. Oh, God, this is gonna be so fun.

-Can we?
-Yes, I would love...

Taylor, are you good to run this, too...
from the top of the lifts and everything?

No, that was all we got.

-[crew laughing]
-[Mandy] Can you imagine? You're like,

"Florence, good luck.
It's gonna be great."

-[Taylor] Yeah. I'm sure you'll be fine.
-[Florence] Yeah.

Good, you wanna try one?

All right.

-[woman] Yeah, Florence.
-[crew cheering]

Well, ready to go down?

Let's go! My first lift. [chuckles]

[Mandy] And are you okay
if I kinda talk you through...

-Yes, please.
-...and I say, "go right"?

-Okay, great. Perfect.
-[Florence] What!

-[gasps]
-[crew laughing and cheering]

[♪ "Love Story" playing]

[audience cheering]

♪ Romeo, save me
I've been feeling so alone ♪

♪ I keep waiting for you
But you never come ♪

♪ Is this in my head?
I don't know what to think ♪

♪ He knelt to the ground
And pulled out a ring ♪

♪ And said, "Marry me, Juliet
You'll never have to be alone ♪"

♪ I love you
And that's all I really know ♪

♪ I talked to your dad
Go pick out a white dress ♪

♪ It's a love story, baby, just say ♪

♪ We are never ever, ever, ever ♪

-♪ Getting back together ♪
-♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪

-♪ Yeah ♪
-♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪

-♪ Yeah ♪
-♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

♪ I used to think
That we were forever ever, ever ♪

♪ And I used to say
"Never say never" ♪

Ugh, so he calls me up
and he's like, "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, bruv.

[audience screaming]

-♪ We are never ever, ever ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Getting back together ♪

♪ We are never ever, ever, ever ♪

♪ Oh ♪

[audience cheering]

♪ You can beat the heat ♪

♪ If you beat the charges too ♪

♪ They said I was a cheat
I guess it must be true ♪

♪ And my friends all smell like weed
Or little babies ♪

♪ And this 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 work your life away ♪

♪ Just to pay
For a timeshare down in Destin ♪

-♪ Florida! ♪
-♪ Florida! ♪

♪ Is one hell of a drug ♪

-♪ Florida! ♪
-♪ Florida! ♪

♪ Can I use you up? ♪

[audience screaming]

[Taylor] London,

Wembley Stadium,

my friend Florence showed up
to surprise you.

-How does that make you feel?
-[audience screaming]

♪ And the hurricane with my name
When it came ♪

♪ I got drunk
And I dared it to wash me away ♪

♪ Barricaded in the bathroom
With a bottle of wine ♪

♪ Well, me and my ghosts
We had a hell of a time ♪

♪ Yes, I'm haunted
But I'm feeling just fine ♪

♪ All my girls
Got their lace and their crimes ♪

♪ And your cheating husband disappeared
Well ♪

♪ No one asks any questions here ♪

♪ So I did my best to lay to rest ♪

♪ All of the bodies
That have ever been on my body ♪

♪ And in my mind ♪

♪ They sink into the swamp ♪

♪ Is that a bad thing to say in a song? ♪

♪ Little did you know ♪

♪ Your home's really only the town
You'll get arrested ♪

♪ So you pack your life away ♪

♪ Just to wait out the shitstorm
Back in Texas ♪

♪ Florida!!! ♪

♪ Is one hell of a drug ♪

♪ Florida!!! ♪

♪ Can I use you up? ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

[Florence] The feeling of coming up
for the first time in that lift...

[stutters] it was kind of landing on Mars.

'Cause I'd never seen the stage
lit up before, the sound of the crowd.

That was really extraordinary.

Y-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 as this like,
very cozy person,

and I came out of that lift,
I was like, "Oh, my God",

"it's f*ck' Taylor Swift." [chuckles]

-♪ Go on, f*ck me up ♪
-♪ Go on, f*ck me up ♪

[Florence vocalizes]

[audience exclaiming]

Wembley Stadium,

make the most amount of noise possible
for national treasure,

the extraordinary
Florence and the Machine.

[audience cheering]

[♪ Electronic guitar playing]

[♪ "So Long, London" playing]

[Taylor] You know, I-I used to kind of
be leaving the shows

and seeing people walk home and think,

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

[inaudible]

[Taylor] "I hope they got what they've
been saving up their money for."

[faintly] Love you, Taylor!

[Taylor] There's a feeling I have
of such pride and satisfaction,

because when I leave "The Eras Tour,"
I never wonder that.

-Taylor!
-Taylor!

[Taylor] There's 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, m-magic in the Eras.

[♪ Instrumental pop music playing,
Taylor Swift "Anti-Hero"]