At the 100th show of the Eras tour, Taylor Swift confirmed that the tour will actually end. This was not totally a given, as it seemed like she might just keep adding albums to the set list of a never-ending tour until the show was ten hours long. While I’m sure the most dedicated of Swifties would still be down for that, Swift told the crowd in Liverpool that the tour is going to end in December.
“This has definitely been the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life this forth,” Swift said of the past 15 months of touring. That sounds great for her, but I have to imagine that she’ll be happy to move on to new things in 2025. What will those be, exactly? Thank you for asking, I have some ideas.
Back to the studio
The most obvious and boring answer is that Swift calls up Jack Antonoff and they start working on another album. This actually seems the least likely to me because … is she gonna tour it? How do you follow up the apex achievement of your career? Is she going to release Reputation (Taylor’s Version) and Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version) to buy herself some time? This seems like a truly daunting task, and I could see her avoiding having to figure that out for a year or two. She has plenty of other creative projects to focus on.
Movie time!
Remember when Swift was campaigning really hard for All Too Well: The Short Film to get an Oscar? In the midst of her making festival appearances and having a Serious Director Conversation with Martin McDonagh, it was announced that Swift would write and direct her debut feature film. She has, of course, been a little busy since then, but no more Eras tour would give her lots of time to work on what I’m sure will be the highest-grossing film of all time.
Full-time WAG
The tour may be ending, but Travis Kelce recently renewed his contract with the Kansas City Chiefs for another two seasons. Just yesterday, he told the press that he wants to keep playing football “until the wheels fall off.” Swift could double down as the NFL’s No. 1 booster and commit all of her energy to watching her boyfriend play football. She already made pop-tarts for the team. Imagine what she could do with all her newfound free time: Pavlovas, dangerously tall cakes, those brownies that take four days to make. The Chiefs might be eating good for the next couple of seasons.
Wedding planning
Not that Swift and Kelce are currently engaged, but things certainly seem to be heading in that direction. Based on everything I know about Swift, she does not seem like someone who would readily hand off the planning of a wedding. She’ll hire someone to help, but she will be running that show. Best believe that she could easily spend an entire year learning calligraphy for her handwritten save-the-dates, perfecting the recipe for her wedding cake, and crafting a seating arrangement that somehow makes everyone feel good and welcome.
Actual downtime
As part of her speech in Liverpool, Swift said, “I think I once had hobbies, but I don’t know what they were anymore. ’Cause all I do when I’m not onstage is, like, sit at home and try to think of clever, like, acoustic song mash-ups and think about what you might want to hear.” This is certainly meant to be a moment of connection with her fans (she’s just as obsessed with the show as they are!), but it is kind of depressing. Let’s get this girl her hobbies back. Swift will turn 35 in December, which means she can take up one of the hobbies available to women of that age: ceramics, a niche group-fitness class, becoming really knowledgeable about something you previously did not care about (wine, plants, at-home fermentation).
Total blackout
Does she want this? Who’s to say — it doesn’t seem like it. But I can’t imagine that it’s what a therapist might call “healthy” to spend a year and a half with over 50,000 people worshiping you three to four nights a week. Maybe what everyone — Swift, the Swifties, other pop stars, haters — needs is a break. She’s disappeared before, she could probably do it again if she wanted to. Perhaps she could cosplay as “normal millennial woman” for a bit, and what better place to do that than in Kansas City?
