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What We’ve Learned From Taylor Swift ‘The End of an Era’ Documentary

The Disney+ docuseries reveals Swift's secret rehearsals, surprise guests, and profit-sharing bonuses that reward her touring crew based on the tour's gross earnings.

  • Disney+'s second episode offers a moving look at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, showing how she spliced her 11th album midrun and planned a surprise duet with Florence Welch at Wembley Stadium.
  • Swift built a secret rehearsal facility where the crew practiced to unreleased a cappella vocals, using soundchecks with mics off to maintain secrecy and preserve surprises for Paris shows.
  • The documentary focuses on two dancers, veteran Amanda Balen and rookie Kameron Saunders, alongside choreographer Mandy Moore, showing Balen's return from retirement and Saunders's audition funded by his NFL-player brother.
  • Swift set up a recurring 'bonus day' profit‑sharing program, showing bleeped bonuses that stunned tour crew and dancers, while maintaining personal rituals with hand‑written notes sealed with hot wax.
  • The series portrays a private, hands‑on Swift who urges her dancers to pull focus while revealing the personal toll of secrecy and leadership, framed against the first episode's coverage of terror attacks.
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The latest deployment of Taylor Swift's Eras cycle, the documentary series The End of an Era gives a generous access to the scenes of the most lucrative tour of history. The first two episodes demonstrate the artist's desire to continue to share with his admirers, to please them, while compiling indelible archives of a historical era.

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Taylor Swift, too, has started small: for her 36th birthday, let's take a look at her family album.She probably made her own most beautiful birthday present – with "The End of an Era", the documentary about her famous Eras tour, which has been on Disney+ since December 12th, and once again impressively shows who is the greatest star of our time: Taylor Allison Swift, as she is called with all her name.The Eras Tour was not only the greatest for …

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WAAY-TV broke the news in Huntsville, United States on Friday, December 12, 2025.
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