Taylor Swift said she found it difficult to cope with the sheer scale of the Eras tour, which had her performing for more than three hours a night during 149 years
Taylor Swift has revealed that she could “barely” lift her arms or walk during her downtime on the Eras Tour. The 35-year-old pop sensation, who performed for over three hours a night during her 149 shows worldwide between March 2023 and December 2024, confessed that physical exhaustion left her with little energy to do anything but write her new album The Life of a Showgirl.
Speaking to Scott Mills on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, she admitted: “I do love baking, I love cooking, I love just any kind of food related hobbies. And I didn’t really have very many hobbies when I was on The Eras Tour because I could barely lift my arms or walk.
“I just wrote songs. You don’t really need to be able to like, you know, like lift your arms or be able to walk, you know. There’s so much exhaustive pain.”
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The Fate of Ophelia singer found solace in working on the album in Sweden during her breaks, which provided the creative satisfaction she needed to ignore her fatigue and continue with the tour.
She added: “I think the energy that I felt on that tour, it was so big and infectious, and I wrote most of this while I was on that tour. So it’s like I would go from three shows in a stadium, fly to Sweden, fly back to the tour, fly to Sweden.
“And it sounds like sort of an impossible feat or a ridiculous challenge to take on, but at that point in the tour, I was so physically exhausted that I kind of needed to get back in that creative space and that fuelled me past physical exhaustion.”
Taylor confessed there were moments when the “really complex” concerts felt like something she had to “survive”.
She revealed: “Really, every time I would just collapse into bed at night after the show, I’d just be like, I take the longest, deepest sigh of just like, we managed to do it again.
“It’s a show you have to like survive. Every now and then I’m like ‘We survived it again.'”
Meanwhile, Taylor recently opened up about her wedding plans during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show, telling the host she plans on having a big wedding in order to invite as many people as possible.
When asked if she was in the initial stages of planning, she said: “No, I am doing the album thing now which is a big thing and then I think the wedding is what happens after that in the scheme of the planning.”
She added: “I’m so excited about it. I know it’s going to be fun to plan because I think the only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount of people. You have to evaluate or asses your relationship with them to see if they should be there. I’m not going to do that. I shouldn’t have said any of that.”
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