Joy Blackouts And Post-Concert Amnesia: How Taylor Swift Knew The "Eras" Tour Was Next-Level

Welcome back everybody! Give it up for Lewis Cato and the band! Alright, ladies and gentlemen, my guest tonight is a 14-time Grammy Award winning global superstar. You know her because everybody does. Please welcome to The Late Show, Taylor Swift! That was so nice, thanks for that. Aren't they pleasant people? Yes. They're so excited. Yes. You know, it's so lovely to have you. We've met before, you did a bit on the show a few years ago, but this is the first time we've had a chance to sit down and chat. Hey Taylor. Hey Steven. It feels, I imagine this is what it felt like when the Beatles came into the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1964. I don't know, I think they had a whole thing going. They did. Do you know what I mean? They had a good sound. But that was so nice and so wonderful and you've been so supportive over the years. You've just like, even very early in my career, you would just say the nicest things. You're so supportive of people, you're so passionate about what you do. It's a joy to get to watch you and a real honor to get to actually sit here. So thanks for having me. Oh, that's so lovely. Thank you so much for being here. It's our honor completely to have you here. Thank you. We're long time fans and I'm so glad we could do this. Okay, your fans move mountains for you, almost literally. I love this headline. Seattle Swifties match 2.3 magnitude earthquake at Taylor Swift errors tour. Man. Your fans registered on a Richter scale. It's off the charts. I'm curious. When you're performing to an earthquake like that, do you feel that on stage? Yes. It's insane. The entire tour, there were these just sort of out of control, out of body experiences we would have on stage. And I've had the same band. Most of my band has been with me since I was 16 years old. And we just kind of look at each other and be like, this isn't normal. It's not normal. And so it was really just the most special, phenomenal feeling every single night being on that tour. And I'm really glad we get to relive it because we have this concert film and docu-series coming out on the 12th about the errors tour. I want to get to that. Your errors tour wrapped almost one year ago. I need a little advice. I've been hosting a late night show for 21 years. I've got six months left here approximately. Any advice on what to do? Because you have to come down from a two-year tour like that. I'm sure there's a little bit of a transition to do. Any advice for me? I mean, for this specific situation, no. But I can sort of see from afar that I think that I can speak for both of us to say that we're both very passionate, hyperactive people. Right? Right. I like the grind. Yes. So it's like a, let's not say workaholic. Let's just say we're passionate, hyperactive people. We're work-pertunists. We like it. And so it's like I think that when I take time off, it's always just like I can't slow down the fact that I need to get up and do a lot of things today, but I can change what those things are. Like I can figure out how to chill out, but I'm never going to be a chill person. So you're going to chill out with intention and very hard? Who is like, I became like, I'm bread girl now. Like I like, I'm like, I've got, or I'm like, oh, you know, this isn't going to cross stitch itself. Do you know what I mean? Like, where I'm like, it's just sort of like hobbies are kind of incredible and you love to, you love to do a million things to prepare for this and you give everything to the people that watch your show. And like, you can give that to your friends and family, your community. You can. But my friends and family don't chant my name, Taylor. You talk about the new documentary because I'm special. I've seen two episodes of it already. Yeah. And what I didn't expect was to be tiered up in both episodes. And not that the music is beautiful and the story is fascinating, but your fans. Yeah. It's seeing especially those young girls and what you mean to them. Did you know immediately, like when you started this tour, that this was going to be something different or when did it hit you that, oh, we've actually created something that's really above and beyond our expectations here? It took a second. I think what I thought in the beginning was we were seeing all this insane demand for the tour, but I just kind of chalked it up to like, I've put out like five albums. I haven't gotten to tour any of them. There's just built up demand. And I just thought, wow, this is, we're really lucky to get to have this passionate response from the fans. I didn't realize it was going to be this until you started hearing about people's experiences at the show. Because my whole life I've been trying to study like, how do you not just entertain people but really transport them out of their problems, their life, their stresses? How do you really create a sense of escape? And when I was reading articles where it's like medical professionals are diagnosing several, you know, all these fans who came to The Heiress Tour with like post-concert amnesia. They were getting like joy blackouts. And I was like, oh, oh man, I think this one's different. I think this tour is different. And it was ultimately because of the fans connecting with what we created that made The Heiress Tour what it is. So thank you guys so much. We have to take a quick break. We'll be right back with more Taylor Swift, everybody. Stick around.