Taylor Swift’s final show of ‘The Eras Tour’ felt like “the last day of school”, says Gracie Abrams

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Gracie Abrams has reflected on Taylor Swift’s huge ‘Eras Tour’ coming to an end, and said that the final show felt like “the last day of school”.Abrams joined Swift for the final leg of the mammoth run of tour dates, and opened for the pop icon at the very last scheduled show, which took place in Vancouver, Canada on December 8.Now, in a new interview, she has reflected on what it was like to join Swift for the dates and how it felt to see the shows come to an end.“Everyone had been crying all day.

It felt like the last day of school backstage,” she told Nylon. “Everyone was walking around with their [tour] books, signing each other’s books.

We were all walking around with Sharpies.”The tour ran for a combined total of 21 months across 149 shows, and marked a new high point for the singer, songwriter and guitarist.

It also went on to break the record as the highest-grossing tour of all time, bringing in a reported $2.2billion (£1.73b) since it began.Last December, at the tour’s midpoint, Swift made history when the tour became the first to gross $1billion (£796million).