Taylor Swift thrills Toronto crowd and makes sly dig at Joe Jonas at night No. 4 of Eras Tour at Rogers Centre

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Taylor Swift kicked off another dance party in Toronto as her Eras Tour headed into its final three shows in the city Thursday night.

Since launching the trek back in March 2023 in Arizona, the 14-time Grammy winner has crisscrossed the globe. But Swift, 34, is bringing things to a close with just five shows left in Toronto and Vancouver.

Referring to herself as “the host” of the night’s festivities, Swift told the Toronto crowd the tour’s impending end was bittersweet.

“Fun fact: this is actually the second to last weekend of the Eras Tour, which is crazy to think about,” she said. “In 2024, we have taken this tour all over the world. We went to Australia, Asia and spent the entire summer in Europe.”

Swift said ending her run in Canada made sense because her fan base here is “the most loyal, passionate and kind.”

“We’ll end the thing with a big, big group hug,” she said. “That’s what we’re doing. I’m so happy to see you tonight.”

Swift said she kept adding dates to the Eras run because “it was the most fun tour I’ve ever done in my life.”

“We just kept adding shows and adding shows,” she said.

Swift has played multiple nights at Rogers Centre on past outings, but her six-night stand is unique. She’s the only artist to have ever played the venue that many times on the same tour.

For her fourth night in Toronto, Swift’s surprise song mashup included two tracks that some fans on social media took as a not-so thinly veiled swipe at her ex-Joe Jonas. For the acoustic guitar portion, Swift debuted Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) off Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Better Than Revenge from Speak Now, both of which were written about Jonas after their 2008 breakup.

“She’s not a saint and she’s not what you think,” she sang on Better Than Revenge, which was allegedly about Jonas’ next girlfriend Camilla Belle, and focuses on a woman who stole someone else’s boyfriend. “She’s an actress … She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress“

With Swift now pals with Jonas’ ex Sophie Turner, fans weighed in on the “epic combo” on X.

“Joe Jonas was cooked by Taylor tonight. Is that what the kids say?” one person wrote, with another saying the tracks were “Sophie Turner’s special request.”

“Joe Jonas just felt a sharp pain at the back of his neck,” a third fan quipped.

After Jonas broke up with her, Swift told TV host Ellen DeGeneres that he ended things with a terse phone call.

“Someday I’m going to find someone really great for me… When I find that person that is right for me, he’ll be wonderful,” Swift said back in 2008. “And when I look at that person, I’m not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18. It was a record, I think. I looked at the call log. It was like 27 seconds.”

But the Jonas dig was short-lived. During the piano portion, Swift went with a mashup of State of Grace from Red and Labyrinth from Midnights. 

As she has done for the last year-and-a-half, Swift played songs from all her studio albums, including her recent Grammy nominated The Tortured Poets Department.

“I’ve been touring since I was 15 and we’ve made a lot of fun memories,” she said. “I’m so overjoyed to see your faces.”

She called the night “a little adventure” that would span the last 18 years of music.

“We’re going to be doing this one era at a time,” she said as 49,000 fans enthusiastically cheered. “You’re about to hear a lot of songs. There are lot of songs in this show.”

Her fans hung on every word, identifying with Swift’s lyrics about getting older, breaking up, making up and going through this messy thing we call life.

“These songs, I wrote about either something that happened to me in my life, a feeling I had at one point, or something that I completely invented in my imagination, and maybe that’s what you think about when you hear these songs out in the world,” she said.

All that changes after the Eras Tour ends next month in Vancouver.

Now when people hear these songs they’re going to think about one memorable night in Toronto — or wherever they might have seen the show.

“After tonight, when you hear these songs, you’re going to think about us and the memories we made here tonight at the Eras Tour,” she said.

The show has no doubt became more polished as it has gone on. But during one lengthy ovation following Champagne Problems, Swift soaked it all in.

“We only get to do this show a few more times,” she said, overcome with emotion as she basked in the thunderous applause. “So once that’s over, I know there’s going to be some days when we’re really missing it … I can promise you that on those days, we’re going to replay our memories of you just doing that.”

Taylor Swift returns to the stage at Rogers Centre in Toronto tonight and tomorrow.

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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