Taylor Swift Addresses Critics Who Say She Should Just Go Away

Taylor Swift has a message for critics who complain there’s too much of her.

On Wednesday, Dec. 10, Swift, 35, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss her new Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era. During the wide-ranging interview, the “Opalite” singer touched on everything from fiancé Travis Kelce being the love of her life to getting her masters back. She also addressed people who want her to “just go away.”

“I think what I look up to most in people is career longevity — career longevity, friendship longevity, longevity in their relationships, how do you keep a good thing going? I think there are certain corners of our society that really love that and look up to longevity,” Swift said.

However, she noted, that’s not the case for everyone. “There are also corners that are like, ‘Give someone else a turn. Can’t you just go away so we can talk about how good you were?’ And I’m like, I don’t want to, you know?” she explained.

Swift has either released or re-released at least one album every year since 2019, and her most recent album, The Life of a Showgirl, came out in October. The Grammy winner also concluded her record-breaking Eras Tour in 2024.

The pop icon is revisiting the tour in her six-part The End of an Era docuseries, which premieres on Disney+ with its first two episodes on Friday, Dec. 12. In her Late Show appearance, Swift discussed how she realized her career-spanning tour was something truly special.

“I think what I thought in the beginning was… we were seeing all this insane demand for the tour, but I kind of just chalked it up to I’ve put out like five albums, I haven’t gotten to tour any of them, there’s just built up demand,” said the superstar.

She continued, “I didn’t realize it was gonna be this until you started hearing about people’s experiences at the show, because my whole life I’ve been trying to study how do you not like just entertain people, but really transport them out of their problems, their life, their stresses? How do you really create a sense of escape?”

Swift said she realized this tour was different than her others when she was “reading articles where medical professionals are diagnosing … all these fans who came to the Eras Tour with post-concert amnesia, they were getting, like, joy blackouts and I was like, ‘Oh man, I think this one is different.’ ”

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It wasn’t just different for the fans. Swift shared that she and her crew could feel the unique vibe as well. “The entire tour, there were these just sort of out of control, out of body experiences we would have onstage,” the singer explained.

In addition to the docuseries chronicling the behind-the-scenes aspect of the tour, she’s also releasing a new concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show, via Disney+ on Friday, Dec. 12. It’s a live recording of Swift’s final performance on The Eras Tour on Dec. 8, 2024 at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada.