Taylor Swift shares details about the daily routine that helped her relax after each Eras Tour concert.
At the end of the first episode of her new docuseries The End of an Era, the singer gave viewers an inside look at how she breaks out of performance mode—and it all starts with taking a bath.
Swift, who turns 36 on Dec. 13, detailed this routine in an interview with Stephen Colbert on the Dec. 10 episode.
The singer said that she felt like a “flickering light bulb” after each concert, which lasted more than three hours and included more than 44 songs.
“I’ll go back to the hotel, get out of the suit, go to the bath—immediately—the bath,” Swift said, calling it her special “mermaid time.”
Next comes food, and lots of it, Swift said.
“I get the best possible room service,” the singer joked.
“French fries? What's the best thing to do? Colbert asked.
“Yes, that’s it,” she replied. “Everything I want this night.”
Swift also signed “2,000 CDs” or so after performances because the “tactile activity of her hands” helped her mentally relax.
“It's like when I make bread,” she said, referring to her well-publicized habit I bake sourdough loaves for my loved ones.
“My ‘profession,’” Swift added, putting the word in quotation marks, “is coming up with ideas for things.” So if I can turn those ideas off for a second, that’s very interesting.”
Finally, she said that she usually turns on the TV to watch her favorite show.
“I’ll put on Dateline, you know what I mean?” She said, causing the audience to laugh.
When Colbert asked her about reading, Swift said she listens to audiobooks “all the time.”
When the host asked what works she liked, Swift instead described “elements” of what she looks for in a book.
Swift was the first to name Daphne du Maurier's gothic mystery classic Rebecca as an example of a book that might intrigue her.
“If you have an old rambling ruin, an old British mansion covered in moss or ivy, and there's a mysterious relationship, and it might not be what it seems,” she said as Colbert's audience began laughing.
“And there was a murder in the past, but there is the idea of a ghost or an actual ghost,” she continued.
Swift cheerfully described two other book ideas that excite her as the audience continued to laugh. One focused on a “mysterious” family living “just off the coast of Maine,” and the other concerned a marriage that “isn’t what it seems”—preferably told by an “unreliable narrator.”
“If you have any of this, I’m going to need to read it,” she said, “and when I say, ‘read this,’ I’m going to need someone to read it to me.”
Swift's record “Eras Tour” took her all over the world from March 2023 until his final concert in Vancouver, Canada, December 8, 2024. The tour was featured in her new docuseries, Taylor Swift: End of an era” The premiere of which took place on December 12. Two new episodes will air on December 19, with the finale airing on December 26.
