\u201cWe\u2019ve dazzled the crowds but we\u2019ve missed family too.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy full gratitude doesn\u2019t come from a bank but here is a [bleeped out] dollars just to say thanks, love, Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crew members appeared astonished, with many breaking down in tears, and one who said he felt like passing out.<\/p>\n
Pop singer Taylor Swift thanks her The Eras Tour support staff with generous bonus cheques.<\/p>\n
Viewers took to social media to speculate how much the crew received in bonuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like he\u2019s saying $750,000,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey may have bleeped that but the dancers absolutely got 750k each,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore you open your ones, I just want to say you guys, this leg of the tour has been harder than anything I\u2019ve ever done in a live setting,\u201d Swift, 36, said from the centre of the group huddle on \u2018bonus day\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys have taken this on with such excitement, such curiosity and the endurance you\u2019ve shown.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much you\u2019ve given to these crowds, that gives to me every single night. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe tour has done really well thanks to all of our hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the episode, Swift explained how important it was to her to reward her loyal team.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause people who work on the road, if the tour grosses more, they get more of a bonus, and these people just work so hard and they are the best at what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 21-month, 149-show tour travelled to 21 countries and is the highest grossing concert tour ever, raking in over $2 billion.<\/p>\n
It is understood Swift held a \u2018bonus day\u2019 at the conclusion of each major leg of the tour; there were five legs in total.<\/p>\n
Swift appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week and shared that she used the proceeds of the tour to buy back her recording masters.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy fans are why I was able to get my music back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how I spent that Eras Tour money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve dazzled the crowds but we\u2019ve missed family too. \u201cMy full gratitude doesn\u2019t come from a bank but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4882,74,806,682,34076,116602,59326,14900,156,51126,29888,78,101,130,3180,111,139,69,54981,6274,8145,1516,116603,1886,11208,50419,163,73172,131,96121,208,3608],"class_list":["post-184460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-300m","tag-after","tag-as","tag-being","tag-bonus","tag-bonuses","tag-cheques","tag-crew","tag-entertainment","tag-eras","tag-handed","tag-in","tag-left","tag-more","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overwhelmed","tag-recordbreaking","tag-run","tag-staff","tag-supersized","tag-support","tag-swift","tag-swifts","tag-taylor","tag-tears","tag-than","tag-totalling","tag-tour","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}