Taylor Swift Duets With Gracie Abrams at ‘Eras Tour’ for 1st Time

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is perpetually protecting Us on our toes!

During her Saturday, July 1, live performance in Cincinnati, Ohio, Swift, 33, added a 3rd shock music to the setlist. After the Grammy winner carried out “Ivy” stay with collaborator Aaron Dessner, she introduced out Gracie Abrams — one in every of her tour’s opening acts — for a particular quantity.

“She’s one of my favorite friends and I love her so much. We haven’t sung together before, so I wanted to bring Gracie out on stage,” Swift advised concertgoers on Saturday, per social media footage, noting that she was bummed that Abrams, 23, didn’t get to carry out her set amid sudden climate modifications.

Hours earlier on Saturday, Swift tweeted {that a} “weather situation” meant that she deliberate to begin the present at Paycor Stadium one hour early. The “All Too Well” songstress was imagined to take the stage following Muna and Abrams’ units, however the change in plans eradicated J.J. Abrams’ daughter’s slot.

Instead, Swift carried out a canopy of Gracie’s “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” stay for the Ohio-based crowd.

“I have no words, actually,” Gracie quipped in the course of the present after Swift admitted that “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” was one in every of her favourite songs. Gracie performed the monitor on the piano whereas the Valentine’s Day actress strummed alongside on her acoustic guitar.

Swift kicked off her Eras Tour — which is her first stay live performance tour since 2018’s Reputation — in March to have fun all of her previous albums and rerecorded LPs. The Eras Tour setlist even rotates at least two shock songs per present, permitting Swift to sing much more of her greatest hits.

“One thing we said about the Eras Tour: ‘You think you can just go online, you think you can just scroll and know the setlist?’” Swift teased throughout her Arlington, Texas, present later in March. “You think you can just come prepared with little flashcards [that list the song order and my outfits]?’ Let it be said about the Eras Tour, we’re tricksy. That’s what we are [and] we enjoy a good, healthy setlist hijinks.”

Swift — who later added the caveat that she’s going to play Midnights songs greater than as soon as — additionally carried out “Call It What You Want” from Reputation at her Saturday present.

Additionally, Swift has just lately been including extra Speak Now singles to her Eras set prematurely of her re-recorded album, which is able to drop on July 7.

“I’m putting this out now because I want to own my music and I believe that any artist who has the desire to own their music should be able to. That’s why I’m putting out this album,” she advised Minnesota followers final month whereas introducing “Dear John” as a shock music. “I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19, except the songs I wrote. … So, what I’m trying to tell you is that I’m not putting this album out so that you should go and feel the need to defend me on the Internet against someone you think I might have written the song about 14 million years ago.”