Taylor Swift has Us wishing we may hop in a “getaway car” to Australia for The Eras Tour.
During Swift’s Saturday, February 17, live performance in Melbourne, she did one thing new for her shock music part and carried out a mash-up of three songs. Swift, 34, started with a rendition of Reputation’s “Getaway Car.”
“I want to play one that you really want to hear, I want you to be happy,” she mentioned to the gang, per social media footage.
Swift then transitioned into “August” from Folklore earlier than closing out with “The Other Side Of The Door” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version). While the Grammy winner — who additionally carried out “This is Me Trying” from Folklore — has beforehand mashed-up two of her songs in the acoustic part, Saturday was her first time including a 3rd to the combination.
Eagle-eyed Swifties identified on social media that each one three of the chosen songs reference infidelity in a relationship. In “Getaway Car,” Swift sings that it’s a “sideshow” being concerned in a state of affairs with “the three of us,” whereas “August” is a couple of teenage love triangle. “The Other Side of the Door,” in the meantime, options the lyric, “And I broke down crying, was she worth the mess?”
Swift kicked off her Eras Tour, celebrating all of her previous albums, in March 2023. While the present options sections devoted to every report, there may be additionally a set for 2 rotating additions.
The Getaway Car/August/The Other Side Of The Door mashup sounded so good on a livestream #MelbourneTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/utwLgLVA6t
— Katie -TAYGRACIE INDY N2 (@classof22swift) February 17, 2024
“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 mentioned throughout her live performance in Arlington, Texas, that 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 concluded the preliminary U.S. and South American portion of Eras in late 2023 and returned to the stage earlier this month.
“I decided that in 2024, when we go back on tour, I’m just gonna open back up all the songs for surprise songs,” Swift famous at her Brazil live performance in November 2023. “I feel like, for one year, we’ve really gotten through a lot of songs, so I’m just gonna make all the songs fair game when we go back on tour.”
She continued, “There’s some songs that I still really, really wanna play, so I’m gonna try and get through all of them.”
Swift additionally made it clear that songs from Midnights, her 2022 album, are additionally honest sport to be repeated. She may also be on the street when her subsequent report, The Tortured Poets Department, drops in April. It is at present unknown if she has plans so as to add a TTPD part to the setlist or add snippets to her shock music part.
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