Taylor Swift Performs ‘Suburban Legends’ for First Time in Rio de Janeiro – Billboard

Although the lack of a fan on the first of three scheduled Taylor Swift concert events in Rio de Janeiro left the singer “with a shattered heart,” on the Friday night time (Nov. 17) present she had made her acoustic set particular when she debuted “Suburban Legends” reside.

Swift shocked the gang with the vault observe from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on piano on the metropolis’s Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos.

The tune could be new, however Swifties screamed in pleasure from the primary line.

Smiling by the refrain as she went by it reside for the primary time in Brazil, the pop star sang, “I didn’t come here to make friends/ We were born to be suburban legends/ When you hold me, it holds me together/ And you kiss me in a way that’s gonna screw me up forever.”

Before “Suburban Legends,” Swift pulled a tune out of her earliest catalog, one which hadn’t been performed reside in most likely 15 years: “Stay Beautiful,” which is on her debut, self-titled album.

“I wanted to play something to honor the fact that so many amazing Brazilian fans have been with me since day one, since the first album,” she stated.

“It’s because you, just this crowd, Rio, you’re just so beautiful,” she continued. “And I hope you stay that way.”

Swift’s second live performance in Rio de Janeiro was postponed from Saturday to Monday, Nov. 20, as a consequence of excessive temperatures. From her dressing room on the stadium, Swift wrote on social media: “The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first.”

On Friday night time, Swift expressed her grief over the lack of 23-year-old fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado, who died the primary night time of the singer’s Eras Tour in Rio, the place temperatures reached 102.4 levels Fahrenheit. The younger lady was handled by paramedics on the stadium after she stated she wasn’t feeling nicely, and later taken to a hospital, the place she handed away, in line with an Instagram put up by live performance promoter T4F. The precise reason behind Machado’s loss of life had not been revealed at press time.

“I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this. There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young,” she wrote in a press release she launched that night time. “I’m not going to be able to speak about this from stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it. I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends. This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.”

See a clip of Swift’s “Stay Beautiful” and “Suburban Legends” performances under.