Taylor Swift Performs With Aaron Dessner At Tampa Concert: Video

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Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift 'The Eras Tour' concert, State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, USA - 17 Mar 2023 — Image Credit: MEGA/Adela Loconte/Shutterstock

Taylor Swift has been giving her stans precisely what they need on The Eras tour and she or he topped herself in Tampa on Friday night time. Not solely did she carry out her tune “The Great War” from her newest album Midnights for the primary time in live performance, however she did it with the assistance of her frequent collaborator by her aspect. And the songstress welcomed National bandmember Aaron Dessner onstage with an unbelievable introduction.

📰| “It’s a long walk, you gotta keep going.” Taylor Swift to Aaron Dessner, on the size of the Eras Tour catwalk. pic.twitter.com/M665cmokoS

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“He’s so incredibly brilliant, we’ve made so much music together over the years, and we are so lucky tonight Tampa Bay, Florida cause Aaron Dessner is here!” Taylor introduced to the viewers, as seen within the clip above. When it took a couple of moments for Aaron to cross the big stage to fulfill Taylor, she instructed the gang to proceed cheering. “It’s a long walk, you gotta keep going,” she quipped.

Shortly after the unbelievable efficiency, Aaron reportedly took to Twitter to share his pleasure over it, and even quoted one other Taylor tune. In a fan repost of Aaron’s reported tweet, the message learn, “Playing the Great War for the first time in Tampa…Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine getting to play a song for 80,000 people on acoustic guitar with @taylorswift.”

🎤| Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner performing “The Great War” pic.twitter.com/iVv39rE8q3

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Along with the shock duet, Taylor introduced a change to a rule she made about by no means performing the identical tune twice throughout her acoustic portion of the Eras tour. “Basically, when I started the tour, I said, ‘In the acoustic section, I am never repeating a song. I’m never doing songs more than once,’” Taylor instructed the Tampa viewers, per Just Jared. “But now I’m like, ‘Ugh, there are so many songs I want to do more than once. So, I’m making a little caveat to the rule, which is that if [a song] is on Midnights, I can do it however many times I want because Midnights is, like, the most accurate picture of my life to date,” Taylor added.

The rule could also be going into impact instantly, as Taylor not solely debuted “The Great War” from Midnights, however she additionally wowed the gang with a rendition of “You’re On Your Own, Kid.” As followers possible need Taylor to carry out these songs repeatedly, the rule change was a lot wanted and undoubtedly welcomed.

Her followers are additionally more likely to proceed sending love and assist to the Grammy winner after it was reported that she cut up with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn only a week in the past. As she joked to the viewers on the primary night time of the Tampa reveals, “We have a lot to catch up on.”