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Taylor Swift put collectively a themed set of shock songs for the ultimate Eras Tour live performance she’ll play in 2023.
The São Paulo, Brazil, crowd loudly chanted “Popularity” throughout Swift’s acoustic set Sunday (Nov. 26), however didn’t get Popularity shock songs.
As an alternative, at Swift’s Sunday evening live performance at Allianz Parque stadium — the thirteenth worldwide date on The Eras Tour, and the final date till the tour resumes in February 2024 — she carried out “Say Don’t Go” and “It’s Time to Go,” treating the viewers to reside renditions of each for the primary time ever.
The emotionally charged ballad “Say Don’t Go,” which Swift debuted reside on guitar, was co-written with Diane Warren and simply launched in October as a vault monitor on 1989 (Taylor’s Model).
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Then got here the live performance debut of “It’s Time to Go,” a monitor co-written with Aaron Dessner and featured on the deluxe model of 2020’s Evermore, on piano.
Swift has been performing two shock songs every evening of The Eras Tour and attempting to not repeat them.
“There’s some songs that I nonetheless actually, actually wanna play,” mentioned Swift at Sunday’s present.
However she defined that when she will get again on tour in 2024, she plans to reset and “make all of the songs honest sport” once more.
All through the evening, “Rep TV” trended on X as followers broadly theorized that Swift may announce the discharge date of Popularity (Taylor’s Model) throughout her final live performance of 2023. That principle grew stronger when Swift slipped up and seemingly mentioned “Rep” as an alternative of “Eras” Tour on stage, whereas introducing her acoustic set. “You’ve gotten in my head,” she quipped.
Though a Popularity (Taylor’s Model) announcement didn’t occur on the present, it was definitely a really particular one for Swift. Earlier within the evening, sitting on the piano through the Evermore period of the set, she informed Swifties, “This has been essentially the most magical journey of my life.”
“We discover ourselves on the final evening of The Eras Tour 2023,” she mentioned. “This tour is one thing that I considered as a result of I actually wished to rejoice all of the instances you guys have been there for me, and put collectively a present that integrated all my favourite recollections of touring — and I’ve been touring most of my life. I really like touring by these recollections with you.”
Watch clips of Swift enjoying “Say Don’t Go” and “It’s Time to Go” beneath.
