Taylor Swift becomes unrecognizable during surprise song
Taylor Swift added a hilarious ad lib during the acoustic portion of her Thursday, July 18, Eras Tour show in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Swift, 34, performed a mashup of “Speak Now” and “Hey Stephen” on guitar as her first surprise song of the evening. After singing the “Hey Stephen” bridge lyric,
“All those other girls, well, they’re beautiful, but would they write a song for you?” the pop star cheekily said, “Nope!” The crowd cheered in delight after hearing Swift’s playful addition to the Fearless song.
Swift also expressed gratitude for the audience’s warm response to the titular track of her 2010 album, Speak Now.
“Oh, my God, you guys know that whole song,” she said. “Thank you so much. Just proves that you’ve been supportive for over a decade.”
The songwriter then moved to the piano to perform a mashup of Folklore’s “This Is Me Trying” and Midnights’ “Labyrinth.”
Since the Eras Tour began in March 2023, Swift has performed two surprise acoustic songs at every show. She’s made it through an impressive portion of her catalog, but there are still some songs she’s never played,
including The Tortured Poets Department’s “So Long, London” and Lover’s “London Boy,” both of which are heavily speculated to be about her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn.
There are some songs from Swift’s discography that she’s unlikely to ever play as surprise songs, such as the Lover song “Soon You’ll Get Better,” which is about her parents’ cancer diagnoses.
“It was hard to write. It’s hard to sing. It’s hard to listen to, for me,” Swift told Billboard of the tune in August 2019.
