Taylor Swift continues to impress Swifties with her surprise songs!
On Saturday, June 22, the 14-time Grammy winner stunned the crowd at the second leg of her Eras Tour in London by bringing out Paramore’s Hayley Williams to perform their Speak now vault track “Castles Crumbling.”
IN videos shared by fans at Wembley Stadium, Swift, 34, can be seen sitting at a piano with her longtime friend Williams, 35, as they perform the ballad acoustically as part of the surprise songs segment of the tour.
They have been friends since the beginning of their careers, and previously performed together in London in 2011 during the Speak Now tour.
Before Williams graced the stage, Swift teased a special guest, keeping fans on the edge of their seats.
“In the re-recording process, I was really trying to reach out to artists that I’m a fan of, or in the case of one of the albums, specifically on speak now I reached out to artists that were so influential to my music, my writing, that I looked up to,” Swift teased.
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Taylor Swift and Hayley Williams in 2010.
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Swift continued, “I asked an artist I’m a huge fan of to be on one of the songs, and she said yes. London, we’re so lucky because when I asked Hayley Williams to come on this show, she said yes.”
Swift also performed at Saturday’s fashion show Department for tortured poets song “thank you aIMee” for the first time, mixing it with “mean” from Speak now. During “Mean,” Swift changed the lyrics from “Someday, I’ll be livin’ in a big, ole city” to “One day I’ll be singing this song at Wembley.”
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On June 21, Swift’s boyfriend and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was seen in the VIP tent with his brother Jason and his wife Kylie Kelce. This was the first time Jason and Kylie were seen at one of her shows. The trio returned for a second night in London.
Before her shows in London, Swift played to a sold-out crowd in Cardiff, Wales, and took to Instagram to praise her fans for their enthusiasm.
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“Cardiff!! “I played in Wales for the first time and it was really out of control in the best way – looking at that huge, bouncing, dancing sea of people,” the performer wrote. “I will never forget it. I absolutely live for these British crowds.”
Meanwhile, on June 13, Swift held her 100th show in Liverpool, England, and marked the milestone by revealing when the tour will end.
In fan-filmed footage of the performance, Swift is seen telling the crowd in Liverpool: “A lot of you are asking, ‘How are you going to celebrate your 100th show?’ ”
“Celebrating 100 shows for me means this is the first time I’ve admitted to myself that this tour will end in December,” she said. “It seems so far away, but on the other hand, it feels like we’ve just played our first show on this tour because you’ve made this so much fun for us.”
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She continued: “It took over everything. I think I used to have hobbies, but I don’t know what they were anymore because all I do when I’m not on stage is sit at home and try to come up with clever acoustic combinations of songs.”
After her third show in London on June 23, Swift will travel to Ireland next weekend. On August 15, they will return to Wembley Stadium for five more shows.
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