Taylor Swift was full of new surprises in Sydney, Australia.
On Saturday (February 23), the second night of her Eras tour at Accor Stadium, the pop superstar — who on each tour date performs two tracks not often heard during the show — delivered another pair of mashups during the acoustic portion of her set.
For her first surprise track of the night, Swift performed a mashup of “Should've Said No,” from her 2006 self-titled debut, and “You're Not Sorry” from 2008. Fearless. The second mashup featured the singer sitting at the piano for a mix Reputation“New Year” and “Peace” away Folklore.
Friday's show also found Swift announcing a third version of her upcoming album, Department of Tormented Poets, entitled “The Albatross”, which includes a limited bonus track of the same name. She dropped the news during her late-night surprise song segment before bringing out opener Sabrina Carpenter to help sing a mashup of “White Horse” and “Coney Island.”
These aren't the first mashups Swift has performed during the surprise song portion of her Eras tour concerts. The first unexpected medley arrived during her February 17 concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia, where she performed a three-song mashup of “Getaway Car,” “August” and “The Other Side of the Door.”
“I really want you to be happy because you make me happy,” the pop star told the Swifties before the medley. “So I thought you might want to hear this, but let me know.”
The following night, Swift remixed “Come Back… Be Here” from her Red era with Lover the closing track 'Daylight' at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
During the Feb. 18 show, Swift also released a PSA about getting “creative” with the surprise songs. The singer previously told fans that she's given herself permission to reprise songs she's already played this tour for the international leg of the trek, which she's currently on. But she still brings an element of chaos to her nightly song choices.
“That was to challenge me to really reach out to all the things that I'm not naturally drawn to and I'm very proud that I did that,” Swift said at the Melbourne show, referring to her original plan to avoid the surprise song. repeated throughout the tour.
“But this is kind of a public service announcement to everybody who might be anywhere else on the tour, or whatever, or watching this — we're very crowded, we're very fortunate to have a lot of people watching online, and you care about these shows if it's not here,” he continued. “I just kind of rethought it and thought I want to be as creative as possible with the acoustic set moving forward.”
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