“I always try to think of things you might want to hear — maybe things that might be a little unexpected”
Baby, this Rihanna cover wasn't what Taylor Swift fans came to Liverpool for – but it sure was a treat. Swift wowed the crowd with a rendition of “This Is What You Came For,” the Calvin Harris song with Rihanna that Swift co-wrote.
Swift did a mashup of Rihanna's track – which she co-wrote under the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg – with her own song 'Gold Rush' and then mashed up 'The Great War' with 'You're Losing Me'.
“Every time I have an acoustic set, I always try to think of things that you might want to hear — maybe things that might be a little bit unexpected,” the pop superstar told the crowd. “Let's see how we did tonight.”
Swift has spoken about writing the song about Rihanna and Harris, who she was dating at the time of writing the track, in the past. In a Musicians on Musicians interview with Paul McCartney about Rolling rockthe singer opened up about her decision to keep her writing credit private for a while.
“I wrote under the name Nils Sjöberg because these are two of the most popular Swedish male names. I wrote this song called 'This Is What You Came For' that Rihanna ended up singing,” he said at the time. “And no one knew for a while. I remember always hearing that when Prince wrote 'Manic Monday,' they didn't reveal it for a few months.”
Swift has only performed “This What You Came For” two other times: once at a Formula 1 concert in 2016 and another time at Super Saturday night before the 2017 Super Bowl.
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