Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks do with each other throughout the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center onJan 31, 2010 in Los Angeles. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks rejoined in Dublin on Sunday (June 30), with The Eras Tour headliner devoting the evening’s acoustic area to the famous Fleetwood Mac vocalist.
With Nicks present, it was the ideal event for Swift to do The Tortured Poets Department‘s “Clara Bow” live for the first time ever; she names Nicks on the second verse of “Clara Bow,” singing: “You look like Stevie Nicks/ In ’ 75, the hair and lips/ Crowd goes wild at her fingertips/ Half moonshine, a complete eclipse.”
“I’ve never played this song live at all,” Swift kept in mind prior to “Clara Bow,” which was among 2 acoustic efficiencies at her Aviva Stadium show Sunday, her 3rd day inIreland
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“The reason I want to play this tonight is because a friend of mine is here who is watching the show,” Swift hinted. She commended this good friend for leading the way for her, stating she’s “one of the reasons why I get to do what I get to do”– which she’s been a directing hand to several various other woman musicians.
Added Swift, “She’s a hero of mine. I could tell her any secret; she’d never tell anybody.”
“I’m talking about Stevie Nicks,” Swift revealed, leading the target market in an enormous round of praise.
Playing on guitar, Swift functioned verses from “The Lucky One”– her 2012 Red track with a style that parallels that of “Clara Bow”– right into the real-time launching of “Clara Bow” throughout her shock track collection.
Swift after that played “You’re on Your Own, Kid,” from her 2022 Midnights cd, on piano. At Sunday’s program, there was an unspoken factor for her selection of track: it has individual definition to Nicks.
In May 2023, Nicks shared her appreciation to Swift for creating the track, at it’s assisted her in regreting the late Christine McVie, Nicks’ bosom friend and bandmate that died in November 2022. “Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that is writing a song called ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid.’ That is the sadness of how I feel,” she stated on phase in 2015.
“Never an argument in our entire 47 years,” Nicks stated of her deep link with McVie. “The two of us were on our own, kids. We always were. And now, I’m having to learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. You helped me to do that. Thank you.”
The rock symbol was very first found by followers in the Dublin arena previously at Swift’s program on Sunday, strolling to and from the VIP outdoor tents that’s established for Swift’s visitors.
Nicks, in the area for her very own excursion (with a day in Dublin on July 3), is straight linked to Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which rules atNo 1 on the Billboard 200 cds graph for a 10th successive week. The singer-songwriter penciled a rhyme “for T — and me…” that showed up on the cd art for physical duplicates of the collection, Swift’s 11th workshop cd.
The rhyme, partially, checks out: “She looked back from her future/ And shed a few tears/ He looked into his past/ And actually felt fear/ For both of them/ The answers — would never be/ Everclear/ Don’t ask questions now/ Do that later/ She brings joy/ He brings Shakespeare/ It’s almost a tragedy/ Says she/ Don’t endanger me/ Don’t endanger me.”
In the following verse, Nicks composes: “He really can’t answer her/ He’s afraid of her/ He’s hiding from her/ And he knows — that he’s hurting her.”
More than 14 years back, at the 2010 Grammy Awards, Swift and Nicks sang a collection of Fleetwood Mac’s 1976 hit “Rhiannon” (which Nicks composed) and Swift’s 2009 hit “You Belong With Me.”
Below, watch fan-captured video of Swift vocal singing “Clara Bow” and “You’re on Your Own, Kid” for Nicks in Dublin.
