Taylor Swift Premieres ‘thanK you aIMee’ Live, Performs ‘Castles Crumbling’ with Hayley Williams in London

Taylor Swift Eras Tour London

Taylor Swift carries out onstage throughout “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Wembley Stadium on June 21, 2024 in London, England.

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London is a “special” location to bring The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift claimed throughout her acoustic collection at Wembley Stadium Saturday evening (June 22).

At the secondly of 3 programs this weekend break, the pop celebrity chose to do a track she had actually never ever played online previously. She likewise invited Hayley Williams to the phase for a duet.

“We get to play Wembley Stadium eight times this summer. When I’m thinking about that, you think about just being grateful and being thankful,” Swift informed the group, revealing recognition for their assistance. (She’s obtained her triad of shows in London this weekend break, and she’ll go back to Wembley for 5 added programs later on this summer season, fromAug 15-20.)

“On the other hand,” commented Swift, that will supply the initial of the evening’s 2 shock tune efficiencies, “it really makes me think about how every time somebody talks s— it just makes me work even harder.”

“I’ve never played this one before. Wish me luck,” she claimed, and after that on guitar introduced right into “thanK you aIMee,” from The Tortured Poets Department:The Anthology It noted the first-ever online efficiency of the track that has her vocal singing, “All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’/ And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel/ Screamed, “F— you, Aimee” to the evening skies as the blood was gushin’/ But I can not fail to remember the means you made me recover.”

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“I don’t think you’ve changed much/ And so I changed your name and any real defining clues/ And one day, your kid comes home singin’/ A song that only us two is gonna know is about you,” she includes a later knowledgeable.

Swift carried out “thanK you aIMee” as a mashup with Speak Now‘s “Mean,” another song about how she’ s overcame cynics.

“Someday I’ll be singing this song at Wembley,” she quipped, singing an improvisated line to the tune of “Mean.”

To round off that minute Saturday evening, she drew out Hayley Williams (that had actually opened up the program with Paramore earlier) for a real-time duet of “Castles Crumbling,” their partnership from the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) safe. Swift and Williams rested side-by-side at the piano as they sang.

Swift remembered the last time they would certainly played cohabit: on The Speak Now Tour, when she invited Williams to the phase to do Paramore’s “That’s What You Get” with her at a 2011 Nashville day.

Below, watch clips of Swift’s shock tune established from evening 2 atWembley Stay updated with the full checklist of shock tracks she’s used The Eras scenic tour below.


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