Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift will play different surprise songs at every single night of the ‘Eras’ tour
nme.comTaylor Swift has revealed that she’s hoping to play different surprise songs at every single night of her mammoth ‘Eras’ tour, as well as taking requests from Jack Antonoff and Gracie Abrams.Swift kicked off the tour last month with a huge 44-song set that pulled from across her back catalogue.
While the bulk of the setlist has remained the same, every night she’s performed a couple of “surprise” acoustic songs.Last night (April 1), during her second show at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Taylor Swift said: “So far on this tour, I’ve been playing different songs every night.
The goal is to not repeat one, so that every time I play a song in the acoustic set, it’s the one time I’ll play it [this tour].”“Unless I mess it up, in which case I’ll have to play it again at some point to redeem myself,” she added.Last night, she also confirmed that “I do take requests if they’re phrased in a polite way.”Swift then went on to explain that the first surprise song was requested by “one of my closest friends and my collaborator of dreams, Jack Antonoff who’s actually here tonight.”“I’ve played this song live once before and the crowd screamed the bridge so loudly that I kept telling him about it. ‘I wished you’d been there, it was so insane.’ We wrote this song together and I really want him to hear you do it so I’m really hoping you know the words to this song,” she said, before playing ‘Death By A Thousand Cuts’.“I had so much fun doing the bridge, do you want to do it again,” she asked the crowd during the song before stumbling over the lyrics.
Taking to the piano, Swift announced that the second surprise song was also a “request from someone who is here tonight, Gracie Abrams” [who opened the show].“We text,” revealed.
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