Though the lack of a fan on the first of three scheduled Taylor Swift concert events in Rio de Janeiro left the singer “with a shattered coronary heart,” on the Friday night time (Nov. 17) present she had made her acoustic set particular when she debuted “Suburban Legends” dwell.
Swift shocked the group with the vault monitor from 1989 (Taylor’s Model) on piano on the metropolis’s Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos.
The track is perhaps new, however Swifties screamed in pleasure from the primary line.
Smiling by means of the refrain as she went by means of it dwell for the primary time in Brazil, the pop star sang, “I didn’t come right here to make buddies/ We have been born to be suburban legends/ Once you maintain me, it holds me collectively/ And also you kiss me in a manner that’s gonna screw me up ceaselessly.”
Earlier than “Suburban Legends,” Swift pulled a track out of her earliest catalog, one which hadn’t been performed dwell in in all probability 15 years: “Keep Lovely,” which is on her debut, self-titled album.
“I wished to play one thing to honor the truth that so many superb Brazilian followers have been with me since day one, because the first album,” she mentioned.
“It’s since you, simply this crowd, Rio, you’re simply so lovely,” she continued. “And I hope you keep that manner.”
Swift’s second live performance in Rio de Janeiro was postponed from Saturday to Monday, Nov. 20, as a consequence of excessive temperatures. From her dressing room on the stadium, Swift wrote on social media: “The protection and well-being of my followers, fellow performers, and crew has to and at all times will come first.”
On Friday night time, Swift expressed her grief over the lack of 23-year-old fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado, who died the primary night time of the singer’s Eras Tour in Rio, the place temperatures reached 102.4 levels Fahrenheit. The younger girl was handled by paramedics on the stadium after she mentioned she wasn’t feeling effectively, and later taken to a hospital, the place she handed away, in response to an Instagram put up by live performance promoter T4F. The precise reason for Machado’s dying had not been revealed at press time.
“I can’t even let you know how devastated I’m by this. There’s little or no info I’ve aside from the truth that she was so extremely lovely and much too younger,” she wrote in a press release she launched that night time. “I’m not going to have the ability to discuss this from stage as a result of I really feel overwhelmed by grief once I even attempt to discuss it. I need to say now I really feel this loss deeply and my damaged coronary heart goes out to her household and buddies. That is the very last thing I ever thought would occur once we determined to deliver this tour to Brazil.”
See a clip of Swift’s “Keep Lovely” and “Suburban Legends” performances under.