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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and his opening act, Maggie Rogers, carried out Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” in Vienna two weeks after she was pressured to cancel her Eras Tour live shows there.
On Wednesday, August 21, Martin, 47, and Rogers, 30, lined the 2008 hit at Ernst Happel Stadium, the place Swift, 34, had been scheduled to take the stage on August 8, 9 and 10 earlier than she pulled the plug on these performances amid an alleged terror plot.
“If this isn’t good, please don’t put it on YouTube as a result of I don’t need to get in hassle with Taylor,” mentioned Martin, dedicating the track to Swift’s followers who had been alleged to attend her Vienna reveals. “And should you might sing with us, that will be great.”
Taking Martin’s cue, the group sang together with the musicians throughout the acoustic set, during which Martin strummed the guitar and Rogers evoked Swift’s emotional vocal type. Rogers later posted the footage on Instagram, writing “from vienna with love 💗💗💗” and tagging Swift.
Earlier Wednesday, Swift spoke out for the primary time because the cancellations.
“Having our Vienna reveals cancelled was devastating,” she wrote in a prolonged Instagram caption. “The rationale for the cancellations crammed me with a brand new sense of worry, and an incredible quantity of guilt as a result of so many individuals had deliberate on coming to these reveals. However I used to be additionally so grateful to the authorities as a result of because of them, we had been grieving live shows and never lives.”
Swift continued, “I used to be heartened by the love and unity I noticed within the followers who banded collectively. I made a decision that every one of my vitality needed to go towards serving to to guard the almost half 1,000,000 folks I had coming to see the reveals in London. My group and I labored hand in hand with stadium employees and British authorities day by day in pursuit of that aim, and I need to thank them for every thing they did for us.”
She then defined why she selected to remain mum after the information in regards to the thwarted assault.
“Let me be very clear: I’m not going to talk about one thing publicly if I feel doing so may provoke those that would need to hurt the followers who come to my reveals,” she wrote. “In instances like this one, ‘silence’ is definitely displaying restraint, and ready to precise your self at a time when it’s proper to. My precedence was ending our European tour safely, and it’s with nice reduction that I can say we did that.”
Swift wrapped the European leg of her Eras Tour in London on Tuesday, August 21. She’s set to take a two-month break earlier than resuming performances in Miami in October.