Taylor Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket Floor on February 16, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. Graham Denholm/TAS24/Getty Photos for TAS Rights Administration
Australian Swifties have been blessed with the first-ever stay efficiency of Taylor Swift’s “You’re Shedding Me” on Friday, February 16.
“I’ve by no means performed this tune stay earlier than, it’s one in every of my favorites,” Swift, 34, instructed the group in Melbourne, in accordance with fan movies shared through social media. The singer sat at her piano in a yellow gown for the acoustic set — in any other case generally known as the shock songs. (She additionally carried out “Purple (Taylor’s Model)” on the guitar.)
“You’re Shedding Me,” a Midnights vault observe, was initially accessible on the Late Night time Version of her 2022 report, which was offered as a CD at her Eras Tour stops in New Jersey final yr. Swift lastly introduced the tune to streaming after she was named Spotify’s 2023 High World Artist.
“I simply wished to say to anybody who listened to my music this yr, wherever on the earth, thanks,” Swift wrote through Instagram in November 2023. “Getting named Spotify’s World High Artist in 2023 is really the very best birthday/vacation present you would’ve given me.”
🏟️| @taylorswift13 taking part in “You’re Shedding Me” for the very first time!#MelbourneTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/7tWG6g03p2
— Taylor Swift Updates 🤍 (@swifferupdates) February 16, 2024
She continued: “I used to be making an attempt to consider a approach to thanks, and plenty of you have got been asking me to place ‘You’re Shedding Me (From The Vault)’ on streaming… so right here you go! You may lastly hear EVERYWHERE now 💋.”
Followers have been fast to invest that the “You’re Shedding Me” lyrics element the top of Swift’s six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn. (Us Weekly confirmed in April 2023 that the 2 had break up.)
A number of of Taylor Swift’s well-known mates and followers have proven as much as shake it off on the singer’s much-anticipated The Eras Tour. The celebs of Swift’s “Bejeweled” music video — Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim and Laura Dern — have been amongst 1000’s of followers in attendance on the tour’s opening evening in Glendale, Arizona’s […]
“I glared at you with storms in my eyes / How will you say that you just love somebody you’ll be able to’t inform is dying?” Swift sings within the second verse. “I despatched you indicators and bit my nails right down to the short / My face was grey, however you wouldn’t admit that we have been sick.”
Taylor Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket Floor on February 16, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. Graham Denholm/TAS24/Getty Photos for TAS Rights Administration
Swift’s buddy and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff subsequently stirred the pot by revealing when the pair wrote and produced the tune, fueling new fan theories.
“‘You’re Shedding Me’ is out in the present day, a really particular observe from the Midnights classes that’s lastly streaming!” Antonoff, 39, shared through his Instagram Story in November 2023, sharing a photograph of Swift. “Written and recorded at house on 12/5/21 after Taylor ate these raisins.”
Neither Swift nor Alwyn have spoken publicly in regards to the cause for his or her breakup. Swift briefly moved on with The 1975 singer Matty Healy earlier than going public with boyfriend Travis Kelce in September 2023. Days earlier than kicking off her Australian tour dates, Swift supported Kelce, 34, as he and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Tremendous Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.
