Tears Raindrops were on Taylor Swift‘s guitar during Night 1 of it Eras Tour shows in Hamburg, Germany.
The 34-year-old singer took to the stage at the Volksparkstadion in pouring rain on Tuesday night, performing for more than half the show in the precipitation and carefully avoiding any slips in the process.
Photos and videos from the event show a soaking wet Swift pushing through the show as she sings, dances and parties with the crowd of around 50,000 fans in attendance. She will perform one more show on Wednesday before heading to Munich for her first show on Saturday, July 27.
It’s certainly not the first time the “Midnight Rain” singer has encountered a bit of inclement weather in the 15-plus months since she launched her record-breaking world tour. During one of her downpours shows in Foxborough, MassachusettsLast year, Swift’s piano was damaged by the weather and began playing by itself on stage.
Swift has rarely canceled or postponed shows on her Eras Tour due to weather, and Tuesday night’s show was no exception. It also yielded some exquisite photos of the singer with her hair soaked and her costumes soaked.
Later that night, Swift proved that she is a mentor as she picked up her guitar for the acoustic portion of the night’s surprise song and played a song appropriate for the evening’s weather forecast.
Swift chose to mash up “Teardrops on My Guitar” and “The Last Time” from Red. The first song comes from their self-titled debut album, Taylor Swiftwhich is one of two albums for which she has yet to release a “Taylor version”; Swift has also not released Taylor Version Reputationeven though fans have spent months speculating that the project is on the horizon.
In videos posted from the Germany show, Swift can be seen strumming her guitar while wearing a floor-length orange dress before finally confirming her song choice by singing the first lyrics into the microphone.
“Teardrops On My Guitar x The Last Time ???? THE BIGGEST LOSS EVER OMG :,))) #HamburgTSTheErasTour,” one fan wrote in a message on X (formerly Twitter).
On the piano, Swift once again gave fans a mashup, mixing “We Were Happy” from Fearless with “Happiness” turned off Ever. The singer has become something of a mashup expert in recent weeks, during stops on her Eras tour in Europe and around the world.
In June, she even debuted several themed mashups at her shows in Liverpool, England and Cardiff, Wales. On June 17, she performed the “Murder Mashup” of “No Body, No Crime” and “Carolina”, only to follow it up days later with the dubbed by fans as the “Diss Track Mashup” at Scooter Braun’s birthday party. For this performance, she combined “I Forgot That You Existed” and “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”.
More recently, Swift has apparently dedicated a mashup to her boyfriend of approximately one year, Travis Kelcewhile she performed in Amsterdam, Netherlands. At a show where her 34-year-old tight end boyfriend was in attendance, the 14-time GRAMMY Award winner sang “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My),” “So High School” and “Everything Has Changed,” which fans immediately connected to Kelce.
The pair is going strong over a year later from them romance startedwith the Kansas City Chiefs tight end still making an appearance on stage during one of his shows in London last month.
At the time, a source told ET about Kelce’s appearance: “Taylor and Travis recently discussed Travis making an appearance on stage on the Eras tour when the timing was right, and they finally made it happen.”
“Travis was so excited to support Taylor on stage, and Taylor couldn’t have been happier to introduce him, especially during such a fun and pivotal scene in the show,” the source said. “Travis only had one night of rehearsal, the night before his stage performance, and he didn’t miss a beat. Taylor was beaming from ear to ear as Travis gracefully took on the role. The two hope he can make a cameo appearance again in the future.”
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