Taylor Swift suprised her fans during her recent concert in Melbourne, Australia, by announcing that she will no longer restrict herself from performing any of her acoustic “surprise songs” more than once during her Eras Tour.
“That was to challenge me to really get to all the ones that I just don’t naturally gravitate towards, and I feel really proud about having done that,”she began.
“But this is sort of a public service announcement to everyone who might be anywhere else on the tour, or whatever, or watching this — we have a lot of people, we’re very lucky to have a lot of people watch this on the internet and care about these shows if they’re not here.”
“I’ve just been kind of rethinking, and I’ve been thinking I want to be as creative as possible with the acoustic set moving forward and I don’t want to limit anything or say, ‘If I played this song, I can’t play it again,’” she said.
“So, from now on, I don’t want to take any paint colors out of the paintbox or tools out of the toolbox.”
“I want to be able to play songs more than once if I feel like it and I want to be able to make changes to songs. Does that sound OK?” she added.
Right after Taylor proposed the idea, the 96,000 people in attendance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground burst into applause.