Taylor Swift Performs 2 Surprise Mashup Songs at 2nd Sydney Eras Show.
The enchanting Taylor Swift continues to surprise fans during her Eras tour in Sydney! On Saturday, the singer treated the audience to two delightful mashup performances during the surprise segment of her second concert show at Sydney’s Accor Stadium.
“New Year’s Day” + “Peace”: Taylor Swift Performs 2 Surprise Mashup
Swift sat by a piano onstage and seamlessly blended her 2017 single, “New Year’s Day,” with her 2020 song, “Peace.” The heartfelt medley resonated with the roughly 81,000 fans in attendance.
“Should’ve Said No” + “You’re Not Sorry”:
In another captivating moment, Swift performed a mashup of her 2006 hit, “Should’ve Said No,” and her 2008 chart-topper, “You’re Not Sorry.”
These surprise tracks have become a particular highlight for fans attending her Eras Tour shows.
Swift intentionally includes two acoustic songs from her 10 studio albums that are not part of her main setlist.
“The choice is yours, you can sing it American like me, or you can be yourselves, and you can say ‘Should’ve Said Naur,’” Swift quipped to the crowd at Accor Stadium, using an Australian dialect of the word “no.”
Next up, Swift combined Folklore’s “Peace” with Reputation’s “New Year’s Day” in a sweet piano ballad.
Swift’s first concert in Sydney one day earlier also featured a mash-up when she brought out opening act Sabrina Carpenter for a duet of “White Horse” and “Coney Island.”
The unexpected renditions add an extra layer of excitement and intimacy to her live performances.
During her first Sydney show, Swift surprised fans by performing a duet with Sabrina Carpenter.
The medley featured “White Horse” and “Coney Island.”
Carpenter’s opening act was canceled due to bad weather, leading to this magical collaboration.
Swift expressed her appreciation to the Sydney crowd, saying, “Ah Sydney, you are just … right off the bat you’re making me feel so … just extraordinary right now.”
The audience’s warm reception added to the magic of the evening.
The surprise song choice came shortly after Swift announced that she would no longer ban herself from performing acoustic “surprise songs” more than once on the Eras Tour. She confirmed the change during a show in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday, February 18.
Since kicking off her record-breaking Eras Tour in March 2023, the songstress has debuted a 44-song setlist. She adds two surprise acoustic tracks at each show, dubbed “surprise songs” by Swifties.
While she previously told fans that she wouldn’t repeat any surprise songs while on tour (a rule she’s already broken more than once), the “Blank Space” singer just revealed that that ban is officially over.
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“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,” the singer told the crowd. “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."
She continued, “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.’” Swift explained that she wants to play surprise songs “more than once if I feel like it” and to be able to make “changes” to certain tunes.
“Does that sound OK?” she asked the 96,000-strong crowd, who responded with thunderous applause inside Melbourne Cricket Ground.
As Taylor Swift continues to weave her musical spells, fans eagerly await each surprise, cherishing these unique moments on her Eras tour.
