Taylor Swift has performed ‘I Did Something Bad’ for the first time on the ‘Eras’ tour while at Wembley Stadium – watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.
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On Saturday (August 17), Swift performed the third of her five-night ‘Eras’ tour run at Wembley Stadium which kicked off on August 15 and will wrap up on August 20. For the show, Swift treated fans in attendance to a special song, which she performed during the “surprise songs” segment of her career-spanning show.
That song came in the form of the ‘Reputation’ cut ‘I Did Something Bad’, which she performed live for the first time on the tour, and for the first time since 2018. Before jumping into the performance – which came with deafening screams – Swift said to the audience: “I’m gonna do a song that I’ve never done on the tour, that’s one of my favourite songs ever just because you’re that awesome and you deserve something of this calibre.”
Watch Taylor Swift perform ‘I Did Something Bad’ live at Wembley Stadium below.
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The night before (August 16), Swift performed another ‘Eras’ tour debut, ‘London Boy’. Taken from her 2019 album ‘Lover‘. Swift introduced the track by saying: “The whole night I’ve just been thinking ‘God, I love the English.”
It’s the first time she’s played the capital-inspired song live since its release in 2019. In honour of the occasion, she also altered the lyrics to include the line “I enjoy playing Wembley.”
Taylor Swift playing Wembley Stadium on August 16. Credit: TAS2024/Getty Images
The London shows mark the first ‘Eras’ concerts since Swift’s three shows were cancelled in Vienna following a foiled terror attack plot. Swift’s stage times in London had to be tweaked recently in the wake of the incident. Wembley Stadium also issued a statement warning ticketless fans that they cannot stand outside the venue while the concert is taking place – a trend known as ‘Tay-gating’.
In a five-star review of Swift’s UK ‘Eras Tour’ opener in Edinburgh, NME wrote: “Despite being an arena show, in a huge, cavernous venue, Swift and her fans have managed to cultivate a community.
“Strangers swap friendship bracelets, laugh and cry together, and embrace the tour’s in-jokes and lore (for example shouting “one, two, three, let’s go bitch” during ‘Delicate’). It’s the power of Swift, an artist who’s inspired not only the renaming of a Scottish Loch, but also countless fans to come out and embrace being a part of the Eras family.
Taylor Swift – CREDIT: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
“With the ‘Eras Tour’, then, Swift’s managed to craft a marvel of a show that comes with a beating heart.”
Following this month’s London shows, Swift will head back to North America this autumn and end her mammoth ‘Eras Tour’ in Vancouver, Canada in early December.
“This has definitely been the most exhausting, all-encompassing but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever wondered in my life, this tour,” Swift told the crowd as she marked her 100th ‘Eras Tour’ show in Liverpool in June.
In other news, the lawyer representing the main suspect in the alleged Vienna concert terror plot has claimed that the accusations against their client have been exaggerated. A third suspect was arrested by police last week after allegedly being in contact with the main suspect. Swift has not yet commented on the incident.
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