Taylor Swift Performs ‘Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?’ For The First Time
Taylor Swift is continuing her Eras Tour over in Paris, France. As Swifties guessed, the pop icon played tracks from her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, during her Thursday…
Taylor Swift performs onstage for the opening night of “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at State Farm Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Swift City, ERAzona (Glendale, Arizona). The city of Glendale, Arizona was ceremonially renamed to Swift City for March 17-18 in honor of The Eras Tour.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)Taylor Swift is continuing her Eras Tour over in Paris, France. As Swifties guessed, the pop icon played tracks from her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, during her Thursday night (May 9) set for the first time.
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Fans in France went wild when Swift, 34, added TTPD to her Eras intro with lyrics from "The Alchemy:" "What if I told you I'm back?" The European kickoff of her record-breaking tour and her first show since the album’s release debuted several of her new songs while cutting some of her regularly played songs.
What Changed During Swift's Europe Eras Tour Set?
She kicked off the first Era with four songs from Lover, followed by three Fearless songs. The artist's third and fourth Era that followed was Red, featuring four songs, and one Speak Now track. After four songs from Reputation, Swift combined albums folklore and evermore as one chapter (FolkMore) during the show because she's always seen them as sister albums.
Swift removed "Archer," "Long Live," "the 1," "‘tis the damn season," "the last great american dynasty," and "tolerate it" from the setlist.
Taylor Swift Performs "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" and Other TTPD Tracks
She then performed songs from both albums before segueing into 1989, featuring new visuals with clock imagery, signaling the transition into The Tortured Poets Department.
From TTPD, the award-winning singer-songwriter played "But Daddy I Love Him, "So High School,” and “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me.” During her performance of the latter song, the superstar stood atop a mirrored glass-plated block that levitated around the stage. She followed that performance with other TTPD tracks, “Down Bad,” “Fortnight,” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived."
Swift's surprise acoustic songs for night one in Paris are fitting: "Paris" and "Loml." Her final Era of the night was Midnights. She closed her performance with a theatrical performance of "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart." During her set, Swift called the Eras Tour "Female Rage: The Musical."
Taylor released The Tortured Poets Department on April 19 with a surprise double album with 31 tracks. She called TTPD “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”
Taylor will play 51 shows in 13 countries over the next five months in Europe, with an expected $2 billion gross in ticket sales alone, smashing the record from 12 months ago, according to The Sun.
