Taylor Swift Shakes Off Stage Malfunction During Eras Tour Like a Pro
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Taylor Swiftisn’t acrophobic of a small aged signifier malfunction.
During her 3rd consecutive nighttime performing The Eras Tour successful New Orleans connected Oct. 27, the “Lavender Haze” vocalist gracefully overcame a malfunctioning signifier piece.
While performing "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" from her Tortured Poets Department album, everything was going usually arsenic Taylor began by lasting connected apical of a small, reflective level which typically moves remotely astir the stage.
During the archetypal chorus of the song, arsenic Taylor—whose fellow Travis Kelce was absent for a Kansas City Chiefs shot crippled successful Las Vegas—stomped her ft to “But what if it did,” the tiny signifier was expected to statesman dilatory moving guardant toward her backup dancers. Instead, the raised surface, which fans person nicknamed the “Roomba,” stayed successful place.
But the 34-year-old—who is nary alien to dealing with a malfunction connected stage—didn’t miss a beat. In video from the concert, Tay simply kept singing and dismounted the level to basal successful the halfway of the ellipse of dancers awaiting her arrival. The “Anti-Hero” vocalist past walked to the apical of the stage’s agelong runway that the level usually moves down.
While singing the lyrics “That I'm fearsome and I'm wretched and I'm wrong,” Taylor noticed her backup dancers had moved the breached signifier portion toward her, truthful she moved to beryllium connected the piece, each the portion not missing a azygous word.
When it became wide that the signifier would not determination down the runway, the “Fortnight” vocalist stood up and strutted the catwalk, stopping strategically to works her feet and creation to the song.
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Her backup dancers—who person formed beardown friendships with Taylor and Travis—also handled the malfunction similar pros, joining Taylor astatine the apical of the runway and continuing the choreographed dance.
As the opus ended, Taylor walked backmost to wherever she past sat connected the signifier and the level tin beryllium seen lowered underneath the signifier portion Taylor ignored the blank abstraction successful the floor.
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