Taylor Swift is starting to say goodbye to her Eras Tour “family” — and she took the opportunity to honor one of those family members Saturday night during her surprise song set.
Opener Gracie Abrams joined Swift onstage in Vancouver for the Eras Tour’s second-to-last guitar surprise song. Rather than perform “Us,” the duet the two wrote and performed together, they opted for a mashup of Abrams’ “I Love You, I’m Sorry” and Swift’s “Last Kiss.”
“I was thinking about what to do tonight and I was thinking about how much of a family this tour has become to me,” Swift said. “You guys met my friend Gracie, right? She’s on tour with me and she’s an artist I really respect and an artist I’ve collaborated with, and she’s also my friend. When I set out on the Eras Tour, I kind of made this decision that I was going to invite artists out on this tour that felt like family, that I had worked with, or people that are my friends. So the people you see come out on stage with me are either people that I have made music with or I consider a friend.”
Swift continued: “There’s something very different about standing on stage with someone who knows you and who gets you, and it just feels so safe and so cozy. Tonight is the last opportunity that Gracie and I have to perform together.”
After hugging Abrams goodbye, Swift launched into a piano rendition of “The Tortured Poets Department” before slipping in “Maroon” for one final time on the Eras Tour.
For those keeping score at home, this is the 10th time she’s performed “Maroon,” which brings it up to tie with “You’re On Your Own Kid” for most-played surprise songs. Will “YOYOK” get one final (11th) play Sunday night to honor the Eras Tour’s friendship bracelet revolution?
“One more time on this tour,” Swift said about “Maroon” towards the end of the song. “One last time, we get to sing together.”
In other “WTF is Taylor planning” news, all of Swift’s costumes Saturday night matched her Friday night lineup, and the cameras that sparked speculation the previous night were back again — more pretty obvious signs that something is being filmed that they want to have the option of being able to use a few different takes.
Sunday’s show marks the152nd and final show of the nearly two-year Eras Tour run — an end of an Eras.
