Swift carried out the music that mentions the Fleetwood Mac star whereas Nicks watched. “You are on Your Personal, Child,” a music that is private to Nicks, was additionally a part of Swift’s set.
Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks carry out collectively in the course of the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on the Staples Middle on Jan. 31, 2010 in Los Angeles.
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Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks reunited in Dublin on Sunday (June 30), with The Eras Tour headliner dedicating the night time’s acoustic part to the enduring Fleetwood Mac singer.
With Nicks in attendance, it was the proper event for Swift to carry out The Tortured Poets Division‘s “Clara Bow” dwell for the primary time ever; she names Nicks on the second verse of “Clara Bow,” singing: “You appear like Stevie Nicks/ In ’75, the hair and lips/ Crowd goes wild at her fingertips/ Half moonshine, a full eclipse.”
“I’ve by no means performed this music dwell in any respect,” Swift famous earlier than “Clara Bow,” which was one in every of two acoustic performances at her Aviva Stadium live performance Sunday, her third date in Eire.
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“The rationale I wish to play this tonight is as a result of a pal of mine is right here who’s watching the present,” Swift hinted. She praised this pal for paving the way in which for her, saying she’s “one of many explanation why I get to do what I get to do” — and that she’s been a guiding hand to many different feminine artists.
Added Swift, “She’s a hero of mine. I may inform her any secret; she’d by no means inform anyone.”
“I’m speaking about Stevie Nicks,” Swift introduced, main the viewers in an enormous spherical of applause.
Enjoying on guitar, Swift labored lyrics from “The Fortunate One” — her 2012 Crimson music with a theme that parallels that of “Clara Bow” — into the dwell debut of “Clara Bow” throughout her shock music set.
Swift then performed “You’re on Your Personal, Child,” from her 2022 Midnights album, on piano. At Sunday’s present, there was an unsaid cause for her selection of music: it has private that means to Nicks.
In Might 2023, Nicks expressed her gratitude to Swift for writing the music, at it’s helped her in grieving the late Christine McVie, Nicks’ pricey pal and bandmate who handed away in November 2022. “Thanks to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that’s writing a music referred to as ‘You’re on Your Personal, Child.’ That’s the disappointment of how I really feel,” she stated on stage final yr.
“By no means an argument in our complete 47 years,” Nicks stated of her deep reference to McVie. “The 2 of us have been on our personal, youngsters. We all the time have been. And now, I’m having to study to be by myself, child, on my own. You helped me to try this. Thanks.”
The rock icon was first noticed by followers within the Dublin stadium earlier at Swift’s present on Sunday, strolling to and from the VIP tent that’s arrange for Swift’s company.
Nicks, on the town for her personal tour (with a date in Dublin on July 3), is instantly linked to Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, which guidelines at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a tenth consecutive week. The singer-songwriter penned a poem “for T — and me…” that appeared on the album artwork for bodily copies of the set, Swift’s eleventh studio album.
The poem, partly, reads: “She appeared again from her future/ And shed just a few tears/ He appeared into his previous/ And truly felt concern/ For each of them/ The solutions — would by no means be/ Everclear/ Don’t ask questions now/ Do this later/ She brings pleasure/ He brings Shakespeare/ It’s nearly a tragedy/ Says she/ Don’t endanger me/ Don’t endanger me.”
Within the subsequent stanza, Nicks writes: “He actually can’t reply her/ He’s afraid of her/ He’s hiding from her/ And he is aware of — that he’s hurting her.”
Greater than 14 years in the past, on the 2010 Grammy Awards, Swift and Nicks sang a medley of Fleetwood Mac’s 1976 hit “Rhiannon” (which Nicks wrote) and Swift’s 2009 hit “You Belong With Me.”
Beneath, watch fan-captured video clips of Swift singing “Clara Bow” and “You’re on Your Personal, Child” for Nicks in Dublin.
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