Taylor Swift‘s “Cassandra” was the one music from The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology that had by no means been carried out dwell, till Friday night time (Nov. 22) in Toronto, the place it stole the present in a three-song piano medley brimming with rage.
“Cassandra,” “Mad Girl” and “I Did One thing Dangerous” abruptly existed collectively in a high-quality fury, ascending above the idea of ordering the tour’s predominant setlist by “eras.” (Tortured Poets, Folklore and Fame had been represented right here, in a single efficiency.)
Watch a fan-filmed video of Swift’s full efficiency of the mashup right here.
The dwell premiere of “Cassandra,” a music titled after the Cassandra of Greek mythology who obtained the present of prophecy together with the curse to by no means be believed, got here throughout the the acoustic part of Swift’s Friday present, the fifth of six dates whole in Toronto this month. The Eras Tour acoustic set is called the a part of the live performance the place what she performs every night time is supposed to be a shock to the viewers.
“When the primary stone’s thrown, there’s screaming/ Within the streets, there’s a raging riot/ When it’s ‘burn the b—-,’ they’re shrieking/ When the reality comes out, it’s quiet,” Swift sang from “Cassandra” at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, sitting at her piano painted with flowers.
She continued on with the ballad’s refrain, singing, “In order that they killed Cassandra first ’trigger she feared the worst/ And tried to inform the city/ In order that they crammed my cell with snakes, I remorse to say/ Do you consider me now? Do you consider me now?”
Swift stunned everybody additional with a sudden shift to “Mad Girl”: “What did you suppose I’d say to that?/ Does a scorpion sting when combating again?/ They strike to kill and you realize I’ll/ You already know I’ll.”
Within the transferring refrain of “Mad Girl,” she sings, “Each time you name me loopy/ I get extra loopy/ What about that?/ And if you say I appear indignant/ I get extra indignant/ And there’s nothin’ like a mad lady/ What a disgrace she went mad/ Nobody likes a mad lady/ You made her like that.”
Whereas it feels melodramatic to kind this out, the second that Swift took a pointy flip to Fame — with “I Did One thing Dangerous” — really elicited gasps heard around the stadium and the web, the place followers who weren’t on the live performance looked for streams of Swift’s set.
“What a disgrace she went mad,” Swift sang from “Mad Girl,” casually calling again to Fame with “They are saying I did one thing unhealthy.”
Towards the tip of the efficiency, that couplet grew to become “Do you consider me now? What a disgrace she went mad/ Do you consider me now? They are saying I did one thing unhealthy” in a intelligent rewrite that linked “Cassandra” with each “Mad Girl” and “I Did One thing Dangerous” in the identical refrain.
The mad mashup went on for a strong seven minutes, as captured on video by concertgoers.
It adopted a lighter efficiency from Swift on acoustic guitar, “Ours” (Communicate Now) combined with “The Final Nice American Dynasty” (Folklore).
Swift performs in Toronto as soon as extra Saturday night time (Nov. 23). The Eras Tour, which launched in March 2023, has a break for the U.S.’s Thanksgiving week earlier than taking its ultimate bow in Vancouver from Dec. 6-8, 2024.
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