Only bought this dress so she could take it off … on stage in front of tens of thousands of fans, in order to address a technical difficulty. At Taylor Swift‘s final show in Stockholm Sunday (May 19), the pop star expertly handled a wardrobe malfunction in between surprise songs, as captured in a recently posted fan video.
In the TikTok clip, a smiling Swift tells the crowd in Friends Arena stadium, “Just talk amongst yourselves,” before darting over to her piano, setting down her guitar and unwrapping her ruffly blue gown to seemingly adjust her microphone pack, revealing the sparkly gold bra she sported for the Tortured Poets Department set minutes prior. After a moment, a crew member joins her onstage to help, after which the singer flashes a big smile and does a little dance before sitting down once and for all at her piano.
All the while, fans in the audience cheered on Swift as she expertly and efficiently handled the blip.
The “Fortnight” singer went on to sing “How Did it End?,” which appears on the extended anthology version of her Billboard 200-topping Tortured Poets, on piano. Just before the wardrobe fix, she’d performed what she dubbed a “Max Martin medley” of “Message in a Bottle,” “How You Get the Girl” and “New Romantics” on guitar.
The 14-time Grammy winner is currently closing in on 100 Eras Tour shows following her trio of performances in Sweden, meaning she has had some experience handling performance hiccups. During a November concert in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, her high heel snapped off, after which Swift simply continued with the rest of her Lover set on tip-toe.
The musician has also handled rain-related piano malfunctions and stage equipment errors, which at one point forced her to sprint offstage instead of being lowered beneath the stage on her usual lift following the Reputation set. “Still swift af boi,” she hilariously commented on a TikTok video of the latter incident in July.
The “Anti-Hero” singer will next bring her three-hour-plus Eras Tour show to Portugal for two shows May 24-25, after which she’ll spend the rest of the summer touring throughout Europe. In October, she’ll return to the U.S. and Canada for a second North American leg.
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Swift recently took to Instagram to shower her Stockholm fans with gratitude for attending her first-ever performances in Sweden over the weekend. “Thank you for being the most generous, excitable, magical crowds, and for breaking the all time attendance record for the stadium all 3 nights,” she wrote on Instagram, sharing photos from the shows.
“Can’t believe this was our first time playing in Sweden,” she added. “But it won’t be our last… 🇸🇪 🥰”
Watch Swift expertly handle a wardrobe malfunction in Stockholm below.
