Taylor Swift Performs Calvin Harris and Rihanna's 'This Is What You Came For' as Eras Tour Surprise Song in Liverpool

This was a rare performance of the 2016 song by Swift, who co-wrote the song with her ex-boyfriend Harris.

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For the first time since the start of her worldwide hit Eras Tour, Swift performed a song alone during his acoustic set of “surprise song” not originally released under his name: the 2016 hit "This Is What You Came For" by Rihanna and Swift's ex Calvin Harris.

“Whenever I have an acoustic set, I always try to think of things that you might want to hear, maybe things that might be a little unexpected,” the pop superstar said. he told the crowd. "Let's see how we did tonight."

On the record-breaking Eras Tour, Swift keeps fans at the end of their seats for the first three hours of her career-spanning setlist, leaving room toward the end of the show for a pair of ever-changing songs ( often one on guitar and piano), which fans have dubbed “surprise songs.”

During the guitar performance in Liverpool, he added lyrics to his 2020 song “Gold Rush.” To complete her acoustic set, she played a mix of midnight bonus songs “You're Losing Me” and “The Great War” for the Liverpool audience.

When “This Is What You Came For” was first released in April 2016, when Swift and Harris were still a couple, the composition was attributed to Harris and the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg, but later The couple's separation that June., It was learned that Swift had written the clue with the fake name.

"I wrote under the name Nils Sjöberg because they are two of the most popular names among Swedish men." Swift later told Paul McCartney in an interview for Rolling Stone. “And no one knew for a while. "I remember always hearing that when Prince wrote 'Manic Monday,' they didn't reveal it for a couple of months."

The pseudonym appeared again in Swift. music video for “Look What You Made Me Do” adorning a tombstone in a cemetery, where Swift played a zombified version of herself.

The 34-year-old singer has only performed the song twice since its release eight years ago: in October 2016, debuted the song on the piano at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, and in February 2017, the “Cruel Summer” singer performed the song again in a Super Saturday Night Performance in Houston.

2016 wasn't the last time Swift fooled her fans with fake names: in the songwriting credits on her sister albums Folklore and Increasingly as well as pop sensation midnightex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn took his songwriting credits under the pseudonym of William Bowery.

But during his Disney+ movie Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, she revealed the mystery. "There's been a lot of discussion about William Bowery and his identity because he's not a real person," she said. "William Bowery is Joe, as we know."

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Taylor Swift Performs Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s ‘This Is What You Came For’ as Eras Tour Surprise Song in Liverpool

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