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Taylor Swift performs while repairing mic pack during Eras Tour
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Taylor Swift performs while repairing mic pack during Eras Tour

Taylor Swift once again expertly proven that the show should continue during the Eras tour! While performing in Indianapolis, Indianaon Friday, November 1, Taylor continued to sing while a sound engineer took the stage to help her repair her microphone.

The pop star, 34, performed “Lavender Haze” – the first song on Midnights set at the end of the show – when his mic pack malfunctioned, as seen in the fan videos of the show. To fix the problem, she had to take off her jacket and lift up her dress, revealing her sparkly bodysuit underneath, so the sound technician could assess the situation. Without missing a beat, Taylor continued to sing and improvise, using her free hand to cover her ear so she could try to hear herself in the noisy stadium.

By the time Taylor finished the song, the problem was resolved and she kindly said, “Thank you!” into the microphone. The “Blank Space” singer also stumbled to put her wardrobe back into place, then continued with the rest of the set.

This isn’t the first time Taylor has faced a malfunction on the Eras tour. During her October 18 concert in Miami, she had another microphone pack error in the middle The Department of Tortured Poets together. She enlisted the help of two of her backup dancers to open her white dress and fix the problem as she continued to sing “But Daddy, I Love Him” ​​for the crowd.

The following weekend, there was a problem with a moving part of the stage when Taylor performed in New Orleans on October 27. During “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” of the TTP segment of the show, the Grammy winner glides across the stage on a moving platform, but when he got stuckshe took matters into her own hands and performed the choreography standing up instead.

A similar problem occurred at one of Taylor’s concerts in June, when a raised platform failed to lower her to the ground during the concert. TTP together. Luckily, one of her dancers was nearby and gave her a hand getting off the stage. Once again, she continued to play despite the malfunction.

The Eras tour is slowly coming to an end. Taylor will perform two more shows in Indianapolis on Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3, before heading to Canada for six shows in Toronto. The tour will conclude in Vancouver on December 8. In total, she will have given more than 150 shows at the end of this record tour.

“It has definitely been the most exhausting but most encompassing, joyful, rewarding, wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life,” she told the audience at the 100th show in June.

The Eras Tour kicked off in March 2023 with months of concerts in the United States. Taylor took the show to South America, Asia, Europe and Australia and returned to North America for the final leg this fall. During her breaks on the road, she spends as much time as possible with her boyfriend Travis Kelcewho is currently in the middle of another NFL season.