With Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour set to have its closing shows in Vancouver this weekend, many Swifties have been reminiscing on the tour as a whole and looking back on many different elements of the tour such as the outfits, setlist changes, and of course, the surprise songs.

Surprise songs is the acoustic section towards the end of the concert. At the beginning of the tour in America, she perfomed two songs in full each night, however as Taylor progressed onto the international dates of the tour, she began to challenge herself by doing mash-ups. The mash-up trend began in Buenos Aries, where she performed the first mashup of 1989’s Is It Over Now? alongside Out of the Woods. The surprise song mash-ups proved to be a hit with fans and got people even more excited and invested in the acoustic section of the show.

When the Eras Tour came to Edinburgh this summer over 7-9 June, anticipation was high to see what surprise songs Edinburgh would be getting as part of our Eras Tour experience. On night one, Taylor performed a mash-up of Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve and I Know Places on guitar, with Tis’ the Damn Season and Daylight on piano. At night two she sang The Bolter (live debut) and Getaway Car on guitar, alongside All of the Girls You Loved Before and Crazier (live debut) on piano. Finally, on night three, Taylor mashed up It’s Nice to Have a Friend (live debut) and Dorothea on guitar, with a repeated mashup of Haunted and Exile on piano (previously performed in Sydney).

Many Scottish Swifties were delighted with the songs that Taylor performed acoustically in Edinburgh, with many of them being fan favourites and live debuts. One fan who attended night one and two said: “Yes!!! First of all, I got my favourite Taylor song ever with Daylight then we got the first ever live performance of both Crazier and The Bolter!!! We won for real.”

Another fan was extremely happy with getting Crazier, saying: “Yes, a lot of the songs had never been done before and were really original. Crazier on night two started a tradition that went beyond her album songs and into her writing credits and movie soundtracks.” This was so true as after performing Crazier in Edinburgh, she went onto perform songs that Swifties originally thought were unlikely to be performed such as This Is What You Came For in Liverpool.

Another fan commented on how we got a very broad mix of albums for our surprise songs, they said: “Yes because we got a really fun mix of albums, and we had a lot of fan favourites. Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve and I Know Places changed lives.”

There was also a lot of love for Haunted with fans praising the songwriting of Haunted stating: “Yes because Haunted is a very well written song and I’d consider it one of her best. It’s also quite a different genre for her (the studio version) which she was able to transform into a beautiful piano piece.”

Overall, fans were absolutely over the moon with the surprise songs we heard at The Eras Tour this summer, and we can’t wait to see what else Taylor has in store for the final three shows in Vancouver this weekend.

Looking back at Edinburgh’s surprise songs at The Eras Tour