Taylor Swift devoted the dwell debut of her new tune “Clara Bow” to Stevie Nicks on Sunday through the third and closing date of her Eras Tour at Dublin, Eire’s Aviva Stadium.
The contemplative observe, which seems on Swift’s newest album The Tortured Poets Division, pays tribute to the Fleetwood Mac singer with the lyrics: “You seem like Stevie Nicks / In ’75, the hair and lips / Crowd goes wild at her fingertips / Half moonshine, a full eclipse.”
Swift shared reward for Nicks earlier than taking part in “Clara Bow” on acoustic guitar as the primary of two shock songs throughout her set. “The explanation I need to play this tonight is as a result of a buddy of mine is right here,” she stated to rapturous applause. “A buddy of mine is right here who’s watching the present, who has actually been one of many the reason why I or any feminine artist will get to do what we get to do now. She’s paved the way in which for us, and he or she’s mentored so many artists that you simply don’t even know she’s doing it. She’s simply turn out to be pals with so many feminine artists, simply to be a guiding hand. I can’t inform you how uncommon that’s. She’s a hero of mine and likewise somebody that I can inform her any secret — she’d by no means inform anyone. She’s actually helped me by a lot through the years. I’m speaking about Stevie Nicks. So I’m going to play ‘Clara Bow’ for the primary time for her.”
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Swift adopted up “Clara Bow” with a piano rendition of “You’re on Your Personal, Child,” off 2022’s Midnights. Nicks, who was within the viewers, might be seen wiping tears from her eyes through the efficiency. The singer beforehand credited the tune with serving to her grieve the lack of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie.
“Thanks to Taylor Swift for doing this factor for me, and that’s writing a tune referred to as ‘You are on Your Personal, Child,'” Nicks stated throughout a live performance in 2023. “That’s the unhappiness of how I really feel. So long as Chris was, even on the opposite aspect of the world, we did not have to speak on the cellphone. We actually weren’t cellphone buddies. Then we’d return to Fleetwood Mac, and we’d stroll in and it will simply be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like by no means a minute had handed, by no means an argument in our complete 47 years.
“So, when it was the 2 of us, the 2 of us had been on our personal, children, we at all times had been. And now, I am having to be taught to be alone, child, on my own. So, you [the audience] assist me to do this. Thanks.”
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