Taylor Swift Plays ‘Cassandra,’ ‘Mad Lady,’ ‘I Did One thing Dangerous’

Taylor Swift‘s “Cassandra” was once the one music from The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology that had by no means been carried out are living, till Friday evening (Nov. 22) in Toronto, the place it stole the display in a three-song piano medley brimming with rage.

“Cassandra,” “Mad Lady” and “I Did One thing Dangerous” existed in combination in a tremendous fury, ascending above the idea that of ordering the excursion’s primary setlist through “eras.” (Tortured Poets, Folklore and Popularity had been represented right here, in a single efficiency.)

Watch a fan-filmed video of Swift’s complete efficiency of the mashup right here.

The are living premiere of “Cassandra” got here throughout the the acoustic segment of Swift’s Friday display, the 5th of six dates overall in Toronto this month. The Eras Excursion acoustic set is referred to as the a part of the live performance the place what she plays each and every evening is supposed to be a marvel to the target market.

“When the primary stone’s thrown, there’s screaming/ Within the streets, there’s a raging revolt/ When it’s ‘burn the b—-,’ they’re shrieking/ When the reality comes out, it’s quiet,” Swift sang from “Cassandra” at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, sitting at her piano painted with flora.

She persevered on with the ballad’s refrain, making a song, “So that they killed Cassandra first ’purpose she feared the worst/ And attempted to inform town/ So that they stuffed my cellular with snakes, I be apologetic about to mention/ Do you consider me now? Do you consider me now?”

Swift stunned everybody additional with a surprising shift to “Mad Lady”: “What did you assume I’d say to that?/ Does a scorpion sting when preventing again?/ They strike to kill and you recognize I will be able to/ You recognize I will be able to.”

Within the refrain of “Mad Lady,” she sings, “Each and every time you name me loopy/ I am getting extra loopy/ What about that?/ And while you say I appear offended/ I am getting extra offended/ And there’s nothin’ like a mad lady/ What a disgrace she went mad/ Nobody likes a mad lady/ You made her like that.”

Whilst it feels melodramatic to sort this out, the instant that Swift took a pointy flip to Popularity — with “I Did One thing Dangerous” — in reality elicited gasps heard around the stadium and the web, the place enthusiasts who weren’t on the live performance looked for streams of Swift’s set.

“What a disgrace she went mad,” Swift sang from “Mad Lady,” casually calling again to Popularity with “They are saying I did one thing unhealthy.”

Towards the tip of the efficiency, that couplet was “Do you consider me now? What a disgrace she went mad/ Do you consider me now? They are saying I did one thing unhealthy” in a suave rewrite that connected “Cassandra” with each “Mad Lady” and “I Did One thing Dangerous” in the similar refrain.

The mad mashup went on for a forged seven mins, as captured on video through concertgoers.

It adopted a lighter efficiency from Swift on acoustic guitar, “Ours” (Talk Now) blended with “The Remaining Nice American Dynasty” (Folklore).

Swift performs in Toronto over again Saturday evening (Nov. 23). The Eras Excursion, which introduced in March 2023, has a ruin for the U.S.’s Thanksgiving week ahead of taking its ultimate bow in Vancouver from Dec. 6-8, 2024.