Taylor Swift bid farewell to London with the first live performance of her song “So Long, London”, from her latest hit album The Tortured Poets Department. The US pop star concluded the UK and European run of her record-breaking Eras Tour with her eighth concert at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday (20 August). Fans had been speculating whether she would perform the track , which is widely believed to be about the end of her relationship with actor Joe Alwyn, whom she split from last year.
Lyrics include the lines: “I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the Heath/ I stopped CPR, after all it’s no use/ The spirit was gone, we would never come to/ And I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free.” Swift, 34, and Alwyn, 33, dated for six years from 2016 to early 2023. The former couple were rumoured to have hunkered down at a rented home in Primrose Hill during coronavirus lockdowns, while Swift is said to have enjoyed walks on Hampstead Heath during her visits to the UK.
Elsewhere during her final Wembley show, Swift brought out Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine for a surprise first-time performance of their collaborative track “Florida.” She was later joined on stage by her friend and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff for an acoustic duet of “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and “Getaway Car.” At an earlier London show on Friday 16 August, she shocked and delighted fans with a rendition of her song “London Boy” , believed to have b.