Duo perform Fearless (Taylor's Version) collaboration for the first time at Soldier Field
Taylor Swift’s Saturday show featured another trip to the vault and another surprise guest as Maren Morris joined in on the first-ever performance of “You All Over Me.”
“Tonight I’m not gonna play a song that I’ve never played live
before, so that’s fun,” Swift said while thanking fans for supporting the
Taylor’s Version “passion project.” “What I do when I re-record these albums
is I put these songs on the album that almost made the album, songs recorded
at that time that were supposed to be on the album… When I was re-recording
Fearless, I thought it would be really cool to have one of my favorite
artists sing on one of the songs ‘From the Vault.’ We are so lucky Chicago,
so incredibly lucky, because not only did that artist say ‘yes,’ but Maren
Morris is actually here tonight.”
The song was among the “From the Vault” recordings that Swift
unearthed and updated for her Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in 2021. While
Morris featured on the studio version of the track, the pair never played it
live until the Surprise Songs portion of Swift’s Eras Tour gig at Chicago’s
Soldier Field.
“We finally got to play ‘You All Over Me’
and I won’t ever be shutting up about it. Love you @taylorswift and love you
always, Chicago,” Morris wrote post-show.
“One thing I’ve been loving about these ‘From the Vault’
songs is that they’ve never been heard, so I can experiment, play, and even
include some of my favorite artists. I’m really excited to have [Morris]
singing background vocals on this one,” Swift said of the collaboration in
2021.
Morris’ cameo comes a week after Swift brought out Ice
Spice for three consecutive nights to perform their “Karma” remix at New
Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.
Upon arriving at Chicago’s Soldier Field Friday for the first
of three shows, Swift acknowledged Pride Month and said that her concert was
both a safe space for the community, and place of celebration.
“I’m looking out tonight, I’m seeing so many incredible
individuals who are living authentically and beautifully, and this is a safe
space for you,” Swift said. “This is a celebratory space for you. One of the
things that makes me feel so prideful is getting to be with you and watching
you interact with each other, being so loving and so thoughtful and so
caring.”
She continued, “Being with you during Pride Month,
getting to sing the words to ‘You Need To Calm Down’ where there are lyrics
like, ‘Can you just not step on his gown?’ or, ‘Shade never made anybody
less gay,’ and you guys are screaming those lyrics. Such solidarity. Such
support of one another and such encouraging, beautiful acceptance and peace
and safety. And I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people of
the LGBTQ+ community.”
