Taylor Swift stops Eras Tour show to help distressed fan

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Taylor Swift stopped a recent concert in Edinburgh, Scotland, to help a fan in distress.

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During All Too Well, Swift was captured on a TikTok video as she interrupted the song and said, “We need some help over there please,” while pointing to the audience. As she kept singing the lyrics, she paused again to ask, “I still don’t see any help over there.”

“We (love) you Taylor for caring so much,” the video was captioned, with one fan praising the singer for continuing to sing until help arrived. “Her ability to understand the importance of keeping the show moving and helping individuals is remarkable,” they commented. “If she were to stop the song it would be chaotic, so she keeps the crowd focused on her.”

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In another video that went viral on social media, Swift had to stop an earlier show in the city during Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve when she noticed a different fan suffering an issue

“We need help right in front of me, please, right in front of me,” Swift sang in a fan-shot video posted to X. “Just gonna keep playing until we notice where it is.”

“It’s right, right there,” she said, pointing with her guitar toward a spot in the crowd. “I’m just gonna keep playing till somebody helps them, then I’m gonna keep singing the song,” she sang. “I don’t think anyone’s gotten to them yet, and they’re gonna, ’cause we’re not gonna keep singing, we’re just gonna keep talking about the people that need help in front of me.”

She joked to the throng, “Just let me know when — I could do this all night.”

When she saw that the fan in question was being attended to, Swift said, “OK, you’re good? Awesome!” 

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Elsewhere, during her three-night record-breaking stand at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium, Swift got to witness to a couple getting engaged at her show.

In video shared to Threads, as Swift wrapped up a performance of Cardigan she told her audience, “I love performing this entire show in the sunlight because I’m pretty sure I just, like, saw somebody getting engaged over here … That’s amazing. Thanks for doing that at my concert, that’s a big moment — huge!”

Last year, the 14-time Grammy winner defended an overeager fan who got into a confrontation with a security guard in Philadelphia while she was singing Bad Blood.

“He just kept telling me to stop; he kept telling me to calm down and, like, not to dance,” Kelly Kelly (yes, that’s her real name) told GMA “And I guess she noticed, and she yelled at him and told him to leave me alone, and that I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

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