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Coldplay and Maggie Rogers sweetly honored Taylor Swift with an acoustic efficiency of her hit tune “Love Story” days after she was pressured to cancel three Vienna exhibits as a result of a thwarted terror assault.
The “Viva La Vida” rock band, who’re at the moment touring on their Music of the Spheres world tour, had been acting at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Wednesday (August 21) with opening act Rogers once they took a second to pay tribute to Swift.
In a video of the second posted to X, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, 47, will be heard addressing the gang: “We haven’t talked about that Vienna was within the information all around the world for all of the unsuitable causes. However what reached us was the wonder and the togetherness, and kindness of all of Taylor Swift’s followers.
“So we felt – after all, Taylor is in America, she’s not right here – however we’re right here, so now we have to do the most effective we are able to do. So, I don’t need to allow you to assume that we don’t care about Swifities in our band,” he provides earlier than launching into a canopy of Swift’s 2008 observe.
Rogers, 30, shared a clip of their efficiency on Instagram alongside the caption: “From Vienna with love @coldplay @taylorswift.”
The considerate gesture has warmed Swift followers’ hearts, with a number of sharing their gratitude within the remark part.
“Thanks so so sooo a lot for performing this and therapeutic slightly bit the shredded Swiftie hearts,” one wrote.
A second praised: “The sweetness & critical generosity of this, (provided that Taylor was unable to play), is so real.”
“I’d have bawled if I used to be there!!!” a 3rd added, whereas one other stated: “Really the most effective of each worlds.”
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Swift was scheduled to deliver her record-breaking Eras Tour to Vienna on August 8, 9 and 10. Nonetheless, earlier than her first present, Austrian authorities arrested three suspects who had deliberate a serious assault on one of many performances. All three concert events had been subsequently canceled.
Based on reviews, the suspects, aged 17, 18 and 19, had been planning “to kill as many individuals as potential” on the exhibits, which anticipated 65,000 folks to attend contained in the venue and an additional 30,000 exterior.
The 34-year-old “Merciless Summer season” singer has since damaged her silence over the foiled terror assault.
“Having our Vienna exhibits cancelled was devastating. The explanation for the cancellations stuffed me with a brand new sense of concern, and an incredible quantity of guilt as a result of so many individuals had deliberate on coming to these exhibits,” Swift wrote on Instagram.
“However I used to be additionally so grateful to the authorities as a result of due to them, we had been grieving concert events and never lives. I used to be heartened by the love and unity I noticed within the followers who banded collectively.”
Explaining why she stayed silent on the phobia threats, Swift stated she believed talking out would possibly “provoke those that would need to hurt the followers.”
“In circumstances like this one, ‘silence’ is definitely displaying restraint, and ready to specific your self at a time when it’s proper to. My precedence was ending our European tour safely, and it’s with nice reduction that I can say we did that,” she added.
Swift lately performed her closing Wembley Stadium present, bringing an finish to the European and UK leg of her tour. Following a quick hiatus, she’s going to journey to Canada for her final dates on her Eras Tour.
