Taylor Swift Eras tour: What to expect at Sydney concerts

Swifties are flooding social media with requests after the pop sensation pressed “reset” on her self-imposed surprise song rules. Here is what you can expect to hear.

Aussie Swifties are getting Crazier about the surprise songs the pop phenomenon will play during her four epic shows in Sydney this weekend.

Her long-serving devotees are lobbying for some serious throwbacks to get their moment to shine at the Accor Stadium concert, including her 2009 hit Crazier which featured in Hannah Montana: The Movie.

Accor Stadium is flagging a maximum of 80,000 people per night at the four Sydney shows on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday before Swift hightails it in her private jet to Singapore for the next leg of the tour.

Taylor Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Picture: Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

The Crazier request is just one among dozens of song suggestions flooding social media after Swift announced during a Melbourne show she was pressing “reset” on her self-imposed surprise song rules.

“Basically, when I started the tour in the US, I made up this rule where I was like, I’m not allowed to ever play a song twice on the tour,” she said at the third Melbourne show on Sunday.

“I want to be as creative as possible with the acoustic set moving forward and I don’t want to limit anything and I don’t want to just say like ‘oh I played a song before, I can’t play it again’.

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Taylor Swift fans outside ExecuJet Sydney as US singer Taylor Swift arrives for the Sydney leg of her Tour. Picture: Richard Dobson

“So from now on … I want to be able to play songs more than once if I feel like it and I want to be able to make changes to songs and be creative, does that sound okay?”

The Karma star shocked not only the 96,000 fans at each of her Saturday and Sunday shows in Australia but heartbroken Swifties worldwide by playing two “mash-ups”, or medleys, within the acoustic section in the Eras Tour setlist.

This means Aussie fans have technically had more surprise songs than any other city on the world tour.

The pop sensation performed a mix of Getaway Car, August, and The Other Side of the Door on Saturday, while Sunday’s crowd heard a mashup of Come Back Be Here and Daylight.

The new Taylor Swift mural just off Crown Street in Darlinghurst. Picture: David Swift

Now Swift has shelved the “repeat” rule, many fans heading to Sydney shows are lobbying for You’re On Your Own Kid from the Midnights album, which has already had four outings on tour and features the “make the friendship bracelets” lyric.

Others are punting for her to return to her country roots and play Mary’s Song (Oh My My My) after her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his team Kansas City Chiefs won the Superbowl last week.

The romantic link comes from the lyric “I’ll be eighty-seven, you’ll be eighty-nine”, as Kelce’s jersey number is 87 and Swift was born in 1989.

Another high contender is Mean from Swift’s third album Speak Now.

The song is rumoured to be aimed at her critics but the lyrics have recently become a weapon against trolls who whinged about her presence at Kelce’s matches.

Most recently alleged football fans gathered outside her show at the MCG to boo her.

Taylor Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket. Picture: Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Fans have been circulating the lyrics to Mean in response to the male football fans who gathered outside the MCG to boo her on the weekend.

“I can see you years from now in a bar, Talking over a football game, With that same big loud opinion, But nobody’s listening … Drunk and grumblin’ on about how I can’t sing, But all you are is mean”.

Other guesses include Ivy, as well as ME! just in time for mardi gras.

Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve is track fans are suggesting could pair with Dear John; both songs are allegedly about famous ex John Mayer.

Another big moment Swifties are keen to see is for the Sydney Opera House to be adorned in Eras-inspired colours this week after Melbourne’s Flinders Street station was lit up to celebrate the tour.

It is understood there have been “discussions” about the possibility but no decision made as yet.

Originally published as Taylor Swift Eras tour: What to expect at Sydney concerts