Taylor Swift Eras Tour Australia Surprise Songs: Full list so far | Taylor Swift’s surprise songs and what ones she could perform at her Aussie tour dates explained.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour kicked off in March of 2023 in North America, and since then, Swifities haven’t had a day of peace.

We’ve stayed up late to watch grainy live streams, and spent our lunch breaks at work frantically searching TikTok to find out of Blondie has done anything crazy at today’s show.

And last night, at her third and final show in Melbourne, she did. 

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After performing the Tokyo leg of her concert, Taylor Swift quickly jetted to Vegas to catch her beau Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl before heading to us.

Swift kicked off her three Melbourne shows on Friday, February 16, playing to the largest crowds of her career.

While her schedule has been jam packed, our calendars have been full of friendship bracelet making, outfit shopping, very impatiently waiting to scream the Illicit Affairs bridge with our besties, and stressing about the one thought that anxiously looms over every Swiftie’s head – what surprise songs are we going to get.

That was, until her third show last night, when the Lover singer threw a huge spanner in the works by announcing a huge change was coming to the Eras Tour.

The international pop sensation scrapped the one rule that gave some element of security to the chaos that is the surprise song section.

Up until last night, us Swifities were of the belief that once a surprise song was played, it couldn’t be played again, but Blondie decided to throw that out the window, announcing that the ‘no repeats’ rule no longer exists.

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“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 to her third consecutive crowd of 96,000 people at the MCG.

“That was to challenge me to like really get to all of the ones that I just don’t naturally gravitate towards and I feel really proud about having done that but this is sort of like a public service announcement to everyone.”

She continued, “I’ve been thinking like, 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’.

“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? Because it sounds more fun to me so I’m glad you’re on board,” she said as the crowd erupted into cheers.

But, if you’re still confused about what the surprise songs are and how they work, let me explain. 

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What are Taylor Swift’s surprise songs?

Basically, Swift’s concert is broken up into 10 sections, nine are dedicated to her currently released albums (all except her debut album, Taylor Swift), and the other is dedicated to causing a wave of simultaneous panic and excitement to rush over every person inside the stadium.

This section, is known as the surprise songs.

After Swift performs her first eight sections of the show, she comes to the end of the catwalk on the stage, where she performs two acoustic songs – but only she knows what they are going to be.

These songs can be anything from her entire discography, which is large, to say the least.

Up until her huge announcement in Melbourne, Swift would only ever play a surprise song once, and obviously any of the other 43 songs on her setlist are automatically disqualified from selection.

She used to have two exceptions to her ‘no repeats’ rule, one was that if she messed it up she could play it again, and the second was that if it was from the album Midnights she could play it as many times as she wanted.

The singer was also known to create her own rules as she goes, bringing out one of her opening acts in Cincinnati, Gracie Abrams, to perform Abrams’ song I Miss You, I’m Sorry together.

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And now, she’s changed her own rules again, explaining that she can play any surprise song as many times as she would like.

For some, that announcement is ahuge sigh of relief.

Some Swifties have decided that the scrapping of the ‘no repeats rule’ is exciting, we now have hundreds of songs we may potentially see live and we’ll never know what’s going to happen.

She could play the same song two nights in a row, she could even play three songs in one (see Melbourne night 2 where she mashed up Getaway Car with the August bridge and the Other Side of the Door outro.)

For others, like myself, who like the maximum amount of control in all situations, we’re now terrified – we now have hundreds of songs we may potentially see live and anything could happen. 

Whichever way your emotional compass has gone, it is what it is, us Aussies need to be prepared for anything in the surprise song section.

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What songs are included on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour setlist

• Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
• Cruel Summer
• The Man
• You Need to Calm Down
• Lover
• The Archer
• Fearless
• You Belong With Me
• Love Story
• ‘Tis the Damn Season
• Willow
• Marjorie
• Champagne Problems
• Tolerate It
• Ready For It?
• Delicate
• Don’t Blame Me
• Look What You Made Me Do
• Enchanted
• 22
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• I Knew You Were Trouble
• All Too Well (10-Minute Version)
• The 1
• Betty
• The Last Great American Dynasty
• August
• Illicit Affairs
• My Tears Ricochet
• Cardigan
• Style
• Blank Space
• Shake it Off
• Wildest Dreams
• Bad Blood
• Surprise Song
• Surprise Song
• Lavender Haze
• Anti-Hero
• Midnight Rain
• Vigilante Shit
• Bejeweled
• Mastermind
• Karma

What Surprise Songs Has Taylor Swift Already Performed in 2023?

At the moment, the following surprise songs have been performed in 2023:

Tokyo Night 3, February 7

• Guitar: Dear Reader (Midnights)
• Piano: Holy Ground (Red)

Tokyo Night 2, February 8

• Guitar: Eyes Open (The Hunger Games Soundtrack)
• Piano: Electric Touch (Speak Now)

Tokyo Night 3, February 9

• Guitar: Superman (Speak Now)
• Piano: The Outside (Debut)

Tokyo Night 4, February 10

• Guitar: Come In With The Rain (Fearless)
• Piano: You’re On Your Own Kid (Midnights)

Melbourne Night 1, February 16

• Guitar: Red (Red)
• Piano: You’re Losing Me (Midnights)

Melbourne Night 2, February 17

• Guitar: Getaway Car/August/The Other Side of the Door (Reputation/Folklore/Fearless)
• Piano: This is Me Trying (Folklore)

Melbourne Night 3, February 18

• Guitar: Come Back Be Here/Daylight (Fearless/Lover)
• Piano: Teardrops On My Guitar (Debut)

Even though Swift announced she can now repeat her surprise songs, the likelihood of her playing any of the above in Sydney are quite low since she’s just performed them.

It’s not impossible, just unlikely.

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If you have a particular song you want to see live, it’s time to start praying to Taylor Swift (or whatever higher power above it is that you believe in) that she performs it as a surprise song at your Eras Tour show.

Just don’t pray for The Way I Loved You (unless you’re going on Monday in Sydney), that ones mine.