Fans think they know the reason behind Taylor Swift’s “Lethal” surprise song mashup in Cardiff: “This is iconic”

Taylor Swift stopped in Cardiff, Wales on her latest Eras tour – and according to her fans, she didn’t come to play.

The “Fortnight” singer brought out some of her shadiest songs during the acoustic set at the concert on Tuesday, June 18, which coincidentally came just one day after Scooter Brown announced his retirement from music management.

Swift, 34, and Braun, 43, are known to have a “bad relationship.” Braun was sold the original masters of Swift’s first six albums in 2019, sparking a dispute that later led the 14-time Grammy winner to re-record all of her previous albums.

As we now know, Swift has already released four of these albums and renamed them “Taylor’s Version.” It also includes other songs that did not make it onto the first records and are now known as “Vault Tracks.”

But despite the success of her re-recorded albums, fans believe Swift may still have had “karma” on her mind during Tuesday’s show.

When Swift took the stage during the concert’s acoustic set, she mashed together two diss tracks: “I Forgot That You Existed” and “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” – a “lethal” combination that fans believe may have been aimed at Braun. (Tuesday’s concert also happened to fall on Braun’s birthday.)

Swifties immediately took to the internet to share their theories about the singer’s surprise song mashup, saying they believed it was a not-so-subtle dig at Braun.

“THE DAY AFTER THE 🛴 RETRACTED IS LEGENDARY,” one fan exclaimed, while another person said Swift “really wanted to send a message with this.”

“LETHAL THE SHADE I’M SAT,” tweeted someone else.

One Swiftie called Tuesday night’s surprise mashup a “scooter homage,” and another quipped, “Mashup (shady version).”

Another fan online pointed out that “I Forgot That You Existed” is one of the first songs Swift owned since her 2019 album Lover was recorded after she left her old record label. “I Forgot That You Existed” is track 1 on this album.

“(O)h, Taylor Swift, the woman you are,” applauded the same fan.

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