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Watch Taylor Swift’s debut of ‘I Hate It Here’ in Cardiff

Watch Taylor Swift’s debut of ‘I Hate It Here’ in Cardiff

Taylor Swift sang “I Hate It Here” from The Tortured Poets Department live for the first time – watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.

  • READ MORE: Taylor Swift live in Edinburgh: The Eras tour finally comes to the UK

During her June 18 performance in Cardiff, Wales as part of the European leg of her career-spanning “Eras” tour, the pop star delighted her fans with the live premiere of “I Hate It Here” from her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

As part of the “surprise songs” portion of her setlist, Swift mixed “I Hate It Here” with “The Lakes,” the latter of which can be found on her album “Folklore.”

Watch the performance below.

Earlier this month, NME gave Swift’s first Edinburgh performance of the tour a glowing five-star review, writing: “Despite being an arena show in a huge, cavernous venue, Swift and her fans managed to build a community. Strangers exchange friendship bracelets, laugh and cry together, and embrace the tour’s inside jokes and stories (for example, screaming “One, two, three, let’s go, bitch” during ‘Delicate’).

“It is the power of Swift, an artist who not only inspired the renaming of a Scottish lake, but also made countless fans open up and accept being part of the Eras family. With The Epoch Tourthen Swift has succeeded in creating a marvel of a show that comes with a beating heart.”

Since then, she has performed her songs “The Bolter” and “Crazier” in Edinburgh and premiered her mashup of “This Is What You Came For” and “Gold Rush” at her show in Liverpool.

At her 100th performance in Liverpool, the pop star also confirmed that the “Eras” tour would officially end in December, saying: “This tour has definitely been the most exhausting, most all-encompassing, but also the most joyful, rewarding and wonderful thing I have ever experienced in my life.”

“This is the first time I’ve ever admitted to myself that this tour is going to end in December. Like that’s it. It feels so far away, but on the other hand, it feels like we just played our first show on this tour.”

She added: “This tour has really become my whole life, it’s taken over everything, I think I used to have hobbies but I don’t remember what they were. When I’m not on stage I just sit at home and try to think of clever acoustic song mashups and think about what you might want to hear.”

In other news, Joe Alwyn broke his silence on his split from Taylor Swift, calling it “a difficult thing to deal with.”

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