Who's afraid of a little old fire?Safetyvalue
Certainly not Taylor Swift, who courageously saved the day when she and Gracie Abrams discovered a fallen candle had gone up in flames following their dinner and drinks.
In fact, Gracie remembered it being close to 6 a.m. when the pals put their girls' night on pause to deal with a fire in the kitchen of the "Cruel Summer" singer's New York home. She told Billboard they'd heard the candle fall over earlier in the evening, but Taylor had thought it was one of her cats making noise.
But luckily, Taylor knew how to put out the blaze with an extinguisher before anyone got hurt.
"She was such a legend," Gracie said in the interview published June 18. "I don't know how at this hour or in our state she knew what to do."
She added, "We both had an insane cough from the fire extinguisher fumes for weeks."
And that wasn't the only memorable moment the "Close to You" singer recalled from that evening six months ago. She also shared that the pair sang and danced "like theater kids" to Taylor's Tortured Poets Department album, which had yet to be released at the time, and collaborated on a new song called "Us," which originated from an instrumental track that had been sent over by producer Aaron Dessner.
"Something caught our ear at the same time very hard and fast," Gracie explained. "So, we ran to the piano and started writing this song... I used to fantasize about that kind of a thing as a kid."
Of course, the 24-year-old has shared plenty of other unforgettable experiences with Taylor over the past year. After all, Gracie spent the summer opening for the Grammy winner on her record-breaking Eras Tour. During a July stop in Ohio, she even joined Taylor on stage for a duet of her 2020 hit "i miss you, i'm sorry."
"OUR LAST AND 30TH ERAS SHOW TONIGHT," Gracie wrote on Instagram ahead of her final performance as an opener. "I'm a puddle."
Want more of Taylor saving the day? Keep reading for every time she handled an Eras Tour stage malfunction like a pro.
It’s cool—that’s what Taylor Swift basically tells ‘em after experiencing a technical difficulty during her show in Stockholm, Sweden.
As seen in a video shared on TikTok, the "Cruel Summer" singer told concertgoers to “talk amongst yourselves” as she dealt with an issue with her mic pack. And when she noticed things still weren’t perfectly fine with the device, she unfastened her blue dress—unveiling underneath the gold bra and black shorts she wears elsewhere in her performance—to figure out what was wrong.
After a crew member helped her out, Taylor swiftly tied up her dress and resumed the concert like a pro.
Call it what you want, but it looks like Taylor experienced a bit of a shoe debacle when the heel of one of her bejeweled boots broke during a concert in Rio de Janeiro.
But instead of leaving a blank space as to what she’d do next, Taylor simply tore off the bottom of her footwear and tossed it into a crowd—leaving one lucky fan enchanted by the souvenir.
And that’s how it works, that’s how you get back on track after an audio issue.
As seen in a video shared on social media, Taylor was singing “Love Story” in Mexico when she had a problem with her earpiece that affected her ability to hear where her band was in the song. Instead of jumping into a getaway car, she headed to her guitarist and was soon able to follow along by apparently watching the chords being played.
This night was sparkling, and Taylor wasn't going to let it go because of a broken garter.
Fans captured the moment The Tortured Poets Department artist noticed the accessory mishap during her concert in Tampa (sing it all together now) Florida!!! So as she was performing “Anti-Hero," she walked over to her backup singers—who were the heroes of the day and helped her get it back on correctly.
To the insect that interrupted her Chicago show: Taylor knew you were trouble when you walked, or rather flew, in her mouth.
Still, she played it off and didn’t let it bring down the buzz of the evening.
“I swallowed a bug. I’m so sorry,” Taylor told the crowd after she began coughing on stage, per a clip shared on social media. “It’s totally fine. It’s just stupid. Oh, delicious. Oh god, is there any chance that none of you saw that?"
When Taylor’s piano started mysteriously acting up during her concert in Foxborough, Mass., she probably thought, I can fix it (no really I can).
But after it kept making noises without her even striking a key, she figured the torrential downpour from her earlier show had caused a problem and she knew she wasn't out of the woods.
“This has clearly broken my keyboard,” Taylor said, as seen in a video shared on X. “‘Cause it was like literally underwater. I didn’t know how any of the instruments were working last night. So this is broken. I’m just going to get the guitar.”
You could hear it in the silence—Taylor trying to get her microphone to work.
After it cut out during her Chicago show, the music mogul playfully screamed into the microphone to see if anyone could hear her. And while she could’ve stayed, stayed, stayed upset over the malfunction, a video showed her laughing along and poking fun at the incident as the crowd cheered her on.
Betty, I won’t make assumptions about why there was a delay in Taylor’s stage dive during her Tampa show. But we think it’s because the floor opening didn’t appear right away—at least according to this video. Still, the stage eventually parted so Taylor could perform her epic stunt.
After Taylor finished performing “Look What You Made Me Do” at her Cincinnati show, she expected a floor door to open and for a platform to lower her beneath the stage.
But after the “Love Story” artist hit her mark and nothing happened, she got tired of waiting, wonderin' if it was ever comin’ around. And because her faith in it was fading, she ran off with her dancers to prepare for the next song.
Taylor even joked about it on TikTok after footage of the moment spread on social media—writing alongside a video of the moment, “Still swift af boi.”
Taylor once sang she was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline for this one was certainly funny.
While experiencing a technical difficulty with her earpiece at an Atlanta show, she filled the time gap with a little cat humor.
“A cat walks into a library, and the cat says, 'Um, yes I'll have some tuna fish please,'” Taylor told the audience as seen in a video shared by People. "And the lady at the counter says, 'Sir this is a library.' And the cat says, 'Oh, I'm sorry. [And whispers,] I'll have some tuna fish please.'"
Not long after, the earpiece issue was fixed. “I'm so sorry,” she continued. “My ears are back. Just at the perfect time because that was like a dad joke from hell."
