Taylor Swift included Lover standout “Dying by a Thousand Cuts” throughout her shock songs set at SoFi Stadium Saturday evening (Aug. 5). Arguably, nobody appreciated Swift’s choose greater than director/author Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who occurred to be at this Eras Tour date in Los Angeles.
Mates, together with actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, captured the second Kaytin Robinson freaked out upon realizing Swift was enjoying “Dying by a Thousand Cuts” and shared clips on Instagram. It’s the second time the star has carried out the tune on the Eras Tour, and one in every of solely a handful of songs she’s repeated throughout her acoustic shock set. She’s sometimes solely repeated a tune if she messed it up the primary time round, which she did at an earlier tour cease.
Swift revealed “Dying by a Thousand Cuts” was truly impressed by Kaytin Robinson’s romantic comedy Somebody Nice in 2019.
“I simply wrote a tune primarily based on one thing she made, which she made whereas listening to one thing I made, which is probably the most meta factor that’s ever occurred to me,” Swift mentioned on the time.
Somebody Nice, starring Gina Rodriguez and launched by Netflix in 2019, tells the story of a pair who ends their relationship after 9 years. “It’s a film about how she has to finish this relationship that she didn’t need to finish as a result of she’s nonetheless in love with the individual however they only grew aside and he’s not a jerk,” mentioned Swift. “It’s simply unhappy as a result of it’s simply life like, time handed and now we’re totally different individuals and that’s the most devastating factor.”
Kaytin Robinson mentioned that Swift’s 1989 album had been there for her “like a finest buddy with a bottle of tequila and a bear hug” and that she “discovered probably the most consolation in ‘Clear,’ a tune about rebirth after love misplaced. It impressed me and Somebody Nice.”
See the director’s response to listening to “Dying by a Thousand Cuts” dwell, plus a clip of Swift’s efficiency captured by a fan, beneath. To date Swift has carried out three of six live shows scheduled at SoFi Stadium. She’ll return for the subsequent present on Aug. 7.
