The unique ‘Surprise Song’ segment of the Eras Tour has become a well-loved, highlight-moment of the concert for fans. It usually entails two acoustic performances of any of Swift’s songs that aren’t on the permanent set list — one song performed on guitar and the other on piano.
Despite the surprise songs previously being full-length performances of two songs, recently Swift has been opting to play ‘mash-ups’, making the already suspenseful anticipation of which songs attendees may hear that much more exciting.
On Sydney Night One, Carpenter’s opening act was cut due to delays caused by bad weather. This resulted in Swift bringing out Carpenter on stage later in the show for the Surprise Song set, as she had done before with one of her previous support acts, Gracie Abrams. Sparks flew when the pair performed a medley of ‘White Horse’, from Swift’s album ‘Fearless’, and ‘Coney Island’, from ‘Evermore’.
Sharing a clip of the performance on Instagram, Carpenter captioned the post with a sentimental tribute to Swift, referencing an old YouTube video of her cover of ‘White Horse: “9 year old Sabrina singing white horse would never see this shit coming! i love you so so so dearly taylor. always have always will.” She followed this up with a screenshot of her tweet from 10 August 2009, proving her long-lived support for the fourteen-time Grammy winning singer: “was trying to enter a Taylor Swift karaoke contest to win tickets and a chance to meet her but they said I had to be 13 :("
Long story short, it was definitely an unforgettable night for Sabrina Carpenter and the lucky fans who got to witness this special moment.
