Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour landed at NRG Stadium in Houston for 3 nights this weekend. In current weeks, information broke that Swift and her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn have break up, leaving followers devastated, who need nothing however a contented ending for the pop star. It is rumored that a lot of Swift’s music is about Alwyn, notably current albums and particularly Lover.
Throughout one in every of her reveals in Houston on Saturday evening, Swift made some efficiency selections that her followers interpret as refined feedback concerning the breakup. At one level throughout the live performance, whereas Swift is singing, she approaches the artists who symbolize her completely different album eras on stage. In a clip captured by a fan within the viewers, she walks as much as Lover and makes the “loser” gesture of an “L” held to her brow.
She then determined to share her “shock” observe for the evening, which rotates at every efficiency. Swift sang her observe “You are Not Sorry” from the 2008 album Fearless, a couple of breakup and a horrible ex-partner.
Nonetheless, it ought to be famous that in different performances, Swift has made the “L” gesture to different album eras, together with Pink and Fearless. Which makes the true that means of the gesture a thriller.
Simply earlier than her Houston reveals, Swift livened up her lady group for an evening out in New York Metropolis that was captured by paparazzi photographers. Shortly after photos of Alwyn in London had been posted by celeb photographers, Swift was noticed at a women’ evening out with Blake Energetic, Haim sisters Alana, Este and Danielle and Gigi Hadid. Shortly earlier than that, all three of the Haim sisters, Swift’s brother and Energetic’s husband Ryan Reynolds unfollowed Alwyn on Instagram. After the assembly, Hadid adopted go well with.
Whereas the break up was initially described as amicable, persons are nonetheless in search of indicators of argument, on social media and undoubtedly in Swift’s musical efficiency.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and others. Her first e book, The Lonely Hunter, shall be revealed by Dial Press in February 2022.