Swiftmania has officially landed in London, as Taylor Swift prepares to perform the first of eight sold-out shows at the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium. The pop titan will bring her record-breaking Eras Tour to the capital tonight (Friday 21 June) before performing a further two shows on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June. She will later return in August for another five performances at Wembley, then head over to Canada for shows in Toronto and Vancouver.
Swifties will be poised to find out whether the American singer will perform any of her London-inspired hits. One, “London Boy”, from her 2019 album Lover, is widely believed to have been inspired by her then-boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn, with whom she split after six years together in 2023. The song features cameos from actors Idris Elba and James Corden, before Swift sings about how her partner introduced her to her favourite spots around the city, from Camden Mark to the West End, Brixton and Shoreditch.
Fans might not be getting their hopes up, though, given the song’s subject matter. More likely could be “The Black Dog” or “So Long, London”, both of which feature on Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department. Swift has been including a few songs from the record, which is still riding high in both the UK and US charts, during her set after its release in April this year.
“The Black Dog” is widely rumoured to be about her brief dalliance with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, whom she dat.
