Chris Martin performs on stage throughout a live performance on the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria on August 21, 2024. Tobias Steinmaurer/APA/AFP/Getty Images
Coldplay‘s Chris Martin all the time acts in the identify of affection. And he did simply that in his newest tour cease in Vienna, Austria when he sang a canopy of Taylor Swift‘s “Love Story” with opener Maggie Rogers. He devoted the music to Swift and her followers following the pressured cancellation of her reveals in town earlier this month after an tried terror plot.
“Of course, we haven’t mentioned that Vienna was in the news all over the world for all the wrong reasons. But what reached us was the beauty and the kindness of all of Taylor Swift’s fans,” Martin mentioned, addressing Ernst Happel Stadium, the identical one Swift was set to play two weeks prior.
On August 7, the day earlier than Swigt’s three-night stint was set to begin in Vienna, the shows were canceled after Austrian police thwarted a deliberate terrorist assault focusing on concertgoers. The subsequent day, Swift’s devoted fanbase, aptly named Swifties, made headlines as they gathered together on Corneliusgasse Street in Vienna, the place they hosted an impromptu gathering the place they sang Swift’s songs and traded friendship bracelets.
“I don’t want to let you think that we don’t care about Swifties in our band,” Martin continued simply earlier than orchestrating his personal candy second. With assist from the gang, Martin discovered the most important Swifties he may and introduced them onstage so they may have a entrance row seat to his duet with Rogers. “If this is not good, please don’t put it on YouTube,” he begged his followers. Of course, Martin and Rogers delivered honeyed harmonies to a rousing crowd that sang each phrase of the Fearless observe proper again to them.
Coldplay is at present on the highway for the Music of Spheres Tour forward of their upcoming album Moon Music, whereas Rogers is supporting them after the discharge of her album Don’t Forget Me.
The devoted cowl got here on the identical day that Swift spoke out concerning the Vienna terrorist menace, calling the cancellation “devastating.” Swift remarked on her concern and guilt following the occasions however was additionally moved by her followers’ celebration after the actual fact. “I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together,” she wrote on Instagram.
“We sing this song with so much love for Taylor, with so much love for Swifties, and we sing this song with love for young people who are brainwashed into doing stupid shit and we send them our love too,” Martin mentioned. He continued with the theme of affection: “This is only love for all people.”
From Rolling Stone US.
