Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner of the National carry out onstage for evening three of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour at Nissan Stadium on May 07, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee JOHN SHEARER/TAS23/GETTY IMAGES/TAS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Taylor Swift‘s collaborative partnership with Aaron Dessner has led some Swifties from the Eras tour straight to the National‘s concerts. The pair first began collaborating on 2020’s Folklore, which featured the band’s instrumentalist and producer on almost a dozen songs. They most lately teamed up on alternatives from The Tortured Poets Department. Observing the rising overlap of their audiences, the National frontman Matt Berninger has seen an inflow of bemused followers — and far more girls.
“We see a lot of Taylor Swift fans coming to shows and being bewildered by the first 25 minutes or so. We’ve been blessed with demographics that are across the spectrum,” Berninger lately informed NME. “Then 10 or 15 years ago, a lot of younger people started coming [to our shows] – more and more women. The first 10 years was kind of a dude-fest at most of our shows, but that’s changed a lot. At our shows we have all kinds of old friends and they’re always different.”
Berninger shot down the concept that Swift would make a shock look at their concert events or that the complete band would seem at certainly one of her personal however expressed gratitude for his or her musical connection. “Nah, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. It is fun – that whole bridge has been a really, really fruitful thing for our whole band, not just Aaron,” he mentioned. “Obviously, Aaron’s been having such a great time and making so much great stuff with her, and the Taylor Swift bridge has been there for a long time. But no, we’re not.”
Dessner has made a number of solo appearances on the Eras tour. Last April, he joined Swift in Tampa to carry out the Midnights bonus monitor “The Great War” and returned the next day to play “Mad Woman” from Folklore. That May, in Nashville, they performed “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” collectively within the pouring rain. Dessner has additionally appeared for performances of “Seven” and “Right Where You Left Me.”
“Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine getting to play a song for 80,000 people on acoustic guitar with @taylorswift,” Dessner wrote on Instagram following certainly one of his appearances. “Eternally grateful for all the music we have made and your friendship.”
From Rolling Stone US.