Taylor Swift premiered the music video for her “The Tortured Poets Department” song “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” during her final tour stop in London on Tuesday, before releasing it online.
Swift surprised fans at Wembley Stadium by debuting the nearly four-minute long video shortly after saying her goodbyes with her usual closer, “Karma.” The video was composed of backstage clips of the “Eras Tour” (which was calculated to be worth approximately $900 million by the end of 2023) featuring Swift’s background dancers and tour crew preparing for the new “Tortured Poets” segment of the show.
If you’ve wondered what happens when Swift dives into the stage and swims away following her acoustic set? Now you’ve seen the crash pad she lands on. And there’s also a cameo from her infamous cleaning cart, which transports her to the stage.
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The celebratory video was synced to “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” one of the more musically upbeat songs on Swift’s “Tortured Poets” album, though most of the lyricism is dark with Swift seemingly singing about going through a breakup while embarking on the biggest tour of her life. The song is speculated to be about her recovery from a breakup with Joe Alwyn, with some speculating a connection to the 1975 frontman Matty Healy, who she was rumored to be dating.
In perhaps a symbolic turn of events, at a previous London show, Swift’s new beau Travis Kelce joined her on stage before the song began, quite literally sweeping her off her feet before she sang the song about heartbreak.
News of the music video was revealed just as Swift was wrapping her final and eighth date at the Wembley Stadium in London, where Jack Antonoff and Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine) joined her on stage for a mashup of “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and “Getaway Car,” and the live debut of “Florida!!!” respectively. The concert also marks the end of her lengthy European leg of her “Eras Tour.” She will return to North America on Oct. 18 for a show at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.
Since “The Eras Tour” concert film focused on the action on stage, the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” music video is the first time Swifties get a behind the scenes look at how the elaborate show operates.
Watch the video for “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” below.
