Taylor Swift Sings 'You're Losing Me' for First Time in Moving Performance at Eras Tour in Melbourne, Australia

Taylor Swift debuted a fan-favorite Midnights track live for the first time.

The pop superstar, 34, kicked off a string of three dates of her Eras Tour at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday and treated fans to the first-ever live performance of “You’re Losing Me,” a breakup ballad off the Late Night Edition of her album Midnights. 

While sitting at the piano in a flowing, bright yellow gown, according to fan-filmed footage on social media, the Grammy winner revealed one of her surprise songs on the setlist would be a special one. “I’ve never played this song live before. It’s one of my favorites,” Swift said, introducing "You're Losing Me," which dropped in May 2023. 

The “Cruel Summer” singer gave a moving performance of the downtempo song, which finds the narrator pleading for a romantic partner to realize their relationship is no longer healthy — and for them to do something to save it.

Swift sounded especially emotionally fierce during moments of the bridge, singing lyrics like,  “And I wouldn't marry me either / A pathological people pleaser / Who only wanted you to see her / And I'm fadin', thinkin' / And I'm fadin', thinkin' / ‘Do something, babe, say something’ (Say something) / ‘Lose something, babe, risk something’ (You're losin' me) / ‘Choose something, babe, I got nothing’ (I got nothing) / ‘To believe, unless you're choosin' me.’”

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“You’re Losing Me” was one of two surprise songs Swift performed during the Friday concert. She also played the title track of 2012’s Red, which she previously played on the Eras Tour at its May 21 date in Foxborough, Massachusetts. 

According to fan-recorded videos, the hitmaker introduced the Midnights deep cut immediately after she announced that fans can expect a special version of her upcoming album The Tortured Poets Department featuring a bonus track called “The Bolter.”

While revealing an alternate cover to her forthcoming album, due April 19, and teasing “The Bolter,” Swift said, “Tortured Poets is an album that I think more than any of my albums that I ever made, I needed to make it.”

The Folklore artist continued, “It was really a lifeline for me — just the things that I was going through, the things that I was writing about, it kind of reminded me why songwriting actually gets me through my life. I’ve never had an album that I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.”

During the concert, Swift also expressed how grateful she was to be playing her biggest show to date, as she brought 96,000 fans to the sold-out show at Melbourne’s Cricket Ground. 

"This is the biggest show that we have done on this tour or any tour I have ever done," Swift told the crowd in a clip shared on X (formerly known as Twitter). "That's the version you get of me tonight, the version that's completely starstruck by the fact that so many of you wanted to hang out with us on a Friday night in Melbourne.”

Swift resumed her career-spanning Eras Tour in February, kicking off with four shows at Japan’s Tokyo Dome. 

After the final Tokyo show on Feb. 10, the superstar returned to the U.S. to watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce on the Kansas City Chiefs play in the 2024 Super Bowl, and she then resumed her live performances on Feb. 16. The tour's Australia and Asia leg will continue through early March. Later in the spring, she’ll bring the show to Europe.