Demonstrations began at Wembley Stadium in London

Taylor Speedie fanatics enjoy parsing the singer-songwriter’s songs for insight into the context of her romantic times and her thoughts surrounding them.

Although the U.K. Fans of pop celebrities. One need not look carefully at his untouched copy, “The Tortured Poet’s Department,” to understand that Speedy made the nation’s capital city a regular haunt and his second home for the next long time. Was. The 5th observation of the report is titled “So Long, London”.

As Speedy brings his blockbuster eras excursion to London’s Wembley Stadium this weekend, some Swifties are left questioning whether they’re witnessing the beginning of a long farewell.

London is in no position to notice his visit. The area around Wembley was re-decorated for the performance, with fans posing in front of a giant mural of the singer and climbing stairs named “Swifty Steps” and other tributes.

Speedy announced that 88,446 people were in attendance at Friday’s performance in what she called “the most exciting city in the world”. Some famous attendees: Prince William celebrated his 42nd birthday on screen and posed for a photo with Speedy along with his two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

Speedy gave fans a nod to his London time through one of his two solo acoustic awe-inspiring songs: a piano medley that began with the London-set “The Black Dog” and transitioned into “Come Back, Be Here.” Went. “And the next one is “Maroon.”

As well as this weekend’s performances, Speedy will return to Wembley for five more performances in August to match the ECU leg of the tour.

London is a city in the tour where Speedy is competing twice. Some worry that the association will potentially constitute a swan track of sorts, while others believe it merely reflects an unused dynamic in Speedy’s bond with Bulky Smoke. Whether or not “So Long, London” seems like a bookend to the final bankruptcy or her valentine in the city, the track “London Boy,” Eras is coming off as an emotional milestone.

“Her relationship now is kind of taken for granted that London is not the place she would be. It’s not like there are any American football players living here,” said Maggie Fekete, 22, a Canadian graduate scholar who is traveling to London to Speedy’s tune. Give credit to the references for giving direction. When she came to the city three years ago. “I think there will be very little of London in his music, which is sad.”

Stella Allgood, 25, of London, said Friday that she thought Speedy would sing “So Long, London” at some point during his eight nights in the city but that Speedy would “always be welcome.”

Allgood noted, “Especially since she dated Harry Styles, she’s in the zeitgeist here.”

For those who haven’t been paying attention, Speedy had a string of romances with famous British suitors (including Kinds in 2012), which culminated in peak attendance when she began dating Kansas Town Chiefs forward Travis Kelce. of. The idea says “So Long, London” and a pathetic significant other track that mentions a London pub, “The Black Dog”, stemming from the 2023 breakup of Speedy and English actor Joe Alwyn, who have been together for more than six years. Are together.

Alvin is believed to have influenced “London Boy”, a track on his 2019 album “Lover”. A unique-edition “Lover” CD included diary access from January 2017, in which Speedy mentioned being “essentially based in London”, but trying to keep quiet. British tabloids then reported that Speedy spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic sheltering in place with Alvin in North London.

The Sun newspaper reported in December that the Grammy-winning couple had bought a huge stake in the segment and were refurbishing it to make it their base in Europe. The following Speedy left off the climactic moment of “The Tortured Poets Department”, on the other hand, an editor of the book’s British edition of ELLE observed that Londoners had a penchant for “an all-American A-lister who would have been better than our group.” Can make my place in. Consciousness.”

“We had Swift before we lost her to the record-breaking, box office-breaking Erasure Tour and now, it appears her void has been filled by Zendaya,” editor Naomi Maite wrote in a statement covering multiple locations across the U.S. Said in a joking manner before. The actor was seen with her longtime boyfriend, British actor Tom Holland.

Either way, the Capitals are focusing on their own performance to make Speedy and his fans feel better. Guides are providing walking, bus and taxi tours that follow in her footsteps, including a kebab shop whose owner says his status quo is supplying sandwiches for the singer and her team on Friday.

Before the end of August, Swifties can partake in a whole host of Speedie-themed brunches and dance events, or take a trip to the London Seeing Ferris Wheel with the Cotton Quartet playing their tunes. The Memento stall in Camden Marketplace, possibly one of the most discussed playgrounds in “London Boy”, was stocked with Speedy-specific caps, T-shirts, accessories and stickers in preparation.

Amy Unsworth, 34, who is from a small town near Manchester, England and was born a moment before Speedy, noted on Friday that the singer hails from the U.K. Is from. And proceed from the capital on the contrary.

“I feel like I have a connection with him as a Northerner,” Unsworth noted, adding that Speedy wrote a lot of the songs with Alvin on his “Evermore” copy time in the Poole District of England.

“Given her history, it’s hard to know how she feels right now, coming back.”

Unsworth is not afraid that Speedy will send him back to the U.K. I will turn. Speedy noted by this stage that his British fanbase “have been some of the most supportive people in my corner since I started making music.” Speedy first performed in London at the age of 17, when she attended the King’s School London Student Union.

“I think she’ll be back” the next era, Unsworth noted. “She has such a dedicated fan base that she can’t back down. She’s built so much momentum here that she can’t forget about us.”

Zachary Hourihane, who co-hosts a Rapid podcast called “Evolution of a Snake” and posts YouTube and TikTok videos under the name Swiftologist, said Thursday it’s too early to tell whether the singer will maintain her honorary citizenship or stage strategy Or not. With London. As her fans well know, only one day will tell with Taylor.

He said, “Taylor is a person who retraces her steps a lot. Things never really end with her. She likes to revisit things that are over.” “Let’s be realistic about it. Her relationship, even if it’s ‘so long, goodbye’, she has good reason to live in London and there is good money to be earned there.”