The 6 Best Moments From Night 4 of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at LA’s SoFi Stadium (2024)

• Hometown Help From Haim & Gracie Abrams

  Swift enlisted some local labor for the Night 4 openers at SoFi Stadium: sister trio Haim, born and raised in the Valley, and Gracie Abrams, who’s based in L.A. thanks to her filmmaker father J.J. Abrams.

  “We are, in fact, three sisters that are from the San Fernando Valley,” Este Haim said to introduce the band. “Born in Tarzana and Woodland Hills, raised in the Shoaks – that’s what we call Sherman Oaks.”

  “I can tell there’s a lot of Valley girls,” Danielle Haim chimed in.

  “Are there some Valley girls in the audience?” Este asked to wailing cheers.

  Abrams, meanwhile, called the opening slot “the craziest honor of my life.”

  “This is home for me, and to play here in this stadium on Taylor’s stage in the same room as all of you, looking as beautiful and sparkly and cool as you do, it’s really the craziest thing that’s ever happened,” she said during her set. “So thank you for indulging us while we all wait for Taylor.”

  Haim also showed back up during Swift’s Evermore set to play their “No Body, No Crime” duet — as they have for seven prior dates in Seattle, Santa Clara and now L.A.

• Shaking Off Technical Difficulties Like a Pro

  Fans wouldn’t have known it from her bombastic “Cruel Summer” intro, but Swift let the crowd know following the first song that she was having some technical issues. “I am having a little bit of a problem with my in-ear monitors, so onnnne second, I’m just gonna fix it,” she said as she nonchalantly reached behind her back to adjust her mic pack with a big smile on her face. “I think I did it! I think I fixed it,” she declared after a few seconds, before swiftly moving along to introduce next song “The Man” with a simple “um, anyway!”

• Putting On a New ‘Dress’

  “This is a song that I haven’t played live acoustic, but I have played it live — and I miss playing it live,” Swift said to introduce the first surprise song of the night, the sultry “Dress” from 2017’s Reputation. (Sample chorus lyric: “Only bought this dress so you could take it off.”) Swift performed “Dress” 53 times on her Reputation Tour in 2018, according to setlist.fm, but this is the first time she’s played it all alone on guitar, and it’s a debut surprise song on The Eras Tour after she’s pulled out some repeats in the past few weeks.

• Think You’ve Seen This Film Before? You Haven’t Seen It Solo

  When Swift played the opening chords of “Exile” from 2020’s Folklore for the second surprise song, the crowd cheered wildly and started searching the stage for her duet partner Bon Iver. After all, the only other time Swift has performed the song live is alongside Justin Vernon when she popped up during a Bon Iver concert in London last year. But the singer/songwriter ended up performing the duet solo instead on Monday night – which made for an incredible communal experience when the crowd filled in for Vernon on the bridge, creating a powerful call-and-response between Swift and her ever-prepared fans. Plus, some of the lyrics in the lost-love song took on poignant new meaning after the pop star’s split from longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn, who co-wrote the song with Swift and Vernon under the pseudonym William Bowery – especially the closing refrain of “I gave so many signs.”

  📹 | The crowd screaming back the duet in the bridge with Taylor during ‘exile’ #LATStheerastour

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  — Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) August 8, 2023

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• Flavor Flav Proves Yet Again He’s the No. 1 Celeb Swiftie

  As with all the L.A. dates so far, there was a long list of celebrities on hand at the latest Eras Tour stop, including Cameron Diaz, Tiffany Haddish, Zoe Saldana and “Bejeweled” music video co-star Dita Von Teese. But no star Swiftie was more front-and-center than Flavor Flav, who was spotted greeting Taylor’s mom and dad in the crowd ahead of Monday’s show and even got a pack of Eras Tour guitar picks from Scott Swift to hand out to fans. The Public Enemy MC was previously spotted at Swift’s tour stop in Detroit in June and took a viral selfie with the superstar at the iHeartRadio Music Awards back in March.

  📹 | Scott Swift gave @FlavorFlav guitar pics to hand out to fans! #LATSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/XCyyFfNUyW

  — Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) August 8, 2023

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• It’s a Wrap on Filming the L.A. Eras Tour (For Now)

  After the first three nights at SoFi Stadium were filmed for a possible concert special or documentary, things were back to business as usual on Night 4, with the light-up bracelets returning to the smaller models seen throughout the rest of the tour instead of the larger, brighter bracelets of Thursday through Saturday. This also meant Swift could rotate through some different outfits – she kept the same wardrobe for the first three nights for filming continuity – and that the crowd didn’t have to see past any additional camera crews.

• Los Angeles Night 4 Setlist

  Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
  Cruel Summer
  The Man
  You Need to Calm Down
  Lover
  The Archer
  Fearless
  You Belong With Me
  Love Story
  No Body, No Crime (with Haim)
  Willow
  Marjorie
  Champagne Problems
  Tolerate It
  …Ready for It?
  Delicate
  Don’t Blame Me
  Look What You Made Me Do
  Enchanted
  Long Live
  22
  We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
  I Knew You Were Trouble
  All Too Well (10-Minute Version)
  The 1
  Betty
  The Last Great American Dynasty
  August
  Illicit Affairs
  My Tears Ricochet
  Cardigan
  Style
  Blank Space
  Shake It Off
  Wildest Dreams
  Bad Blood
  Dress (acoustic)
  Exile (acoustic)
  Lavender Haze
  Anti-Hero
  Midnight Rain
  Vigilante sh*t
  Bejeweled
  Mastermind
  Karma

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