Taylor Swift is finally getting the opportunity to run back into her boyfriend’s arms after a rough time in South America.
20.11.2023 - 18:55 / deadline.com
At her Rio de Janeiro concert Sunday night, Taylor Swift performed a deep album cut about grief, “Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” just two days after the tragic death of fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado.
The 23-year-old Benevides Machado died Friday after falling ill during Swift’s concert at Rio’s Nilton Santos Stadium. Extreme high temperatures are thought to have contributed to the death. Swift postponed her Saturday night concert in Rio to tonight because of the weekend’s temperatures.
“The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first,” Swift wrote on Instagram Saturday.
While Swift did not specifically mention Benevides Machado at the show last night (“I’m not going to be able to speak about this from stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it,” she had written on social media), the surprise song immediately drew an emotional response from the audience. In an audience member’s cellphone video of the performance – see it below – the crowd can be heard singing along to the lyrics “goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”
The song begins, “No words appear before me in the aftermath/Salt streams out my eyes and into my ears/
Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness/’Cause it’s all over now, all out to sea/ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye/You were bigger than the whole sky/You were more than just a short time.”
During the Friday show, Swift repeatedly requested that security get water for fans, who were tightly smashed at the front of the stage. The temperatures in the city topped 100 degrees on Friday, and many had been standing in line since long before the show started and were reluctant to give up spots in front of the stage to get water.
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Taylor Swift is finally getting the opportunity to run back into her boyfriend’s arms after a rough time in South America.
Ana Clara Benevides after learning that the 23-year-old Taylor Swift’s fan died from extreme heat at an Eras Tour show in Rio de Janeiro. A week after her untimely departure, the singer extended her condolences to the family by inviting them to her concert in São Paulo.A photo circulating on social media shows Benevides’ family standing next to Taylor while wearing matching T-shirts featuring Ana Clara’s face.A foto inteira de Taylor Swift com o pai, a melhor amiga e os familiares de Ana Clara Benevides.
, the fan who died shortly before Swift's show in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month.On November 26, Benevides Machado’s loved ones arrived at Swift's final Brazil tour stop in São Paulo. There, the family of five seemingly had the chance to meet Swift and that was later shared widely on X along with a clip of them enjoying the show from a VIP tent at at Allianz Parque stadium.The reunion took place only nine days after Benevides Machado’s death.
One week after Ana Clara Benevides Machado tragically spent her final moments at a Taylor Swift concert, her family is honoring her by attending a show.
uploaded to X (formerly Twitter), the family can be seen gathered in the VIP area of Allianz Parque stadium wearing T-shirts with Benevides’ face printed on them. As The Post previously reported, Benevides, 23, suffered cardiac arrest while waiting for the “Lavender Haze” singer to perform in Rio de Janeiro.
Taylor Swift has met up with the family of Ana Clara Benevides – the fan who tragically died at one of her recent concerts.The moment took place as the pop star went to see the family members of the late fan shortly before her concert in São Paulo, Brazil yesterday (November 26) – the latest in her ongoing ‘Eras’ South American tour dates.Benevides died after suffering a cardiac arrest while attending Swift’s show in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month. She was aged just 23.
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift did not offer an introduction to “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” when she performed it as a surprise song at her concert Sunday night in Rio de Janeiro. But she didn’t have to — fans implicitly understood her live premiere of the number, arguably the most wrenchingly emotional song in her catalog, as a tribute to Ana Clara Benevides Machado, who died after attending Swift’s previous show at the stadium.Full video of Taylor performing Biggen Than The Whole Sky (right in front of my face like wow) #RioTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/q5rNYixG1z Swift had previously expressed her sorrow over the fan’s death in a social media post, and had written that “I’m not going to be able to speak about this from stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it.” But, clearly, she wanted to sing about that which she could not talk about.
accidental death of a fan. Swift, 33, seemingly paid tribute to Ana Clara Benevides by singing “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” off her 2022 album “Midnights” during a torrential downpour at Estádio Nilton Santos in Brazil.
Taylor Swift played ‘Bigger Than The Whole Sky’ live for the first time at the second show of the ‘Eras’ tour in Rio de Janeiro – check it out below.The song comes from Swift’s 2022 album ‘Midnights’ and received its live debut during the staple ‘surprise song’ segment of the three-hour show at the Estádio Nilton Santos in Brazil last night (November 19).The other deep cut performed during the ‘surprise song section’ was ‘Dancing With Our Hands Tied’ from ‘Reputation’, which per Setlist.fm was played for the first time since 2018.Check out the live debut of ‘Bigger Than The Whole Sky’ below.
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