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By Julia Hunt
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In this series, Newsweek is recapping every show Taylor Swift has performed on the Eras Tour, city by city.
Swift had to deal with a piano malfunction during her Eras Tour show in Lyon, France, on June 2. The singer ran into trouble as she sat at her flower-painted piano for the acoustic part of the concert and discovered it wasn't making any sound. Looking baffled, she told the crowd: "It's not working. I'll give you guys 15 seconds before I just use my guitar."
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A crew member rushed onstage to lend a hand, lifting the lid so the two could peer inside the instrument.
"Sometimes the instruments just break and then we have to fix them," Swift said. "We are gonna try. Oh yeah, this is going to be fine, I think. Yeah, this is going to be great."
After the piano was fixed, she suggested that the heavy rain that day had been a factor. "Now you're really seeing how things work on a rain show because sometimes, sometimes the instruments just break and then we have to fix them," she said.
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The pop star later said the concert had been the first real "rain show" of the Eras Tour. Posting on Instagram, she thanked the city and said: "We loved playing for you, dancing with you, and singing with you in the rain! Yep we had our first official RAIN SHOW of the European leg of The Eras Tour!!"
The Lyon concert wasn't the first time Swift had trouble with her piano. During her tour stop in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in May 2023—which also experienced torrential rain—the instrument started to play on its own while she was onstage.
Swift told the surprised audience that it had rained "like a monsoon," turning the area under the stage into "a water park," and that this had broken the instrument.
In Lyon, Swift performed two nights at Groupama Stadium, June 2 and 3.
Taylor Swift's Surprise Songs in Lyon
June 2: "The Prophecy"/"Long Story Short" and "Fifteen"/"You're on Your Own, Kid"
June 3: "Glitch"/"Everything Has Changed" and "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus"
Learn more about all the record-breaking, sentimental and just downright hilarious moments from Swift's Eras Tour with Newsweek's interactive timeline and map here.
Were you at any of Swift's Lyon shows? Tell us your favorite moment in the comments.
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