Taylor Swift joined Haim last year on a remix of the latter band’s song “Gasoline,” but few fans likely thought they’d ever hear them team up to do it live. The two artists hadn’t appeared together on the same bill since the rocking sister trio was an opening act for Swift on her “1989” tour. But Haim has been playing at the O2 Arena in London and the singer of “London Boy” has has been known to love this city for the past few years, so maybe their collaboration on stage Thursday night shouldn’t have been so surprising after all.
The icing on the cake ? Haim’s “Gasoline” was mixed for the occasion with Swift’s “Love Story”. The sultry former song would seem to have little in common with the innocent Romeo and Juliet storyline of Swift’s debut hit, but that didn’t stop a thrilling medley for audiences. “Love Story” was given a much more syncopated beat for a smooth transition, as evidenced by fan video captured at The O2.
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In a possible bid to become the fourth Haim sister, Swift even dressed in similar gear to what the three Haim sisters wore onstage nightly this year, especially getting a pretty close match for the pants in Uniform leather of Danielle, Este and Alana.
Swift’s ‘Love Story’ era certainly wouldn’t have been emboldened to do a curvy body roll while singing the line ‘You needed some ass / Well what’s wrong with that’ , as the guest superstar did when he added his parts to Haim’s song on Thursday.
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On Haim’s previous US tour, the trio headlined the Hollywood Bowl in early May, about which VarietyHaim’s reviewer wrote, “Haim’s Sunday comeback show at the Bowl felt a bit like a block party first, and a big rock ‘n’ roll coronation second. … The show was in service to one of the best catalogs of songs anyone in rock or pop has amassed in the past 15 years. … [A la “Licorice Pizza,”] LA as a city knows what it’s like to have some sort of musical crush on the Haims. It materialized into an outburst of mutual affection that was more cathartic than anything PT Anderson could come up with for a final act, for an adventurous, cocky, sentimental night, at least we were all Cooper Hoffman. Read the full bowl review here.
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