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Taylor Swift faced yet another technical difficulty at her most recent Eras Tour show in London.
Swift, 34 — who is in the midst of her five-show run at Wembley Stadium — was the victim of a technical malfunction during her Monday, August 19, performance.
The Grammy winner was about to perform “Champagne Problems” on the piano when she realized there was something off.
“This is in the wrong key. I just need to get to the keyboard,” Swift said into the mic, while sitting down at the moss-covered grand piano. “I’m sorry, but I know that it is. Yeah, 100 percent.”
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“How do I get into here?” she asked, as a tech ran on stage to help. The crowd cheered.
“There we go. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much,” Swift told the tech before laughing out loud at the situation.
Though the “Black Dog” singer didn’t say if rain was the cause for the technical mishap, she did point out that it was, indeed, coming down.
“It’s raining, isn’t that nice,” she quipped to the audience on Monday night. “I think when it rains for more than six minutes we can officially declare it a rain show, don’t you?”
Swift has notoriously had issues with her piano throughout the tour — especially when it rains. In May, during a rain show in Massachusetts, the instrument began playing on its own.
“Did you hear that?” the “Anti-Hero” artist asked the crowd in surprise. “Is that happening for you, too? I didn’t play that.”
In July, while performing in Milan, the piano emitted a hissing sound when a tech opened it on stage. That malfunction quickly went viral, with fans immediately wondering if the mishap was legitimate or a hidden Easter egg conjured up by Swift to tease Reputation (Taylor’s Version), as the 2018 album is rife with snake imagery.
In addition to the technical difficulties and the weather, Swift has also suffered what is arguably the worst part about playing so many outdoor shows: the near-constant swallowing of bugs, which she has done at least three times this tour.
Swift’s run in London wraps up tonight, on Tuesday, August 20. She will take two months off before finishing out the Eras Tour in the U.S. in the fall.
