Current:Home > StocksColdplay perform Taylor Swift song in Vienna after thwarted terrorist plot -Ascend Finance Compass
Coldplay perform Taylor Swift song in Vienna after thwarted terrorist plot
View
Date:2025-04-15 14:47:51
Taylor Swift's Vienna shows may have been canceled, but Coldplay's Chris Martin is ensuring her music is still played in the city.
During a concert on Wednesday at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium, Martin was joined by Maggie Rogers to perform Swift's song "Love Story," as seen in a YouTube video of the moment.
The tribute came two weeks after three of Swift's shows at the Ernst Happel Stadium were canceled as authorities said an alleged terrorist attack on the concert had been thwarted.
Speaking to fans during Wednesday's performance, Martin addressed the fact that Vienna "was in the news all over the world for all the wrong reasons" recently but said the band was touched by the "beauty and the togetherness and the kindness" Swift's fans have showed.
"I don't want to let you think that we don't care about Swifties in our band," Martin said before asking fans to find the "biggest Swiftie that you know" in the crowd.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.
The singer then brought two Swift fans onto the stage while he and Rogers performed "Love Story," a song which is a part of Swift's "Fearless" section in the Eras tour.
"We sing this song with so much love for Taylor, with so much love for Swifties, and we sing this song with love for young people who are brainwashed into doing stupid (expletive)," Martin said. "We send them our love, too."
Taylor Swiftterrorist threat suspect confessed he intended to kill fans: Officials
He also joked, "If this is not good, please don't put it on YouTube, because I don't want to get in trouble with Taylor."
Coldplay tribute comes as Taylor Swift breaks silence on canceled Vienna shows
Authorities said a 19-year-old suspect intended to kill "as many people as possible" in an attack on Swift's Vienna show involving "bladed weapons as well as the construction of a bomb."
Taylor Swiftbreaks silence on 'devastating' alleged Vienna terrorist plot
On Wednesday, Swift addressed the canceled Vienna shows for the first time in an Instagram post, telling fans "the reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows."
Swift, who continued her tour in London after the Vienna shows were canceled, also explained why she had not previously addressed the situation.
"Let me be very clear: I am not going to speak about something publicly if I think doing so might provoke those who would want to harm the fans who come to my shows," she wrote. "In cases like this one, 'silence' is actually showing restraint, and waiting to express yourself at a time when it's right to. My priority was finishing our European tour safely, and it is with great relief that I can say we did that."
veryGood! (3)
Related
- Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
- Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says
- DeepSeek: Did a little known Chinese startup cause a 'Sputnik moment' for AI?
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- Scoot flight from Singapore to Wuhan turns back after 'technical issue' detected
- San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
Ranking
- 'No Good Deed': Who's the killer in the Netflix comedy? And will there be a Season 2?
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
- Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
- Federal Spending Freeze Could Have Widespread Impact on Environment, Emergency Management
- Behind on your annual reading goal? Books under 200 pages to read before 2024 ends
- Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
- Could your smelly farts help science?
- Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
Recommendation
'Most Whopper
Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance revoked, Pentagon says
Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
Sam Taylor
Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)