Taylor Swift Continues to Perform as Her Mic Pack is Repaired During Eras Tour Opener in Indianapolis

Taylor Swift once again expertly proved that the show must go on at the Eras tour! While performing in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday, November 1, Taylor continued singing as an audio engineer came on stage to help fix her microphone pack.

The pop star, 34, was performing “Lavender Haze” – the first song of the Midnights set at the end of the show – when her mic pack malfunctioned, as seen in fan videos from the show. To fix the problem, she had to take off her jacket and lift up her dress, revealing her sparkly bodysuit underneath, so the sound guy could assess the situation. Without missing a beat, Taylor continued to sing and improvised by using her free hand to cover her ear so she could attempt to hear herself in the loud stadium.

By the time Taylor finished the song, the problem was solved, and she sweetly said, “Thank you!” into the microphone. The “Blank Space” singer also shimmied to put her wardrobe back in place and then continued on with the rest of the set.

This isn’t the first time Taylor has dealt with a malfunction at the Eras tour. At her October 18 concert in Miami, she had another microphone pack error amid The Tortured Poets Department set. She enlisted help from two of her backup dancers to unzip her white dress and fix the problem as she continued singing “But Daddy I Love Him” for the crowd.

The following weekend, there was an issue with a moving part of the stage when Taylor performed in New Orleans on October 27. During “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” from the TTPD segment of the show, the Grammy winner glides across the stage on a moving platform, but when it got stuck, she took matters into her own hands and did the choreography on her feet instead.

There was a similar issue at one of Taylor’s concerts in June when a raised platform failed to lower her to the ground during the TTPD set. Luckily, one of her dancers was nearby and gave her a helping hand to get down from the stage. Once again, she continued performing amid the malfunction.

The Eras tour is slowly coming to an end. Taylor will perform two more shows in Indianapolis on Saturday, November 2, and Sunday, November 3, before heading to Canada for six shows in Toronto. The tour concludes in Vancouver on December 8. In total, she will have performed more than 150 shows by the time the record-breaking tour comes to an end.

“This has definitely been the most exhausting but all-encompassing, most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life,” she told the crowd at the 100th show in June.

The Eras tour began in March 2023 with months of shows in the United States. Taylor has taken the show to South America, Asia, Europe and Australia and returned to North America for the final leg this fall. During her breaks from being on the road, she’s spent as much time as possible with boyfriend Travis Kelce, who is currently in the middle of another NFL season.