“My mom actually spent a lot of her childhood with her mom and dad and her sister growing up in Singapore,” Swift told the audience, sat at her Evermore piano.
Swift had just finished singing “Marjorie,” an emotional song she wrote about her grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, and was taking a minute to address her fans at the stadium during the first of six Eras Tour events.
“A lot of the time when we would come here on tour, my mom would take me and drive me past her old house, and where she used to go to school,” she went on to say.
“I’ve been hearing about Singapore my whole life.”Swift said, “To get to come here and play a show this big with so many beautiful, generous people who were just essentially honoring my family with what you just did with that song [“Marjorie”], it means the world.”
In a 2016 interview with Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, the musician discussed her mother’s relationship with the city-state. Swift told a reporter that her grandfather, who worked for an engineering firm, had to go there for work, so her mother “grew up in Singapore.” Her parents were traveling for my grandfather’s job.
Swift announced her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, on Sunday, revealing a fourth and final edition of the project with an extra track titled “The Black Dog.” The other three Tortured Poets versions each have a separate additional song: “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” and “The Albatross.” The album is due out on April 19.Watch Swift’s statement about her mother growing up in Singapore below. Her remaining musical dates at the arena are March 4, 7, 8, and 9.
