{"id":29506,"date":"2019-08-23T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1067547"},"modified":"2019-08-23T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:18:08","slug":"taylor-swift-says-she-may-never-perform-this-lover-song-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/taylor-swift-says-she-may-never-perform-this-lover-song-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Says She May Never Perform This Lover Song Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019723\/rs_600x600-190823114928-600-Taylor-Swift-Sirius-XM-NYC-LT-082319-GettyImages-1169795215.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.614795918367\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25.209183673469\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s most personal song yet is not one she&#8217;s prepared to perform in front of thousands of screaming fans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1066468\/taylor-swift-s-lover-album-lyrics-decoded-paper-rings-church-bells-and-a-london-boy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seventh studio album,&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;the 29-year-old pop star hosted an intimate Q&amp;A session with fans as part of a SiriusXM Town Hall special. There she revealed &#8220;Soon You&#8217;ll Get Better,&#8221; which is about her mother&#8217;s cancer battle and also features the <strong>Dixie Chicks<\/strong>, was the &#8220;hardest to write&#8221; and understandably so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Swift shared that she doesn&#8217;t know if she&#8217;ll ever play&nbsp;the emotional track live, explaining, &#8220;It was hard to write, it&#8217;s hard to&nbsp;sing. It&#8217;s hard to listen to for me, but sometimes music is like that.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The musician first revealed mom&nbsp;<strong>Andrea Swift<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1064340\/it-s-a-love-story-the-history-of-taylor-swift-s-fiercely-tight-bond-with-her-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">battling cancer<\/a> in 2015, and earlier this year&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1063295\/taylor-swift-covers-vogue-7-revelations-from-her-candid-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>Vogue<\/em><\/a> that she had relapsed. Much like Taylor&#8217;s decision to divulge the news of her illness publicly the first time, she said her family played an important role in including &#8220;Soon You&#8217;ll Get Better&#8221; on&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"51.602620087336\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.174672489083\">\n<p>&#8220;We as a family decided to put this on the album, and it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m so proud of, but it&#8217;s just really hard,&#8221; Taylor told fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1067183\/taylor-swift-s-lover-music-video-is-the-most-romantic-thing-you-will-watch-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during a YouTube livestream<\/a>. &#8220;I can&#8217;t sing it. It&#8217;s hard to just emotionally deal with that song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.135983263598\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"6.2970711297071\">\n<p>The 10-time Grammy winner&#8217;s loved ones haven&#8217;t strayed from her side in the lead up to&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>. In fact, Taylor&#8217;s dad,&nbsp;<strong>Scott Swift<\/strong>, hand-delivered pizzas to fans who camped out overnight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1067007\/why-taylor-swift-says-lover-is-such-a-special-album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ahead of her performance<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>Good Morning America<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.842519685039\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.8661417322835\">\n<p>For a closer look at T. Swift&#8217;s latest addition to her discography, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1066468\/taylor-swift-s-lover-album-lyrics-decoded-paper-rings-church-bells-and-a-london-boy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E!&#8217;s decoding of each and every song<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1067547\/taylor-swift-says-she-may-never-perform-this-lover-song-live?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift&#8216;s most personal song yet is not one she&#8217;s prepared to perform in front of thousands of screaming fans.&nbsp; Following the release of her seventh studio album,&nbsp;Lover,&nbsp;the 29-year-old pop star hosted an intimate Q&amp;A session with fans as part of a SiriusXM Town Hall special. There she revealed &#8220;Soon You&#8217;ll Get Better,&#8221; which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 13:08:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}