By JACOB FRIDLUND
Staff Writer
When Taylor Swift’s Speak Now tour stopped at Gillette Stadium in 2011, she performed in the pouring rain for most of the show’s second half. Like the skies were somehow in on the joke, the first drops of rain fell right as she sang the lyrics: “With you, I’d dance in a storm in my best dress.” Each time Swift has returned to the stadium since then, the weather has been clear — that is, until the second official rain show of the Eras tour this weekend, which was a big deal for Swifties in Massachusetts.
“We’ve had rain shows at Gillette Stadium before, but this was a full-on deluge that never let up, I just want to thank that iconic crowd,” Swift wrote on Twitter after Saturday night’s show. A few days after that rainy Speak Now show, the singer canceled four shows for the first time in her career because she developed bronchitis. Now, Swift herself seems to be okay — but the flower-painted keyboard she plays each night for the surprise song portion of the setlist isn’t fine at all.