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Taylor Swift shocked fans when she made a surprise appearance at the Bon Iver concert in London on Wednesday.
They performed their track "exile" from Swift's 2020 Folklore album for the first time live, sending fans into a frenzy.
The band, led by Justin Vernon, was playing a series of gigs at the Ovo Arena Wembley when he invited Swift to join him on stage.
Aaron Dessner from The Nationals was also onstage for the surprise performance.
Vernon featured on "exile," with Dessner producing and both men have collaborated with Swift on a number of songs over the years.
After the performance, Vernon declared: "The most talented person in the world, Taylor Swift."
She replied: "The most talented person in the world, Justin Vernon. Also, the most talented person in the world, Aaron Dessner."
Upon hearing the compliment, Vernon joked he would leave the stage, saying: "Alright, goodnight everybody. We don't know what to do now."
The trio performed as part of Bon Iver's immersive sound tour using new L-Isa speaker technology to enhance the listening experience for audience members, which fans noticed during the performance, describing it as "heaven."
"Taylor Swift and Bon Iver singing exile live is what you hear when you enter the gates of heaven," wrote one fan on Twitter.
Another added: "an exile live performance??? Taylor Swift??? Bon Iver??? this is giving me life."
And a third said: "okay but Bon Iver bringing out Taylor Swift for 'exile' was genuinely an incredible moment."
Songwriting credits for "exile" include Swift, Vernon and Swift's boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, who was credited under the pseudonym, William Bowery.
Swift's surprise performance comes off the back of her record-breaking success of her new album, Midnights, released on October 21.
In a matter of 24 hours, it had 88 million streams in the United States and 185 million worldwide on Spotify, more than Bad Bunny's previous record-breaking effort of 183 million for his Un Verano Sin Ti album.
"The fact that the fans have done this—the breaking of the records and the going out to the stores and getting it, it's like, I'm 32, so we're considered geriatric pop stars," Swift said during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
"They start trying to put us out to pasture at age 25. I'm just happy to be here."
She also teased a potential world tour for the Midnights album.
"When it's time, we'll do it. I miss it. I really miss it. I miss, you know, when you write songs, and you're proud of the songs, and you have the fans reacting, the most potent way that you can see them react is by looking into their faces," Swift told Fallon.
"I miss that a lot. I miss that connection."
The singer previously mentioned a tour on her U.K. website but did not give many details.
A note prior to the album's release read: "Pre-order* the new Taylor Swift album Midnights on any format from the official U.K. store to get special presale code access for forthcoming and yet to be announced Taylor Swift U.K. show dates."
There has been no further information about a tour or pre-sale offer for the U.S. yet.
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