Fake Instruments.

During the Sydney leg of her Eras Tour, Taylor Swift sat down to the famous floral-painted upright piano that featured in the solo “acoustic” segment of her show, only for a layered string sound to unexpectedly come out when she hit the keys. This glitch – which some fans hypothesise was an easter egg rather than an actual technical mishap – was promptly fixed by a black-clad technician. When Taylor resumed playing, the sound was a rich and familiar piano tone, connoting analog authenticity but clearly just as synthetic as the strings.