Taylor Swift at Coachella 2023: Why It Did Not Happen; What Happened In First Performance Since Joe Alwyn Breakup?

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The Coachella music festival is an annual event held in Indio, California.

The festival is renowned for its eclectic musical lineup, which includes rock, indie, hip hop, and electronic dance music. Swift has not performed at Coachella since the festival's inception in 1999, but it is rumored that she will in the future.

In fact, Taylor Swift attended her first Coachella performance in April 2016. T. Swit appeared at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, and displayed her Vogue cover-worthy bleached blonde tresses.

But as a performer -- she has been quite elusive.

It's unclear why but then fans would not be remiss anyway. They can watch others headline on this festival and watch Taylor Swift on her own tours and events. More so. Swift might need a breather after her break up with Joe Alwyn.

She might also be reeling from all sorts of news as to why she and Joe broke up after six years.

Some have said Joe "struggled with Taylor's level of fame and the public's attention" and that "the differences in their personalities have also become harder to ignore after years together."

This is why when Swift performed her first performance since the breakip on April 13 in Tampa, Florida, she did it to a very rapt audience.

They interpreted an ovation following the breakup song "Champagne Problems" as a sign of support for Taylor Swift and inferred pathos from her lengthy pause and subsequent thanks to them.

But Swift made no explicit comment on the breakup and used the changing "secret songs" section of her setlist to make another announcement that fans had been anticipating: a hint that the third album in her re-recording endeavor would be her 2010 album "Speak Now."

Swift is remaking her first six albums with the addition of the parenthesis (Taylor's Version) in order to reclaim ownership over her masters, which were reportedly sold by her former label chief to an industry rival without Swift's consent.

"Speak Now" is the only Swift album on which she is the sole songwriter, and it contains one of her most acclaimed songs, "Dear John," which is believed to be about her relationship with the songwriter John Mayer, 12 years her senior - an experience she revisited in the raging Midnights bonus track "Would've, Could've, Should've."

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