The squad has assembled, this time in Madrid. Taylor Swift’s friends and frequent dinner companions Blake Lively and Haims Este, Alana, and Danielle were spotted dancing in the audience at Swift’s Eras Tour stopover in Madrid on Wednesday night.
The group braved the crowds for the first of Swift’s two-night run at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, making good on Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds’ promise earlier this month that he and Lively would be attending.
Reynolds appeared on Today with Hoda and Jenna earlier in May to promote his new movie If, where he admitted that though he hadn’t yet seen what he dubbed “the best concert on planet Earth,” Lively and some configuration of the couple’s four children have been to “five or six” of the performances already.
“They love it, they’re obsessed,” he said.
The group including Lively and the Haim sisters were seen dancing energetically throughout the show. In the segment of the concert reserved for “surprise songs,” Swift played two mashup arrangements of her own songs, beginning by combining “Sparks Fly” with “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)”, then “Snow on the Beach” with “I Look In People’s Windows.” A stage cue during the latter led the crowd to believe that a surprise guest performer may be joining Swift mid-song—say, “Snow on the Beach” featured artist Lana del Rey?—but, as Swift said apologetically to the shrieking crowd, “It’s just me, guys, sorry!”
Lively and Reynolds are close friends of Swift’s, and Lively notably joined the singer in the VIP box at this year’s Super Bowl to watch Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs clinch their second-straight title. The Haims, too, have stepped out on the town with Swift, like when they joined her and Sophie Turner for dinner in New York City in the midst of Turner’s divorce drama with Joe Jonas in September 2023.
Of course, the Madrid show would have been the perfect opportunity for Swift to somehow reveal the name of Lively and Reynolds’s fourth child, who was born sometime early this year, and whose name and sex remain a mystery to the public. Swift’s Folklore track “Betty” served as a sneaky name reveal of the couple’s third child back in 2020, when lyrics featured references to a “James” and “Inez”—the two elder offspring—and then “Betty” completing the set.
In that same appearance on Today, Reynolds joked that “we always wait for Taylor to tell us what the child's name is.” Baby No. 4’s name, however, does not appear on Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. “I’ll say this: We’re still waiting,” Reynolds joked.
