Suki Waterhouse on supporting Taylor Swift at Wembley: “I was manifesting super hard”
Suki Waterhouse has said she “manifested” her upcoming support slot on Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’.
The singer-songwriter is due to open for the ‘Tortured Poets’ pop star at Wembley Stadium this Saturday (August 17) before supporting Mitski at All Points East in the capital the following day (18).
Paramore will once again be serving as Swift’s main support act, having previously played three sold-out Wembley shows with the singer in June.
Swift is embarking on five more dates at the stadium this month, where she’ll also be joined by Sofia Isella (August 15) Holly Humberstone (16), Maisie Peters (19) and Raye (20).
During a new interview with Rolling Stone, Waterhouse opened up about how it felt to be taking part in the huge ‘Eras Tour’ phenomenon.
“I was dreaming, dreaming, dreaming of this happening,” she told the outlet.
“I was manifesting super hard. So when [I found out], I was like, yes, dreams can come true.”
Upon announcing the massive slot earlier this month, Waterhouse wrote: “It feels like an honour to simply exist at the same time as @taylorswift, let alone be an opener for her on the biggest and best tour ever 
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“A dream come true that I never want to wake up from. Playing at Wembley Stadium in my hometown!!! See you August 17th at THE ERAS TOUR.”
Waterhouse is due to release her second studio album, ‘Memoir Of A Sparklemuffin’, on September 13 via Sub Pop (pre-order/pre-save here). It’ll contain the recent single ‘Blackout Drunk’.
The artist also told Rolling Stone that she references an ex on the forthcoming record, as Swift has done on many of her songs. On the track ‘Lawsuit’, Waterhouse sarcastically wishes her former partner “good luck with that lawsuit“.
“That was maybe something I would’ve felt too afraid to write [previously],” she explained. “But again, it’s your story. I feel like I have that permission now. You never want to give everyone the full details of anything…
“It’s about a bunch of women all connecting about the same guy that they dated and being like, ‘We’ve all got eyes on you and we’re not alone anymore’.”
Speaking to NME about the new album this summer, Waterhouse said: “I was going back and listening to Bloc Party and The Raveonettes and The Teenagers. There’s a hungover element element to this record.
“I love the feeling you get on a Sheryl Crow record where it’s like, ‘Yeah, all this shit happens, but it’s OK’.”
Two months before she was due to give birth to her daughter, she had 10 songs that she thought would make up the full record at the time. Then, just before her deadline, she sat down and listened to it through and decided it wasn’t done.
“It felt safe or like we’d be getting something quite similar to before,” Waterhouse told NME.
“When you’re making an album, you think it has to sound like one thing or one world, but I just decided to throw that all away because there were so many other songs I loved that maybe it doesn’t sound entirely the same the whole way through, but it’s still part of my world.”
Meanwhile, the Met Police have said Swift’s Wembley shows will not be impacted by the foiled terror attack plot at one of her concerts in Vienna – which resulted in all three of her scheduled dates in the Austrian capital being cancelled.
However, Swift’s stage times in London have been tweaked recently. Wembley Stadium has also issued a statement warning ticketless fans that they cannot stand outside the venue while the concert is on – a trend known as ‘Tay-gating’.
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