Taylor Swift seen emerging from cleaning cart at Melbourne concert

Taylor Swift’s top-secret way of getting to the stage during her Australian stadium shows has been revealed.

A video posted to Instagram from her Melbourne show Friday night shows a man wheeling a cleaning cart past the audience toward the side of the stage at the MCG.

He then pulls up the cart behind a black tent, before Swift is seen popping out in full costume as she walks up a set of stairs to get backstage.

A Melbourne fan filmed video of a cleaning cart being wheeled past the audience at Taylor Swift’s MCG concert.

A few seconds later, Swift was spotted getting out of a cleaning cart to head backstage.
“Yep, it’s true … Taylor getting out of the ‘Cleaning Cart’ night 1 in Melbourne!,” Melbourne social media creator Joel Stewart wrote alongside the video.

It seems Swift’s stage set-up at the MCG wasn’t in line with the stadium’s underground entry points, meaning she had no choice but to be transported in view of thousands of diehard fans – many of whom were none the wiser such valuable cargo was inside.

It might all be glamorous onstage, but to get there, Swift has to sit inside a cleaning cart. Picture: Graham Denholm/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
Adele had a similar method of going incognito through the audience when she toured Australia in 2017.

The UK singer performed in the round in the country’s biggest sporting stadiums, where there was no underground access to the pitch, leaving her with only one option to get to her starting position before the show.

Her cover was blown halfway through the tour when fans speculated she was hiding inside a large black box being transferred through the audience before the show. The star later told the crowd in Adelaide she was “scared” people had discovered her hush-hush entry method.

Adele was transported to stage in a black box during her Aussie tour. Picture: Steve Pohlner
“I’ve done so many shows in that box, and it has been a nightmare. This time when I came out, you all knew I was in it. I was scared, I was. I’m not lying. I was frightened,” she said at the time.

“So now, I’ll just walk out and ruin the surprise and be like ‘Oh hello, hello!’”

It’s not the first time Swift has been spotted arriving to her concerts in a cleaning cart.

In April, ahead of her show in Arlington, Texas, a fan captured footage of the megastar emerging from a large cart wearing her opening Lover-inspired outfit.