Taylor Acorn Shares Her Fave Songs To Play Live

With Taylor Acorn locked in to return to Australia in March of 2026, armed with her razor-sharp new album Poster Child and a live show built for maximum scream-therapy, the timing couldn’t be better to dig into what really makes her set tick. After winning over Aussie crowds on previous visits – and now stepping into her full pop-punk main character era – Acorn’s upcoming four-date run promises bigger feelings, louder singalongs and at least one collective emotional spiral per night.

Ahead of the tour, Taylor has shared the songs she loves playing live the most right now – the ones that lift her mood on rough days, trigger early-2000s nostalgia, or hit that magic point where the crowd takes over and sings louder than the PA. From deeply personal fan faves to newer tracks that surprised her by becoming setlist staples, these picks offer a snapshot of an artist who’s grown alongside her audience – and who’s about to bring all of that energy straight back to Australian stages. Read her words down below.

Taylor Acord – ‘Greener’

Greener

For my first favourite song to play live, I’m going with Greener. I feel so connected to that song. Especially when I’m having a bad day, knowing that I get to play that song is definitely a mood boost. And it’s exciting, that song is also a little bit different to the songs that I’ve written in the past. It’s a little bit more upbeat, it’s a little bit more positive, I feel like my album Survival in Motion [2024] definitely had a lot of those elements, it definitely feels more pop than it does rock to me too. I was really excited to see so many people resonating so heavily with Greener. And it’s exciting to see how excited they get when we play it live, that’s definitely one of my favorites to play.

Poster Child

I’ve fallen in love with Poster Child as well, I love playing that song live. It just has such a nostalgic feeling to me, it’s really early 2000s. Seeing how excited people also get about that one has been really fun. I feel super connected to that song too, I’d been going through a lot during the last few years of touring, and just being able to sit and process it with this song, and it also being the first song that I started writing for the Poster Child album, it feels extra special. I love that one.
People Pleaser

I’ve really grown to love playing People Pleaser live too. We had so much fun writing that song, but I didn’t really know if it would end up on the setlist. I didn’t know what it would feel like live. Obviously, I always had hopes that it would be a big live moment, but with new songs you just never really know what’s going to take and what’s not. When we played that song on our headliner, that was definitely a fan favorite. It was really cool to see so many people screaming the lyrics back with me and things like that. And I feel like the energy of that song is great for live performances, the claps and all of the things. That’s a really, really fun one to play.
Goodbye, Good Riddance

Goodbye, Good Riddance is also one that I love, and that one has definitely been a crowd favorite in my opinion. I feel like whenever I’m on stage, I black out a little bit so I can never really tell. I have to gauge it off what my crew says at the end of the night, they’re like, “no, that was really great! People were jumping around”, and I’m like, “oh, really?!”. It’s the craziest thing. And to see so many people even using that one for songs on TikTok and stuff like that, that’s been really fun as well. And it’s a good song to play, I think, at the beginning of the year. So I’m very excited to be able to play that in Australia. And I don’t think I’ve gotten the chance to play it there yet, so I’m very excited for that.
Shape Shifting

Shape Shifting will always have a special place in my heart too. I’ve met a lot of people and fans through that song, Psycho as well, but I feel so much more connected I think to Shape Shifting. It’s another song that I started writing for myself and I was really adamant about putting it out. I think I had a couple of people that advised me, “oh, I don’t know if this is the song.” But then when we released it, it became a favorite for so many fans. And to see them and to hear them screaming the words back throughout the years that I’ve had that song out, it’s been really special. I feel like every single year it gets bigger, the crowds get bigger and it’s just really exciting. Those would definitely be my top five right now.