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Taylor Swift is asking followers to fill within the clean house.
Only a few weeks out from the discharge of her fourth rerecorded album 1989 (Taylor’s Model) — which drops on October 27 — Swift, 33, is doing what she does finest: leaving Easter eggs for followers to decode. This time, she’s paired up with Google for a phrase puzzle sport that can seemingly assist uncover the titles of the file’s 5 vault tracks — the bonus songs that by no means made the ultimate minimize of the unique album.
Beginning Saturday, September 16, a closed blue vault started popping up when googling Swift’s identify. Clicking on the vault brings up scattered letters in a phrase jumble accompanied by a touch to assist clear up the puzzle. At first, the one clue was, “My identify is Taylor and I used to be born in…,” with “1989 Taylor’s Model” being the reply.
Starting on Tuesday, September 19, nonetheless, the puzzles started to broaden. The trace “Clean Area” results in “Good to satisfy you,” whereas different solutions embrace “Bought a haircut,” “She misplaced him,” “Love,” “Golf Membership, “Pen Click on” and “Summer time Fling.”
Based on Google, there are a complete of 89 puzzles to get via — as a result of Swift was born in 1989, get it? — and the vault titles gained’t be launched till 33 million puzzles are solved.
Swift herself took to social media earlier on Tuesday to tease followers in regards to the Easter eggs. “You possibly can inform me when the *search* is over … if the excessive was definitely worth the ache,” she quipped by way of Instagram, referencing the 1989 single “Clean Area.” The put up additionally included a video of the identical blue vault releasing 5 jumbled letters and symbols that embrace L, S, U, T, an exclamation level and a interval.
Whereas Swifties are often lightning fast to resolve Swift’s riddles — her newest problem appears to be stumping them greater than common, with followers sharing their impatience by way of social media.
“Me checking Taylor Swift google web page each single minute simply to see ‘verify again quickly’ whereas making an attempt to open the vault,” one particular person commented by way of X (previously often known as Twitter) alongside a photograph of a girl making an attempt to open a protected with a knife and hammer.
“Swifties typing Taylor Swift into google each 30 seconds making an attempt to get the 1989 TV vault puzzles to work,” one other captioned a video of somebody typing furiously on their laptop computer.
Swift introduced the discharge of 1989 (Taylor’s Model) on August 9 at her closing Eras Tour live performance in Los Angeles. The singer sported the album’s signature colour blue all through the present earlier than revealing the rerecorded album will drop in October.
“I figured that [this tour] can be enjoyable however I didn’t know it could be like this. The final time I used to be pleasantly shocked by one thing you guys did was after I introduced that I used to be going to be rerecording my first six albums,” she advised the group on the time. “And so now right here we’re, the final evening of the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour within the eighth month of the yr on the ninth day. You might need observed there are completely different outfits within the present. There’s one thing I’ve been planning for a extremely, actually very long time and I feel as a substitute of simply telling you about it I’ll simply present you.”
Swift later mirrored on what 1989 means to her as an artist — and revealed there can be 5 never-before-heard songs on Taylor’s Model.
“Shock!! 1989 (Taylor’s Model) is on its approach to you 🔜! The 1989 album modified my life in numerous methods, and it fills me with such pleasure to announce that my model of will probably be out October twenty seventh,” she wrote by way of Instagram. “To be completely trustworthy, that is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever finished as a result of the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t imagine they had been ever left behind. However not for lengthy! Pre order 1989 (Taylor’s Model) on my web site 😎.”
Followers started theorizing that 1989 (Taylor’s Model) was coming lengthy earlier than she ever introduced it, notably with the discharge of “Wildest Goals (Taylor’s Model)” which dropped in March 2021. “This Love (Taylor’s Model)” was later used for seasons 1 and a couple of of Prime Video’s The Summer time I Turned Fairly, which premiered in June 2022.
Swift launched the unique 1989 — a critically acclaimed file that marked her official debut into pop and first collaboration with producer Jack Antonoff — in October 2014, incomes her second Album of the 12 months Grammy in 2016.
Upon its launch, followers closely theorized the file was a recollection of her on-off relationship with ex-boyfriend Harry Types — notably in songs like “Out of the Woods” and “Type.” Whereas Swift by no means formally confirmed who the songs are about, she advised Rolling Stone in February 2015 that “Type” ought to have simply been titled, “I’m Not Even Sorry.’”
“‘Type’ is definitely about these relationships which can be by no means actually finished,” Swift defined throughout a December 2014 episode of The Morning Present. “You at all times type of have that one one who you are feeling like would possibly interrupt your marriage ceremony and be like, ‘Don’t do it, we’re not over but.’ I feel everyone has that one one who type of floats out and in of their life and the narrative isn’t really over.”
1989 (Taylor’s Model) comes after the discharge of Fearless (Taylor’s Model), Crimson (Taylor’s Model) and Converse Now (Taylor’s Model) which had been dropped in April 2021, October 2021 and July 2023, respectively. Swift’s option to rerecord her first six albums stems from her dropping her masters in 2019 when Scooter Braun bought her music catalog in a Massive Machine Data acquisition. (The music mogul later bought the masters for $300 million to a non-public fairness firm.) Her self-titled debut and sixth studio album, Repute, are the ultimate two re-records but to be introduced.