Taylor Swift is about to wrap up her run of six sold-out reveals at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles — and followers are satisfied she’ll be celebrating with a really particular announcement.
Swift has been making her method by way of the rerecordings — and rereleases — of her first six albums since her masters have been bought to Scooter Braun in 2019. After dropping each Fearless (Taylor’s Model) and Crimson (Taylor’s Model) in 2021, Swift introduced the discharge of Converse Now (Taylor’s Model)’s in Could, dropping the album two months later whereas on the highway.
In her most up-to-date music video for her single “I Can See You” — a vault observe off Converse Now (TV) — a visitors signal might be seen that reads “I-9 89 TV” as she jumps in a van and speeds away down the highway. The imagery has led followers to consider 1989 (Taylor’s Model) would be the subsequent re-recorded album to drop — particularly as a result of Swift is thought for being a mastermind of delicate hints.
“I like to speak by way of Easter eggs,” she informed Leisure Weekly in 2019. “I believe the perfect messages are cryptic ones … You understand whenever you plan one thing that far prematurely, you’re sort of simply flexing on planning. That’s what an Easter egg actually does.”
Now, nonetheless, it appears increasingly more possible that Swift will announce 1989 TV earlier than even wrapping up the U.S. leg of her tour on Wednesday, August 9. From Starbucks Lovers playlists to shock songs and suspicious shade coding, we could also be out of the woods — and nearer to her subsequent album launch — than we predict.
Hold scrolling for each trace that 1989 (Taylor’s Model) can be introduced at Swift’s August 9 live performance:
Starbucks Lovers
When Swift launched 1989 in 2014, her second single off the album, “Clean House,” left many followers confused by its lyrics. Whereas Swift sings “Received an extended listing of ex-lovers” throughout the refrain, many heard “Starbucks lovers” as a substitute.
Swift later confessed that even her mom, Andrea Swift, heard the lyric incorrectly. “‘Hahah it actually does sound like Starbucks lovers…’ -my mother simply now who’s SUPPOSED TO BE ON MY SIDE Smh,” Swift wrote through Twitter in Could 2015.
Now, Starbucks is utilizing the hilarious confusion to seemingly promote the upcoming launch of Swift’s 1989 re-recording. The long-lasting espresso firm s rolling out a 122-song playlist of her music to be used as a soundtrack inside its U.S. company-operated shops. The title of the playlist? Starbucks Lovers, in fact.
Whereas some consider it’s only a method of celebrating the singer wrapping up the primary leg of her Eras Tour, different followers suppose the direct reference to a 1989 lyric hints Swift will announce 1989 (Taylor’s Model) throughout her final L.A. efficiency.
New Romantics
All through the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour, Swift has performed two shock songs for audiences per live performance – and has not often repeated any of them twice. By the point she hits the stage for her last cease in Los Angeles on August 9, there’ll solely be one 1989 track the pop star hasn’t sung dwell: “New Romantics.”
The tune, which was a bonus observe on the deluxe model of the album, is an anthem followers consider can be the proper track to play earlier than asserting the rerelease of 1989 TV.
“‘Trigger child, I might construct a fort / Out of all of the bricks they threw at me / And on daily basis is sort of a battle / However each evening with us is sort of a dream,” Swift belts on the synth-heavy bop. “Child, we’re the brand new romantics / Come on, come together with me / Heartbreak is the nationwide anthem / We sing it proudly / We’re too busy dancing / To get knocked off our toes / Child, we’re the brand new romantics / The most effective individuals in life are free.”
It’s Blue, the Feeling We Received
Eagle-eyed followers who attended Swift’s fifth present at SoFi stadium in Los Angeles on Tuesday, August 8, seen that the group’s bracelets constantly blinked blue after Swift left the stage — one thing that has seemingly by no means occurred at earlier live shows. Blue has been the designated “1989 Period shade” since Swift started the method of her re-releases, leaving some to consider it’s an Easter egg that her announcement will drop on August 9.
‘I’m Taylor and I used to be born in 1989!’
Any fan of Swift is aware of the singer is an enormous fan of numbers in relation to dropping Easter eggs – and each resolution she makes is for a motive. Selecting to finish the primary leg of her Eras Tour on August 9 — a.ok.a. 8/9 — in order that it aligns with the album title 1989 (Taylor’s Model) feels suspiciously like one thing Blondie would do.
The sample is fairly clear … proper?
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