i thought it was odd that TN's countdown seems to be using the wrong album for the corresponding number of days
(also folklore getting tagged but not evermore is very classic)
and then i realized with this pattern speak now will wind up on monday, which is the THIRTEENTH 👀 here's a helpful graphic that i wasted five minutes on (i'm thinking they're going to do midnights on the last day but like... why, when taylor loves to match the numbers as much as we do)
in conclusion, when also considering the supporting evidence for SNTV drop on the 17th, i propose it is being announced on monday. i rest my case 😌
J: Your fans are amazing fans. I will just say that. I know you said it earlier, but they obviously are so excited that you're here on our show, so we're getting a lot of buzz from your fans. And they were like, "Wait. What are they going to talk about? What's going on? I heard this. [ Blabbering ] "This is ten seconds long." There's Easter eggs that maybe aren't even really Easter eggs.
T: Yeah, it's sort of a tradition that we started a very long time ago. I think the first time that I started dropping sort of cryptic clues and things in my music is when I was 14 and 15 putting together my first album. And I wanted to put -- I wanted to do something that incentivized fans to read the lyrics because my lyrics are what I'm most proud of out of everything that I do, every aspect of my job, so I really wanted people to read the lyrics. And, um, when I was a kid, I used to leaf through CD booklets and just read the teeny, tiny print and just obsess over it. And so I wanted to incentivize them. So in my lyrics, for my first, you know, several albums, I would have all lower-case-letter lyrics, except for capital letter, capital letter, capital letter every once in a while. And if they circled the capital letter, and wrote them down, it spelled out a secret code, a secret passage.
J: That's so fun.
T: It was really --it was really fun, and it would either tell them a story about the album or a hint about what the song was about. And so that's when it started. But when it got out of control was...
[ Laughter ]
T: Yeah. Was when I started to realize that it wasn't just me that had fun with this, that they had fun with it, too. And I should never have learned that because then I couldn't stop. And then all I started thinking of was how do I hint at things? Like, how far is too far in advance? Can I hint at something three years in advance? Can I even plan things out that far? I think I'm gonna try to do it. The first time that we did a crazy video like that was a video called "Look What You Made Me Do," and I started playing with doing nods to former musical eras I've been in, in my career and all kinds of weird stuff for them to just go through the video and be like, "That over there! What's that? What's that? What's that? Does this connect to that? What does that mean?"
J: I do that.
T: Really?
J: Yes! I did that with "Folklore." I go, "Wait. What? Betty? What?"
T: There's a lot. There's a lot going There's, like, a fictional love triangle between three fictional teenagers in the "Folklore" album.
J: I know all about it.
T: There's all kinds of, like, really, really --Yeah, we go really into the weeds over it. And look. I think that it is perfectly reasonable for people to be normal music fans and to have a normal relationship to music. But if you want to go down a rabbit hole with us, come along.
J: Taylor is your person.
T: The water's great. Jump in. We're all mad here.
Which is a hint at Alice in wonderland. back when this first aired, everyone thought she was referring to the fact one of her bonus tracks on 1989 was Wonderland, it's also the name of one of her perfumes. this went with her first TikTok when she released Wildest Dreams Taylors Version... which Taylor Nation confirmed today was a hint at midnights and not 1989 TV.
what's interesting to me about the use of this, is that Clocks go Tick Tock. it was her first tiktok! she's in midnights variant blue and the section of the song is "You'll see me in hindsight. Tangled up with you all night. Burning it down."
it's obvious she's been making a lot of references to night and fire. but also time. Time is the biggest component of this album. And it's the most important theme inside Alice in Wonderland.
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If Lover is Midnights Sister Album:
the Forward in lover gives us even more clues on what to expect.
she mentions her journals, she started writing them when she was 13. she has every memory written down on pages and she shared them with us. The Delux version of lover came in 4 volumes. 4 sets of journals documenting past and highlighting moments of love.
What if Midnights is the night before Lover? she did write Lover in the middle of the night.
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And then i remembered the Vault Tracks were clocks...
stopwatches to be more exact.
she's been telling us everything we need to know this whole time.
do you guys think that debut tv will be the last to be released because it'll be her 16th album (assuming she won't release any more new ones) and she first released it when she was 16???
because it seems like she's releasing the re-recordings in order based on the easter eggs in the bejeweled mv but the only thing that throws it off is debut tv...
Taylor has announced the titles of two out of 13 songs - 11 days from the 22nd, which is the....3rd? of October. Which is 18 days from the release date. what the hell is she planning for those three weeks???
Call me crazy, but we all know track 5 is infamously her most emotional or vulnerable song. The type of song you might write in the middle of the night, yk when you're vulnerable etc. So five days later leaves 13 days till the release date... what if, we get a single on the 8th???
I know yall are talking about how we're going to get Speak Now tv next WHICH I'M TOTALLY HYPED FOR but can we notice this please because I've hardly seen enough people talking about it
SHE GOES TO FLOOR FIVE AFTER GOING TO FLOOR THREE WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MEANS.
honestly i understand why taylor hasn't released (or maybe even recorded) rep tv or debut tv. aside from the whole "taking back her name and her reputation", realistically, they're gonna be the hardest ones to do.
reputation was from such a dark place in her life that was made better by someone who's no longer a part of her life (from what i know, obviously i'm not besties with her so they might still talk idk). plus, since it didn't get nominated for stuff taylor might be trying to change things (again, idk bro)
and then debut is hard for a whole other reason. like, figuring out if she's gonna do the country accent, trying to replicate her younger voice...ma'am i wish you luck
Okay so in invisible string Taylor says “were there clues I didn’t see?” a few times and then near the end she says “give me the blues and then purple pink skies” what if the clues we didn’t see are in this song and the blue sky is midnights and then purple is speak now Taylor’s version and then pink is 1989 Taylor’s version since that was the other color for that album at least in my mind because like the pink sunglasses and stuff
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think that most of the theories that swifties came up with are pretty delusional 😬 they are also kind of annoying tbh like that woman breathes and you are all like THAT’S AN EASTER EGG
There is a conversation to be had about the fact that Taylor Swift's album is being played in its entirety across all of iHeartRadio's 868 stations, pushing out the opportunities other artists might have had to get radioplay. That's the literal definition of a monopoly. No wonder she'll hit the top of the radio play charts with this maneuver, because at least 65 minutes (if not the back side of the album, which would take it to nearly twice that length) across EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT STATIONS will be dedicated to her, artificially boosting her radio play and decreasing everyone else's. In this essay I will—