Could a Taylor Swift new album be next? The 'TS12' Easter eggs in her letter
Taylor Swift sent her fandom into a tizzy with her surprise announcement on May 30 explaining she owns all of her music, but fans are now doing what they do best and dissecting every word, number and the letter in the note posted to her website.
And the math is mathing toward her next era, which fans have dubbed "TS12."
In the second sentence, she highlighted the word "this" with 12 i's. She also used three numbers in the text: 4, 6, 2 which add up to 12.
There may be Easter eggs pointing to possible lyrics. When Swift gave her New York University commencement speech, she included lyrics to her, at the time, unannounced album "Midnights."
She read lyrics from the song "Labyrinth": "breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out" and used the line "you're on your own."
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Two descriptive lines that jumped out are:
"My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead."
"All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief."
Swift ended the letter by turning the head on one of her "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" songs "Mine": "the best things that have ever been mine… finally actually are."
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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Taylor Swift owns her music: TS12 Easter eggs from letter
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