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USA Today
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Could a Taylor Swift new album be next? The 'TS12' Easter eggs in her letter
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." 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." Don't miss any Taylor Swift news; sign up for the free, weekly newsletter This Swift Beat. Follow Bryan West, the USA TODAY Network's Taylor Swift reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @BryanWestTV.
Boston Globe
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Taylor Swift has regained control of her music, buys back first 6 albums
'We are thrilled with this outcome and are so happy for Taylor,' Shamrock Capital said in a statement. Over the last few years, Swift has been re-recording and releasing her first six albums in an attempt to regain control of her music. The series was instigated by music manager Scooter Braun's purchase and sale of her early catalog and represents Swift's effort to control her own songs and how they're used. Previous 'Taylor's Version' releases have been more than conventional re-recordings, arriving with new 'from the vault' music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In between re-recordings, she has released new music, including last year's 'The Tortured Poets Department,' announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during her record-breaking tour. Advertisement So far, there have been four re-recorded albums. Swift's last re-recording, '1989 (Taylor's Version),' arrived in October 2023, just four months after the release of 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version).' That was the same year Swift claimed the record for the woman with the most No. 1 albums in history. Fans have theorized that 'Reputation (Taylor's Version)' would be next: On May 19, 'Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor's Version)' aired nearly in full during the opening scene of a Season 6 episode of 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Prior to that, the song was teased in 2023's Prime Video limited-series thriller 'Wilderness' and in Apple TV+'s 'The Dynasty: New England Patriots' in 2024. Also in 2023, she contributed 'Delicate (Taylor's Version)' to Prime Video's 'The Summer I Turned Pretty.' Advertisement But according to the note shared Friday, Swift says she hasn't 'even re-recorded a quarter of it.' She did say, however, that she has completely rerecorded her self-titled debut album 'and I really love how it sounds now.' Swift writes that both her self-titled and 'Reputation (Taylor's Version)' 'can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right.' A representative for Swift did not immediately respond to request for comment.
