Taylor Swift Just Gave Us So Many Easter Eggs Pointing to the Next Re-Release...
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Rather than give you a brief rundown as to how Taylor Swift is THE queen of Easter eggs, we thought we'd just jump right into the nitty-gritty that is her virtual guest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The legendary performer and lyricist stopped by the late night show yesterday, April 13th, and we don't even know where to begin. There were addresses thrown out, a reference to multiple Stephen King novels, and then the overarching theme of New York City, which fans are taking as a reference to her hit song "Welcome to New York." So, consider this your official unofficial announcement that 1989 (Taylor's Version) is dropping *relatively* soon. Let's dig in!
Let's kick off with the wildest of them all. Apparently "Hey Stephen" is not about Stephen Colbert (which we don't think anyone was speculating anyway) but Stephen King, the bestselling author?!?
"I've never revealed this before to anyone, but "Hey Stephen" is about Stephen King," straight-faced Swift said. "He's amazing. The Dark Towers series changed my life, plus The Shining, The Stand, and don't even get me started on his short stories. Absolutely luminescent."
Swifties got sleuthing and found that King's The Dark Tower was released on June 10th, thus "Shake It off (Taylor's Version)" or 1989 (Taylor's Version) will be out on June 10th of this year.
THE DARK TOWER BOOK BY STEPHEN KING WAS RELEASED ON JUNE 10, SHAKE IT OFF (TAYLOR’S VERSION) or 1989 (TAYLOR’S VERSION) OUT JUNE 10, 2021
— 🦋emily (taylor’s version) (@emsbookishadv) April 14, 2021
Another fan backed up this theory saying Swift conveniently pasted seven red hearts to her mood board, a nod to when 1989 was released in 2014. Then! A fellow sleuther commented noting the odd cutouts of Lord of the Rings characters, which could possibly be a hint to "Out of the Woods," or "I Know Places," both of which are about running through the actual woods! Again, further proving 1989 is the next re-recorded album.
It appears that Legolas and Gandalf from Lord of the Rings are being shown. That could be a nod to OOTW or I Know Places since the films are literally about them traveling through the woods escaping people who are hunting them down... 😂 pic.twitter.com/OZbUafEFwY
— Alley Cooper (@TheAlleyWay17) April 13, 2021
Then a lot of things happened with numbers, math, and random letters that honestly we don't even understand. Here are a few other dates and theories Swifties are throwing out there.
so taylor swift said these specific things on stephen colbert:
2008, 18, 44 years, 179 days, 513, 54, new york, 1989, scoozi chicago, stephen king, dark tower, the shining, the stand, 511, shake it off, 33035 and YNTCD
3+3+0+3+5 = 14
may 14th is a friday
yntcd is track 14 💙 pic.twitter.com/qjrFSMA3H1— benjy 💛💛 (@cowboylikebenjy) April 14, 2021
YNTCD, Shake It Off and Hey Stephen are the mentioned tracks. mentioned album - 1989
1989 = 5th Album
YNTCD = Track 14
Shake It Off = Track 6
Hey Stephen = Track 4
connecting it to my theory last April 8th.
we got the dates.
so single May 14th
& Album on June 4th? pic.twitter.com/xHHVA9OKVP— andy (taylor's version) (@renjunrush) April 14, 2021
Suffice to say 1989 is going to be the next re-released album. Between the corny NYC tidbits about pizza slices, her telling Colbert to just "shake it off," and let us not forget she legit said "my album 1989" all in the same breath, we think it's safe to assume we're going to be time traveling back to the 2014 Taylor Swift era! Eeeek!
We're not quite out of the woods yet, though...we're still waiting on an *actual* confirmation from Swift herself, but we're pretty sure we're right. Thank you to all the Swifties who pieced this together.
