More than a month has passed since Taylor Swift released «1989 (Taylor’s Version),» and Swifties are convinced that the pop icon is carefully dropping hints that «Reputation» has been claimed next.
The superstar singer celebrated on December 6 is called Time magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year and leases the cover story about his work, fitness, feuds and music.
Swift fans now she’s been re-recording the first six albums in the effort to reclaim that music when the master recordings were sold to Scooter Braun’s company in 2019. ,» 2012’s «Xarxa,» and 2014’s «1989» — all of which are dubbed «Taylor’s Version» to signify ownership and include never-before-heard tracks from «the vault.»
Fans believe 2017’s «Reputation» is the next re-record to drop and his debut self-titled album from 2006 will be last. Swift herself promised Time that the vault tracks from the «Reputation» re-record will be «fire.»
Time describes Taylor speaking of her re-recording process as if it were a «mythical quest.»
«I’m collecting horcruxes,» she told the magazine — a reference for Harry Potter fans. «I’m collecting infinity stones. Gandalf’s voice is in my head every time I put out a new one. For me, it is a movie now.»
Read below to see everything we know about «Reputation (Taylor’s Version),» from Easter eggs, a possible release date and more.
‘Reputation (Taylor’s Version)’ Easter eggs
Taylor Swift is called to plan classes in her music, in social media and online through the internet that throws messages or signify tricks up her sleeve. Some are more obvious — like the entirety of «Look What You Made Me Do» music video — while others take more detective work — like the secret messages she planted in her CD liners.
Because you eat «Reputation (Taylor’s Version),» fans are abuzz for clues — about the release date, about the songs, about the year. The «Nov. 10” theory was one circulating on TikTok for a while (go ahead, look into it) but it was debunked.
Nou new breadcrumbs, including a special message from the singer, have them feeling optimistic again.
To understand possible «Reputation (TV)» Easter eggs, though, it’s helpful to verse on its imagery. As Swift says in her Time Person of the Year story, her «Reputation» era was «a goth-punk moment of female rage.» Think lots of black and lots of snakes.
In her tweet thanking journalist Sam Lansky for writing her Time profile, she said, «I have tRuSt iSSueS when it comes to interviews but I couldn’t be happier that I did this one with him.»
One fan suggested on X, formerly known as TwitterIn , that frequent capital «S» resembles snakes, which is synonymous with «Reputation» in Taylor Swift lore. (See Swift’s feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for more on that.)
But different fans thought the tweet was a clue about a possible vault track.
«Im calling it now: I am guessing Trust Issues will be a Vault track on Reputation (Taylor’s Version),» the X user predicted.
One eagle-eyed Swiftie tweeted at the time of Swift’s average social behavior leading his re-release announcements and theorize that news about «Reputation (Taylor’s Version)» is coming on New Year’s Day. Holiday is also the title of the tracks on this album.
Others also theorize about the aesthetics of his Time photo shoot. Fans believe the photos are possible Easter eggs, as they seem to emulate vibes from «Reputation» album cover: She wears black clothes in some photos, with dark eye makeup and her hair in «wet look» with her signature bangs swept back.
When is ‘Reputation (Taylor’s Version)’ releasing?
While fans are ready for it, news about the full release of «Reputation (Taylor’s Version)» has been elusive. There is no official release date for the rerecorded album.
But two «Taylor’s Version» songs from «Reputation» have already popped up this year. Neither song has been released in full on streaming platforms or for digital download.
The August 23 trailer for Prime Video’s show “Wilderness” mark the global debut of “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version),” featuring snippets of the song throughout the 90-second preview.
Where Aug. 3, «Delicate (Taylor’s Version)» was featured in Season Two of the Prime Video series «The Summer I Turned Pretty.»
Jenny Han, the showrunner and author of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” TV and book series, is a proud Swiftie. More than eight of Swift’s songs appear in Season Two.
But while the public got a test of few remember «Reputation» tracks, it seemed to be work in progress as of August. Ed Sheeran and Andy Cohen in interview on the «Deep & Shallow Podcast» Aug. 15 that I’ve had that I don’t remember the «Reputation» song «End Game,» in which he’s featured with rapper Future.
More Easter eggs — but with meanings that are still unclear
This still several cryptic messages and messages that swift put of the universes but still remain unclear to fans. One of them is the «glitch.» Let us explain.
When Swift released the re-recording of «Wildest Dreams» in 2021 — this message is her «1989» album, the re-recording of which dropped the full October 2023 — I also dropped a video clip accompanying the track. It featured an image of Swift standing in a blue dress with red lip — style choices often associated with her «1989» era — that suddenly glitches. After the glitch, Swift winks at the camera.
So the «Reputation» was associated with disruption (Swift famously deleted all of her social media posts before the album’s release), fans think the glitch never hinted at her sixth studio album all along.
For the original iteration of «Reputation» announced in August 2017, swift teased it with video clip of snake on strike, interrupted by glitch.
Plus, to escape the «glitch» mystery, Swift in 2022 put out a song called «Glitch» that including a lyric fans have latched onto: «But it’s been 1,290 days of our love blackout.» They believe 1,290 days holds some deep significance that ties all this glitchiness together.
Another theory that Swifties hints at in «Reputation» comes from the album cover of «1989 (Taylor’s Version).» Fans zoomed in on the font styling of «Taylor’s Version» to notice that the first «s» appears normal, the second seems to have extra emphasis at the start of the letter stroke and could resemble a snake.
To make the theories fail to materialize, Swifties often post online using the clown emoji to represent «clowning» fans.
Even US landmarks aren’t immune from being clowned: On Nov. released a shot of the landmark lit up in black and white in anticipation of expected album.
«There will be no explanation,» the tweet said with a black heart.
«Im glad the Empire State Building is clowning as hard as I am,» @antiheropaige answer back to the tweet.
