Taylor Swift’s rerecording theories are coming “stronger than a 90s trend”.

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) was released earlier in April and consequently earned Taylor Swift her third #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 200 chart in less than a year. Despite the hype over Swift’s revamped sophomore album, fans are already focused on unveiling the singer’s next rerecording. Since Taylor Swift is popularly known for dropping Easter eggs on music videos, social media posts, and interviews; the “Swifties” are trying to connect the dots for each hint that comes their way. With this in mind, Empoword Journalism has collected all the clues to this “Scavenger hunt”, in order to uncover which album will be the next chosen one.

1989

“Taylor Swift argued that the song was inspired by Stephen King“

Only a few days after Fearless (Taylor’s Version) came out, Swift made a guest appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The host humorously played with the singer over the correlation between himself and Fearless’ fourth track, “Hey Stephen”. While Taylor Swift argued that the song was inspired by Stephen King, she uttered the phrase “shake it off”, which instantly led fans to think that she was drawing a parallel with the 1989 single. This was not the only hint fans observed during the interview. They also noticed that Swift mentioned New York, the city that inspired the singer to write the 1989 track “Welcome to New York”.

The clues increase when Taylor talks about Law and Order and Colbert cited “squad”. A quick reminder is that Mariska Hargitay plays Olivia Benson in Law and Order SVU and she was also a part of Taylor Swift’s squad in the “Bad Blood” music video.

Yet, these hints aren’t nearly as specific as the ones spotted by fans after observing the “Hey Stephen” mood board. Here are a couple of fan tweets that bring even more speculations to the table.

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Before the release of Taylor Swift’ first rerecorded album, ‘Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)’ was featured on the trailer of the upcoming Dreamworks animation entitled “Spirit Untamed”. This might be a similar hint to the one she dropped when ‘Love Story (Taylor’s Version)’ appeared in a Ryan Reynolds commercial. Here is the sneak peek:

 

Speak Now

Although the information gathered from the Stephen Colbert interview and the animation promo seemed like a settled guess for Taylor Swift’s second rerecording, the singer’s social media presence alluding to Speak Now made fans doubt their previous thoughts. The first hint that has been leading them on is the fact that Swift is always using three emojis on all of her recent tweets. This could tie into Speak Now since it is the third album of her discography.

Alongside this theory, the singer shared girl in red’s latest album on her Instagram stories with a phrase that included “drop everything now”, a lyric present in Speak Now‘s single ‘Sparks Fly’. The phrase was also written in a purple font that might be a direct reference to the colour of Swift’s dress in the Speak Now album cover.

On top of this, the title of the song in the stories is ‘I’ll Call You Mine’, and ‘Mine’ can be related to the title of another Taylor Swift track present in her third studio album.

Red

Ok, it’s either 1989 or Speak Now. Well, don’t be so certain. This same stories may be a reference to yet another Taylor Swift album: Red. After all, the name of the artist Swift shared is girl in red, which might be linked to either the single/album title of the singer’s fourth album or one of its tracks: ‘Girl At Home’.

“Swift’s aim is to restore the rights to her own discography”

While Taylor Swift’s next rerecorded album remains a mystery, the singer’s motivation to rerecord her earlier work was revealed in 2019 after her masters were sold to Scooter Braun. Swift’s aim is to restore the rights to her own discography, embellish the tracks, and share exclusive music that didn’t make it on the previous versions.

Isabella Soares

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