Taylor Swift fans are OBSESSING over cryptic clues around new album Tortured ... trends now
Taylor Swift has left Swifties on quite the online scavenger hunt on the release week of her highly-anticipated new album and they are loving it.
The 34-year-old megastar - who is releasing The Tortured Poets Department on Friday - has been leaving breadcrumbs for her diehard fans to follow leading up to her 11th studio release.
A superfan with the username @BlankSpaceProd took to X to create a ten post thread on the album teasing from Taylor beginning with her Instagram page.
It began: '1. Taylor Swift’s insta page became promo with a countdown until the #TSTTPD drop. It told us to do to threads, and we crashed the site. "ttpd" sparkles on threads.'
The second post was that Taylor had dropped an exclusive video on Spotify to promote the album.
Taylor Swift (seen at The Grammys in February) has left Swifties on quite the online scavenger hunt on the release week of her highly-anticipated new album The Tortured Poets Department and they are loving it
Not to be forgotten there was a clue for Apple Music users as they found that 'THIS' was the word of the day and was found in the lyrics to her 2010 song Better Than Revenge from album Speak Now.
The user wrote that the fourth clue was: 'SERPENTINE Someone found a barcode with the product label "serpentine."
's e r p e n t i n e r e p u t a t i o n (Same # of letters) Serpentine is a lake in Hyde Park in London, which a city featured in a rep MV and featured on ttpd.'
Things get even more interesting as the fifth clue says: 'A QR code was being painted in Chicago which, when scanned, takes you to a YouTube short that says this below. (This goes with a theory I’ve been posting about that I’ll share below) Also appears to be mysterious Roman numeral II in some Ts and an m.'
The link leads to a YouTube short which reads: 'Error 321 - 1.'
The sixth clue was that fan club Taylor Nation invited Swifties to a library pop-up at famous outdoor mall The Grove in Los Angeles beginning on Tuesday which will go through Thursday and change every day.
The seventh clue was producer credits for The Tortured Poets Department as Taylor will have two solo songs on the upcoming album.
The eighth clue was one of the wildest clues as there is a listing for a fake Tortured Poets book on Amazon written by an author named Willow Bowery.
A superfan with the username @BlankSpaceProd took to X to create a ten post thread on the album teasing from Taylor beginning with her Instagram page
It read: 'A fake book of poetry We’re on that swiftie s*** again. No. This is not a Taylor book of poetry. It’s been on Amazon, and it’s just someone using Taylor for clout.'
The ninth was not really a clue as the user celebrated Ticketmaster and LiveNation being sued by the US Justice Department.
The tenth and final clue in the thread was: 'Some of us are FULLY clowning for rep tv to drop, and this person theorized the Apple Music words are spelling GLITCH backwards.'
Many Swifties retweeted the thread on X as they praised the
