It’s no secret that Taylor Swift is the queen of Easter eggs. Since the early days of her profession, the famous person has usually planted clues, hints and callbacks in her music movies, dwell appearances, interviews and even the liner notes in her albums.
“I love to communicate through Easter eggs,” Swift stated in a 2019 interview with Entertainment Weekly to assist kick off her Lover period. “I think the best messages are cryptic ones. … You know, when you plan something that far in advance, you’re kind of just flexing on planning. That’s what an Easter egg really does.”
So it ought to come as no shock to Swifties that The Eras Tour is not any exception to their queen’s masterminded penchant for hyper-specific planning and eye for beautiful, completely plotted element — all the best way all the way down to the colours painted on her nails throughout tour rehearsals.
As the U.S. leg of the wildly anticipated tour kicked off, followers on the first two exhibits in Glendale, Ariz. — and later throughout the web, because of #SwiftTok — paid eager consideration to every of the singer’s selections on stage. From her costumes to her choreography, and even the songs she included (or didn’t) on the setlist, practically each element elicited wild evaluation and hypothesis for what all of it might imply.
Below, Billboard rounds up an ongoing record of Easter eggs noticed by followers as The Eras Tour makes its method throughout America. Read on to find what hidden messages and surprises many a Swiftie surmises the star might be sending from the stage.
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The ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ T-Shirt
During the a part of setlist the place Taylor revisits her Red period, she dons a T-shirt much like the one she wears within the music video for 2012’s “22.” In the visible, the shirt spells out “Not a lot going on at the moment,” which might go on to grow to be a famously surefire signal to Swifties around the globe that their queen was, certainly, engaged on a significant shock. (See: the one-two punch of 2020’s Folklore and Evermore.)
However, on the opening night time of the tour (March 17), Tay’s shirt rewrote the phrase to learn “A lot going on at the moment” in daring block letters, with “A lot” protruding in brilliant pink. The subsequent night time, the shirt modified to a spoken lyric from “22”: “Who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew.” This time, “Ew.” was highlighted in pink.
Only time will inform if Swift continues to vary up the phrasing on her shirt from present to indicate, however one specific fan on TikTok thinks the pink phrases will ultimately result in an anagram spelling out “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).” Either method, although, the famous person is clearly sending some type of message.
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Breaking ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ Out Of Its Box?
Footage of Swift performing Reputation lead single “Look What You Made Me Do” piqued followers’ curiosity as a number of backup singers seeming to characterize her many album eras appeared on stage trapped in large plastic bins.
Given the rampant on-line fan hypothesis that Speak Now might be the following re-recording the star plans to drop, particular consideration was paid to the backup vocalist within the field carrying a purple halter costume remarkably much like an outfit Swift wore on her Speak Now World Tour all through 2011 and 2012. As Taylor approaches her field, the star kilos on the glass alongside to the beat because the singer inside tries to get out. At first look, the second appears to be like innocuously like a part of the choreography, however many Swifties surmised that it might characterize the pending launch of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which had been entangled in authorized pink tape over trademark and copyright points till earlier this week.
Interestingly, many of the different singers-as-album eras are ultimately free of their bins, however by music’s finish, the Speak Now avatar and one different singer representing a thriller period stay caught inside theirs.
Check out fan-captured video of the second on TikTok.
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A Manicure for Her ‘Eras Era’
One day forward of the tour, Tay shared a sneak peek on the rehearsal course of on social media, coyly writing, “In my Eras era” alongside a carousel of pictures from the stage. The final snap within the slideshow, although, confirmed off the star’s delicate manicure that includes a special shade on every finger representing a separate album period — glowing gold for Fearless (Taylor’s Version), shiny teal for 1989, matte black for Reputation, and so forth.
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‘Speak Now’ or Later?
Call this one a reverse Easter egg. So far, her setlist is one for the ages — 44 songs from 10 albums over the course of three hours and fifteen minutes. But out all of the fan favorites she carried out at Arizona’s State Farm Arena through the first two exhibits, she included solely a single music from 2010’s Speak Now within the type of album lower and initially deliberate title monitor “Enchanted.”
The absence of hits similar to “Mine,” “Back to December,” “Dear John,” “Mean” and “The Story of Us” felt like a evident omission, however as with every thing Taylor does, the selection might have been completely intentional. Plenty of followers theorized that the singer was purposely minimizing the eye of her third album as a result of she might be on the precipice of releasing Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).
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