Easter eggs Taylor Swift hinted at rereleasing ‘1989’ next

Sep 22, 2023

Taylor Swift performs during “The Eras Tour,” Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

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Taylor Swift announced that the next album she will be rereleasing is “1989,” making the announcement on Aug. 9 (8/9, or 89) during the last show of her 2023 U.S. Eras Tour in Los Angeles. The album will be available for streaming and purchase on Oct. 27 — exactly nine years after she released the original.

Swift has been rerecording and rereleasing her first six original albums in order to gain full ownership over her music. The streams of “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version)” surpassed the number of streams of the original albums earlier this summer.

Taylor Swift in new blue dress for “Enchanted” at the Eras Tour. pic.twitter.com/OVZ8onhiVg

The night she announced “1989,” she debuted a blue dress for the “Speak Now,” “Folklore,” “1989” and surprise song segments of the concert, signaling to fans that the album associated with the iconic blue was about to be announced.

Known for dropping intricate clues and hints to her fans, dubbed “Swifties,” the musical artist has been signaling “1989” as the next album for a while, especially dropping easter eggs during her Eras Tour shows.

Swift herself admitted to scheming up plans for easter eggs on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” and also commented on a fan’s TikTok video: “Can’t stop won’t stop being cryptic and weird,” per US Weekly.

It appears nothing Swift does is unintentional, so eagle-eyed fans noticed her final show for The Eras Tour was going to be on Wednesday, Aug. 9 (8/9), marking the name of the album and signifying the year she was born.

Here are some of the other clues she dropped while on tour:

The new “Midnights” outfit resemblances her “1989 Tour” dress 👀 pic.twitter.com/l194ivKMrG

Following Swift’s rerelease of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” she quickly started dropping more clues about what she would be up to next — all signs pointing to “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”

so we’re getting in the car that drives towards this sign huh 🫣 https://t.co/42hqKMccR6 pic.twitter.com/JgrxVki2ZZ

Long before The Eras Tour even started, fans started speculating about when Swift would release her version of “1989.”

One of the first clues after Swift rereleased “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in November 2021 takes place during the release of her “All Too Well” short film. In the film, the characters drive a car with “1989” on the license plate, per Forbes.

Here are other easter eggs Swift dropped about “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” during her “Red (Taylor’s Version)” era:

Fellow music star Ed Sheeran teamed up with Swift to produce the song “The Joker and The Queen” in February 2022, and accompanied the release with an emotional music video. Not one to miss an opportunity, the video also included hints about Swift’s next steps that super fans caught onto, according to Elite Daily.

Swift made a dramatic introduction to TikTok by rereleasing “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” in 2021, after the song went viral as a trend. She first announced the song from the app, introducing Swifties to another place to check for clues.

Earlier this summer, Swift also announced “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” with a snippet included in the trailer for “The Summer I Turned Pretty” on Prime Video, per US Magazine.