In just a matter of weeks, there will be a new Taylor Swift album out in the world. A part of me still can’t process that fact, as the month since The Life of a Showgirl was announced has felt like a whirlwind. (Mentally, I still haven’t moved on from Swift announcing earlier this year that she bought back the masters of her first six albums.)
Outside of the tracklist and a string of variant covers, there’s still a lot we don’t know about The Life of a Showgirl. There’s no indication that we’ll get a pre-release single (something Swift hasn’t done since the Lover era), and the album’s aesthetic and timing have provoked a mountain of theories thus far. But thanks to a few stray posts from Swift’s official street team, Taylor Nation, fans have one very specific hunch.
