Taylor Swift teases fans with cryptic clue revealing new song titles on her Red re-release - NEWS.com.au

Taylor Swift sent her fans scrambling today with a cryptic post on social media ahead of the highly anticipated re-release of her hit album Red.

Swift shared a video featuring jumbled, seemingly meaningless letters emerging from a vault.

“Level: casually cruel in the name of being honest,” she wrote, referencing a line from her song All Too Well.

Fans deduced that, when aligned properly, the letters formed a 13x13 word search puzzle.

And from precedent – Swift posted something very similar before releasing Fearless (Taylor’s Version) – they figured out that the puzzle contained the titles of the new tracks featured on the Red re-release.

Notably, they found the names “Phoebe Bridgers” and “Ed Sheeran”, suggesting some of the new songs were collaborations with those artists.

Their suspicions were confirmed when a new section appeared on Swift’s website tasking fans with filling in the blanks for each of the ten new songs.

Successfully completing the task allows you to share an image on social media saying: “I unlocked the vault.”

If you’d rather not go to the bother of solving the puzzle yourself, here are the ten song titles.

21. Ronan

22. Better Man

23. Nothing New feat. Phoebe Bridgers

24. Babe

25. Message in a Bottle

26. I Bet You Think About Me feat. Chris Stapleton

27. Forever Winter

28. Run feat. Ed Sheeran

29. The Very First Night

30. All Too Well Ten Minute Version

Swift announced the re-release of Red with a rather philosophical statement back in June.

“I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly,” the singer said.

“The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice.

“In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralysing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past.

“And this is all to say that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.”

Uhuh.

“Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person,” she continued.

“It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past.

“Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.

“Sometimes you need to talk it all over (and over and over and over) for it to ever really be ... over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing.

“This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even 10 minutes long.”

Anyway the album’s coming on November 19, so get hype.

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2021-08-05 19:58:32Z
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