The Eras Tour gets back underway on Thursday, November 9 as Taylor Swift heads to Buenos Aires, Argentina. This leg will run through November 26, and Swift will perform three shows in Buenos Aires before heading to Brazil for six shows across Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo.
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Swift’s latest re-release, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), dropped on October 27. That leaves just two albums — Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version) and Reputation (Taylor’s Version) — left to record to fully take back her first six releases after the masters were sold to Scooter Braun and Big Machine Records in 2019.
Now theories are swirling that Reputation (Taylor’s Version) might come sooner rather than later. We recently had Swifties theorizing over when 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was going to be released and whether it was going to be a double album.
TikTok user @thefolkloretheorist laid out a lot of these so-called indicators that Reputation (Taylor’s Version) could not only be announced, but maybe also dropped this week.
@thefolkloretheorist ok but which surprise song is she singing for rep announcement tho? #clowneliastreet #clowneliastreet🤡 #rep #reputationtaylorsversion @Taylor Swift #reptaylorsversion #taylorswifttheory #taylorswifttheories #swiftie #swifttok
Let’s dive a little deeper into some of these theories.
Snake + 10 N
Fans noticed something particular when the artwork for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was released. The S in version was distinctly different than the S in Taylor’s, seemingly having a little snakehead on it. Snakes, of course, are the symbol associated with Reputation.
But the snake wasn’t the only thing. The three letters after that snaky S? Well doesn’t that I O look more like the number 10? And the N? Could that signify 10 November?
Reputation release date
The above clues make even more sense within this theory when you consider the original release date of the Reputation album. That’s right. November 10, 2017.
2,190 days
If you count the days between November 10, 2017 and November 10, 2023, it’s 2,190 days. Totally random number, right? It’s never random when it is Taylor Swift.
If you look at the lyrics from the song “Glitch” on her 2022 Midnights album, she says, “But it’s been two thousand one hundred and 90 days of our love blackout.”
Interesting.
Glitch
Speaking of “Glitch,” we have seen a reference to a — or an actual — glitch several times over the last year. This post from @taylornation on Instagram back in September of 2022 was alluded to again in September this year with the mysterious caption “Say you’ll remember her standing in a blue dress, releasing #WildestDreamsTaylorsVersion, babe. Our first glimpse of #1989TaylorsVersion came 2 YEARS AGO today! The memories of ~the glitch~ and her wink still follow us around. 👀🩵
Notably, in 2017 during the lead up to Reputation‘s release, Swift blacked out her entire social media presence. She deleted everything before slowly adding cryptic videos of a snake that also included that very similar glitch.
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 23, 2017
13 days
We all know Taylor Swift loves her number 13. How does that fit in this time? Well, if Reputation (Taylor’s Version) does get announced or released on November 10, that would be 13 days between the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) release and this [Travis and Jason Kelce voice] new news.
That does feel very quick, but she has been shortening the time between each release of the re-recorded albums.
No explanation, just reputation
Is it realistic that Swift would drop another album so soon after 1989 (Taylor’s Version)? Maybe not. Does it make sense that there would be so little fanfare for a drop? Maybe not.
But as she said with the initial release, “There will be no further explanation, there will just be reputation.”
