Taylor Swift Perplexes Fans With '1989' Clues: Did Singer Name a Song 'Slut?'

Taylor Swift is the epitome of a truly brilliant artist who not just can sing, but can also think like a darn good businesswoman.

After revealing a fresh batch of hints about her impending vault recordings, Taylor Swift left her fans even more perplexed than before.

The 33-year-old Grammy winner, who is currently re-recording her first six albums, will release "1989 (Taylor's Version)" next month, featuring a number of previously unheard tracks.

"You can tell me when the *search* is over... if the high was worth the pain," Swift captioned an Instagram post Tuesday, featuring lyrics from her smash hit "Blank Space."

It didn't take long for fans to figure out what the footage meant-a song called "Lust!" or "Slut!" One Twitter user speculated, "It probably is'slut!' and references her being called a slut and that's why she changed the vibes of 1989."

"Did you name a song 'SLUT!' Taylor Swift???????" One more person spoke out.

In addition to the "vault" animation that her fans were accustomed to from her re-recordings of "Fearless" and "Red," the "Bad Blood" singer collaborated with Google to create an interactive puzzle search. One person on Twitter said, "TAYLOR SWIFT GIRL, IM SO CONFUSED WITH THIS PUZZLE WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US?"

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A second commenter expressed a similar opinion, adding, "Taylor Swift, you have never left me feeling more bewildered and frustrated than now."

Fans discovered the term "Sagittarius" in addition to clues like "Got A Haircut," "Wednesday," "Tokyo," and "Golf Club." This has Swifties believing a collaboration with Nicki Minaj is imminent. Swift mouthed the words "I love you" to the 40-year-old "Anaconda" rapper at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards last week before stating, "That's my favorite Sagittarius over there."

When Minaj tweeted, "Fighting the urge to say Sagittarius tingz right now so bad," in response to the announcement that they were the only female artists with 100 Billboard Hot 100 entries in their careers, she also alluded to a potential duet.

The clue was swiftly theorized by fans on social media, with one user seeing in a TikTok video that Swift's "Lavender Haze" music video featured a Sagittarius constellation. One fan said on the video, "As a Sagittarius, I will go insane, thank you," and another said, "I'm here for the delusion." "Barbie Tingz" is a song by Nicki, and one of her first bars is "I'm a sag," as a third fan noted. Swift and Minaj notably got into a Twitter spat in 2015 when the singer of "Cruel Summer" received a VMA nomination for Best Video but the rapper of "Babrie World" did not.

When Minaj - born Onika Tanya Maraj - spoke out about the snub, Swift responded, "@NICKIMINAJ I've done nothing but love & support you. It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot."

The mom of one quickly denied that her comments were even for Swift.

"Huh? U must not be reading my tweets. Didn't say a word about u. I love u just as much. But u should speak on this. @taylorswift13," she tweeted. Whatever feud that was about to start ppeared to have been squashed for good when Swift added, "@NICKIMINAJ If I win, please come up with me!! You're invited to any stage I'm ever on.

The "Cats" actress said that she would release "1989 (Taylor's Version)" on October 27, precisely nine years after the original album went on sale, at her last Los Angeles Eras Tour performance.