00:00New marriage, new album, who dis? Taylor Swift just announced she's dropping the Life of a
00:04Showgirl, The Encore, a deluxe album out Friday, September 25th, featuring four new songs,
00:11including the newly announced single Patient Zero. We've got all the details and the Easter
00:16eggs hiding in plain sight right here. Swift revealed on Instagram that the new tracks were
00:20recorded with super producer Max Martin after the Life of a Showgirl came out on October 3rd,
00:252025. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this
00:31album. Really, we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in.
00:37But there was a studio there, and we did what we do when we feel anything at all. We wrote
00:42more songs.
00:43While Showgirl smashed streaming records, it also drew mixed reviews from Fairweather fans,
00:48which may have motivated her to get back in the studio. Here's what she told Apple Music's
00:53Zane Lowe at the time. I welcome the chaos. The rule of show business is if it's the first week
01:01of my album release and you are saying either my name or my album title, you're helping.
01:06Ever the mastermind, Swift may have actually hinted at the negative reception and the single
01:10Patient Zero a full seven months ago in the music video for Opalite. Take a look.
01:21Yep, that's the judges giving Swift and her dance partner Donal Gleason all zeros. Another clue?
01:27Eagle-eyed fans spotted a poster in the background with the words,
01:31Patient for the Encore. Clever. Cut to this week, Swift changed her social media bios to include zeros
01:37instead of ohs. And in the Patient Zero announcement, she included 12 exclamation points,
01:43an apparent reference to her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl. But that's not all. Did you catch
01:48Swift's Law & Order SVU-themed Emmy sketch with host Mariska Hargitay?
01:53This isn't adding up.
01:54And who ass you, rookie?
01:57Our perp has a clear MO. A lot of this doesn't fit the pattern, and I don't think everything is
02:02a clue.
02:02It is to the Swifties. I think what we're going to be looking for is hiding in plain sight.
02:10Saccharide, Aries, from the vineyard, north or south.
02:14Confused? Well, it turns out, Saccharide, Aries, from the vineyard, north or south, was a secret code.
02:22If you take the third letter from the first six words of the message, you get an anagram of Encore.
02:28Also, the clock on the wall was set to 1013. Collectors Edition CDs for Patient Zero ship on,
02:34you guessed it, October 13th. And of course, 13 is Taylor Swift's lucky number.
02:39So what Easter eggs did we miss? Let us know in the comments.
