![]() ![]() ![]() “All I started thinking of was, ‘How do I hint at things, like how far is too far in advance? Can I hint at something three years in advance? Can I even plan things out that far? I think I’m going to try to do it,’” Swift said at the time. No one on Swift’s team has confirmed that a secret Karma album exists or that the new “Karma” song is about Kanye, but the tweet appeared to confirm that at the very least, there was an intentional connection between the karma graffiti in “The Man” and the “Karma” track on Midnights.Īlong with the gif, the tweet read, “Like how far is too far in advance? Can we hint at something three years in advance?” The quote is an allusion to Swift’s 2021 interview with Jimmy Fallon, in which she talks about how she began planting Easter eggs for her fans in her very first album. After Swift announced that a track titled “Karma” would be appearing on Midnights, her management team triumphantly tweeted out a gif from the “Man” video showing the karma-tagged wall. The Karma theory actually has gotten confirmation of a sort from Swift herself. Well! The first time Swift wrote a song about Kanye, back in 2010 after he charged the stage during her VMAs acceptance speech, that song was also track 11. You will recall that “Karma” is track 11 on Midnight. But if Karma was written before Taylor’s feud with Kanye went red hot, why do so many of her fans think it’s a Kanye diss track? Here we have to delve into Taylor Swift numerology. In a 2016 interview with Vogue, asked for her favorite life lesson, Swift replied enigmatically, “Karma is real.” It would have been just like Swift, fans concluded, for her to have begun hiding promotional Easter eggs for what she thought would be her next album as she brought her 1989 era to a close. Once fans had the word karma, they were off to scour Swift’s old interviews and talk show appearances for more clues. Next to one of the karma tags is a sign that says, “MISSING / IF FOUND RETURN TO TAYLOR SWIFT.” In the music video for “ The Man,” the camera pans over a graffitied wall tagged with the titles of Taylor Swift albums - and the word karma, which appears twice on the wall. Two years later, Swift once again appeared to drop a few hints about the mysterious and lost TS6. “But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma.” “The world moves on, another day, another drama drama,” she sings. Yes there was, many of those fans decided after Swift dropped the video for the first single of the Reputation era, “ Look What You Made Me Do.” There, Swift can be seen cutting off the wings to an airplane labeled “TS6” - or, perhaps, Taylor Swift’s sixth album - and scrawling the word “reputation” over it: perhaps an allusion to the idea that her planned sixth album was scrapped and rebuilt into Reputation. Was there, fans demand to know, another album that was supposed to come out in 2016 instead, preempted for Reputation after Swift’s fall from grace? But after her feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West made her a public pariah, Swift skipped a year, releasing Reputation in 2017 instead. If she were following established patterns, then her sixth album, the followup to 2014’s 1989, should have come out in 2016. ![]() ![]() For the first part of her career, Swift dropped a new album every two years precisely. Here’s the evidence for the Karma theory. (The full tape, released four years later in 2020, would exonerate Swift.) The “Karma” song on Midnights, fans believe, will be an unreleased track from the secret scrapped Karma album, and likely a diss track aimed directly at Kanye West as his reputation continues to plummet. This hypothetical album, fans believe, was scrapped following the infamous #KimExposedTaylorParty, when Kim Kardashian released excerpts of tapes that appeared to catch Swift in a messy public lie, and the public rapidly turned on her. Swift recently announced that track 11 on Midnights would be titled “Karma.” This title fits neatly into the Karma theory, which runs as follows: There is a secret unreleased Taylor Swift album titled Karma that was supposed to come out in 2016. Is there a secret lost Taylor Swift album? Find a comically oversized magnifying glass. One of them has been nearly confirmed, and the other nearly dashed.īreak out your decoder rings. The first we’re going to call the Karma theory. There are two major fan theories at play in the lead-up to Midnights. Because is it really a Taylor Swift album release if we’re not close-reading offhand comments she said to Jimmy Fallon three years ago? What’s more, they believe that she’s seeded Easter eggs for said reveal going back years. A number of fans looking forward to the release are convinced that Swift is going to take the opportunity of the album drop to make some big reveal, as always seems to be the case with Swifties. This Friday, Taylor Swift will be dropping her 10th studio album, Midnights. ![]()
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