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Daily Mirror
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Taylor Swift fans think they know title of her next album due to 'Easter eggs'
It's been 14 months since Taylor Swift released her double album, The Tortured Poets Department - and now fans believe they've spotted clues as to the title of it's follow-up record It's been more than a year since Taylor Swift released any new music - her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department wowed fans in April 2024 as The Eras Tour reached Europe. Since then, the American superstar has put her relationships with Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy behind her, and found love with American football star, Travis Kelce. Fans had hoped the romance would quickly inspire the 35-year old to pen new material, particularly as Tortured Poets Department came so soon on the back of her previous record, Midnights. However, nothing has been forthcoming since Taylor embarked on a well earned break after performing a staggering 152 dates around the world. Now, however, fans believe they have spotted a number of " Easter eggs", which point to the name of her 12th album and its imminent release. Taking to TikTok, super fan Britton Rae said she's "calling it now" as she suggested the Shake It Off singer's album will be titled 'Postcards' and be released in August. "We all know Taylor Swift's website had a bit of a rebrand - the font is new, the colour of the site is new with blue and white, and she came out with a summer collection," Britton began in a video. Britton elaborated on her theory: "With this collection, if you bought anything you could get these postcards - two are in black and white one is in colour. Tortured Poets Department was a very black and white aesthetic album, and the only music video we got from it was in black and white - and perhaps these two photos relate to it being a double album." Britton went on to ponder that perhaps the colour image signifies the impending "new era - leaving the black and white behind and stepping into a new era of colour into the daylight". She also highlighted the new font on the back of the postcard, whilst a QR code takes you to the Bad Blood singer's website, which states 'Discover more'. "It could be saying discover more merch, but perhaps it's literally saying 'more' is coming," Britton said, before telling viewers she'd seen a Reddit discussion in which it had been proposed that 'Postcards' would be a collection of memories she had made on tour. "Just think about what this could be mean - each postcard could be a letter to her fans back home and all of her listeners," Britton added. "It makes perfect sense to me because there is some level of continuity that Taylor Swift maintains throughout all her eras. "We can think of so many songs where she has said something along the lines of writing letters - it's common for her to refer to her songs as letters. She's done it before, so what if she's going to lean into that for an entire era?" As an example, Britton referred to the fact that the last song on Midnights is Hits Different, which ends with the lyrics, 'Have they come to take me away?' - with follow-up, Tortured Poets Department beginning with Fortnight's, 'I was supposed to be sent away/ But they forgot to come and get me'. "Fortnight was the first single featuring who? Post Malone," Britton said. "Post. And in The Manuscript, in the very last verse it says, 'The only thing that's left is the manuscript/One last souvenir from my trip to your shores' - and what is a common souvenir? Postcards!" Britton closed: "There's just too many Easter eggs that are making this make a lot of sense to me." Another fan agreed in response: "THIS is an easter egg that makes sense, not the other ones that involve complicate and nonsense maths." A second pondered: "What if Postcards is the live recordings of the acoustic surprise songs?" A third praised: "This is a beautiful theory." And a fourth concurred: "I think this is the best theory I've heard from anyone."
CairoScene
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Postcards' ‘Ripe' Is a Love-Hate Letter to Beirut
A raw-grunge soundtrack to the beauty and brutality of Beirut, Postcards' latest album captures the angst, nostalgia, and defiance of a city in turmoil. Mar 30, 2025 There's an unmistakable tension in Ripe — the kind that only comes from living in a city that chews you up and spits you out, yet you still refuse to leave. It feels like a politically engaged university student in Beirut, both in love with and exhausted by their home. Postcards tap into the golden era of 2010s soft raw-grunge, aligning themselves with bands like Composure, Basement, Citizen, and Pity Sex. This is the soundtrack of burning youth, cigarettes over cityscapes, and late-night existential spirals. With the current situation in Gaza and Lebanon, the album takes on an even deeper resonance, its rawness mirroring the heartbreak, rage, and resilience of a region constantly on edge. The album, released on Berlin's t3 Records, opens with I Stand Corrected, an immediate plunge into nostalgia-laced grunge. Dreamy yet rough around the edges, it has the kind of worn-in, scuffed-up charm that makes you want to dig out your old band tees. There's a steady pulse to it, a weight that feels both grounding and restless—like the cycle of destruction and rebuilding that defines Beirut. Dust Bunnies, the lead single, encapsulates everything Ripe is about—teenage angst bottled into sound, bursting at the seams with emotion. It carries the same energy as a Heartstopper soundtrack, full of unfiltered passion and fury, like scribbled notes in the margins of a high school notebook. Postcards Band Poison shifts into something darker, layering classic rock structures with pure grunge sensibilities. There's something cinematic about it, like a vampire love story unraveling under flickering neon lights—brooding, reckless, and drenched in distortion. Then comes Wasteland Rose, the album's softest moment, airy and dreamlike, floating
