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It’s no secret to anyone that Taylor Swift fandom on the internet can be absolutely terrifying. Rabid Taylor fans, known as Swifties, have been known to send death threats to music critics who dare to deem her albums anything other than perfect, doxx former producers who’ve worked with Swift’s who’ve since felt the full extent of her wrath and use their considerable buying power to shoot their fave to the top of the charts, consistently.
On TikTok, dizzying analysis of Taylor Swift lyrics and her plentifully-dropped Easter Eggs evokes something like Astrology TikTok: symbols and signs that may mean one thing to devotees and absolutely zero to casual viewers are endlessly pulled apart, assigned certain meanings and rearranged into kaleidoscopic and vaguely unhinged configurations.
That’s why a recent trend culled from Swift’s latest album, Midnights, is such a refreshingly silly and low-key entry in the Swiftie lexicon: in the chorus of one of Swift’s mostly-excellent bonus tracks, “High Infidelity,” she sings, “Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th?”