Number Theories

In the Delicate music video, there is one point where the numbers 5 and 8 are written in graffiti on the wall. TS8... if you modify “S” a little it becomes “5”. T 5 8... We now know that Taylor has been planning folklore since 2016.

And, “Not a lot going on at the moment” (which, as Swifties, we know means SOMETHING EXCITING IS HAPPENING) is a 22 reference because in the video she wears a shirt that says that. That was posted precisely at 5:08 at 5/8, for a reason.

Also, she made an End Game reference, when she posted on Twitter, “biiiiig isolation.”

End Game is the 2nd song on reputation. There’s a part in the video where she is in front of a vending machine. There is a lyric in Cruel Summer, “Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine”. Cruel Summer is the 2nd song on Lover.

"It's 2 AM, feeling like I just lost a friend," -"Breathe"

"2 AM, who do you love?" -"Enchanted"

"Lit through the darkness at 1:58" -"Last Kiss"

"Two A.M. riding in your truck and all I need is you next to me." -"Mary's Song" (Oh My My My)

"And it's 2 AM, and I'm cursing your name."-"The Way I Loved You"

"I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye." -"Forever and Always"

"I'm in the room, it's a typical Tuesday night." -"You Belong With Me"

In the song, "ME!" there is a lyric, "And then we had that fight out in the rain, you ran up to me and called my name". In the video for "Mine", the fight is in the rain and he runs up to her.

"2AM, in your car, pass my street, the windows down," -"I Wish You Would"

"And I remember that fight, 2:30 AM" -"Mine"

City of Lover was released 3/17. "Take me home, just take me home yeah just take me home, oh,"-"Style" "Style is the third song in 1989.

The third song in Lover, "Lover", has a similar lyric; "And ah, take me out, and take me home".

There is a Lyric in "So It Goes..." "1, 2, 3".

“Chase two girls, lose the one.”-“Cardigan” 2+1=3

"You squeeze my hand three times,"-"New Year's Day"

Ten cinnamon buns in “When you’re so proud of your buns you post them on the internet.” post on Twitter. She was ten months old in the video of herself talking in her other post on Twitter. "And there you'll stand, ten feet tall," -"Sweeter Than Fiction" "Ten months sober, I won't give in."-"Clean"

Taylor has a song called "seven" in folklore. The number seven is the title of the song, however it doesn't have any deeper meaning or symbolism to the song itself. Perhaps it was there for a different reason? Ten + 7 = 17.

"It's like I'm 17, nobody understands," -"I Think He Knows"

"I'm only seventeen, I don't know anything."-"betty"

City of Lover was released 5/17.

"Skipping down 16th Avenue," -"I Think He Knows"

"Crazier...Then I was at 16, lost in a film scene." -"Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince"

When Taylor was 19, she appeared on Hannah Montannah with a song called Crazier. BUT, she was actually 19 at the time, so she must have put 16 and not 19 for a reason.

Between Sixteenth Avenue and 17th Street is a square the Music Row in Nashville. Taylor says she wrote some of her older country songs there.