I, For One, Am Ready For Taylor Swift, Esquire

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Our Easter egg queen is back at it. Taylor Alison Swift is releasing a hotly anticipated album on Friday, April 19th: The Tortured Poets Department. And you may think, for obvious reasons, the breakup album marks the start of the singer’s Poet Era, but there’s reason to believe she’s taking a more lawyerly tract.

As part of the promotion for TTPD, Team Taylor has hidden words in the lyrics of Apple Music playlists. From  Billboard:

The daily word can be found somewhere in Swift’s five playlists exclusively released on Apple Music last week, which explore the five stages of heartbreak: denial (“I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life” playlist), anger (“You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad” playlist), bargaining (“Am I Allowed to Cry?” playlist), depression (“Old Habits Die Screaming” playlist) and acceptance (“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” playlist).

With one word uncovered daily, the full message is to be revealed on April 18, the day before Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is here.

The first word is the old legal drafting standby, “Hereby.”

Sure, it’s only lawyerly in that faux Bill S. Preston, Esquire sense, but with the second word rumored to be “conduct” it’s giving out contract-y vibes. And, it should be noted, a track on TTPD is inspired by the AHEM 1989 Disney classic, The Little Mermaid.

Especially since other TTPD promotional materials have built upon that legal theme.

But it *could* have been better.

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.