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Let it begin.

I was so excited when I saw this yesterday!! Well, to me, it means we're getting a new single and/or announcement on the 18th, but I might be wrong

maria wrote:I was so excited when I saw this yesterday!! Well, to me, it means we're getting a new single and/or announcement on the 18th, but I might be wrong

Yeah, that's what I think too and what I've been thinking for about a week now anyway. People on TC have some crazy theories that have to do with how many times she pushes the button, how fast she pushes it etc. (even going so far as to say there'll be a song on the album called Broken or Pushing buttons because maybe she pressed the button so many times because it's broken and she's mad) but I think that's all she means by it. The button is not broken (how could she have planned that anyway?), she's on the 18th floor so it won't go anywhere and she's pushing the button a bunch of times to emphasize the 18 because something will be happening on that day. That's pretty much it I think. haha

maybe it means there will be 18 songs?

Kate wrote:maybe it means there will be 18 songs?

I don't think so. Even 16 was a lot. Even though she always had more songs on every new album she probably wouldn't go over 16 so I'm thinking there'll either be 15 or 16 and the 18 just meant an announcement and single on the 18th.

I personally think, with taking into consideration the second clue, it has something to do with August 18th at 5pm. Maybe a webchat? Some people think it's a countdown because she pressed the button six times but the clues were posted well over 24 hours apart. And I have no idea what clue #3 means. Maybe the webchat on Yahoo?

I'm surprised she put out all the clues so quickly. I thought we'd have to wait until Monday for another clue and then we'd find out if we were right about what the clues meant when she announced the webchat shortly after but I guess she's announcing it a little early this time around so everyone has more than enough notice. ~ ♥Alyssa

These clues are so confusing =L

Jackie wrote:These clues are so confusing =L

What's confusing about them? There's a live stream Q&A on Momday the 18th at 4pm Eastern standard time. (which according to google is 9pm your time) It was announced on Yahoo.com. I think they may have taken it down because the info leaked early, it doesn't work on a phone and 2nd clue was 5pm I think because assuming it's an hour long then it would end at 5 and that would be when the first single is released so that might be what's throwing you off. People have some crazy theories about what the clues mean and read a lot into them but all they were were clues as to when the announcement would be. She just wanted to tell us in a creative way because she knows we're all looking for clues. I hope that helps!  -Alyssa
Ps. Oh and it's happening from a top secret location in New York!

I think there's more to Clue #2 than just the 5:00. I'm willing to bet that the painting, camera/tape recorder(?), and maybe even Olivia weren't put there randomly...

Sadie wrote:I think there's more to Clue #2 than just the 5:00. I'm willing to bet that the painting, camera/tape recorder(?), and maybe even Olivia weren't put there randomly...

I think it's just the picture she uses for her lock screen and she screen shot it to show that it was 5:00. I think the picture itself is way too random to mean anything anyway. I mean, what would her cat have to do with anything? And the clues really only seemed to be hinting at the webchat anyway so unless there was a reference to New York in the background (which I think there might've been but I didn't really look) I don't think it meant anything as far as the live stream goes. Unless maybe the picture was taken in her pent house and she's doing the live chat from there but she always used to do them from her house so I don't know why they'd call it a "top secret location". Unless they just wanted to surprise us with that for some reason.

I'm so excited! New music, finally.
It's almost certainly a webchat (here's one of a few screenshots found by people):


I'm really excited. We're going to have a title for album 5 and a brand new song in nine days!  

DAYS. AWAY.   

Has anyone seen Taylor's new homepage, Fans in NYC have the chance to go to the webchat =)

Jackie wrote:Has anyone seen Taylor's new homepage, Fans in NYC have the chance to go to the webchat =)

Oh, I didn't realize she had officially announced it yet! Probably because I just woke up. lol Anyway, I just entered! I'm so glad anyone can do it this time! What was with the people being invited ahead of time though for two different things? I'm guessing the other thing was something else but are the people who were invited early going to be doing the same thing as the contest winners or were they picked to do something extra as well? I'm just curious because I thought people were being invited in a similar way as before but now they're having a contest so I'm confused. But happy! I don't live in New York but I'm close enough that I could find a way to get there if I was picked! And I noticed it now says it's at 5pm and not 4 so I guess that explains why you couldn't figure out what time it would be your time. It should be 10pm which isn't too bad and then I'm guessing it'll be over an hour later and the single will be released then. I guess the time confusion is another reason Yahoo.com shouldn't leak things early! haha