NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — The curtain has been drawn. The stage lights are on. It’s time for “The Lifetime of a Showgirl.”

For Taylor Swift’s most devoted viewers, a brand new album means new alternatives to decode Easter eggs in her lyrics and music movies. The pop celebrity’s twelfth studio album has no scarcity of intelligent clues and references to her public life and discography. Many are opaque, revealing simply sufficient to encourage a myriad of fan theories. Others are concrete – express names and locations value exploring. Beneath, you’ll find a information to these cases, and the way they relate to Swift.

Learn on, and pleased digging!

Lyric: “That view of Portofino was on my thoughts / While you known as me on the Plaza Athénée”

Which means: When Swift introduced her new album, she did so with the introduction of a shade she’s calling Portofino Orange Glitter after donning the colour onstage throughout the latter a part of her “Eras Tour.” “I’ve simply all the time preferred it,” she stated of the hue throughout her first look on “New Heights,” the favored, usually football-focused podcast hosted by her fiancé Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason Kelce. “It looks like energetically how my life has felt. And this album is about what was occurring behind the scenes in my internal life throughout this tour.” She and beau Kelce had been noticed final yr in Lake Como, Italy, however it’s unclear in the event that they frolicked in close by Portofino. Moreover, the usual model of her album is out there in “sweat and vanilla fragrance Portofino orange vinyl.” As for the Plaza Athénée? That’s a luxurious resort in Paris.

Lyric: “Be my NY when Hollywood hates me”

Which means: Each areas make appearances in Swift’s songwriting. Amongst them: “Welcome to New York” from 2014’s “1989” and “White Horse” from 2008’s “Fearless.” She additionally owns property in each areas.

Lyric: “Babe, I might commerce the Cartier for somebody to belief … simply kidding”

Which means: In August of this yr, Swift introduced her engagement to Kelce by posting a carousel of pictures on Instagram. Eagle-eyed followers observed that the ring wasn’t the one jewellery she was displaying off. She was additionally sporting a Cartier watch.

Lyric: “We hit the perfect sales space at Musso & Frank’s”

Which means: Since opening in 1919, Musso & Frank Grill has been a scorching spot for celebrities in Los Angeles – embodying the sort of old fashioned Hollywood glamor that impressed “The Lifetime of a Showgirl” art work.

Lyric: “All my white diamonds and lovers are perpetually”

Which means: The track is titled “Elizabeth Taylor” after the traditional Hollywood starlet who, in 1991, created her personal fragrance known as “White Diamonds.”

Lyric: “You drive, 85 / Gallatin Highway and the lakeside seashore”

Which means: There are a number of Gallatin Roads in the USA, however given the opposite lyrics within the track, this one possible refers to a avenue in Hendersonville, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, the place Swift spent her adolescence.

Lyric: “However because the 50 Cent track performed”

Which means: A 50 Cent reference additional implies this track is rooted in Swift’s teen years within the ’00s, when the rapper was on the top of his recognition. The track additionally mentions “promenade” and “second interval,” what is often related to highschool.

Lyric: “Once I left faculty, I misplaced monitor of you / Abigail known as me with the dangerous information / Goodbye”

Which means: Abigail refers to Swift’s greatest pal AbigailAnderson, who she attended Hendersonville Excessive Faculty with. This marks the second time Abigail is talked about in Swift’s discography: the primary is the evocative “Fifteen” from “Fearless.”

Lyric: “Redwood tree / It ain’t arduous to see”

Which means: In Oct. 2023, Swift and Kelce made a shock look at “Saturday Night time Dwell” for a season premiere episode that featured host Pete Davidson and musical performer/pal to Swift, Ice Spice.Afterwards, “SNL” forged member Bowen Yang described the couple because the “tallest individuals on this planet,” on the “Las Culturistas” podcast he co-hosts with comic Matt Rogers. “I see them collectively, I’m going, ‘I’m within the Redwood Forest.’” Therefore, “Redwood tree.”

Lyric: “New Heights of manhood”

Which means: “New Heights” is a direct reference to the Kelces’ podcast of the identical identify.

Lyric: “Summertime spritz, pink skies”

Which means: Bodily album variants have been an enormous a part of Swift’s “The Lifetime of a Showgirl” rollout, and in some methods, they seem within the lyrics of “Honey.” The colour of her unique vinyl launch with Goal, “The Crowd Is Your King” version, was described on-line as “summertime spritz pink shimmer.”

Lyric: “Wintergreen kiss, all mine”

Which means: This line pertains to one other considered one of her variants: “The Shiny Bug Assortment,” which is out there in “violet shimmer marbled vinyl” and extra relevantly, “wintergreen and onyx marbled vinyl.” (“Violet” is talked about in “Elizabeth Tylor,” as is “onyx” in “Opalite.”)