Is Taylor Swift’s Next Song Called “That’s What Friends Are For”? Inside the Latest Swiftie Theory

Taylor Swift just dropped four brand-new songs off The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore and delivered a star-studded music video which we’re still decoding (the gravestone names continue to haunt me). But it looks like she might not be done feeding fans quite yet.Swifties noticed a pattern in some recent posts, and at this point there’s too much evidence for it to be a coincidence. It all started with Taylor writing a post about “Patient Zero” and thanking her friends, including Cara Delevingne with “That’s what friends are for?”Cara then wrote a post for Taylor, which she captioned, in part, “that’s what friends are for.” And then? Then Saturday Night Live posted that exact same phrase when tweeting about Taylor’s surprise appearance on the show this weekend.This makes three (3) moments where Taylor and her friends/associates have posted the same thing. But what does it mean? Swiftie theorist @nikkiking23 notes that one of Dionne Warwick’s most famous songs is a 1985 collab called “That’s What Friends Are For,” and that Taylor and Dionne have tweeted each other in the past:In fact, Nikki figured out that there are 2,121 days between this tweet and SNL’s “That’s What Friends Are For” post, and that this number backwards is 1212—significant since Taylor announced TLOAS at 12:12 a.m. and Dionne’s birthday is 12/12. There are even more interesting links between “That’s What Friends Are For” and Taylor’s Life of a Showgirl era, so definitely watch this video for the full deep dive.Kay, I’m convinced, bye.