Breaking News Just Now:Apple Music dropping a ‘word a day’ for Taylor Swift’s new album. What they are so far

When it comes to deciphering clues, Swifties are only second to Sherlock Holmes. Taylor Swift has given her fans plenty to speculate about in the run-up to the release of her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

The implication of “all’s fair in love and poetry” being an allusion to “all’s fair in love and war” and Taylor announcing war as the entire aesthetic of this album is circling around a courthouse and a trial especially with “hereby” as the first word now.pic.twitter.com/Z2nEXNUYmT

— Tan (@tantaytay) April 13, 2024

Last week, the singer released five Apple Music playlists, each featuring a selection of her own past songs, that correspond to the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) and may hint at the themes of her upcoming album.

The implication of “all’s fair in love and poetry” being an allusion to “all’s fair in love and war” and Taylor announcing war as the entire aesthetic of this album is circling around a courthouse and a trial especially with “hereby” as the first word now.pic.twitter.com/Z2nEXNUYmT

— Tan (@tantaytay) April 13, 2024

Then, on April 13, Apple Music marked the final countdown to her 11th studio album, which drops April 19, with a string of tricky clues.

The music service updated its bio on the X platform to read, “A word a day til the @taylorswift13 album drops,” which sent Swifties into a sleuthing frenzy.

Fans quickly figured out the secret words were hidden in song lyrics stores on Apple Music. But the words’ meanings remain a mystery — for now.

Here’s what to know about the Taylor Swift Apple Music words, and what they might mean.

After Apple Music announced the “word a day” challenge, fans scanned Swift’s Apple Music playlists. They discovered that the lyrics page for one song, “Glitch,” on the “Denial” playlist, featured random capital letters in the middle of words.

The implication of “all’s fair in love and poetry” being an allusion to “all’s fair in love and war” and Taylor announcing war as the entire aesthetic of this album is circling around a courthouse and a trial especially with “hereby” as the first word now.pic.twitter.com/Z2nEXNUYmT

— Tan (@tantaytay) April 13, 2024

The capitalized letters, H, E, Y, B, E and R, spell “HEREBY” when unscrambled.

Apple Music confirmed that “hereby” was the correct word the following day when they reposted the solved word from the official Taylor Nation X fan page.

Word no. 2: Conduct
On the second day of the challenge, it didn’t take long for Swifties to discover some randomly capitalized words in “Peace,” a song on Swift’s Apple Music playlist about the bargaining stage of grief.

The capitalized letters, once unscrambled, spell the word “conduct.”

It’s unclear whether Swift means “conduct” as a verb, as in to direct or carry out, or as a noun, as in behavior.