Taylor Swift treated fans to two surprise albums this year – and there’s speculation that a there’s a third one in the works.
Fans discovered the word “woodvale” hidden among the trees on Folklore – and since it’s TSwift is the queen of Easter Eggs, many started speculating that it could be a clue for a third album in the works.
“woodvale will be the third #TaylorSwift album which will come out in the spring and it’ll be like a trilogy- woodvale, evermore & folklore,” one fan theorized on Twitter.
Tay appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Monday (December 14) to set the record straight on the whole woodvale thing.
“Well, this takes a bit of explanation,” Taylor said. “I tend to be sort of annoyingly secret-agenty about dropping clues and hints and Easter eggs. It’s very annoying, but it’s fun for fans and it’s fun for me because they like to pick up on things. And they’ll notice lots of things in music videos and photos or whatever. Sometimes I take it too far and make a mistake.”
“Basically, when I was making ‘folklore,’ the album that came out back in July, I was too afraid to even unveil the title of the album to even my closest teammates and management,” she said. “I didn’t tell anyone the album title until right before it came out.
“I came up with a fake code name that had the same amount of letters as ‘folklore.’ Chose a random name. Chose ‘woodvale,’” she explained, adding, “Wanted to see how it would look on the album covers, mocked them up, and then decided I don’t actually want to have a title on the album covers. And we forgot to take the fake code name off of one of them… ‘evermore’ had a code name. It was ‘November.’ We remembered to take it off the mock-ups of the album covers before we released it this time. We learned our lesson.”
Taylor previously shared that working on folklore and evermore was the first time she made a “sister record” to one of her album. However, she also told the host that after dropping the two albums this year, “I’m so tired. I’m so exhausted. I’ve tired myself out. I have nothing left.” Is this her way of debunking the third album theory?
