If you used any time in Chicago’s River North Tuesday, you might have found a mural with a big QR code painted on the side of a making. And if you’re a Taylor Swift lover, you might know what the secret is all about — or at minimum have some guesses.
“I think it is really heading to be Easter eggs for a audio video which is coming out,” stated Whitney Hansen, who arrived to check out the mural being painted Tuesday afternoon. “I assume she’s heading to release a music video at like 3 a.m. Friday.”
Afterwards this 7 days, Hansen, who discovered out about the mural on TikTok, will host a listening occasion for Swift’s newest album, “The Tortured Poet’s Department,” which will come out Friday.
Taylor Swift is aware of timing. The international celebrity joined in on the April 8 photo voltaic eclipse pleasurable by teasing track lyrics from her impending album, “The Tortured Poets Office,” on Instagram which reference an eclipse.
“I get the job done downtown, so I realized this was likely to be my lunch crack currently,” Hansen ongoing.
According to reports, the mural began to arrive collectively Monday. It’s crammed with the letters “TTPD,” and the amount 13 — clues Nowadays.com describes as “telltale indicators” that the mural and QR code are meant for Swifties.
“We’ve received the a few ‘TTPDs,’ adopted by four ’13’s,’ mentioned Dani Filip Bermudez, an additional Swift fan who came to see and hopefully decode the information. “If you do Taylor math, you incorporate up the threes and types, and you get 16, which is present-day day. But I’m nonetheless waiting around for extra.”
Whilst crews labored to complete the mural, about a dozen persons were being lined up to consider and scan the QR code — but a large construction raise had blocked the watch. But in accordance to Now.com, the QR code qualified prospects to a YouTube short on Taylor Swift’s webpage with the message “Mistake 321.”
A equivalent note appeared on Swift’s website in February, hours ahead of she experienced introduced “The Tortured Poet’s Section” at the 2024 Grammy Awards. It study:
“Error 321 Backend fetch unsuccessful
Backend fetch unsuccessful
hneriergrd
DPT: 321
Varnish cache server”
The jumbled “hneriergrd” turned out to be an anagram for “red herring.” And “DPT: 321,” go through backward, hinted at the new album’s title, “The Tortured Poets Section.”
Dressed in a white and grey Taylor Swift sweatshirt, Kristen Blevins on Tuesday stood on the sidewalk in front of the mural at 25 W. Grand Avenue, doing the job to decode what the new information could indicate, and its connection to the prior puzzle.
“It really is a seriously excellent mystery that she’s held,” Blevins explained. “The pink herring is something that like, confuses you or distracts you. I believe this could be the summary of that.”
For now, Swifties will have to wait around.
“It really is not completed yet,” claimed Vanessa Filip Bermudez who had been waiting for upwards of an hour for the mural to be finished. “There could be extra as soon as it’s wholly finished. I believe we’re just kind of waiting to see.”
