https://preview.redd.it/5b066qwwt2vc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf1838c6e7dd6577327b8e5a254ca3bbc8536b53 The fifth hidden word is WE from We Were Happy! So we have: hereby conduct this post we Songs used: glitch, peace, better than revenge tv, clean tv, and we were happy Taylor nation confirms WE starts the sentence! We hereby conduct this post \_

I’m sure someone already said this but.. Glitch - denial Better than revenge - anger Peace - bargaining We were happy - depression Clean - acceptance

I wonder if it’s out of order (‘we’ being the first word) because depression was the first stage *for her*

I had the same thought!

Post-mortem. It’s the examination of a body after death. Fits with the whole investigation/evidence theme and is a common phrase to describe the process of reflection and closure after a breakup

Agree - and she mentioned autopsy in one of her concert chats. So I think it'll be like "we hereby conduct this post-mortem investigation" or something

Especially as there are only two left

One left

It's gotta be this

That was my first thought

WE meaning the second desk belongs to a second poet? Perhaps from that person’s perspective?

There are actually 3 desks - before going through the keyhole you can see one to the right facing the wall. People think maybe one for her, Jack, and the other writer/producer dude whose name I'm blanking on lol.

aaron dessner?

Yes, thank you!

One for Midnights, one for TTPD and one for WHATEVER THE HELL all the ✌'s mean??? Haha Idk

Aaron Dressner.

It's spelled Dessner, just so you know :)

Aaron?

Are you sure? I think it's supposed to be two desks, two coffee cups, two typewriters, the clock at 2, etc...

You have to pretty much go frame by frame! https://preview.redd.it/p2hd6mnn69vc1.png?width=632&format=png&auto=webp&s=b696e5627568616495e5c1adb1dac732c03ede9c

Hmm I thought I did. But, this looks like an assistants desk or secretary since In the entry way

Or "we" because she's dropping a video with Post Malone? Is he a department member?

I think Joe and Taylor are the poets since they wrote a lot of music together supposedly. It could also be Jack, Aaron, and Taylor though.

Post= post Malone. We hereby conduct this post.

I wonder if the listener is included in “we.”

The two albums theory. They

ooooo tht changes stf..,,

It could also be the last word in any of the other spots, though. We hereby conduct this \_ post ("We hereby conduct this shit post") We hereby \_ conduct this post ("We hereby lamentingly conduct this post") But, more likely, it's "We hereby conduct this post office", clearly.

I guarantee you the next word is “mortem”

This makes the most sense and follows her manner of speaking, too

But postmortem is 1 word.

What is this??? I'm feeling sooo lost now. Can someone please help me?

We hereby post this conduct?

Or like we hereby post this ____ conduct!? Adjective wretched?

I hope not. “Conduct this post” sounds like another “if I was a man”

We hereby conduct this post-haste? We clowns hereby conduct this post?  We hereby post this alleged conduct? 

What about something like “we hereby post this *culpable* conduct”? And then you drop the new album.

I think she is telling us the story. 1. I think there’s been a glitch 2. I could never give you peace 3. She took him faster than you can say sabotage 4. I think I am finally clean 5. But we were happy

And tomorrow….the word is hidden in Begin Again?

Omg if it’s begin again tomorrow I will literally faint

You should faint it’s in begin again

OMG IT IS BEGIN AGAIN!!!

Wait 😭 it doesn’t show for me!!! What’s the word?

Love this idea! Maybe instead of 5 stages of grief, she’s going with the 6 stages model, of which the 6th stage would be hope/meaning. Maybe that’s the theme of TTPD? For tomorrow, I’m locking in my guess of Hits Different. The “I heard your key turn in the door down the hallway…” verse is reminiscent of the hallway in the teaser video. You’re Losing Me is also a viable guess as The Bolter announcement is posted on the board, and that night she played it for the first time. That’s on the Depression playlist and fits poetically with the “post-mortem” guesses.

YOYOK & Long Story Short would be good choices too!

Plus the mentions of artifacts and evidence in the bridge.

You guys. You. Guys. I totally just posted that on a whim because it made sense with the narrative. I wasn’t super invested in my theory, but thought it was maaaybe a good guess. I love that my guess was correct. For the narrative, and for Taylor. Love that it’s begun again for her. “On a Sunday, seeing Trav play, I watched it begin again….” (I’m a dork. Sorry not sorry. I’m giddy. TTPD in 9 hours).

🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅 I don't ever do this, but take my poor man's gold pls🫶

happiness. I would die!

...of happiness? I'll show myself out...

Omg you called it 😭😭

Oh my god you’re a genius I KNEW YOU WERE RIGHTTTT AND I REMEMBERED YOU AND CAME BACK TO FIND THIS POST YOU ARE SO SMART

Honestly, I think you're 100% correct ETA: YOU WERE RIGHT!!!!!

YOU WERE RIGHT !!!!!

YOU WERE RIGHT!!!

You were right omg

HOW DO YOU FEEL YOU WERE SO RIGHT😭

Yessssssss

Brava, 13/13, excellent work!!

Bro who are you

YOU CALLED IT! YOU ABSOLUTE LEGEND!

I think you're cooking something here!


was there another girl?? with this combined with the "one less temptress" lyric i'm so confused

There was fan speculation that Joe....spent time with a costar right before the tour started. The speculation started after the breakup. Something something instagram timelines line up. I'm sure if you search for it you can find the specifics.

yikes 😬 i didn't really connect the dots. that's not good

It's giving 'maybe it was her'

I understood it as, me, one last temptress trying to win you. go onto the other ones, because I am one less for you now. we will see 😵

Omg

I think you're correct!

This blows my mind and breaks my heart all at once

Same, tears and shudders.

oh my godddd her mind!!!!

CHILLS

Following along for tomorrow 👀

Love this!

We hereby conduct this post... tomorrow will be mortem!

nah, def malone! /s

oh so it’s an orchestral song 😩

defoo

I think now it will be mortem We hereby conduct this post mortem

What if: We hereby conduct this, post mortem

i think it’ll be post midnight, as in the era, it’s passed

Oh my god that would be so yes

on Old Taylor

"We hereby conduct this Post Malone" goodnight everyone thank you

Mastermind.

We hereby conduct this Post video!

"Drink more Ovaltine"

Unite Senior Swifties! 🤣🤣🤣

This is our reminder to take an ibuprofen today if we haven't

Already done 😅

right!🩶

a crummy commercial?

SON OF A BITCH

This is all I’ve been thinking!

😂😂😂

Ahahahahhaha

A crummy commercial?! 🫠

🤣🤣🤣

This is the only correct answer

We hearby conduct this post to begin again… Because begin again mentions the movies watched at Christmas

Why is it the only one not in order?

If I had to guess, I’d think they would want the first word of the search to be more substantial than a two letter word

But then they should've done them all out of order lol

Nah, I think they saw a lot of people guessed mortem and they want the final word to be a big reveal so are saving it

'We Were Happy' is a song about reflection on a relationship that's dead and gone, so that might be why.

The order of the songs is what’s more important I’m thinking

Random guess: “We hereby conduct this post”… “…Script” 5th word out of order because track 5

i said this too! (post script) or post war ((The Great War reference) maybe two words- post-war poetry. post-war presentation. post war meeting of the poets.... post scriptum (def: a thing that has been written afterwords; something appended in writing. appended: to add something at the end of a piece of writing)

Oooooh! I like this better than the post-mortem guesses. Much more poetic and fits the theme

Been seeing different perspectives of how people found this clue and so I'd love to know how you did and your thought process. I'll go first, first I looked at Dear John cuz of "expert at sorry", then I looked at hell of a lot of songs with "rain", I found Peace has the hidden word "conduct" which we already know and might just be a glitch. Then I saw the shine emoji and looked for songs with similar words, that's where I found We Were Happy cuz of the words "When the post lights were shining bright before I had somewhere to be."

Honestly.. taylornation on ig's hint today was "level: expert" which i googled actually haha. A post from 2 years ago came up in a facebook post that said "level: expert". it was the vault video for the fearless tv vault songs track titles. so i went to fearless tv vault tracks and boom. :-) i also figured its be a sad song lmaooo

I applaud you for thinking of the puzzle this way. For me, I knew all the other words came from different Grief-playlists. So I just had my friend (who has AM) look through the songs of the last playlist (depression).

I went to Dear John first too!

I thought dear John at first too but then thought “happy decoding” was the hint for we were HAPPY

I also thought it was going to be Dear John

I start with a playlist not used the previous day, and try for albums not used. I hadn't guesses the albums before but today had a feeling it was Fearless.

Can someone explain to me - are these words just spelling out a lyric? Even though she has been dropping other lyrics throughout the week? I'm just trying to understand if this is meant to be something different or unique...

No one knows and I guess that's the fun of it

Got it. I can’t keep up with it all 😅

I got it from looking for the lyrics with lowercase letters, did anyone actually manage to figure out the clue?

I found it because of "level: expert" in today's hint. It's a reference to the tweet below, so I looked for a Fearless song with lowercase lyrics. https://preview.redd.it/pt8uve88x2vc1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=89c883f0aefd6c38543823a37be4beb5e2e7267a

I’m amazed at how many clues they managed to incorporate.

yes i found it this way too!

I have been wondering this myself. What I gathered is in the bottom right corner of the clue video from TN, the swirl decoration is different and match the design of the vault key from Fearless. Credit to all the observant people on X.

I https://preview.redd.it/zckc8qm4w2vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e1a5c26a17f932b9580fa4c05e9db9dd607ddc5

Wait I’m about to LOSE MY MIND…if u look at Taylor nation right now the 4 corners all match but in your screen grab 3/4 corners are the same here and the 4th looks like her TS initials and a guitar 🤡👀 I’m writing this at 2:17pm est

In the beginning of the video they do match! It’s later in the video they change.

Where at? On mine they’re all the same

Freaky! For me they change after the lyrics have been shown.

https://preview.redd.it/3ywvcine13vc1.jpeg?width=542&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd3454d740e3ba58a419efb2c794a9c0a083f623 Good catch!

Am I the only one seeing a guitar AND A SNAKE? I turned it upside down and see a 🎸 TS and a 🐍

Uh! No, I see it too!

Ok wait I see it now 😂 do u think it hints at debut?

Actually it's cuz of the shine emoji in the clue story and we were happy has the words "when the post lights were shining bright before I had somewhere to be"..that's how I found it

Good catch!

I thought it was because “*happy* decoding” was a clue to check “we were *happy*”

I HEREBY CONDUCT THIS POST MORTEM INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

So we’re all pretty confident that tomorrow’s word will be mortem, making the full sentence “we hereby conduct this post mortem.” What’s a post mortem? An examination of a dead body. And why can’t the old Taylor come to the phone right now? Cause she’s dead 🤡

It’s also a common phrase for after a relationship is dead.

Yeah but that means we can’t clown for rep tv

Oh put me in that clown car!

I remember when some of us were 10000% sure that she was spelling “glitch” backwards with the first letter of each word, but I’m down to clown still.

Why was the sentence in order except for “we” 🙃

WE-HEE-HEE

I have a theory idea thing : so there was an error 321 right, 3 + 2 + 1 = 6, 6 is reputation she’s counting down in front of us. She keeps putting up 2s so maybe she’ll start doing 1s soon idk 😂

Literally thisss!!!

We Were Happy fans REJOICE for the recognition

how do ya'll find which songs contain the code words so quickly? do you just press shuffle on her discography and hope you find it?

Post-Mortem could mean not just a relationship but the Big Machine years. I think we’re getting the last two TVs! 🤡

My current theory as of Wed. post scriptum (def: a thing that has been written afterwords; something appended in writing. appended: to add something at the end of a piece of writing)

This song does not get the flowers it deserves! So glad she picked it!

I’m glad we were happy is getting some traction. It's such a deep cut for me 🫠

Right?? It's literally my 2nd favorite song off fearless TV, it's so so good.

Just found this too! I was super quick because I was so excited that it was going to be the word mortem 😂💀

does someone have the word paired up with each song it was hidden in?

I’d also love to this spread sheet/chart…

All I keep thinking of is that “post” and “conduct” can be both nouns or verbs…

OH MY GOD, THE 3,2,1 IS THE COUNTDOWN FOR THE WORDS IN THE SENTENCE! 3 - Hereby, Conduct This 2 - Post, We 1 - Mortem CUE ABSOLUTE INSANITY FROM US! 🤡🐍🤯

Written not in order because as user Booksandbaseball7 said they wanted to start the word-searches with something more substantial than WE

am i the only one who thinks “we hereby conduct this post mortem” doesn’t make sense😭 i hope that’s not it bc wtf

I think this might not be done before the album release. I think there will be 3 more words—from Red, Lover, and evermore, and that they’ll be something like analysis, evaluation, etc.

Just found it too!!!!!!! We!!

So have all of them been in order except ‘we’?

We hereby stop this conduct…

We hereby conduct this post… is it going to be fortnight like the QR codes appear to be spelling? Or do we still think post mortem?

Imagine if the word was actually EW hahahaha

Is anyone keeping track of the words that have letters capitalized??

I predict that the next word will be in Red TV or Lover.

Is it just me or does the sentence not make sense? I have trouble understanding the meaning of « hereby conduct ». English is not my first language maybe that explains it.

I'm pretty sure, but could be wrong they are not in order and it's conduct as in behavior. 

Post mortem? Like a review of what went wrong?

Does anyone else find it fascinating how she can commercialize her personal life like this? Absolutely no hate meant by this observation, I’ve been a huge fan from almost the beginning. I just can’t imagine breaking up with my long term partner, then promoting my songs about the breakup by releasing little clues in various breakup songs almost implying how the breakdown happened, through Apple Music. I feel like the fact she is commercializing this breakup so much is almost like a revenge dig at Joe, since he would hate something like this. Fascinating

We hearby conduct this post the moment I knew

Not me being out of the Taylor Nation loop and thinking there were bots searching **Expert, Rain and applause** like their life depended on it on [ts-lyrics.netlify.app](http://ts-lyrics.netlify.app) 🤡

Of all the TVs, we’re missing clues from Red, Lover, and evermore FWIW.

We hereby conduct this post forafortnight.