{"id":608607,"date":"2026-09-22T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:52:11","slug":"taylor-swift-teases-patient-zero-new-single-out-september-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608607\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Teases “Patient Zero”: New Single Out September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s latest single, titled \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d will release later this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer songwriter put a countdown on her website Tuesday with a deep red background leading up to the announcement, and she previously had changed her Instagram bio to \u201cAnd, baby, that\u2019s sh0w business f0r y0u.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis will be Swift\u2019s first release since \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d for Toy Story 5, which she began teasing at the end of May ahead of the film\u2019s theatrical release in June. Billboards with the signature cloudy Pixar sky started popping up with the T.S. on them ahead of the confirmation.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d Sets Record For Longest-Running No. 1 Pop Single<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBack to the countdown on Swift\u2019s website: It led to three options for CDs of the single with various photo options and colors. There is a black CD with a double-sided cover, a periwinkle disc that contains the acoustic version and a dark orange disc with the piano version of the song.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also posted to her Instagram to tease the new song, which will arrive September 25.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single \u201cPatient Zero\u2019 will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it\u2019s available to pre-order now on my website for 24 hours.,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Weekend Read: Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll \u2018Resident Evil\u2019, Inside Taylor Swift\u2019s Emmys Cameo, Rosalind Eleazar\u2019s Dream Role & The Best Party Crasher Ever<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSwift is set to receive the Inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors<\/a>, presented Sunday, September 27, at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. The inaugural prize celebrates a sustained and influential body of work from artists who have pushed creative boundaries and developed a clear directorial voice.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also recently made a cameo appearance in a pre-taped Law & Order: Special Victims Unit sketch with 2026 Emmys host Mariska Hargitay, whose character in the procedural show inspired the name of one of Swift\u2019s three cats \u2014 Olivia Benson. In the skit, Swift played the part of a rookie investigator, popping into an analysis of crime boards that aimed to decipher if she would attend the 2026 Emmys ceremony. She also let fly a mysterious combination of words: \u201cSaccharide, Ares, From The Vineyard, North or South.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Watch Taylor Swift\u2019s Cameo In Pre-Taped \u2018Law & Order\u2019 Sketch With Emmys Host Mariska Hargitay; Singer Appears At Chiefs Vs. Broncos Matchup Next To Tom Cruise<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe title \u201cPatient Zero\u201d certainly falls in line with the skit and themes of investigation. One Swiftie pointed out that the title might be in reference to Los Angeles Times writer Amy Kaufman\u2019s column about Swift\u2019s romance with Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce. In the piece, Kaufman wrote that \u201cTaylor Swift is patient zero for emotional contagion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd if the numbers and symbols in the caption of Swift\u2019s post are to mean anything, there are 12 exclamation points in those parenthesis and four zero emojis at the end. Still, her words uttered in the Law & Order: SVU sketch have yet to be decoded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2018s latest single, titled \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d will release later this week. The singer songwriter put a countdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,6456],"class_list":["post-608607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}