Taylor already confirmed Patient Zero was on the way, hours before unveiling the wider project.<\/p>\n
And, like always, fans had been busy decoding a series of cryptic clues.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old megastar confirmed the release date on Tuesday once a countdown on her website finally hit zero.<\/p>\n
She wrote on Instagram alongside a new picture of herself in a black halter neck: \u201cI\u2019ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single \u201cPatient Zero\u201d will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it\u2019s available to pre-order now on my website for 24 hours.” <\/p>\n
It looks like, in true Swift fashion, she had been teasing the track for some time.<\/p>\n
The singer\u2019s Opalite music video \u2013 released in February \u2013 featured a poster with \u201cPATIENT FOR THE ENCORE\u201d, which now makes more sense given the title Patient Zero.<\/p>\n
The promo also had four scorecards, each displaying a zero.<\/p>\n
Taylor\u2019s Law and Order: SVU cameo at this year\u2019s Emmys also dropped a set of clues that sent fans hunting for meaning. Her four\u2011word list \u2013 \u201cSaccharide. Aries. From the vineyard. North or south\u201d \u2013 became the centre of the puzzle, and Swifties later realised the sketch\u2019s third letters spell an anagram of \u201cENCORE,\u201d echoing a teaser already spotted in her Opalite video.<\/p>\n
Before officially announcing Patient Zero, Swift updated her bio, swapping the original line for a version using zeroes: \u201cAnd, baby, that\u2019s sh0w business f0r y0u\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor already confirmed Patient Zero was on the way, hours before unveiling the wider project. And, like always,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51691,156,84430,12252,3011,424,117,111,139,69,1118,4990,22161,4626,11208,163,223,102],"class_list":["post-609571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-edition","tag-entertainment","tag-expanded","tag-expands","tag-four","tag-life","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-releasing","tag-showgirl","tag-songs","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-the","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609571","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=609571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}