Taylor Swift’s friends knew about her new album before her record label.
dropped on Friday and she’s praised her loyal friends for keeping her musical secrets.
“My friends don’t rat. They do not rat,” she said on the . “And you can tell by the amount of stories about me that are out there that are absolutely not true, because all of my friends had heard the music a year ago. They know about my life. They know what’s going on. They do not snitch. It is phenomenal. I’ve got a really good circle of friends. It takes a while to get there.”
She continued, “I feel so proud about that. But yeah, my friends know everything just like anybody’s friends know everything. And they, the thing is that they just don’t.”
Host Scott Mills then asked, “So the label knew and your friends knew?”
“The label didn’t know at all,” she replied. “Until we had, until the record was done and we had made and we’d shot all of the art, we’d done everything, we do keep that close to the vest because, you know, I think it’s fun to surprise them, honestly, it’s really fun.”
The 35-year-old star believes it is “easier” for her to just present a to her label, Republic Records.
“We do a lot of things in-house, my team, so I think it’s easier for them when the label can really just focus on what they have to do in terms of distribution, we have an amazing team that do that.”
Speaking of surprised, Taylor discussed the Easter eggs she likes to hide in her work, saying they’re a “little extra layer of entertainment.”
“I really want my music to be a surprise for my fans,” she sid. ‘And I really want to figure out how to do those surprises in ways that are clever and fun for them and feel like entertainment and also if you don’t need Easter eggs then you can disregard that and that doesn’t need to happen.”
The “Fate of Ophelia” singer said, “You don’t need to do math if you don’t want to, but if you want a little extra layer of entertainment I like to be able to do that and that’s why we’re so shrouded in secrecy…
“They found out a really fun one the other day which is that if you line up all of the titles of the songs on the album, in the center, it makes the shape of The Eras Tour stage,” she added. “And it’s, I was so pleased when they found that out. I was like, yes. They are everywhere. There are some weird ones that have absolutely no bearing in reality.”