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Taylor Swift drops Easter eggs into her music and promotional material for her fans to uncover. People throw themselves into decoding the hidden messages. She recently said that she finds it “weird” when people try to determine who a song is about. This comment has angered people.

Taylor Swift said she finds it weird that her fans look too far into her lyrics

Swift has been including Easter eggs in her music, album art, and more since the start of her career. She recently spoke about the “detective work” people do. 

“There’s corners of my fanbase who are gonna take things to a really extreme place,” she told The New York Times, adding, “There’s nothing I can do about that. There’s people who are gonna try to, like, do detective work, figure out the details — who is that about? What is this?” 

She said she finds it odd when people try to speculate about who the song is about.

“When it gets a little bit weird for me is when people act like it’s a paternity test,” she said. “Like, ‘This song’s about that person.’ Because I’m like, ‘That dude didn’t write the song, I did.’ But that’s part of it.” 

Taylor Swift fans aren’t thrilled about her comments

People have found Swift’s comments about her fans’ “detective work” surprising because she actively puts messages for them in her work.

“As if she didn’t actively encourage her fans to read into every single tiny sign and easter egg and hints everywhere…” one Reddit user wrote. 

“She literally encourages this!” another person added. “Remember her liner notes with all the clues??”

People also commented on the fact that she said she couldn’t do anything about her fans’ behavior. Many felt that she has the ability to ask them to stop if she wanted to.

“Has she ever publicly asked her fan base to chill the f*** out?” asked one person. “Seems like that would be the bare minimum.”

She shared why she started including Easter eggs in her music

Swift has been hiding messages for her fans since the beginning of her career.

“It’s sort of a tradition that we started a very long time ago,” she said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I think the first time that I started dropping sort of cryptic clues in my music what when I was — I was 14 and 15 putting together my first album.”

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She said that this started because she wanted her fans to read the lyrics she wrote.

“I wanted to do something that incentivized fans to read the lyrics because my lyrics are what I’m most proud of out of everything that I do, every aspect of my job,” Swift said. “So I really wanted people to read the lyrics. And when I was a kid I used to read through CD booklets and just read the teeny, tiny, print and just obsess over it. And so I wanted to incentivize them.”

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