As 1989 (Taylor’s Model) attracts nearer, Taylor Swift is ramping up her teases and Easter eggs. On Tuesday (Sept. 19), Google launched a brand new pop-up animation in honor of 1989 (Taylor’s Model) — and based mostly on among the puzzles, followers assume a Nicki Minaj collaboration may very well be imminent.
In the event you search “Taylor Swift” on the search engine, a brand new pop-up will provide considered one of 89 puzzles that followers are tasked with fixing to “unlock Taylor’s vault.” Every puzzle asks the consumer to unscramble a phrase after which kind it into the Google search bar to unravel the train. Sharing the brand new characteristic on her Instagram web page, Swift wrote, “You may inform me when the *search* is over… if the excessive was well worth the ache 😎,” a reference to “Clean Area,” considered one of three Billboard Scorching 100 No. 1 singles from the unique 1989.
One puzzle’s reply, specifically, has captivated the eye of each Swifties and Barbz; “Sagittarius.” Not solely is it the ninth astrological signal, however some followers are taking the reply as a touch for a collaboration between the 2 music powerhouses.
First, Swift and Minaj are each Sagittariuses given their Dec. 13 and Dec. 8 birthdays, respectively. On the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (Sept. 12), after accepting her third trophy from Minaj — who served because the evening’s emcee — Swift stated, “That’s my favourite Sagittarius over there,” eliciting a large smile and an enthusiastically affirmative response from the “Final Time I Noticed You” rapper. Minaj has been a faithful champion of her star signal for years, so this got here as no shock to her largest followers.
Final month (Aug. 24), Minaj tweeted, “Preventing the urge to say Sagittarius tingz proper now so dangerous,” when she quoted a tweet commemorating her and Swift as the one feminine artists in Billboard chart historical past to position over 100 entries on the Scorching 100. Earlier this yr (Mar. 24), the “Tremendous Freaky Lady” rapper tweeted, “Expensive Barbz, it have to be exhausting all the time rooting for the Anti-hero,” a reference to each her controversial public persona and Swift’s Scorching 100-topping Midnights single.
A collaboration between Swift and Minaj wouldn’t be utterly out of left area. Swift was an early champion of Minaj’s “Tremendous Bass,” and the 2 carried out a medley of their songs collectively (Minaj’s “Trini Dem Ladies” and “The Night time Is Nonetheless Younger” and Swift’s “Dangerous Blood”) on the 2015 VMAs after ironing out an argument relating to that yr’s nominees for video of the yr.
See what the Swifties and Barbz are theorizing a couple of potential Taylor Swift-Nicki Minaj collaboration:
