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Are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting married at Madison Square Garden? Will Stevie Nicks be performing? Will the wedding be on July 3, as some reports suggest? Or is that just a red-herring date that Swift gave out to see who would leak it to the media? Is Swift, in fact, planning two <\/em>weddings\u2014one real, one a decoy? Are Kelce and Swift actually already <\/em>married\u2014and did they somehow manage to hide the entire event from the public?<\/p>\n

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Since the singer and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end announced their engagement in August of last year, fans and media outlets have produced abundant theories about their eventual wedding. But speculation has been escalating the past couple of months. For a while, many people were convinced that the wedding would be June 13\u2014because Swift famously likes the number 13\u2014but that date came and went without incident. Now the rumored July 3 date is approaching, and the chatter seems to have reached a rolling boil.<\/p>\n

In Westerly, Rhode Island, where the singer owns a home, the mere appearance of a white tent was apparently enough to summon a swarm of photographers and lookie-loos. The Associated Press interviewed a beleaguered Westerly wedding planner who seemed frankly sick of answering whether every single wedding she worked on was Swift\u2019s. And the gossip rags have been doing what they do best, advancing rumors about all sorts of things, including the invitation status of various celebs, and Kelce\u2019s dad apparently \u201chard launching\u201d a new girlfriend in the lead-up to the wedding. Meanwhile, The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> got an unnamed New York City official on the record claiming that the rumors about a July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden are true.<\/p>\n

Some of this is to be expected. Celebrities are basically royalty to Americans, and indeed, excitement about the Swift-Kelce nuptials is at royal-wedding level. Swift is one of the biggest celebrities we have, a culture-shaping personality in addition to an all-time best-selling musician. And Kelce, a Super Bowl\u2013winning football player, is extremely famous by any measure except in comparison with his fianc\u00e9e. This wedding was always going to get attention.<\/p>\n

But some of the speculative frenzy feels distinctly Swiftian. Swift\u2019s fans have been trained by Swift herself to always be hunting for hidden messages that might reveal her next move.<\/p>\n

In her early albums, the singer hid secret messages in the liner notes of the CDs, capitalizing certain letters. Sometimes they spelled out advice\u2014\u201cDATE NICE BOYS\u201d read the code in the lyrics for \u201cPicture to Burn\u201d\u2014and other times, more juicily, they would hint at whom the song was about. \u201cMAPLE LATTES,\u201d hidden in the lyrics for \u201cAll Too Well\u201d on her album Red<\/em>, seemed to point to her ex Jake Gyllenhaal.<\/p>\n

Her penchant for planting Easter eggs has taken many forms since then. References to her past work litter her songs and music videos\u2014as do clues about upcoming projects. On her Eras Tour, just before she dropped the \u201cTaylor\u2019s Version\u201d rerecords of two of her older albums, concertgoers\u2019 light-up wristbands flashed in the albums\u2019 associated colors (Speak Now<\/em>\u2019s purple and 1989<\/em>\u2019s blue) at the end of the night. On the last night of the tour, Swift exited the stage through an orange door\u2014and orange ended up being the key color of her next album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>. In her 2022 song \u201cMastermind,\u201d the artist acknowledged her tendency toward devising \u201ccryptic,\u201d \u201cMachiavellian\u201d puzzles, singing, \u201cWhat if I told you none of it was accidental?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Her fans have certainly internalized that message. Everything associated with Swift\u2014her social-media posts, her fashion choices, the dates of her concerts\u2014is scoured for the secrets it may contain. And now, with her wedding (allegedly) fast approaching, anything she\u2019s ever said or done might be plumbed for clues about when and where and how it might take place. For instance, in Swift\u2019s music video for \u201cI Bet You Think About Me,\u201d the numbers 13 and 26 adorn the top tier of a wedding cake, which fueled speculation that the wedding would be on June 13, 2026. (Never mind that the music video came out in 2021, before Swift even met Kelce.)<\/p>\n

To a certain extent, sleuthing has become a part of fan culture writ large, not just among Swift fans. On the benign end of the spectrum, people advance theories about what will happen next on their favorite shows, or analyze the tiniest details in costumes or set designs, looking for hidden meaning. And then there are the grand conspiracy theories about celebrities\u2019 lives: the assemblage of dossiers that \u201cprove\u201d that Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson of One Direction were secretly dating, or that the singer Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a body double.<\/p>\n

Swifties, though, are arguably the ne plus ultra of fan conspiracy theorists. One academic paper on the topic claimed that the \u201cspeculative fandom\u201d of some Swifties, though playful, \u201cechoes behaviors found in extremist communities\u201d in how it builds relationships through advancing fringe theories. One subcommunity of fans, known as Gaylors, has formed based on their shared, obsessive search for evidence that Swift is actually queer; some of them believe that her relationship with Kelce\u2014despite it rapidly approaching the altar\u2014is fake. Many Swifties themselves, knowing they\u2019re being a bit silly, refer to the arcane symbology the fandom is accustomed to engaging in as \u201cclowning.\u201d But what it reminds me of is rats.<\/p>\n

Long ago, scientists showed in experiments with rats that intermittent reinforcement leads to more compulsive behavior than consistent reinforcement. If every time a rat presses a button, a treat comes out, the rat will develop a normal relationship to the button and press it when it wants treats. If the button never produces treats, the rat will lose interest. If the button yields treats only sometimes<\/em>, the rat will lose its ever-loving mind and press the button incessantly, looking for the jackpot.<\/p>\n

This is the principle behind gambling addiction, and it\u2019s also the principle behind Swiftian clowning. Swift has presented her fans with a button that intermittently rewards wild speculation. Sometimes an orange door is just an orange door, and sometimes it is a mystery that you, the discerning fan, can solve.<\/p>\n

Whether the fans are right or wrong in their clowning is ultimately not the point. (Though who doesn\u2019t love to be right?) It\u2019s the thrill of the chase. The fact that no wedding took place on June 13 did not stop the frenzy; if no wedding happens July 3, the guessing game will continue. And when the celebration ends, the cycle will go on: Where will they honeymoon? Will they have kids? How many? (13?) Will Stevie Nicks be the godmother? And will we ever<\/em> get Reputation (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>? Anything could be a clue. Fans will keep pushing the button, looking for more treats.<\/p>\n

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