What started as a few lone Swifties casting early speculation that Taylor Swift would join Lana Del Rey doing her Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival headliner set has become a full-blown internet conspiracy.
Taking to X and TikTok, fans of both songstresses have collected plenty of evidence for why they don’t think they’re crazy. Here’s the rundown of why they think it could happen:
At #Coachella so can’t listen to #TaylorSwift album properly, buuuut I will likely see her tomorrow with Lana Del Rey
— Indigo (@Indigo_winds_) April 19, 2024
manifesting a lana del rey and taylor swift coachella performance tomorrow night pic.twitter.com/HEf6aGAVUS
— music is my love language (@jjustanothergal) April 19, 2024
1. Taylor Swift just released an album
It’s one of the more low-hanging reasons, but it is true that Swift just put out an album. Perfect timing?
“When does Tortured Poets Department come out?” Tiktok user @callhergabbyyy asked cheekily as she pointed to its April 19 release date. “Anddd when is Lana’s set?”
She went on to speculate that Swift would, in fact, make a showing at Lana’s set.
Taylor Swift x Coachella Weekend you heard it bere first !! #taylorswift #coachella #torturedpoetsdepartment #tpd #lanadelrey
It’s not like Swift necessarily needs the publicity: Spotify’s official X account posted that as of April 19, “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day, and Taylor Swift became the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history.”
On April 19th, 2024, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day, and Taylor Swift became the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history. pic.twitter.com/g2tzdzdgCC
— Spotify (@Spotify) April 19, 2024
Not to say fans aren’t onto something, as Swift is no stranger to surprising her listeners: “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT,” marks Swift’s 11th album, and it came with a surprise extra 15 songs, which the singer revealed in a 2 a.m. post on X. Which brings us to our next point.
2. The power of two?
Taylor Swift’s announcement that her album was a double album was full of “twos” which led fans to believe that she was hinting at a Weekend 2 performance.
It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine… pic.twitter.com/y8pyDK8VTd
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 19, 2024
“We’ve all been seeing all this stuff about twos, two this, two that, two everything,” Tiktok user @riileycarr said. “Taylor Swift will be at Coachella, Weekend 2!”
Will Taylor Swift perform with Lana tomorrow night at Coachella?!? #taylorsversion #taylorswift #coachella #tpd @gabby
3. Swift was at Coachella last week
Whether or not it helps or hurt the case for an appearance, Weekend 1 did reveal that Taylor Swift is not, not interested in at least attending the festival.
As a colleague posted, she was spotted in the crowd several times throughout Weekend 1 with boyfriend Travis Kelce.
Sharing one last delulu theory that I am convinced Lana Del Rey is bringing out Taylor Swift tonight at Coachella to perform “Snow on the Beach” and “Fortnight”
The only logic I have is I was right that she’d be there last weekend.
: https://t.co/MD6uk8muY0#Coachella #tsttpd pic.twitter.com/MP7pSAr8Z0
— Carolyn Burt (@CarolynBurt_) April 19, 2024
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4. Lana allegedly sound-checked “Snow on the Beach”
Rumors are swirling around that during Del Rey’s Thursday night soundcheck, campers could hear “Snow on the Beach” – a song by Swift, featuring Del Rey.
For the record, we couldn’t find official proof.
IF TAY TAY SHOWS UP TO PLAY WITH LANA TOMORROW I SIMPLY CANNOT #lanadelreytaylorswiftcoachella #coachellaweekendtwo #coachellaweekendtwolanadelrey #taylorswiftcoachella #ttpd #swiftok
♬ Snow On The Beach – Taylor Swift