What started as a few lone Swifties casting early speculation that would join doing her 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 so can’t listen to album properly, buuuut I will likely see her tomorrow with Lana Del Rey 👀
— Indigo (@Indigo_winds_)
manifesting a lana del rey and taylor swift coachella performance tomorrow night 🙏🏻
— music is my love language (@jjustanothergal)
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 !!
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.
— Spotify (@Spotify)
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…
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13)
“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?!? @gabby
3. Swift was at Coachella last week
Whether or not it helps or hurt the case for an appearance, did reveal that Taylor Swift is not, not interested in at least attending the festival.
As a colleague posted, she was 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.
🔗:— Carolyn Burt (@CarolynBurt_)
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 😱🤯
