The Mystery Behind Taylor Swift’s “Karma” Album Revealed
- Taylor Swift has been dropping numerous hints at the existence of a mystery album titled Karma.
- She has symbolized the color orange with the album which has popped up on various occasions.
- Fans are still unclear whether the Karma album will ever be released.
Having a fandom as dedicated and loving as the Swifties will make any singer feel immensely lucky. Taylor Swift respects her fans and always takes their demands into consideration as she continues to drop album after album which sends them into a frenzy. However, lore in the fandom suggests there is one album by Swift that never saw the light of day which was titled Karma.
Though we got a song titled Karma in the album Midnights, Swift hinted back in 2016 at a possible album with the same name that never got released. Knowing the Swifties, there are numerous fan theories and speculations that dive deeper into this mystery. Let’s find out.
Graffiti in Taylor Swift’s The Man video
Taylor Swift knows what a dedicated fandom she has and the Bejeweled singer keeps them entertained with easter eggs that hint at her next album or work. The admirers of the singer also stay on their toes to calibrate and solve the clues in order to get the juicy details. So, regarding their mystery Karma album, fans have decoded and deciphered every past work by Swift, song and music video both.
In The Man music video particularly, fans noticed a pattern. There is a scene where all of Swift’s past album names are painted on a wall. However, there is one title that stands out from the rest. As you must have guessed, we can see Karma written in graffiti on the wall in orange lettering. Fans were quick to point out that the Karma album has not been released but they configured that this is somehow, the artist’s way of proving their theories right. Perhaps an album named Karma exists in the wondrous mind of Taylor Swift.
The Significance of Color Orange in Karma
The theory started taking shape when Swift didn’t release any album in 2016. Fans counted on the Shake It Off singer to release an album every two years. However, the whole drama surrounding Kanye West forced Swift to take some time off. In 2017, she came up with the new album Reputation.
The color orange has been repeatedly seen in connection to the scrapped album and has been hinted at in various Swift’s music videos. In the video for I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault), we can see Taylor Lautner and Joey King break into an orange vault. Swift wears an orange jumpsuit in an orange cage in the video for the song Look What You Made Me Do. And in the end, when she spray paints over the name of the album and writes Reputation, she does so with an orange color.
The color has also popped up on numerous occasions including her red carpet look and on her social media feed. Fans have related this color to Karma and the unfinished album Swift has been hiding from her fans.
Will Karma ever be released?
Swift initially scrapped the plans for Karma because of the hate she faced and the emotional toll it took on her when West went toe to toe with her. Skipping 2016, Swift released an album in 2017 titled Reputation, but fans felt something missing like an entire era had been skipped over. The only appearance Swift made in 2016 was in a Vogue video where one of her answers included the line,
Karma is real.
This fuelled the burgeoning fan excitement as they ruffled through all past videos and works to find more clues hinting at Karma and its existence. Even when she announced the song Karma for the Midnights album, she did so with a mischievous laugh which meant she knew something others didn’t. Perhaps this is just a tactic to keep up the buzz for her work or there’s really something brewing in her mind related to the album, we’ll only know when the Lavender Haze singer decides to share with us.
At the same time, it’s a widely believed theory that Swift might just release Karma after all her rerecorded albums are complete.
