Less than a year on from the release of her most recent album The Life Of A Showgirl, Taylor Swift has teased that she has more new music on the way. Earlier this week, the Swifties began suspecting that something could be afoot when it was noticed that the Grammy winner had managed to sneak zeros into her Instagram bio and in the lyrics to some of her more recent musical released on Apple Music. Finally, on Tuesday evening, she revealed that this was all intentional, as she has a new single titled Patient Zero coming later this week. FILE - Taylor Swift attends an event in New York, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) “I’ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single Patient Zero will be out on 25 September (!!!!!!!!!!!!),” she confirmed on Instagram. Meanwhile, it’s been suggested that Patient Zero could be the lead single from an upcoming deluxe edition of – or companion piece to – The Life Of A Showgirl, with the subtitle “Encore”. Remember last week when Taylor appeared in a skit at the Emmys, poking fun at all of the Easter eggs she’s prone to including in her week? Well, it seems that even this itself was an Easter egg, as the nonsense words she uttered to camera – “Saccharide. Ares. From the vineyard. North or south” – appear to allude to the word “encore”. 🚨 Hiding in plain sight, every third letter of Taylor’s Emmys message gives us: saCcharide arEs frOm thE viNeyard noRth or south ENCORE! — Taylor Swift Updates+ (@chartstswifty) September 22, 2026 ‼️| Algunos Swifties notaron que las TERCERAS LETRAS de las palabras que Taylor dijo durante el sketch de Law & Order forman la palabra “ENCORE”: saCcharide arEs frOm thE viNeyard noRth or south pic.twitter.com/V2bLwP1KhS — 🇨🇴 Taylor Swift Colombia 🇨🇴 (@tayswiftcol) September 22, 2026 It seems she’s been teasing this new work for longer than many of us realise, as her Opalite music video also included a shot containing the message “patient for the encore”, in an apparent nod to her upcoming single and the collection of songs it’s taken from. Looking back at the Opalite music video, a “…PATIENT FOR THE ENCORE” can be seen in this scene 👀❤️🔥 pic.twitter.com/xza6nmwcGH — Taylor Swift Updates+ (@chartstswifty) September 22, 2026 The Life Of A Showgirl was released in October 2025, reuniting Taylor with her Red and 1989 collaborators. While it’s fair to say that it was far from her best-reviewed work, it did perform well commercially, and featured not one but two UK number ones in the singles The Fate Of Ophelia and Opalite. It’s also been pointed out that the nonsense words she said at the Emmys are an anagram for “my first record’s re-record is out Nov Ten ha ha ha”: (Todavía en shock)… En el sketch de Taylor Swift para la gala de los Emmys, el fandom swiftie enloqueció con las palabras que Taylor decía aleatoriamente. Al unir todas las letras de esas palabras se puede formar la frase: “My first record's re record is out nov ten hahaha” 🤯 pic.twitter.com/zVNwSSS015 — Taylor Swift España (@taylorswiftes_) September 19, 2026 READ MORE: Taylor Swift Wasn't Even At This Year's Emmys But Still Managed To Steal The Show Travis Kelce Speaks For The First Time About 'Crazy' Wedding To Taylor Swift Another Taylor Swift Song Has Been Pulled From A Post By The Trump Administration