Taylor Swift Fans Think There Was an ‘Albatross’ Easter Egg in Her Grammys Look

Of course, Swift’s Grammys gown isn’t the only albatross-related Easter egg Swifties have (possibly) uncovered in the six days since Swift announced the name of the bonus track. Per Bustle, some fans have linked the song title to Coney Island’s Albatross Hotel, which used to be situated at the west end of the Bowery—until a hotel employee allegedly set fire to the place in 1903 because he was in love with a woman who was herself in love with the hotel’s owner. Joe Alwyn’s pen-name was William Bowery, after all, so you can see how they got there.

Poetically speaking, an albatross is also a metaphor for a great and inescapable moral or emotional burden (could this be why Swift kept putting her Grammy on people’s heads?), which could also be read as a reference to Alwyn. Some Swifties have even wondered if she is making a direct reference to the albatross in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by the 19th century tortured poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which case Swift herself might be the metaphorical albatross.