On Aug. 12, Taylor Swift announced her 12th original studio album, The Life of a Showgirl and a sparkly orange era on her website.

"The Life of a Showgirl" will be Swift's 12th studio album. It follows Swift's 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which was released on April 19, 2024. That album came with an extra surprise for fans when Swift dropped an additional 15 songs at 2 a.m. that same day.

The news was preceded, in typical TAS fashion, by a few big hints: First came a post from Taylor Nation, the official Instagram account of Swift’s management team, with a 12-image carousel of the singer in orange ensembles, to the sweet strains of 2020’s “August.” The caption? “Thinking about when she said ‘See you next era…’”

That’s not the only fermented hint. The mascot of the San Francisco 49ers, host of the Super Bowl next year, is Sourdough Sam, a miner who “brings the bread with him during a hard day’s work of digging in gold mines.” Swift also made it a point to share that she gave Kelce two loaves of sourdough to take to training camp.

Swifties have connected the pop star's favorite bread to a certain mascot — and a potential performance at Super Bowl LX