{"id":176086,"date":"2026-09-23T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=176086"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:26:14","slug":"taylor-swift-reveals-patient-zero-as-her-next-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/taylor-swift-reveals-patient-zero-as-her-next-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift reveals Patient Zero as her next single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> has announced \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d her first new single since I Knew It, Knew You, with the song arriving on September 25, 2026. The announcement came on Tuesday, September 22, at the end of a countdown on her website that had sparked intrigue among the Swifties, her fans. The singer shared the song\u2019s artwork on Instagram, showing her in a black dress against a concrete wall, and wrote that she had been \u201cimpatiently waiting\u201d to share the track.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single \u201cPatient Zero\u201d will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it\u2019s available to pre-order now at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zSHpnhUTAJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/zSHpnhUTAJ<\/a> for 24 hours. 0\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RoacpfjjVY\">pic.twitter.com\/RoacpfjjVY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/taylorswift13\/status\/2102458574563840035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single \u2018Patient Zero\u2019 will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!)\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>\u201cPatient Zero\u201d is already available for pre-order via the artist\u2019s website, alongside acoustic and piano versions that come in alternative covers. The piano edition\u2019s artwork has Taylor posing while showing off her engagement ring. The song follows The Life of a Showgirl album, which was released on October 3, 2025, and became an immediate success. The album also spawned two massive hit singles with \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d and \u201cOpalite.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing the inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors, awarded to the visionary herself: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/taylorswift13?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@taylorswift13<\/a> \ud83d\udef8\u2b50\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Watch the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/VMAs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VMAs<\/a>, this Sunday on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBS<\/a> and streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/paramountplus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@paramountplus<\/a> \u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/prm5Cc1j2A\">pic.twitter.com\/prm5Cc1j2A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Video Music Awards (@vmas) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vmas\/status\/2102068983558033546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift had been teasing the announcement through several cryptic clues. For example, her Instagram bio and the album\u2019s lyrics on Apple Music replaced every letter \u201co\u201d with a zero, while a Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit parody she appeared in during the 2026 Emmys featured a series of cryptic phrases. The countdown then gave fans a final clue. \u201cPatient Zero\u201d will be released just two days before her scheduled appearance at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, where she will receive the inaugural Artist Director Honors and is up for 11 awards across several categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has announced \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d her first new single since I Knew It, Knew You, with the song arriving on September 25, 2026. The announcement came on Tuesday, September 22, at the end of a countdown on her website that had sparked intrigue among the Swifties, her fans. The singer shared the song\u2019s artwork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":176092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,4],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-176086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-pop","tag-taylor-swift"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176095,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176086\/revisions\/176095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}