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Taylor Swift Mystery Memoir Turns Out to Be a Book About BTS

Swifties hoped it was the idol’s memoir and snapped it up. It is not.

Taylor Swift’s hardcore fans have been mistakenly preordering a mysterious book they hoped would be her memoir but has now revealed to be about the K-pop group BTS. The book, which was previously known only as 4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023, sent Swifties into a preordering frenzy that propelled the forthcoming work up bestseller lists ahead of its publication on July 9. Swift fans shared theories online that 544-page book could be her memoir because 5+4+4 = 13, which is the singer’s lucky number. They also pointed to Swift’s social media posts about the re-release of her album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), in which she addressed fans with the phrase “dear reader,” adding: “My version of Speak Now will be out July 7 (just in time for July 9th, [if you know you know].” Flatiron Books has now revealed that the $45 book actually has nothing to do with Swift and will instead be an oral history of BTS titled Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS. The publisher brought the announcement forward by a month amid the feverish speculation about its contents.