Taylor’s Inner Circle, commonly known as "The Inner Circle", is a group of people who are known to hold some of Taylor's most obscure unreleased songs such as Nashville, Acting Like a Boy, Come Back…Be Here (Demo) and many others.
Background[]
The Inner Circle started in 2004, when Taylor first started becoming who she is today. It was run by a guy named Steve, who was said to be in his late 30's. As time progressed, Taylor’s Inner Circle started to become more known as they would obtain rare and obscure unreleased songs or demos of Taylor’s songs. However, no one was able to obtain the unreleased songs they would have a hold on; instead of leaking or trading the unreleased content, they would only explain in paragraphs what they sounded like on their website. Steve would also post on the website about how he had the songs and that Swifties and traders would never be able to listen to them. They are most known for having a hold of the Lover unreleased tracks "All Of The Girls You Loved Before", which was released later on March 17, 2023, and "Need" which they obtained in early 2020 and only leaked in March 2023.
Downfall[]
In 2020, The Inner Circle obtained information about Swift’s 8th studio album, folklore which wasn't supposed to come out until months later. Steve posted about it supposedly leaking to the world that she is creating a new album. Later that year. Steve posted again about a cardigan being made, possibly for folklore; this later came out as being the folklore cardigan that was released for a limited time in November of 2020. Since then, The Inner Circle website has been shut down and is now being resold for $11,000 USD.
Inner Circle unreleased tracks[]
Some of the unreleased tracks, demos, or upcoming projects that they teased and haven’t leaked:
- Acting Like a Boy
- Afterglow (Demo)
- Anymore
- Brought Up That Way (Acoustic)
- Brought Up That Way (Duet)
- Goodbye Butterfly
- Nashville
- Nevermind (Acoustic)
- This Is Really Happening (Acoustic)
- This One’s Different
- Wait for Me (Alternate version)
- Who I've Always Been (Acoustic)
- Your Anything
- Cold as You (Piano and demo 1)
- Come Back...Be Here (Studio demo)
- Come In With The Rain (Acoustic demo)
- Don't You (Piano worktape)
- I Bet You Think About Me (Acoustic)
- Love Story (Acoustic demo and JN master mix)
- Me! (Studio demo)
- Mary’s Song (Oh My My My) (Worktape)
- Only The Young (Studio demo)
- Should've Said No (Studio demo)
- Starlight (Studio demo)
- Stay Beautiful (Both demos)
- Teardrops On My Guitar (Acoustic and studio demo)
- Tell Me Why (Acoustic demo)
- Tied Together with a Smile (Studio demo)
- White Horse (Studio demo)
- You Belong With Me (Acoustic demo)
- You’re Not Sorry (Worktape)
- Lover Fest rehearsal tapes
- Call It What You Want SNL rehearsal
Trivia[]
- The only known tracks that have been leaked from the inner circle are Drama Queen, All Of The Girls You Loved Before, Need, Forever Winter, Better Man, This Is What You Came For, Tied Together with a Smile, The Other Side Of The Door, Picture To Burn, Cold as You (Demo 2), Lucky You (Mr. Mig Mix), Let's Go (Battle) and Baby Blue.
- The Inner Circle is known to be hated on multiple social media platforms due to their gatekeeping tendencies.
- Let's Go (Battle) was once one of their prized possessions until it leaked on November 2, 2018.
- It has been reported that Steve does not have these anymore due to him getting in massive trouble with Taylor's team.