Taylor Swift Filmed Her New Video in a London Kebab Shop

Back in August, two years and ten months after 1989, Taylor Swift announced her return to music in trademark attention-seeking style. After a dramatic blacking out of her social media accounts, she released "Look What You Made Me Do," an achingly self-referential (but actually q basic) new single.

It was the news Swifties had been waiting for: their serial monogamist, Kardashian-beefing pop queen was back. Reputation, Swift's sixth album, comes out next month—but not before the singer delivered another surprise for fans. One that came scraped off a rotating mound of mystery meat and smothered with garlic sauce.

Earlier this week, Taylor Swift was spotted shooting a new music video in London. Among the locations she filmed in around the capital was a kebab shop in Kentish Town, called—wait for it—Kentish Delight.

It is not known which of Swift's new songs the video will accompany, with her 60-strong film crew reportedly instructed to hand over their phones to prevent any details from leaking online. Paparazzi photos of Swift on the shoot show her standing outside Kentish Delight wearing an oversized baseball jacket with a group of backup dancers.

It is also unclear whether Swift and her squad actually got to eat any kebabs—but let's hope they did. According to its Just Eat page, Kentish Delight offers "a delicious variety of Kebab Wraps, Burgers, Fish and Special Offers," including a popular lamb donner for six quid.

In addition to the kebab shop, Swift shot scenes for her new Brit-themed video in the back of a black taxi cab, walking over the Millennium Bridge, and atop a red double decker bus. So, basically the sanitised tour of Central London you give your middle-aged aunt when she comes down to see The Lion King.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the video's theme is inspired by Swift's new British boyfriend Joe Alwyn, the actor best known for his role in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. A source told the newspaper: "The video shows Taylor on a night out. All of the locations are places she has been to with Joe. She has spent months quietly going under the radar in London this year and has been out a lot more than anybody realises. It is quite telling that she has been hanging out in these regular and unexpected places […] She wants to show people she is just a normal girl." Swift might want to be a "normal" girl who grabs a chicken shish before getting the night bus home, but news of her London kebab shop jaunt has inspired anything but normal reactions online. While British Swift fans were overjoyed at the prospect of a new Tay-Tay video filmed so close to home, others were incredulous at the pop star's decision to pose at a late-night London takeaway—a place more commonly associated with UK grime artists. Ferhat Dirik, owner of East London kebab shop Mangal 2 tweeted: "Taylor Swift filmed her new video outside a kebab shop in Kentish Town. Woman's never had a kebab in her life! She's as fake as they come."

And as for Kentish Delight? When The Sun attempted to speak to its owners about the newfound celebrity endorsement of their shop, they sounded flustered, telling the newspaper: "We've had a lot of phone calls and loads of people are wanting to come and take pictures. I've got an appointment with someone coming to see us in a minute. We've just had a lot of enquiries, that's all I can say really. It's all I can say right now."

They should have known Swift was trouble when she walked in.