When I first noticed the ones and zeroes in STARSET’s new song titles, I wondered if the band was giving us the tracklist out of order. After the “n0stalg1a” teaser, I’m looking at a calendar instead. The same number shows up in two different places, and fans following the teasers think it points to Friday, December 4.
Why does 28 keep showing up? Look at the end of “parad0x1c.” The “0x” tells you to read what follows as hexadecimal, a numbering system that uses letters as well as digits. In that system, “1c” means 28. Then the November 6 teaser for “n0stalg1a” included “0b11100”. That’s 28 again, this time in binary. ““parad0x1c” on Apple Music”
The next day, fans spotted a 27. On November 8, they spotted 2:6. Read that last one as 26 and the math lines up neatly. November 6 was 28 days from December 4. November 7 was 27 days away, and November 8 was 26 days away. That makes December 4 a date worth watching. Whether it brings an album, an announcement, or something else is still open.
What happened to the track list theory? Pull out just the ones and zeros and the first three singles give you “01”, “1110”, and “10”. Read those as track numbers and you get 1, 14, and 2. That seemed plausible until “n0stalg1a” gave us another “01”. Now we’d have two songs pointing to track one.
There’s another way to read the digits. Put the first three titles’ numbers together and you get “01111010”, the computer code for a lowercase z. “n0stalg1a” gives us two more digits, “01”, which could be the start of another letter. We’d need six more digits to find out.
Fans have also flagged “y0ust1llfeell1keh0me” and “aether” as possible titles. The first would add four digits, “0110”, though it could also be a lyric from “n0stalg1a.” The second has no digits in the spelling fans spotted. For now, I’m keeping both in the teaser notes.
I’m circling December 4 in pencil. If the countdown theory holds up, STARSET may have put the first clue right in front of us with “parad0x1c,” months before we knew what to look for.
Sources complied:
“STARSET on Apple Music” (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/starset/669248603)
““parad0x1c” on Apple Music” (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/starset/669248603)
“November 6 teaser discussion” (https://www.reddit.com/r/Starset/comments/1xpjauh/decode_time/)
“Fan breakdown of the three teasers” (https://www.reddit.com/r/Starset/comments/1xr4lsz/countdown/)
““n0stalg1a” teaser discussion” (https://www.reddit.com/r/Starset/comments/1xpln97/song_title_confirmed_n_0_s_t_a_l_g_1_a/)
““You Still Feel Like Home” discussion” (https://www.reddit.com/r/Starset/comments/1xqk3fi/y0ust1llfeell1keh0me/)
““aether” discussion” (https://www.reddit.com/r/Starset/comments/1xrf388/if_dustin_is_giving_us_the_songs_titles/)
