The stem continued:

A normal song has eight, maybe twelve tracks: drums, bass, guitar, vocals. Forty stems meant everything . Every breath, every finger slide, every creak of the studio chair. It meant the song had been autopsied.

“34° 03' 35" N, 118° 14' 37" W.”

The email arrived at 3:17 AM, which was the first red flag. The subject line was empty, but the attachment was a zipped folder titled: Taylor_Swift_GetawayCar_40ST_24b_48k.wav