There are many reasons savvy Taylor drops her albums in the fall.
Of course, Swifties everywhere collectively lost their minds, but many people are also scrutinizing the album's release date, which falls on the one-year anniversary of the election of Donald Trump.
What does this mean? Is the pop star trying to tell us who she voted for? Is this her take on the "fake news" media, as some people on Twitter have speculated?
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