I’m just imagining that scene now.

You’re at a secret session, surrounded by Taylor’s family and fans. She plays you a song that graphically describes how much better in bed Joe is than her other boyfriends. She says that the next track is one of the most important songs she’s ever written. She hits play, and a bop about how the Koch foundation is wrecking our planet begins to play. You raise your hand and politely ask her what demon possessed her to sequence the album that way.

Every fan in the room turns to stare at you. There’s murder in their eyes. Maybe you’re imagining it, but you swear the brunette girl in a LoverFest shirt has a knife? You wonder how the hell she got it through the security here. Taylor’s parents look at each other with with a look in their eyes that says nothing but “did they lie?”

And then Taylor has to justify that choice. I can fantasize about every other aspect of this exchange, but I literally cannot think of any way for her to sequence her albums that is logical in any way.