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Swift’s new album comes out October 3: Get up to speed on track titles, Eras tour influences, and why die-hard fans are on ‘standby.’

You might have noticed some of your coworkers are overly excited this week and counting down the minutes until midnight on October 3. No, these are not die-hard cinephiles devoted to the 2004 film Mean Girls (which features a joke about the date). They’re Taylor Swift fans.