While some artists such as Donald Glover and Eminem used their most recent musical releases to share their feelings about the current state of America, Swift used her most recent one to take a deep dive inward and to throw salt at her frenemies (ahem, Kimye). While reputation had some catchy singles catchy, it was also widely criticised for being extremely tone deaf. Sort of like Swift focused inward and seemed to have completely forgotten that the world was practically on fire. She was watching though, we now see.