The best Taylor Swift songs of all time: Ranking 40 through 31

It’s the week of April 19, which means we’ve made it. New Taylor Swift music will hit the airwaves on Friday with the release of The Tortured Poets Department. It’s Swift’s 11th studio album and has been highly anticipated since the singer-songwriter announced it at the Grammy Awards.

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In order to prepare for the onslaught of new music, we are taking on the frankly impossible challenge of ranking the 14-time Grammy winner’s 40 best songs. This is the opposite of whatever you would deem scientific as this list would likely shift slightly if we undertook the same project next week.

Let’s get to it. Here are songs 40-31, plus a few that just missed. Each day before the album release, we’ll give you the next 10 until we get to No. 1.