Prof. Sara Baker Bailey was up at midnight Thursday night doing crucial prep for a course she’s teaching later this month. Taylor Swift ’s new album, “ The Life of a Showgirl ,” had just dropped, and the Southern Connecticut State University professor needed to know how it might suit her curriculum.

She couldn’t believe her good fortune.

“I did not expect as many ‘Travis I love you’ songs as I got,” she said.

Bailey saw in previous albums how Swift’s relationship songs would be about “anxiety, conflict and turbulence. Here she’s happy, blissfully in love. I must have been foolish not to realize. She’s engaged! They’re in love, love, love. We should be grateful she can put it on an album. It’s here. It’s a reality for her. These are messages of what a healthy supportive relationship

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