Blank Space is the name of a list.
`` Blank Space '' is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth studio album 1989 ( 2014 ) . The song was released to the radio by Republic Records on November 10 , 2014 as the album 's second single , after `` Shake It Off '' and is the second track on the album . Musically , `` Blank Space '' is an electropop song with lyrics that satirize the media 's perception of Swift and her relationships . A critical success , it has also been included in numerous year-end critics ' lists . In Unix-like operating systems , sort is a standard command line program that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of all files listed in its argument list in sorted order .