If you're a Swiftie, then you may know what the number 13 means to Taylor. You've probably seen the interview where she talks about the significance of the number 13 in her life. Let's review that now and then some!
Serendipity
By a stroke of luck, your fave was born on the 13th; a Wednesday in December of 1989. Of course, this meant nothing to the newborn but the number '13' would happen to have a huge fortunate impact on Taylor Swift's life throughout her gargantuan career.
Taylor has stated herself that she was born on the 13th, and she turned 13 on Friday the 13th. The date would be December 13, 2002. If you subtract 2002 from 1989, the product is, you guessed it: 13. Look on the calendar for the 13th of December and it was in fact a Friday like TS said.
When Taylor was first signed to the founder Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records, the contract was a 13-year deal.
17 years ago today, taylor swift (age 15) signed her record deal with BMLG.
— Taylor Throwbacks (@ThrowbackTaylor) September 1, 2022
september 1, 2005 pic.twitter.com/V7RZbi34lZ
Taylor also stated in an interview on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show that when she'd won an award, she'd been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter. Let's see!
1A 2B 3C 4D 5E 6F 7G 8H 9I 10 J 11K 12L [13M]
14N 15O 16P 17Q 18R 19S 20T 21U 22V 23W 24X 25Y 26Z
Taylor's Music
Taylor Swift incorporates her lucky number into most things she does, frequently. Her music and videos are filled with 13 Cameos.
Here she is; being wholesome as usual, but about her fave number:
"8+2+3= I'm obnoxious"
She even deemed that she had Triskaidekahilia in the #TSAntiHeroChallenge:
Her 1989 physical CD comes with 13 polaroids of Swift.
"The Lucky One" is the 13th track on her album Red. It has a 13-second intro and the word "lucky" is said 13 times in the song. She says "lucky" in the 3 time chorus 12 times and separately in the 2nd verse, at the 1:30 Mark in her video:
On October 13, 2014, a clip of the song Out of the Woods premiered on Good Morning America. In the music video, she's said to fall 13 times, and the title of the song has 13 letters.
O U T O F T H E W O O D S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
In Stay Beautiful (TS), she says beautiful 13 times and the title has 13 letters:
S T A Y B E A U T I F U L
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
In End Game (Reputation), she says 'reputation' 13 times.
In the music video for "Ours," at 0:42 ... the floor she works is on is floor 13:
In the music video for "...Ready For It?" the number 13 is written on the left wall in the corridor.
In 2017, Taylor posted about HAIM's 2017 single "Want You Back" using 13 exclamation marks.
Her watch on You Need to Calm Down has the 2 replaced with 13. She is also sporting a Necklace with a pendant (1:44) and 13 gems (0:35) on her sunglasses.
There were 13 (2:40) buttons and floors (4:29) in the elevator scenes of the Bejeweled (Midnights) music video.
At the 66th Grammy celebrations, Taylor Swift announced her TTPD release during her speech for winning her 13th Grammy.
The RIAA's four official certification requirements are 500,000 units (Gold), 1 million units (Platinum), 2 million units (Multi-Platinum), and 10 million units (Diamond). Well, Taylor has stated that her first self titled album reached Gold in 13 weeks. Just three years later from her 13th birthday, Taylor would release her first self titled album at only 16 years old that swiftly sold more than 1 million copies.
For her first two concert tours, she drew the number 13 on her hand for luck. Her drummer also drew #13 on his drumhead. It seems that #13 makes her feel secure and has been a use of predictions of good things to come.
Taylor Swift even has an unreleased song called Thirteen Blocks (Can't Call it Love). Here are the lyrics:
Five of her songs peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100:
Teardrops On My Guitar (TS,2006),
White Horse (Fearless, 2008),
Ours (Speak Now, 2010)
Gorgeous (Reputation, 2017)
Mastermind (Midnights, 2022)
Mastermind is the 13th track on this album.
Her albums, Fearless, 1989, and Midnights, all have 13 tracks on their standard editions.
In 2023, Swifties on X were quick to predict how The KC Chiefs will win the Super Bowl on the 13th game that Taylor has attended and her 13 hour flight.
Taylor has reflected on the impact that number 13 on her life and when she won her grammy for Midnights, she made sure to point out that this was her 13th Grammy as she accepted the golden gramophone for best pop vocal album. She ran with that luck to announce her new album!
Fans
Out of at least 400 Million fans of Swift, 52% are female and 48% are male. The singer impacts and has support from all generations, there's even a demographic called Senior Swifties. You can tell that Swifties are always on top of things and swiftly pick up all the easter eggs she drops. Taylor knows her fans are astute. In an interview, she quipped about how they had figured who one of her albums was about.
The first time Swifties honed in on when the number 13 on Taylor's hand was during her Fearless tour. Early in her career she would do this before performances or for good luck.
Since then, fans often show camaraderie with Taylor by doing the same. Swifties have endearingly been known to placing Taylor's lucky number on their hands along with DIY friendship bracelets, before attending her concerts.
If that is too much work, there are even temporary tattoos being sold to help you out on sites like Etsy or Temu.
Some fans have taken to making tutorials how to make Tay's #13 last through an entire concert:
During her performance at Anfield stadium in Liverpool that fell on a 13th day of June, fans were buzzing with excitement as to what that may mean:
It is said that Taylor even started the countdown to the June 13th Eras Tour performance on the 87th day. If you do the maths for that, 87 is 13 days away from 100. So she was counting down 13 days aways!
Of course, Taylor Swift dropped little messages during her show to her Swifties. Her crew acknowledged that it was the 100th show of the Eras Tour on the 13th. In honor of that, her wonderful dancer Kam, played out another iconic ad lib on TS's We Are Never Getting Back Together set:
She also created a beautiful unexpected Mashup with her songs, I can see you and Mine. You can see how it only took a couple notes and melodies for the fans to realize what she was doing and they started:
Last fun fact: It seems that Travis Kelce might be Taylor Swift's 13th lover. His jersey 8+7=13. Looks like for Taylor, the number 13 works wonders rather than the rep it has.
"Also known as the 'Angel Number' in some cultures it symbolizes leading with love and compassion. and remaining positive in the face of negativity. The Number 13 is also a symbol of being passionate about one's ambitions, and aiding in finding future successes."
- Samira13
What do you notice on this blog about Taylor's lucky number 13?
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