13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast

It’s the first song off of the deluxe edition of the stolen version of 1989.. It’s all available now on Taylor’s Version! Is this a bop that the regular people know too? It’s such a great song in the fandom.. and lots of clues and speculation about the muse(s) of this song! Is this a song you tell your not diehard Swifties to check out? Plus, we check the voicemail to hear what other Swifties are...

It’s time to change it up.. Thanks to a wonderful listeners suggestion, we are changing it up the surprise song o’clock game! This time, we are doing teams! Ana and Nick vs Amy and Lacey! Which team will correctly be able to think like Taylor Swift and predict the songs she will perform this weekend during the acoustic set in Portugal? We are still taking suggestions for the losers punishment on t...

We are truly in our Era’s Era! We are talking about Clean, a song that inspired a movie that inspired an anthem from Taylor Swift! What was the inspo behind the song Clean and why do so many people relate to it in different ways?  And who else tears up when they think of Taylor’s sweet message she always delivered before this song during her 1989 tour? We relive that moment with fresh tears. We he...

We are stilling reeling in the amazement of the Eras Tour, which returned last week in Paris and wowwwwwwww! The entire new set for The Tortured Poets Department! Insane! Female Rage: The Musical… Wonder if anything is to come of that? We recap about all of the happenings in Paris, declare (and some, debate) points from last weekend. We declare a loser for the last round and boy, are y’all going t...

We are truly in our Era’s Era! We are talking about I Know Places (iconic voice memo.. Ana’s version battling Nick’s version. You’ll know what I’m talking about soon) while watching the return of the Era’s Tour in Paris! We have breaking news all throughout this episode while trying to stay focused on this 1989 bop! It is the best kind of chaotic!  You get to hear a lot of talking this one out lou...

The Eras Tour returns RIGHT NOW! Taylor Swift is taking the stage in Paris which means.. It's time for our Surprise Song O'Clock predictions.. and there are a lot of other theories and possible surprises to discuss too! Plus a final tiebreaker for the loser of the last round.. Results coming very soon! Ana Szabo, Lacey Gee, Amy Nichols and Nick Adams discuss this and more! THE CHOAS IS HAPPENING R...

We’ve been teasing it for a while.. While we still take in The Tortured Poets Department, we are continuing with our breakdown of 1989 TV! It’s time for This Love! There are a lot of personal connections to this song, and references to many other songs in this album! Amy Nichols, Nick Adams and Lacey Gee discuss this song and the lyrics! What did we miss? What else would you like to hear from us?...

It’s been a fortnight with The Tortured Poets Department Anthology, and we have a lot of thoughts. Have we wrapped our head around this album yet? What’s our favorite song of the moment? And what is this theory about something going down TODAY? Lots of rumors are swirling about May 3rd.. Let’s see if anything happens! Something else we are still wrapping our heads around is getting to spend time w...

The 13 Podcast got to talk all things about The Tortured Poets Department and more with the incredible women behind the Pop Apologists podcast, Lauren and Chan! We talk initial thoughts on the new album, the muse that left Taylor Swift so tortured, and the critique that some people have about the content of the album. Thank you so much to the Spotify mashup program for putting this collaboration t...

It was touch and go there for a moment but the weather cooperated and the event was such a big time success! It’s the 13 Podcast and lots of Swifties live from Swifties in the Park! Over 600 Swifties came out and celebrated the new album, a huge milestone and birthday for the podcast! We had so many cool Swiftie businesses there selling their merch made with love, we had friends come in from all t...

It’s Swifties talking Taylor Swift and business. What a fun conversation with a talented group of business women! Charity Eden and Terah Lee talk about their inspiration and journeys as business women with Taylor Swift on the brain! Charity thought of recreating the Eras Tour while at the Eras Tour, and all of the firsts that she has done to make such a fierce show! From learning the music, making...

It’s been a busy few days for Swifties! Taylor Swift released The Tortured Poets Department, then dropped a surprise album a few hours later! Thirty-one brand new songs that we had the weekend to get into!   Have we even had enough time to make the choice of ranking our top 5 tracks of the new albumS?! Of course not, but do we do it anyway! Plus, what went down at our streaming party that had us a...

Ana and Amy are back for another emergency SwifTEA to recap the last 24 hours in the Swiftieverse! The codes and clues in the Spotify Library, the cryptic video of The Tortured Poets Department Office, and the mysterious QR codes appearing around the world!! The next time we meet will be at our livestream party, 4/19 at midnight est on our YouTube Channel!! And we hope to see you at Swifties in th...

Absolute chaos is erupting! Taylor Swift has no chill and wants us all to be tortured! Welcome to the album rollout week, Taylor's Version.  In the last 24 hours, there has been a mysterious QR code… and we just so happened to know someone that could immediately go scope out the situation! There are still so many other questions, like Serpentine or what Taylor is trying to tell us in the Apple wor...

Strike 2! Wait… Is that another 2? Was this all a part of the plan after all? This week instead of the usual song breakdown, we decided to rank our favorite TTPD tracks by track title alone only! It’s a trend that we’ve seen going around and one of our sweet listeners suggested it a while ago, so let’s do it! In typical us fashion (lmfao if you will), we got the track lengths moments after recordi...

Taylor Swift got us again! She heard the fan theories and arranged her discography into the 5 stages of grief playlists on Apple Music.. and there were some shockers! I’m sure everyone’s jaw hit the floor when they saw where she placed Lover! Taylor left a voice memo, explaining the thought process behind each stage. Ana Szabo, Amy Nichols and Nick Adams break it all down! It’s almost time for TTP...

How You Get The Girl is a how-to manual written by Taylor Swift, but some people just still don’t get it! Taylor talks about her inspiration behind this song and ends it with a very funny thought on how this could go if you follow this manual exactly! She performed this song recently during the surprise song set on the Eras Tour, and we like to think it’s because Travis Kelce was in the crowd.. ev...

Taylor Swift’s view on relationships have evolved over the years. Now she’s not looking at fairytale endings, she’s just thinking to remember the good parts. What caused Taylor to release this song out of order, creating a glitch? What was the inspiration behind the song and video? Nick Adams, Ana Szabo, Amy Nichols and Lacey Gee break it all down! And why are we so silly? Probably because we are...

Taylor Swift wrote an anthem after someone did her dirty and, like most of her work, it turned out to be a mega successful song! Ana Szabo and Amy Nichols discuss the inspiration behind this song, the female-powered music video, and the reconciliation that has happened since. Don’t forget that we are now streaming on YouTube! The video for this episode will be dropping soon, so be sure to subscrib...

From the desk of the 13 Podcast - The 13 Podcast would like to cordially invite you to celebrate the release of The Tortured Poets Department and our 3-year anniversary! (Did you say THREEEEE??!!) We are happy to announce that we are having a celebration and calling it "Swifties in the Park!" It's going to be at Grandscape in The Colony, Texas on April 27th from 2- 5 pm! We will have a live podcas...

I Wish You Would solidified a beautiful relationship that we all love and respect, the one between Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff. They bonded over a sick beat and have been ride-or-die ever since.    IWYW is that 80s romcom classic when you let you guard down and say how you really feel. It was Taylor’s first time rekindling a friendship after a failed relationship, and she toyed with the idea of...

It’s been a while since the 13 podcast department has had a meeting, and we have a lot of catching up that we need to do! Ana Szabo, Amy Nichols and Lacey Gee gather to discuss Taylor Swift’s appearances on GMA and the last of the Eras Tour for now. We are missing one member today so we can’t finalize the punishment, but we discuss the results from this leg of the secret song predictions. Now the...

Shake It Off is the perfect example of the track 6 whiplash that we get after an emotional track 5 ballad. Shake It Off is that song that everyone knows. The anthem that Taylor Swift wrote to tell everyone.. I hear what you’re saying and I DON’T CARE! Plus the big lawsuit that likely held back the release of 1989 TV for so long, and legally changed the outcome for music moving forward. And specula...

It’s time to break down the 5th song on 1989 tv, and we know what track 5 means in the Swiftieverse… It’s another emotional masterpiece.. Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift talks about how this song literally haunted her in the middle of the night. A cringe dream that describes her insecurities and her breaking point in a relationship. And it’s so interesting for someone else to take the same lyri...

Taylor Swift kept us on our toes in Singapore, and there’s even more madness to come. Not only did she do some superior song mashups, she did some perplexing things as well… Why did Taylor Nation go live just for the chairman remain silent? What do all of these Tortured Poets Department variants add up to? Does Midnights kick off the stages of grief or is there one more to come? And how will Taylo...