ZINEthirteen March 2019 by Zine Thirteen

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ISSUE 20 MARCH 2019

Swiftie Art, Stories & More!

Fans provide wonderful content to share with others

King of My Heart Special Performance Lucky couple gets to hold on to a memory of a lifetime!

TS7 Theories Have Olivia SHOCKED!

And also hungry for treats...probably

Taylor to receive Tour of the Year Award at iHeart Well deserved & we are SO PROUD!

Two Taylor Elle Articles

Written by Taylor herself for both Elle UK & Elle USA!

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CONTENTS Social Media ............. 4-5 KOMH Surprise ...........6-7 iHeart Radio Awards ...... 8 Elle UK ......................9-11 Elle USA ..................12-15 We Are Swifties.......16-21 Blank Space ................. 22

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Oh hi, March! I don’t know about you, but I’m LIVING for Taylor’s Elle articles! Yes, you can also find them in this month’s issue of ZINEthirteen. She has the ability to be the world’s biggest superstar, yet makes it feel like she is your best friend at the same time. Scratch that...she is all of our best friends! Not only are the articles amazing, but the photoshoots...DAMN GIRL! You got it going on! It’s so nice to finally get some new photos of our girl. She looks stunning in the various outfits and her hair! :) :) :) Anyway, there may not be as many social media posts lately, but at least we have these photos and articles. I understand why she doesn’t like to post every little aspect of her life, so it’s nice that WWW.ISSUU.COM/ZINETHIRTEEN

we do get a few things here and there. What I am VERY much excited about is the iHeart Music Awards! Taylor is going to be honored for Tour of the Year and I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD! She deserved this so, so much. She put so much hard work into this past tour, to keep us safe, to entertain us, to just go above and beyond. We do not deserve such a beautiful soul in our lives! Anyway, hope you guys enjoy what’s to come in this month’s issue! Thanks again for your submissions! Love you. :)

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Taylor Related Photos between February 13th & March 13th

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Taylor Related Photos between February 13th & March 13th

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KOMH SURPRISE Taylor Swift Surprises a Couple. Again. THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The wave of attention that accompanied Taylor Swift’s surprise performance at the Los Angeles engagement party of Alexander Goldschmidt and Ross Girard on Feb. 23 was nothing Mr. Goldschmidt didn’t see coming. “I knew this was going to be a moment people talked about — I just didn’t think the news cycle would pick it up this hard because it was Oscars weekend,” said Mr. Goldschmidt, who works in social media marketing for TV shows through the company Digital Media Management. But it’s possible Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s swoony Academy Awards duet only fueled interest in love stories: Since Ms. Swift serenaded Mr. Girard with her song “King of My Heart” at the Sycamore Tavern hours after Mr. Goldschmidt proposed, news of the engagement party crasher reached outlets as far as Germany and Australia. “I didn’t think about the fact that Taylor had never performed the song acoustically, and that people might have responded because we’re a gay couple,” said Mr. Goldschmidt, 30, who has been dating Mr. Girard, 32, since 2016. “But that may have added to it.” The series of events that

found Ms. Swift, in a ponytail and a blue floral dress, strapping on her guitar for a flabbergasted party of 65 stretches back to 2014, when Mr. Goldschmidt met Ms. Swift backstage at an Ed Sheeran concert. “I had tweeted — and I didn’t even tag either of them — that I wanted an Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift duets album,” Mr. Goldschmidt said. “Out of nowhere, Ed responded to me. We ended up DM-ing, and he told me he’d get me backstage at his next concert. When I went backstage he grabbed me a beer and said, ‘Have you ever met Taylor?’” Two weeks and many selfies later, Ms. Swift and Mr. Goldschmidt met in Los Angeles on the set of her

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“Shake It Off” video; Mr. Goldschmidt is among that video’s dancers. They kept in touch on social media. In July 2015, when Mr. Goldschmidt was single and miserable, Ms. Swift shared some encouraging words Lady Gaga had sent her via Twitter. “Life is friends, family, and love! We all see that in you, your prince charming will come!” Lady Gaga’s post said. Mr. Goldschmidt shared the tweet on Instagram. “I have been given my instructions. I leave my love life in Lady Gaga’s magical hands. My Prince Charming will come,” he wrote. He started dating Mr. Girard, who is the head of productions at Campfire, a television and film production company, not long after.

In 2018, backstage at Ms. Swift’s “Reputation” show at the Rose Bowl, he was ready to introduce Mr. Girard to his famous friend. But he didn’t have to. “She came up and said ‘Hey Ross!’,” Mr. Girard said. “She had been reading all of Alex’s posts. She didn’t even need to ask my name.” Mr. Goldschmidt and Mr. Girard don’t consider “King of My Heart” their song, the one they fell in love to. Instead, “it was a song that had always resonated with me and my own story, because it’s about someone who has become content with being alone and getting to that place of self love, and then suddenly having someone come into their life and rock their world,” WWW.ISSUU.COM/ZINETHIRTEEN

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Mr. Goldschmidt said. He didn’t beg, cajole or even ask Ms. Swift to sing it at the surprise engagement party he had been planning for months. Instead, Ms. Swift’s publicist, Tree Paine, reached out to him. “I had sent Taylor an email thanking her for all of the years of advice on love and on life and for that song, which had sunk into my heart,” Mr. Goldschmidt said. Two weeks later, Ms. Paine called to say Ms. Swift would like to be part of their engagement day. It isn’t the first time Ms. Swift has surprised a couple. In June 2016, she crashed the wedding of Max Singer and Kenya Smith, and about 100 guests in Long Beach Island, N.J., before sitting down WWW.ISSUU.COM/ZINETHIRTEEN

at a piano and performing her hit song “Blank Space.” Other couples have been sent champagne and she’s shown up at bridal showers. Mr. Goldschmidt was driving to work in late January when he got the call. “Basically, I lost feeling in my face and I had to pull my car over,” he said. “I cried a little bit, I screamed a little bit, then I tried to restore the feeling to my face.” He kept the news a secret from almost everyone, including his parents and Mr. Girard’s parents, who were flying in from the East Coast for the party. The only person he told was a friend who works as an event planner for the restaurant group that owns the Sycamore Tavern. “I had to tell him so

we could figure out the service doors so I’d have a place to hide her,” Mr. Goldschmidt said. Challenges to keeping a poker face presented themselves to the last minute: “I was down on one knee on top of a mountain proposing to Ross, and my phone was going off with calls from her security team about sweeps they needed to do of the venue.” At the start of the viral video from the party, Mr. Goldschmidt and Mr. Girard stand arm in arm, holding champagne glasses. Mr. Goldschmidt says, “There is one secret I didn’t trust any of you with. I would like to welcome my friend Taylor.” As Ms. Swift makes her way into

the room, gasps erupt. Mr. Girard said he was too preoccupied thinking of how he was going to thank his loved ones for coming to the party for it to register that he was about to be sung to by one of the world’s most popular performers. And Mr. Goldschmidt’s father thought that his son was introducing a drag queen version of Ms. Swift. “I had to explain to him, I live in Hollywood, not West Hollywood, Dad,” he said. Mr. Goldschmidt and Mr. Girard have not yet picked a wedding date. But they know they’ve set a high bar for reception entertainment. “We’re being told it’s going to be hard to live up to this,” Mr. Goldschmidt said.

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iHEART RADIO AWARDS Taylor’s Nominations & Honor for Tour of the Year TANYA OHNMEISS

02.28.19

Taylor hasn’t been too focused with attending award shows the past couple of years, but the iHeart Radio Awards on March 14th is an event that can’t be missed! Taylor is set to receive the award for Tour of the Year! Which, in my option, is very much well deserved. If you got to witness the tour for yourself life or on Netflix, you can see how much work and effort she and her crew put forth in making the reputation tour something to remember. Taylor traveled across the world for the stadium only tour, which broke her very own record of highest grossing tour by a woman, with over 2 million tickets sold in the U.S. alone! This tour also grossed $266 million, the highest selling U.S. tour in history by any artist. Taylor is also nominated for two awards. She could potentially take home awards for Best Fan Army (Swifties) and Best Music Video (Delicate). Fans are able to vote on social media to help her win! For Best Fan Army, please use the hashtag #BESTFANARMY #IHEARTAWARDS #SWIFTIES and for Best Music Video use #BESTMUSICVIDEO #IHEARTAWARDS #DELICATE.

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VOTE FOR BEST MUSIC VIDEO #BESTMUSICVIDEO #IHEARTAWARDS #DELICATE

VOTE FOR BEST FAN ARMY #BESTFANARMY #IHEARTAWARDS #SWIFTIES

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ELLE UK FOR TAYLOR SWIFT, POP IS PERSONAL ELLE UK

TAYLOR SWIFT

02.28.2019

My favourite kinds of books to read are the ones that do more than just tell you a story. They do more than just set the scene or paint the picture. The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the character’s does. It’s something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment. I’m highly biased, but I think that the way music can transport you back to a long forgotten memory is the

closest sensation we have to traveling in time. To this day, when I hear “Cowboy Take Me Away” by the Dixie Chicks, I instantly recall the feeling of being twelve years old, sitting in a little wood paneled room in my family home in Pennsylvania. I’m clutching a guitar and learning to play the chords and sing the words at the same time, rehearsing for a gig at a coffee house. When I hear “I Write Sins Not Tragedies’” by Panic! At The Disco, I’m transported back to being sixteen and driving down the streets of Hendersonville, Tennessee, with my best friend Abigail, euphorically screaming the lyrics. When I hear “How to Save a Life” by The Fray, “Breathe (2AM)” by Anna Nalick, or “The Story” by Brandi Carlile, I immediately flashback to being seventeen and on tour for months on end. When I’d get a day at home in between long stretches on the road sharing a van with my band and crew, I would spend my rare nights off painting alone with candles lit in my room just being alone with those songs (Those are all from the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack. My commitment to that show

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truly knows no bounds). I’m convinced that “You Learn” by Alanis Morissette, “Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae and “Why” by Annie Lennox have actually healed my heart after bad breakups or let downs. I love writing songs because I love preserving memories, like putting a picture frame around a feeling you once had. I like to use nostalgia as inspiration when I’m writing songs for the same reason I continued on pg 10

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like to take photographs. I like to be able to remember the extremely good and extremely bad times. I want to remember the colour of the sweater, the temperature of the air, the creak of the floorboards, the time on the clock when your heart was stolen or shattered or healed or claimed forever. The fun challenge of writing a pop song is squeezing those evocative details into the catchiest melodic cadence you can possibly think of. I thrive on the challenge of sprinkling personal mementos and shreds of reality into a genre of music that is universally known for being, well, universal. You’d think that as pop writers, we’re supposed to be writing songs that everyone can sing along to, so you’d assume they would have to be pretty lyrically generic... AND YET the ones I think cut through the most are actually the most detailed, and I don’t mean in a Shakespearean sonnet type of way, although I love Shakespeare as much as the next girl. Obviously. (See “Love Story,” 2008). In modern pop, songs/bops/ chunes including extremely personal details like “Kiki, do you love me” and “Baby pull me closer in the backseat of your rover” have been breaking through on the most global cultural level. This year on tour, I got to hear stadium crowds passionately sing along to a young woman from

Cuba singing about “Havana”. I think these days, people are reaching out for connection and comfort in the music they listen to. We like being confided in and hearing someone say, ‘this is what I went through” as proof to us that we can get through our own struggles. We actually do NOT want our

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pop music to be generic. I think a lot of music lovers want some biographical glimpse into the world of our narrator, a hole in the emotional walls people put up around themselves to survive. This glimpse into the artist’s story invites us to connect it to our own, and in the best case

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ELLE USA 30 THINGS I LEARNED BEFORE TURNING 30 learn from it and take risks. It’s especially good to do this in your twenties because we are searching. That’s GOOD. We’ll always be searching but never as intensely as when our brains are still developing at such a rapid pace. No, this is not an excuse to text your ex right now. That’s not what I said. Or do it, whatever, maybe you’ll learn from it. Then you’ll probably forget what you learned and do it again.... But it’s fine; do you, you’re searching.

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TAYLOR SWIFT

03.06.2019

According to my birth certificate, I turn 30 this year. It’s weird because part of me still feels 18 and part of me feels 283, but the actual age I currently am is 29. I’ve heard people say that your thirties are “the most fun!” So I’ll definitely keep you posted on my findings on that when I know. But until then, I thought I’d share some lessons I’ve learned before reaching 30, because it’s 2019 and sharing is caring.

I learned to block some of the noise. Social media can be great, but it can also inundate your brain with images of what you aren’t, how you’re failing, or who is in a cooler locale than you at any given moment. One thing I do to lessen this weird insecurity laser beam is to turn off comments. Yes, I keep comments off on my posts. That way, I’m showing my friends and fans updates on my life, but I’m training my brain to not need the validation of someone telling me that I look . I’m also blocking out anyone who might feel the need to tell me to “go die in a hole ho” while I’m having my coffee at nine in the morning. I think it’s healthy for your selfesteem to need less internet praise to appease it, especially when three comments down you

could unwittingly see someone telling you that you look like a weasel that got hit by a truck and stitched back together by a drunk taxidermist. An actual comment I received once.

Being sweet to everyone all the time can get you into a lot of trouble. While it may be born from having been raised to be a polite young lady, this can contribute to some of your life’s worst regrets if someone takes advantage of this trait in you. Grow a backbone, trust

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I learned to stop hating every ounce of fat on my body. I worked hard to retrain my brain that a little extra weight means curves, shinier hair, and more energy. I think a lot of us push the boundaries of dieting, but taking it too far can be really dangerous. There is no quick fix. I work on accepting my your gut, and know when to body every day. strike back. Be like a snake— Banish the drama. You only bite if someone steps on only have so much you. room in your life and so much energy to give to those in it. Be Trying and failing and discerning. If someone in your trying again and failing life is hurting you, draining you, again is normal. It may not feel or causing you pain in a way that normal to me because all of my feels unresolvable, blocking trials and failures are blown their number isn’t cruel. It’s out of proportion and turned just a simple setting on your into a spectator sport by phone that will eliminate drama tabloid takedown culture (you if you so choose to use it. had to give me one moment of bitterness, come on). BUT THAT I’ve learned that society is constantly sending SAID, it’s good to mess up and

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very loud messages to women that exhibiting the physical signs of aging is the worst thing that can happen to us. These messages tell women that we aren’t allowed to age. It’s an impossible standard to meet, and I’ve been loving how outspoken Jameela Jamil has been on this subject. Reading her words feels like hearing a voice of reason amongst all these loud messages out there telling women we’re supposed to defy gravity, time, and everything natural in order to achieve this bizarre goal of everlasting youth that isn’t even remotely required of men.

My biggest fear. After the Manchester Arena bombing and the Vegas concert shooting, I was completely terrified to go on tour this time because I didn’t know how we were going to keep 3 million fans safe over seven months. There was a tremendous amount of planning, expense, and effort put into keeping my fans safe. My fear of violence has continued into my personal life. I carry QuikClot army grade bandage dressing, which is for gunshot or stab wounds. Websites and tabloids have taken it upon themselves to post every home address I’ve ever had online. You get enough stalkers trying to break into your house and you kind of start prepping for bad things. Every day I try to remind myself of the good in the world, the love I’ve witnessed and the faith I have in humanity. We have to live bravely in order to truly feel alive, and that means not being ruled by our greatest fears.

I learned not to let outside opinions establish the value I place on my own life choices. For too long, the projected opinions of strangers affected how I viewed my relationships. Whether it was the general internet consensus of who would be right for me, or what they thought was “couples goals” based on a picture I posted on Instagram. That stuff isn’t real. For an approval seeker like me, it was an important lesson for me to learn to have my OWN value system of what I actually want.

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I learned how to make some easy cocktails like Pimm’s cups, Aperol spritzes, Old-Fashioneds, and Mojitos because…2016.

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experience. I believe victims because I know firsthand about the shame and stigma that comes with raising your hand and saying “This happened to me.” It’s something no one would choose for themselves. We speak up because we have to, and out of fear that it could happen to someone else if we don’t.

Apologizing when you have hurt someone who really matters to you takes nothing away from you. Even if it was unintentional, it’s so easy to just apologize and move on. Try not to say “I’m sorry, but...” and make excuses for yourself. Learn how to make a sincere apology, and you When tragedy can avoid breaking down the strikes someone trust in your friendships and you know in a way you’ve never relationships. dealt with before, it’s okay to It’s my opinion say that you don’t know what that in cases of to say. Sometimes just saying sexual assault, I believe the you’re so sorry is all someone victim. Coming forward is an wants to hear. It’s okay to not agonizing thing to go through. I have any helpful advice to know because my sexual assault continued on pg 14 trial was a demoralizing, awful

I’ve always cooked a LOT, but I found three recipes I know I’ll be making at dinner parties for life: Ina Garten’s Real Meatballs and Spaghetti (I just use packaged bread crumbs and only ground beef for meat), Nigella Lawson’s Mughlai Chicken, and Jamie Oliver’s Chicken Fajitas with Molé Sauce. Getting a garlic crusher is a whole game changer. I also learned how to immediately calculate Celsius to Fahrenheit in my head. (Which is what I’m pretty sure the internet would call a “weird flex.”)

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give them; you don’t have all the answers. However, it’s not okay to disappear from their life in their darkest hour. Your support is all someone needs when they’re at their lowest point. Even if you can’t really help the situation, it’s nice for them to know that you would if you could.

Vitamins make me feel so much better! I take L-theanine, which is a natural supplement to help with stress and anxiety. I also take magnesium for muscle health and energy.

Before you jump in headfirst, maybe, I don’t know...get to know someone! All that glitters isn’t gold, and first impressions actually aren’t everything. It’s impressive when someone can charm people instantly and own the room, but what I know now to be more valuable about a person is not their charming routine upon meeting them (I call it a “solid first 15”), but the layers of a person you discover in time. Are they honest, self-aware, and slyly funny at the moments you least expect it? Do they show up for you when you need them? Do they still love you after they’ve seen you broken? Or after they’ve walked in on you having a full conversation with your cats as if they’re people? These are things a first impression could never convey.

After my teen years and early twenties of sleeping in my makeup and occasionally using a Sharpie as eyeliner (DO NOT DO IT), I felt

that can feel like your chosen family. And maybe they will be for the rest of your life. Or maybe they’ll just be your comrades for an important phase, but not forever. It’s sad but sometimes when you grow, you outgrow relationships. You may leave behind friendships Realizing childhood along the way, but you’ll always scars and working keep the memories. on rectifying them. For example, never being popular as a kid was Fashion is all always an insecurity for me. Even about playful as an adult, I still have recurring experimentation. If you don’t flashbacks of sitting at lunch tables look back at pictures of some of alone or hiding in a bathroom stall, your old looks and cringe, you’re or trying to make a new friend and doing it wrong. See: Bleachella. being laughed at. In my twenties I How to fight fair found myself surrounded by girls with the ones who wanted to be my friend. So you love. Chances are you’re I shouted it from the rooftops, posted pictures, and celebrated not trying to hurt the person my newfound acceptance into a you love and they aren’t trying sisterhood, without realizing that to hurt you. If you can wind the other people might still feel the tension of an argument down way I did when I felt so alone. to a conversation about where It’s important to address our the other person is coming long-standing issues before we from, there’s a greater chance turn into the living embodiment you can remove the shame of losing a fight for one of you of them. and the ego boost of the one Playing mind games who “won” the fight. I know a is for the chase. In couple who, in the thick of a a real relationship or friendship, fight, say “Hey, same team.” you’re shooting yourself in the foot Find a way to defuse the anger if you don’t tell the other person that can spiral out of control how you feel, and what could be and make you lose sight of the done to fix it. No one is a mind good things you two have built. reader. If someone really loves They don’t give out awards for you, they want you to verbalize winning the most fights in how you feel. This is real life, not your relationship. They just chess. give out divorce papers. like I needed to start being nicer to my skin. I now moisturize my face every night and put on body lotion after I shower, not just in the winter, but all year round, because, why can’t I be soft during all the seasons?!

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Learning the difference between lifelong friendships and situationships. Something about “we’re in our young twenties!” hurls people together into groups

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I learned that I have friends and fans in my life who don’t care if I’m #canceled. They were there in the worst times and they’re here now. The fans and their

care for me, my well-being, and my music were the ones who pulled me through. The most emotional part of the Reputation Stadium Tour for me was knowing I was looking out at the faces of the people who helped me get back up. I’ll never forget the ones who stuck around.

I’ve had to learn how to handle serious illness in my family. Both of my parents have had cancer, and my mom is now fighting her battle with it again. It’s taught me that there are real problems and then there’s everything else. My mom’s cancer is a real problem. I used to be so anxious about daily ups and downs. I give all of my worry, stress, and prayers to real problems now.

I remember people asking me, “What are you gonna write about if you ever get happy?” There’s a common misconception that artists have to be miserable in order to make good art, that art and suffering go hand in hand. I’m really grateful to have learned this isn’t true. Finding happiness and inspiration at the same time has been really cool.

I make countdowns for things I’m excited about. When I’ve gone through dark, low times, I’ve always found a tiny bit of relief and hope in getting a countdown app (they’re free) and adding things I’m looking forward to. Even if they’re not big holidays or anything, it’s good to look

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ELLE USA help make a change. Only as someone approaching 30 did I feel informed enough to speak about it to my 114 million followers. Invoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realized that it actually is my responsibility to use my influence against that disgusting rhetoric. I’m going to do more to help. We have a big race coming up next year.

I learned that your hair can completely change texture. From birth, I had the curliest hair and now it is STRAIGHT. It’s the straight hair I wished for every day in junior high. But just as I was coming to terms with loving my curls, they’ve left me. Please pray for their safe return.

30 toward the future. Sometimes we can get overwhelmed in the now, and it’s good to get some perspective that life will always go on, to better things.

I learned that disarming someone’s petty bullying can be as simple as learning to laugh. In my experience, I’ve come to see that bullies want to be feared and taken seriously. A few years ago, someone started an online hate campaign by calling me a snake on the WWW.ISSUU.COM/ZINETHIRTEEN

internet. The fact that so many people jumped on board with it led me to feeling lower than I’ve ever felt in my life, but I can’t tell you how hard I had to keep from laughing every time my 63-foot inflatable cobra named Karyn appeared onstage in front of 60,000 screaming fans. It’s the Stadium Tour equivalent of responding to a troll’s hateful Instagram comment with “lol.” It would be nice if we could get an apology from people who bully us, but maybe all I’ll

ever get is the satisfaction of knowing I could survive it, and thrive in spite of it.

I’m finding my voice in terms of politics. I took a lot of time educating myself on the political system and the branches of government that are signing off on bills that affect our day-today life. I saw so many issues that put our most vulnerable citizens at risk, and felt like I had to speak up to try and

My mom always tells me that when I was a little kid, she never had to punish me for misbehaving because I would punish myself even worse. I’d lock myself in my room and couldn’t forgive myself, as a five-year-old. I realized that I do the same thing now when I feel I’ve made a mistake, whether it’s self-imposed exile or silencing myself and isolating. I’ve come to a realization that I need to be able to forgive myself for making the wrong choice, trusting the wrong person, or figuratively falling on my face in front of everyone. Step into the daylight and let it go.

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WE ARE SWIFTIES I Can Show You Incredible Things... FEATURED TAYLOR SWIFT FAN ART OF THE MONTH

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WE ARE SWIFTIES Fan Theories for TS7 Continue! Obvi o True usly Not Past Since it’s Marc h 2n d

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Ever since the reputation era came to a final close, Swifties have been on the lookout for any subtle hints of Taylor’s next album. First, it was all about mermaids...now, it’s about the recent posts on Instagram. Could it be a countdown? Could it be the color scheme for the next album? Are there palm trees involved for a song? Is she just messing with all of us?! WHO KNOWS! But, what we did get were two wonderful articles in Elle UK & Elle USA! :) Even though our theories on albums are generally very, very off...it’s still fun to read what everyone has to say. Especially since so many Swifties think super in depth on some of these things, that it almost sounds like it could be real. But, in the past, Taylor was not really all that sneaky about what her album involved. Example, her red shoes in the studio meant she was recording her Red album. Was very obvious after the album came out. Same for reputation...she had those videos of snakes, which ended up being a big theme in LWYMMD. I know fans like to read really deep into everything and as talented and creative as Taylor is, I personally don’t think she is hinting anything too much here. But, I bet it’s giving her a big laugh! :) WWW.ISSUU.COM/ZINETHIRTEEN

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WE ARE SWIFTIES Call It What You Want... But, I Call That An Upgrade! TANYA OHNMEISS 03.05.2019

It’s always a dream for every Swiftie to attend a Taylor concert. Just being there, no matter what, it an experience that you could never forget. How about when Taylor Nation upgrades you to Snake Pit? Well, that’s what happened to TJ aka @interrepted on Instragram! Here’s the story... “After being a Swiftie for 9 years I was finally attending my first Taylor Swift concert ... the Reputation Stadium Tour. I was beyond excited as you could imagine. I wanted to meet as many people as possible and really make it a night to remember. I vividly remember walking around outside the stadium before the gates even opened. It was HOT outside, and I was sweating my skin off in my costume, but I was too busy to notice. I met at least 100 different Swifties before the gates even opened. I think my dad and cousin who were attending the concert with me were a little freaked out by how excited I was to meet a bunch of random people. Once the gates opened, we found our seats, which were way up at the top of the stadium. The opening acts looked like ants from so far away. During Camila Cabello’s performance of She Loves Control ... I noticed a man in an official

Photo of Taylor taken by TJ’s dad during “Dont’ Blame Me.”

looking stadium uniform come up to our seats. He held out 3 tickets and said to us. ‘’Would you guys like to come down to the Snake Pit?’’ I remember I started crying and hugged the guy. A bunch of the people in our section actually clapped, which made it feel very dramatic. Everything began kind of a blur as the man escorted us down to the floor. He took us into an employees only section of the stadium, down a fancy elevator (the kind with an operator) On the ride down to the ground floor, I told the man how thankful I was, and that this was my first time seeing Taylor live since I became a fan 9 years ago. I also asked him if he worked for Taylor, and he said he did. After that, he gave us special wrist

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bands, and took us to the Snake Pit. In all of the excitement I f argot to even ask his name, but whoever he was, I’m very very grateful for him, and for all the other Taylor Nation employees working hard to give hard core fans what they deserve.

interrepted

I hope after reading this, you’ll realize that I’m just a regular fan who hasn’t met Taylor, but those are the exact people Taylor Nation are looking for. Be patient, and eventually we will all have our moment.” Congrats TJ! :)

TJ’s amazing “painted golden” costume

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WE ARE SWIFTIES Stories from Fans Fun little stories that relate to Taylor from various fans from Instagram

“The day CIWYW came out I was going to St. Louis, the car ride was very long, almost 3 hours, and CIWYW was the only song I listened to for 3 hours .” “When I was in 5th grade I was in Tech Club and we had a free day so my friend and I listened to Mean over and over and just started belting the song for the whole club, it was one of the best days ever.”

taylorswft7

“When I almost died in the Nashville concert, Taylor walked like 20 feet in front of me backstage. It was AWESOME!!”

aaswiftie13

“I was walking near her Rhode Island house and the gates were open with a limo like 4 ft away from me. But, then I couldn’t stay because my friends were dragging me along.”

taylorswift__rep

“One time the local radio station called me to inform me I won one of the rep VIP boxes before my guitar lesson on a Wednesday and I wasn’t ready for it.”

sierraslytherin92

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WE ARE SWIFTIES MONTHLY POLLS AND QUESTIONS

Polls are taken each month on Instagram stories along with questions being answered in stories and Instagram posts

If you could pick a song for Taylor to perform acoustically for you, what would it be? mantics

All Too Well

New Ro

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o alexa

the Door or Other Side of d Our Hands Tie Dancing With

knight

the_swift_

Ours

So It Goes...

milly.the.swiftie

1 ﬁsher

swiftiesist

swiftiehereeshaan

The Moment

I Knew

youpainted

me.golden

Forever & Always

_13swift_

Wonderland Change

louishuggenberg

onedaywellberemembered13 I’m Only Me W

A Place in This World

taylorsbeanbag

hen I’m With Y

mgr_produ

ctions

Long Live

livinthesw

iftielife

Treacherous

.tay

dont.blame

Love Story

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WE ARE SWIFTIES MONTHLY POLLS AND QUESTIONS

Polls are taken each month on Instagram stories along with questions being answered in stories and Instagram posts

If you could pick a song for Taylor to perform acoustically for you, what would it be? Sad Beautiful

Tragic

All Too Well

es_g chasingwav

taylorisiert

I’m Only Me W

hen I’m With Y

aaswiftie1

Starlight

deku_scrub

Dancing With

Our Hands Tie

giveherscar

fbackjake Clean or Last

Tied Together With A Smile

tanyaxoh

All Too Well

Kiss

s.ts

thestoryofu

themagicwemadee

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I’VE GOT A BLANK SPACE BABY...

If you or someone you know would be interested in submitting content for ZINEthirteen, please let me know! There are multiple ways to submit items. Through social media (@zinethirteen) as well as email, zinethirteen@gmail.com. The more fan content submitted, the better! Content to be Submitted: • Fan Art • Fan Stories (ex. Concert experiences, meeting Taylor, how you became a fan, etc.) • Tour Photos • Merch Collections • Anything Taylor Related! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Tanya through her personal social media, ZINEthirteen’s social media or email. Thanks!

THANK YOU To all who have contributed to ZINEthirteen, follow on social media and overall support this whole idea. You are all beyond wonderful and I am very thankful to have you in my life. Let’s keep this going and bring more and more fans together! :)

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