ZINE
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SUPER SATURDAY NIGHT
ISSUE 01 APRIL 2017
FIRST ISSUE !
GET SOCIAL! What’s Taylor been posting about?
MEREDITH & OLIVIA! Newest comic inspiration!
Hints about Taylor’s
NEW ALBUM
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Baby,
this is what you came for
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CONTENTS Social Media In The News, Taylor’s Album Super Saturday Wanna Play? Contribute
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magazine... I can read you like a
editor FROM THE
Hello, there. My name is Tanya! I am the creator of ZINEthirteen. I first came up with the idea to create an online magazine related to Taylor over a year ago. However, while being busy with various things in my life, it was put on hold. I now have acquired a bit more time to spend on personal projects (yay!). Now, to give you a bit of background about myself...I am currently 24 years old, I am a graduate of SUNY Fredonia (2015) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design and I am currently employed as a graphic artist. I have been interested in art my entire life
and realized I had a great love for graphic design later in life. Actually, the reason I even found my love of design was because of Taylor, believe it or not! I used to be part of Taylor Connect, which is Taylor’s online community where fans can talk with one another online through forum pages. I used to be an avid member of this site and would contribute a lot of my graphic work by designing signature banners for various swifties. This sparked my interest in learning more about design, therefore, I actually switched my major in college from chemistry/pharmacy to
graphic design. All thanks to Taylor! Honestly, I am very happy with what I do and enjoy what I do very much. It’s important to do something that you love for a living, otherwise it just becomes actual work. Lead a life that’s worth living! The reason I wanted to start this Taylor online magazine was to not only give myself a fun project to work on in my down time, but to also give other fans, like me, something to look back on from month to month to have a bunch of Taylor related things all in one place! Plus, I would really love to get other fans involved with submitting
stories, artwork, etc. The main goal behind this is to bring fans together through one major interest, Taylor! Hope you all enjoy the first issue of ‘Zine Thirteen. It may start off small, but I hope it will grow with the help of all of you. :)
Stay Beautiful, Tanya
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SOCIAL MEDIA Solet’shey, be friends! Since this is the first edition of ZINEthirteen, this will act as a space where various fans will be featured each month from social media! It will include their username along with the social media platform, such as, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr! Until then, please follow ZINEthirteen at: @ZINEthirteen
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IN THE NEWS Here Are All the Hints We Have About Taylor Swift’s Long-Awaited Next Album TIME MAGAZINE
Raisa Bruner
3.14.17
For most of her life as a professional musician, Taylor Swift has stuck to a strict schedule: a full album release once every two years since 2006, dropped in the autumn. Like clockwork, her fans could depend on Swift to share her highly personal, radio-friendly tales of youth and heartbreak, even as her sound evolved from country to rock to pop (with a dubstep detour). But in 2016, Swift stepped off the hamster wheel of her own production schedule. While there are no official guarantees from the Grammy winner yet, here’s everything we know about when we might next expect to hear a full new album from Swift. Swift hasn’t stopped producing music
She’s been writing songs, contributing to Little Big Town’s “Better Man” (and, initially under a pseudonym, to ex Calvin Harris’s “This Is What You Came For”). Swift has never been one to stay idle, and it looks like she’s been expending her creative energies writing for fellow artists instead of solely focusing on her own work. Her hit with Zayn for Fifty Shades Darker is tiding her over
“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” climbed, predictably, to the very top of the charts in the winter
of 2017—and managed to keep Swift (and her particular musical brand) relevant. With a hit like that, she satisfied fans’ appetites, albeit briefly. Her only live performance of 2017 was in February
She played a pre-Super Bowl gig in Houston, Texas, where she announced to the lucky crowd that they were attending “100 percent” of her tour dates for the whole year. “As far as I know I’m only doing one show in 2017, and as far as I know, this is that show,” she told the audience. It was her first performance since the 1989 World Tour ended in December 2015. Her statement suggests if she’s performing a live show again this year, she doesn’t know about it yet.
Her good pal Ed Sheeran thinks she might release something around Christmas
Sheeran, who’s sitting pretty at the top of the charts with his own release Divide, alluded to the fact that savvy businessperson Swift might want to wait it out until the holidays for a big drop. “Taylor [Swift] isn’t going to be releasing until probably the end of this year—Christmas is the smartest time to release because that’s when everyone buys records,” he told the BBC in March 2017. Given his close relationship with Swift, Sheeran’s word is the
closest fans have to actual inside information. In the past, October was her album drop month of choice
Four out of five of her past studio albums came out in October. (Fearless dropped in November 2008.) Swift has ripe material. The pop star, who often writes about her personal relationships, can draw from recent high-profile romances with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston. The climax to her salvo with Kanye West regarding the lyrics to his song “Famous” or her ongoing tiff with Katy Perry could also provide fodder. She’s been publicly supportive of other artists this year
Swift cut back substantially on her social media output in the latter half of 2016 and early 2017, but has tossed out love to her fellow artists and high-profile friends. It’s possible that Swift, who rarely engaged with featured artists on previous albums,
might be ready to incorporate other voices into her future work. (Her song with Zayn could foreshadow more collaborations to come.) She’s given shout-outs to Lorde, Ed Sheeran, Little Big Town and Kings of Leon on social media, too. She has a special relationship with the number 13
It’s her favorite number. It’s in her Twitter handle, it’s the date of her birthday and she even has been known to draw the number on her hand before going onstage to perform, as a kind of good-luck charm. Dedicated Swifties have used this piece of information to predict all kinds of potential album drop dates, suggesting she’ll try to coordinate a release with the lucky number. So on the 13th of each month, keep an eye out for any clues.In the end, all we know for sure is that Swift will be back—on her own terms and in her own time. And probably with at least one chart-topping anthem in hand. ZINE THIRTEEN ISSUE 01 APRIL 2017
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SUPER SATURDAY Did you know that you can now watch Part I, II & III of Taylor’s Super Saturday Night from February, 4 2017?! Well, you can! Check it out on DIREC TV NOW. All you have to is go to www.directv.com/ networks/taylorswiftnow and click on the title “I Did a Special Event.” There you will find episodes of Super Saturday Night. You must have a DIREC TV account in order to login and watch. Taylor’s setlist of songs from Super Satruday Night included: • Red • New Romantics • We Are Never Ever • 22 Getting Back Together • Blank Space • Love Story • I Knew You Were Trouble • All Too Well • Style • Wildest Dreams/ • I Don’t Wanna Live Forever Enchanted • You Belong With Me • Bad Blood • This Is What You Came For • Out of the Woods • Better Man • Shake It Off
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WANNA PLAY? mad lib of the month: wildest dreams
Have some fun with your friends & fill out this silly Mad Lib replacing some of Taylor’s lyrics! The key is to ask a friend for the various blank spaces (Hehe) without reading the rest of the text. Fill out what they have to say, then read it all at the end for a funny version of Wildest Dreams! :) KEY: Noun: Person/Place/Thing Plural Noun: More than one Adjective: Description Word Verb: Action Word Adverb: Verb ending in “-ly” (For the most part) Verb Ending -ING: Action word ending with “-ing”
He said let’s get out of this _________, drive out of the (NOUN)
city, away from the ________. I thought ________ can’t (PLURAL NOUN)
(NOUN)
_______ me now, nothing lasts forever. But this is gonna (VERB)
_______ me down. He’s so _______, and _______ as (VERB)
(ADJECTIVE)
(ADJECTIVE)
hell. He’s so _______ but he does it so well. I can see (ADJECTIVE)
the _______ as it begins my one _______ is...Say you’ll (NOUN)
(NOUN)
remember _______, _______ in a _______ dress, (NOUN)
(VERB ENDING -ING)
(ADJECTIVE)
_______ at the _______, babe. _______ lips and
(VERB ENDING -ING)
(NOUN)
(ADJECTIVE)
rosy _______, say you’ll see me again even if it’s just (PLURAL NOUN)
in your wildest dreams (Ah ah). Wildest dreams (Ah ah).
COMING TO YOU, NEXT ISSUE! The Adventures of Meredith & Olivia! These two crazy cats will star in their very own comic series! Be on the lookout for their first ever ZINEthirteen comic appearance in the May 2017 issue!
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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 it be known! There are multiple ways to submit items. Through social media (page 4) as well as email, zinethirteen@gmail.com. The more fan content submitted, the better! Would love to make this into a fun project each month for fans all around the world to contribute to! Content to be Submitted: • Fan Art •Fan Stories (ex. Concert experiences, meeting Taylor, how you became a fan, etc.) • Fan Fiction • Social Media Accounts If you have any questions, feel free to contact Tanya through her personal social media, ZINEthirteen’s social media or email. Thanks!
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