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As even an off-the-cuff fan of Taylor Swift can let you know, the singer’s favourite quantity is 13.
“I used to be born on the thirteenth. I turned 13 on Friday the thirteenth. My first album went gold in 13 weeks. My first No. 1 track had a 13-second intro,” Swift advised Jay Leno again in 2009. “Each time I’ve gained an award I’ve been seated in both the thirteenth seat, the thirteenth row, the thirteenth part or row M, which is the thirteenth letter. Principally, each time a 13 comes up in my life, it’s a very good factor.”
Swift has had a number of good issues come up for her this previous yr. By all appearances, that features the current AFC Championship, the place a sure couple regarded like jovial lovebirds in a sports-adjacent romcom. The cinematic second appeared to encapsulate Swift’s relationship so far with Kansas Metropolis tight finish Travis Kelce, whose quantity is 87. (Nobody’s good.)
This weekend, Kelce will battle together with his staff for the W in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers. Although Swift has an intimidating flight again to the US from Japan forward of her as a way to make the sport, if she makes it (she is going to, the embassy claims), this sport might be her thirteenth in attendance in help of Kelce.
If Swift’s fortunate streak stays intact, the woman on the bleachers may discover herself celebrating on the sphere once more.
Nevertheless it’s essential to keep in mind that Swift’s street to discovering love has been a protracted sport. Discounting a couple of outings with singer Matty Healy, Kelce seems to be the thirteenth man Swift has dated underneath a public highlight. A optimistic coincidence, seemingly, and no must try to power the maths when issues appear to be including up for the 2.
All of us kiss some frogs earlier than assembly our Mr. Proper, and it’s humanizing to know that even billionaire bosses aren’t exempt from the principles of affection. Right here’s a glance again at Swift’s path to the family and friends suite on the Tremendous Bowl.
Drew Dunlap and Sam Armstrong
These two had been reportedly Swift’s highschool boyfriends within the early 2000s.
Dunlap has lengthy been believed to be the inspiration for her song “Tim McGraw,” wherein she sings, “While you suppose Tim McGraw/I hope you suppose my favourite track/The one we danced to all night time lengthy.” The pair reportedly cut up when the older Dunlap went off to school.
The Armstrong relationship was reportedly a bit messier. Some went so far as to name their youthful relationship the basis of “all of Taylor Swift’s angst.” She’s by no means spoken about it.
One other one who ran afoul of the Swifties is Joe Jonas.
The Jonas Brothers singer famously dated Swift again in 2008. Issues didn’t work out for the pair, and when Swift appeared on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2008 following the couple’s cut up, she didn’t maintain again when requested about Jonas.
“Once I have a look at that particular person, I’m not even going to recollect the boy who broke up with me over the cellphone in 25 seconds after I was 18,” Swift advised host Ellen DeGeneres after saying she is going to discover the fitting man ultimately, and that she wrote the breakup track “Forever & Always” about Jonas.
However all’s (too) effectively that ends effectively, hopefully. In Might of final yr, Jonas said during an appearance on the “Armchair Expert” podcast that he and Swift are “cool” now, and that he hopes her followers nonetheless like him.
The “Hannah Montana: The Film” star dated Swift for a couple of months after the pair met whereas filming the 2009 film.
He told MTV that year, “We dated for somewhat bit. However, there was no friction as a result of we had been too good.”
“We simply actually each favored one another … [but] most relationships work out trigger you get alongside and then you definitely don’t, and then you definitely make up and its (sic) passionate, and with us I actually simply favored her as a pal,” he defined. “That’s the one cause that didn’t work out.”
Then there was the story of two Taylors.
Swift shared a candy romance in 2009 with the “Twilight” star, who’s believed to have impressed her bittersweet breakup tune “Again to December.”
Final yr, Lautner revealed throughout an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that Swift ended issues, but a stupendous friendship got here from it.
“I feel once you respect any person for who they’re, like of their soul, it permits you to transfer on, forgive and proceed that love otherwise,” he stated.
Fortunate for him, Lautner is now married to a Swiftie who is known as, await it, Taylor. She stated on the podcast that Swift makes it “straightforward” for them to all be buddies.
Lautner acquired his spouse’s seal of approval to seem within the first music video from Swift’s “Converse Now (Taylor’s Model)” album, which she debuted on the first Eras Tour cease in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri final yr.
Swift stunned the viewers by bringing Lautner out on stage to debut the video.
That very same yr – 2009 – was additionally when Swift dated the music business’s resident eligible bachelor and fellow artist John Mayer.
The overall consensus is that certainly one of her most brutal takedown-of-an-ex songs, “Pricey John,” is about him. Final yr Swift carried out the track for the primary time in years throughout an “Eras Tour” cease in Minneapolis. She implored people to be nice about it.
“I’m 33 years previous. I don’t care about something that occurred to me after I was 19,” Swift advised the viewers on the time. “I’m not placing this album out to be able to go and will really feel the necessity to defend me on the web in opposition to somebody you suppose I might need written a track about 14 billion years in the past.”
Jake Gyllenhaal, in the meantime, doesn’t imagine he’s the topic of Swift’s single “All Too Nicely.”
As she re-records her previous music with “Taylor’s variations,” there as been new hypothesis about her inspirations – particularly Gyllenhaal, who dated Swift on and off from 2010 to 2011.
In 2022, he advised Esquire the tune was not about him.
“It has nothing to do with me,” he advised the publication in a large ranging interview. “It’s about her relationship along with her followers.”
Inform that to Dionne Warwick.
In 2021, she had a message for Gyllenhaal after Swift launched a brief movie for the one off her then-new “Pink (Taylor’s Model)” album.
On the track’s lyric, “And I left my scarf there at your sister’s home / And also you’ve nonetheless acquired it in your drawer even now,” Warwick posted on Twitter: “It doesn’t belong to you. Field it up and I’ll pay the price of postage, Jake.”
Swift is pop music royalty, so it is smart that she would ultimately cross paths with America’s model of the royals.
She dated Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s grandson Conor Kennedy in the summertime of 2012. The Swifties went wild when she bought a house close to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
However all summers come to an finish.
Some One Course followers had been sad about this relationship.
The pair had been collectively from 2012 to 2013. In 2017, Types advised Rolling Stone he was conscious that individuals believed her songs “Out of the Woods” and “Fashion” had been impressed by their relationship.
He also talked about their romance.
“In writing songs about stuff like that, I like tipping a hat to the time collectively,” he stated. “You’re celebrating the actual fact it was highly effective and made you are feeling one thing, slightly than ‘this didn’t work out, and that’s dangerous.’ And when you run into that particular person, perhaps it’s awkward, perhaps it’s important to get drunk … however you shared one thing.”
This one was so much.
Swift and Harris appeared like a match made in musical heaven after they dated from 2015 to 2016.
Issues went effectively – till they didn’t. Once they cut up after 15 months, there was all forms of drama, including the revelation that Swift had secretly written the track “This Is What You Got here For,” underneath the pseudonym ”Nils Sjoberg.” The monitor, recorded by Harris and Rihanna, hit the highest of the charts.
Harris talked to British GQ in regards to the cut up.
“It’s very troublesome when one thing I contemplate so private performs out very publicly,” he stated within the interview. “The aftermath of the connection was far more closely publicized than the connection itself. Once we had been collectively, we had been very cautious for it to not be a media circus. She revered my emotions in that sense.”
Keep in mind “Hiddleswift?”
This summer time 2016 romance was extremely publicized (due to course it was) and Harris even weighed in when he and Swift had been feuding about her claiming songwriting credit score on his hit (see above).
“I determine when you’re completely satisfied in your new relationship it is best to concentrate on that as an alternative of attempting to tear your ex bf down for one thing to do,” Harris wrote on Twitter on the time, referring to Swift’s relationship with Hiddleston.
Regardless of a PDA-filled summer time, Swift and the “Loki” star cut up after a couple of months.
Swift quickly switched from a really public relationship with an actor to an extremely non-public one.
She met the British actor in 2016, however stored issues so on the low that folk aren’t fully certain when it turned romantic.
Each Swift and Alwyn made it a behavior to not discuss one another for years.
And after they did, they didn’t say a lot.
“No, by no means. No. It’s flattering,” is all Alwyn stated in an interview with The Times of London when requested if he was bothered about presumably inspiring Swift’s music.
Seems not solely was he an inspiration, but he also did some songwriting with his then-girlfriend.
“There’s been a number of dialogue about William Bowery and his identification, as a result of it’s not an actual particular person,” Swift stated within the “folklore: the lengthy pond studio classes” documentary about her album. “So William Bowery is Joe, as we all know. And Joe performs piano fantastically and he’s at all times simply taking part in and making issues up and type of creating issues.”
The pair cut up after six years collectively, with a source close to Taylor confirming the news to CNN in April 2023, saying “They merely grew aside and plan to stay buddies.”