Track 2 Rankings
13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast
Ana Szabo, Nick Adams, Amy Nichols and Lacey Gee
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Swifties know that track 2 on a Taylor Swift album is never random. In this episode of 13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast, Lacey, Ana, and Amy take on the impossible challenge of ranking every Track 2 from Taylor Swift’s discography.
From early fan-favorite “Picture to Burn” to iconic bopz like “Blank Space,” “Cruel Summer,” and “Cardigan,” the lineup is stacked with some of Taylor’s most unforgettable songs. The conversation quickly turns a little judgemental as the hosts debate lyricism, nostalgia, Eras Tour moments, storytelling, and production while trying to decide which track deserves the top spot.
Along the way, the 13 Podcast dives into:
• Why Track 2 placements are intentional in Taylor’s albums• The surprising connections between songs like “Red” and “Maroon”• How The Eras Tour changed the way fans experience songs like Cruel Summer and champagne problems• Which songs spark the most Swiftie nostalgia from Taylor’s early eras
With songs from every era — Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, folklore, evermore, Midnights, The Tortured Poets Department, and The Life of a Showgirl — the hosts attempt to settle one of the biggest Swiftie debates.
Listen in and tell us: Which Taylor Swift Track 2 would YOU rank #1?
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| 0:33.3 | Yay, media group. |
| 0:36.9 | 13 has been my lucky member for a while. |
| 0:39.3 | Like, it's always a sign of good things to come for me. |
| 0:42.1 | This is 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast, breaking down every song, every Easter egg, every era, and every theory. |
| 0:52.2 | Hosted by the biggest Swifties, Nick Adams, Anna Zabo, Amy Nichols, |
| 0:58.1 | and Lacey G. Welcome to 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast. I'm Lacey G. I'm Anna, Amy. And it is just the |
| 1:06.8 | three of us ladies today. Nick Adams has some family obligations out in space. Yeah, |
| 1:13.9 | hate when that happens. Yeah. We are going to be doing our track two rankings today because we just |
| 1:23.2 | wrapped up a super long episode on Elizabeth Taylor. On Elizabeth Taylor. Super informative. Yeah. Why did I just say Elizabeth Taylor? Yeah, that felt wrong. I mean, I feel like I shouldn't even be at the front right now. Where's Nick Adam? I don't need to be running this podcast. That felt wrong. But I will say, like, I really, really enjoyed that episode on Elizabeth Taylor. I loved it. I think that was one of my favorites that we've done in a while. And we've never ranked track twos. Which is crazy. So we've done before. We've done, we've ranked our opening songs, closing songs, track fives. I think we even did like a random, like, track 11 one time or something. |
| 2:02.8 | No, it was track nine. |
| 2:04.0 | Oh, track nine. |
| 2:05.1 | It was track nine. |
| 2:06.4 | And I'm really embarrassed because on our track nine rankings, I got the numbers wrong. |
| 2:15.2 | But I still ranked one of them because I remember it was the last time |
| 2:18.7 | the song the last time and I love that but that wasn't a part of it but I thought it was so I |
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