On Oct. 3, Taylor Swift asked me what day it was and I said… uhhh Mean Girls Day? Album release day?
For the past two decades, Oct. 3 has always been unofficially known as Mean Girls Day, referencing the iconic 2004 film starring Lindsay Lohan. However, Swift has decided to switch things up.
The pop superstar revealed on Wednesday that her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, will also be released on Oct. 3 — essentially claiming that day as her own this year. But she has a good reason.
The Grammy winners shared on a recent episode of the New Heights podcast, hosted by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce, that the album’s release date, 10/3, adds up to 13, which has famously been Swift’s lucky number as she was born on Dec. 13, 1989.
“[It’s] never not annoying,” the “Cruel Summer” singer joked, regarding her references to the number 13 throughout her music career. “Always gonna try to force a 13 into the situation. And this one was right there.”
The first week of October is also special for the Kelce family — who are now close with the Swift family — because there are several family members’ birthdays that month, including Travis, Jason, their mom Donna and Jason’s daughter Wyatt.
Though Swift may have declared Oct. 3 as her day this year, Mean Girls fans have continued to keep the movie’s legacy alive over the years by referencing memorable scenes, including the Oct. 3 moment.
Towards the beginning of the film, Lohan’s Cady Heron tries talking to her high school crush, Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), more. In a voiceover, her character says, “On Oct. 3, he asked me what day it was.” Cady then replies in the scene, “It’s Oct. 3.”
Lohan also recently revealed that they accidentally included a nod to the 2004 teen comedy in her new movie, Freakier Friday, which sees the actress reunite with her Freaky Friday onscreen mom, Jamie Lee Curtis.
In the sequel, Lohan’s Anna and Manny Jacinto’s Eric scheduled their wedding for Oct. 3. However, the actress told Collider‘s Perri Nemiroff, “I genuinely don’t think anyone realized” they included a Mean Girls Easter Egg until Lohan pointed it out on the first day of filming when they saw the wedding invitations.
“I was like, ‘Does anyone realize this is Oct. 3? That’s Mean Girls Day,’” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Let’s leave it, it’s an Easter egg.’” And Nisha [Ganatra, director] was like, ‘We’re not doing Easter eggs.’ I’m like, ‘Well, you did!’”
Either way, there’s enough room for all the Swifties and Mean Girls fans around the world to celebrate the iconic day together.