l o v e r ♡

JE NE SUIS PAS CALME

[af-loves-tay]

it's not just music.

it's her sweat, blood and tears. it's endless hours of songwriting, getting the perfect lyrics. it's endless hours of recording, getting the perfect notes. it's endless hours of hard work and dedication. it's her emotions and feelings. it's her story. it's her entire life.

@taylorswift no one has the right to take this away from you 💜

[melbourneswifty]

The only way Taylor was given the “opportunity” to keep her music was to stay with his label. That’s not an opportunity, that’s bribery ladies and gentlemen.

[af-loves-tay]

and she could get the rights to one album only if she gave him a new one

[ts-zoe13]

It’s 2019 why the hell do men still think they can own women!!!???!!

[madisonlovesswift]

I love how every conversation of change gets manipulated into spiraling hate and accusation. The whole point was Taylor wanting the rights to her own music and standing up for herself and other artists who are affected by this as well. This isn’t a hate battle. It’s not a “spill the tea about the other person” party. It’s not “where’s the lie”. It’s purely “I don’t own the rights to my music. I want the rights to my music and I want other artists to own their creations as well”. Why does everything have to turn into a battle of how many people can i get to hate Taylor Swift? missing the point luvs

[af-loves-tay]

exactly, all she's asking for is the right to own her music @taylorswift

[hauntedcats13]

She didn’t deserve it!

[bittersuitewildflower]

ALL THE FANDOMS STANDING BEHIND TAYLOR FUCK IM SOFT

Guys go on twitter

Cardi fans

Rihanna fans

Ariana fans

Halsey fans

Adele fans

Beyonce fans

Miley fans

BTS fans

Katy fans

Gwen stefani fans

Iggy azalea fans

Billie eilish fans

Lana del rey fans

Camila fans

Nicki fans

Britney fans

Little mix fans too

And gaga

And this is just what I saw

THEY ALL GOT CROWNS AND I JUST WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK PEOPLE STANDING BEHIND TAYLOR. ❤️💞💜💘💞💜💞💛💞💜💞💜💞💜💞💜💞💜💞💙💛💜💞❣️💖💚💝💚💓💝💕💖💕💖❣️💖❣️

(also it makes me happy that they're standing behind taylor because I literally listen to everyone I mentioned especially ariana, bts and cardi)

[butyoupaintedme-golden]

So...let me get this straight. Taylor had the “opportunity” to “earn back her masters” by creating more albums — 1 new album for 1 old. I don’t see that she was offered her masters going forward; in fact, she left Big Machine so that she could own them.

In other words: Big Machine would’ve had her in exactly the same position. Nothing would have changed. They would perpetually have her over a barrel, only owning half the music she created her damn self. Why the would she take that deal? That’s not a fucking choice.

Taylor made the decision she did so that SHE could control her own future. She had to leave her art behind, and knowing that, what Scott and Scooter did is sneaky and disgusting.

[af-loves-tay]

this is just atrocious, @taylorswift you deserve to own your music which you spent sweat, blood and tears on, staying up late and writing for hours, no one can do this to you 💗

[taylorswift]

For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. 

Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. 

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. 

When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. 

Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.

I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23. 

Sad and grossed out,

💔

Taylor

[af-loves-tay]

@taylorswift no one deserves the right to your music except you 💓

[swiftlyfindingmyplaceinthisworld]

THEY SAID NOT TODAY SATAN

[lookathernow]

scooter braun’s firm being backed by the carlyle group, a corporation that funds oil drilling, coal mining, and military contracting…. to the point that it actually profits off saudi arabia bombing yemen, where thousands of people have died and continue to die……. um…… is…. attrocious….. i don’t know what else to say, other than that scooper has blood money on his hands and he should rot in hell for it.

[taylorswiftfeelings]

keep talking about this!! do all you can to get this in the news.

[af-loves-tay]

i'm just like damn, it's 7 am

no actually we all got clowned

[af-loves-tay]

so we got played huh

i was freaking out that it's not showing me the mv i was not calm i can't calm down i need to calm down

@taylorswift @taylornation

[west-coast-taylor]

you’re being too loud ,

You need to just stop,

like can you just not ,

step on my paws ,

you need to calm down …

[af-loves-tay]

i feel like taylor's gonna suddenly announce that she and joe are getting married and she's gonna break not only "the instagram" but also the internet and all of our sanities

WHAT IF SHE DOES IT IN A SONG OR A MV SKSKSKSKSK

je ne suis pas calme.

@taylorswift @taylornation

[af-loves-tay]

didn't expect anything less from her

@taylorswift @taylornation

[af-loves-tay]

CANT WAIT

@taylorswift @taylornation