Ana-Marija Saric

(singer / songwriter / television enthusiast) www.anamsaric.com "Ethereal storytelling sung by orotund velvety vocals." Sounds like: a hybrid creature of Sara Bareilles, Christina Perri, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap & Lorde

[anamsaric]

Vogue, 73 Questions, 19 Apr 2016.

It’s all becoming very clear right about now.

@taylorswift @taylornation

[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

[floralls]

[nevver]

Into the woods, Doug Eng

[that-twink-over-there]

Barcodes in their natural habitat

[spideycat-s]

Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right… When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole world– “No, you move.”

[languages-georg-blog]

So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.

Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.

“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”

[annarcho-nicolesmith]

One time I was proof reading a paper for a Russian student. As I was correcting her paper with her, the many mistakes in her grammar started weighing on her. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, almost sobbing,

“In Russian I am so intelligent and clear. In English I am like [an] idiot”

Respect to anyone trying to master a foreign language. I get so sad thinking about that student.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ This tho

Please do not make people feel bad just for having an accent or for not always being completely fluent in english…learning another language is HARD and no one deserves to be mocked or made to feel bad just for the way they sound or for not always knowing the right words to use

[anamsaric]

I used to teach kids, University students and working adults in Croatia conversational English (I’m Canadian, so a native speaker) when I was living on my own in the city of Zagreb and I’d have all levels of speakers. They were always scared at first, thinking I’d judge them, so I would tell them about how I lived in Paris and was terrified to speak French with the locals because I thought they’d make fun of me. I told them I still regret not getting over my fear because I never learned to speak French. I also said that I will never judge them, that we teachers never expect them to be a higher level than they are in a foreign language and that our goal is to help them learn.

My students were very open to learning and quickly got over their fears of speaking in front of me. I wouldn’t correct them until they were completely done with their stories, because I didn’t want to interrupt their flow. They grew very comfortable in speaking English in front of others in the group. They often surprised me with their fluency and exceeded my expectations.

If you’re learning a foreign language, I recommend conversational groups or individual sessions with a native speaker. Make sure they’re like me: open and encouraging, otherwise walk away because you deserve the best teachers to help you thrive.

[emswiftie013]

Today has been nothing less of a horrible day. About 4 hours ago I try to log into my account @taylorswift_updates, and it logs me out and quickly informs me by account has been disabled as a result of not following community guidelines and rules. I have NO idea what I did wrong and there is no email/phone number to contact Instagram or any sort of Instagram support. Just an hour ago the SAME thing happened to my friend @1989styleswift (@taylorswift.updates on Instagram) and we’ve been trying to figure out a way to contact Instagram and have had no luck. If you can help us, PLEASE message us. We’ve worked very hard on our accounts and to have them shut down without warning or reason is very frustrating and upsetting. Please spread this around. Thank you. @taylorswift

[1989styleswift]

This happened to me as well. I had 140K followers. I am completely devastated. If there’s anything you can do @taylorswift @taylornation @treepain I would appreciate it endlessly.

[anamsaric]

This is so unfair. I love your accounts. You’re so respectful and kind, and I know a lot about community guidelines and I don’t understand how you could all of a sudden possibly be in violation of any.

Please repost, Swifties!

@taylorswift @taylornation

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

you've probably answered this already but what is she physically like in person? i think i wouldn't be able to stop staring at her eyes, they are probably even bluer in real life

she is very long and lanky. she’s super thin and really petite. her eyes are aggressively blue, she’s really really engaging and very touchy - she stands close to you and grabs at your hands a lot. i’ve never met someone so attentive when you speak to her. she refuses to break eye contact. when she laughs she laughs with her whole body which is really genuine and something that a lot of people don’t do.

she makes you feel important and special and like you are the only person in the room even when there are 4-5 others there. she refuses to let anything interrupt the conversation - on monday, they asked her four times to pose for the picture and she kept going because we were chatting about something. she responds quickly and never makes you feel rude or uncomfortable, and compensates if she does by accident — also on monday, she was talking to ashley and accidentally turned her back on me and then when i moved around she immediately grabbed my hand and squeezed it because she felt bad. 

is that what you wanted to know?

[anamsaric]

Wow. What a wonderful description! You a writer, babe? @taylorswift @taylornation

[anamsaric]

How I feel about @taylorswift’s new album #reputation coming out on Nov 10th.

Except I won’t get my hands on it until it’s delivered to me along with Vol 1 & 2 magazines between Sat 18th and Thurs 23rd of Nov.

My girls and will be having a listening party together and intend on cancelling all plans when they arrive, drop everything and drive to one of our homes. Priorities, am I right?

@taylornation

[anamsaric]

When your life can finally begin again. @taylorswift @taylornation

[anamsaric]

How I feel about @taylorswift’s new album #reputation coming out on Nov 10th. Except I won’t get my hands on it until it’s delivered to me along with Vol 1 & 2 magazines between Sat 18th and Thurs 23rd of Nov. My girls and will be having a listening party together and intend on cancelling all plans when they arrive, drop everything and drive to one of our homes. Priorities, am I right? @taylornation

[this-isnt-my-bra]

Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”

[lolodapsycho-deactivated2017030]

HOLY SHIT

[mamoru]

one time we had a sub that was handing back papers and called my name. I asked if someone could grab it for me and she started mocking me for not even standing up. taunting me asking why I was not walking up to the front to get the paper myself.

my classmates went dead silent and after the sub’s laughter ended someone informed her that the wheelchair parked nearby belonged to me

[dykeofdaring]

My sister once had her insulin pump ripped off of her because her exam proctor (a sub) thought it was some cheating device. He soon figured out that it was, in fact, not, when the port on her side (the place the needle goes in) started bleeding through her shirt. Her pump started beeping frantically, because that’s what it does, and it was general chaos until my sister ripped what’s basically her pancreas out of his hands, told her friend “Let the next proctor know I’ll need extra time,” and walked out of the room towards the nurse.

[ongoingflames-deactivated201905]

Literally schools are shit with disabilities. In elementary school I was having a high blood sugar reaction(cold sweats to rapid passing in and out of consciousness, vomiting and finally leading to a massive seizure before you die) and I KNEW I had to go to the nurse cuz I was getting worse. Kept telling my teach I needed to go and he kept saying no till finally I felt myself about to throw up and I’m screaming LET ME GO (i was a little kid to me i couldnt do anything in an institution without an adults say so or id basically go to hell) and the bitch said SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE LESSON where I proceeded to projectile vomit all over my desk and he jut kept going on with the lesson. Finally I just booked it out of the room but I was too far gone to even REMEMBER where the nurses office was let alone where the hell I was that my class literally just left and helped me to the nurses office. I immediately went to the hospital and officially died for 5 minutes before I was revived. I could have stayed dead all because some fuck twad thought his lesson was more important than a students life

[circe154-deactivated20220408]

After Columbine, a local school installed metal detectors and made everyone walk through them and put their bags on a table for a teacher to search. 

A few days into the school year, a teacher ripped a boy’s insulin pump off him because she thought it was a weapon, despite he and his sister insisting it was an insulin pump and he needed it to live. 

[spellbound-willow]

I don’t know how many of you are still in school but I have some valuable knowledge that might actually help with this problem! In the United States there’s this thing called a 504 Plan that you can get which basically gives you legal protection from disability/chronic illness discrimination in public schools. 

Students can qualify for 504 plans if they have physical or mental impairments that affect or limit any of their abilities to: walk, breathe, eat, or sleep; communicate, see, hear, or speak; read, concentrate, think, or learn; stand, bend, lift, or work

 Examples of accommodations in 504 plans include: preferential seating, extended time on tests and assignments, reduced homework or classwork, verbal, visual, or technology aids, modified textbooks or audio-video materials, behavior management support, adjusted class schedules or grading, verbal testing, excused lateness, absence, or missed classwork

 I’m a type one diabetic and my school nurse would do stuff like keep all my meds in a locked cabinet, not let me take my insulin or test my blood sugar unless she was watching me, and lie to my mother about me inducing low blood sugars in order to get out of class. She wouldn’t even let me keep glucagon (emergency sugar injection) on my person in case I passed out from low blood sugar. 

 So one day I casually mentioned all this to my endocrinologist and she was really mad. She was really angry at the school nurse for mistreating me like that and informed me of this thing called a 504 plan. A 504 plan protects students with disabilities and chronic illnesses from discrimination by outlining exactly what a student needs to meet their special needs. For me, this meant I had to be able to keep ahold of my own meds in case of emergency and keep track of my own glucose levels, that I would never be marked late for a class if I was busy treating a low, and I could pause the clock on a standardized test to check my blood sugar and treat it. If you have a disability and you’re still attending public school, PLEASE read up on 504 plans because they saved me so much grief when I was still in school. It might help you too. Here’s some more information about 504 plans:

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/special-services/504-plan/understanding-504-plans

http://m.kidshealth.org/en/parents/504-plans.html?WT.ac=

[plotholetsi]

re-circulating this because holy shit this information could literally save you or a little loved ones’ life :(

[u-got-lynks]

y’all im part of 504 and it really helps!!!!!! (i mean, when my schools not being a shit but whatever lmao) 

[anamsaric]

These stories are terrifying and heartbreaking.

[catsbeaversandducks]

[catcouples]

😻😻😻😻😻😻

[anamsaric]

The fandom coping with listening to rep for the first time. @taylorswift @taylornation

[goodgirlwhoshopeful]

long live the walls we crashed through; I had the time of my life   w i t h   y o u.  

Thank you, @taylorswift​ for continuing to show me what true joy feels like.

[anamsaric]

@taylorswift Truth.

[babyanimalgifs]

Beach day

[serawilkinson-deactivated201905]

@4a0000

[anamsaric]

This baby is cute and sweet and gentle and I need a good cuddle-cry with this creature before I continue with my life.

[maybesomaybeno]

Sometimes I drink too much vodka or eat 3 servings of macaroni and cheese in one sitting, but by far the most unhealthy habit I have is comparing myself to others.

[runsleepygirl-deactivated201410]

This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever read on tumblr

[anamsaric]

Wow.

[taylorswift]

Inside the reputation Secret Sessions.

[anamsaric]

Live. Love. Meet Taylor Swift.

@taylorswift @taylornation

[screamedsooloud]

the melodies on this album are so different to anything taylor has ever released before and to be honest i don’t think she has ever gotten enough credit for her ability to reinvent herself or her willingness to take risks and evolve as an artist