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Catch me singing the 50 nifty United States song with @taylorswift

Is it too late to book a flight to New York?

Me and my itty bitty pretty committee are screaming about Lover being out Friday!

#Taylor Swift #Lover

Putting good vibes into the universe that I will meet @taylorswift this era after 11 years of loving her.

#taylor swift

@taylorswift giving us more info tomorrow is something I didn’t know I needed.

#Taylor Swift

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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

asparker13

💔😭

I love you, @taylorswift

NO TOU DIDNT TAYLOR

#5 holes in the fence #taylor swift

@taylorswift at any point you want to drop the release date for ts7 or another single, I’m ready. Or if you’d like to have a little listening party, I have vacation days left to use :)

#Taylor Swift

@taylorswift I was just trying to be a responsible adult the you have to go post a picture of you and Benjamin.

#taylor swift #he’s the cutest

@taylorswift did you drop more Easter eggs in your Voice performance?

#Taylor Swift

I can’t wait until the album comes out so I can go back and collect all these Easter eggs.

#taylor swift #easter eggs #ts7