Once Upon A Time...

... there was a fantastic show that I fell in love with. Which led me to the wonderful world of Tumblr.

[briesadler]

I just did a really painful thing, but it’s not nearly as painful as what @taylorswift must be going through and I have to remember that. I deleted her entire catalogue from reputation backwards from my phone.

I can’t, in good conscience, continue to stream her music while I know that Scooter Braun is still profiting from it. I’ve been avoiding streaming her old stuff since she left BMLG, but today I’m making sure I don’t slip up and say, “Just this once,” or “One stream won’t make that much of a difference.” I have her albums on CD and will have to listen to them that way (although it’s far less convenient), but I’ve lost all the wonderful remixes she did with other artists.

Only Lover, folklore, and the few singles she’s released since leaving BMLG are left on my phone. I can’t wait for Taylor to re-record her catalogue so that I can have all her other music back on my phone and with me at all times ❤️

[briesadler]

When your first of 3 orders from the @taylorswift store arrives with star-shaped confetti in the package, a photo shoot is the only logical outcome. #folklore #folklorealbum #latergram https://www.instagram.com/p/CF_FRamnkC_/?igshid=1hgcpu7qiyk1a

[briesadler]

Do you often think about this moment in AOS 4x15 when Jemma and Daisy find each other and solidify their beautiful friendship, or are you normal?

[briesadler]

I took a course on fairytales in grad school and one thing really stuck with me—there’s no such thing as the “original version” of a tale. Fairytales and folklore are passed down and changed so many times because they are an oral tradition and that’s just what happens when things are told and not written down. There’s no “original” Cinderella, or Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty because by the time someone wrote them down, they’d already been changed over the course of hundreds of years.

What I love most about folklore is that @taylorswift has woven her stories together so that you’re almost not sure where one ends and another begins; they’re all part of the same history of oral storytelling. Elements of one song show up in another, almost as if we’re hearing the same story at different points in its history of being told. And she brings in elements from her old albums, too. These echoes of other songs are really what makes this album folklore.

[briesadler]

@taylorswift I can’t tell you how happy the release of folklore makes me 😭 I was supposed to be in LA this week to see Lover Fest West on Sunday night and I’ve been so bummed about it being postponed (even though the postponement makes 1000% sense), but now I get to spend my weekend exploring new music and that really eases the sting ❤️

[briesadler]

I did NOT know that Eliza Jane and Bob Morley were married until THIS VERY MOMENT. 1) I feel like a fool for not knowing before, and 2) MY BELLARKE SHIPPING HEART IS SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!

I’m still a hardcore Clexa shipper. And I really liked Finn. Mostly I just approve of all Clarke’s romantic choices, as long as they make her happy ♥️

[tshifty]

2020

[taylorswift]

Miss Americana 🎬 January 31 on Netflix

taylorswift.lnk.to/MissAmericana

[briesadler]

Yaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

[briesadler]

Happy birthday @taylorswift! I don’t have any fancy GIFs or beautiful fan art for you, just my undying loyalTay. Hope your day is everything you wanted and needed ❤️

[briesadler]

I know it’s long, but I’m so excited and I couldn’t stop talking 😂 @taylorswift thank you and your team so much!!!!!!!!!!

[briesadler]

@taylorswift my 5 y/o niece has declared the beat of The Man to be “fresh” 😂

[briesadler]

I’m such a mess right now. I got home last night from being away with the team I manage for almost a week. We were at a training conference to prep them for their roles this upcoming school year (lots of long days with almost no free time). I haven’t showered since Wednesday and I’m so tired. I stayed up after I got home last night to watch the recording of the YouTube live that I missed on the car ride home. When you read this journal entry, I hoped desperately that you were reading in order so that I would be correct in buying deluxe version 2 (2 is my lucky number, so I was hoping everything would line up). You did not disappoint. It was important to me to get to re-read this journal entry because I’ve frequently felt as if I’m the girl who keeps the bed warm for the one he’s really going to end up with, no matter how much promise or magic I see in us. When you read that yesterday, I almost cried. I’m crying now. I’ve never told anyone that I feel this way, but right now I feel so much less alone in this sentiment. Thank you for deciding to share this, @taylorswift. You cringed a little when you read it last night, but know that it means the world to me that you shared this feeling. I stayed up until 1:30am to listen to the whole album, then got up this morning to head to Walmart and get my copy of Lover. I’m so tired and I think I just need to go and crash for the rest of the day. Anyways, thanks for this incredible album and all the things you’ve decided to share with us, both now and over the last 13 years 💖

[briesadler]

Listening to Lover like ^^^.

@taylorswift​, it’s exquisite.Truly <3

[cowboylikemeg]

@taylorswift ... please define the word “yore”

[taylorswift]

Gladly!! Yore is a great word and criminally underused! I also really like the word ‘lore’ but no one asked for this information 🤷‍♀️

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yore

/yôr/

noun

of long ago or former times (used in nostalgic or mock-nostalgic recollection).

"a great empire in days of yore"

[briesadler]

@taylorswift what’s you’re favourite piece of lore?

[briesadler]

When @taylorswift announces her new song is out NOW, but she’s in the middle of an IG Live.

[justfloatinyourorbit]

“if a man talks shit then i owe him nothing” “and if he spends my change then he had it coming” have a whole new meaning today. 

[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

[briesadler]

I’m so sorry for what happened to you, @taylorswift. Know that in the eyes of fans, that music is a part of you that can never be sold/bought/owned. Who you are, and the parts of yourself that you chose to share with the world through your music, will forever be yours in the ways that matter.