... Ready For August 23rd

"will always be one of those starbucks lovers" insta- smitty1214

[taylorswift]

Here’s a first look inside #CatsMovie. Trailer FRIDAY! 

youtu.be/jzsDroK9CNs

[swiftie-stephanie]

It's interesting how when I crawl around on the floor and hiss at people I see walking by it's called "you need help stephanie", but when Taylor does the same thing it's called "art" and she's praised for doing it

[taylorswift]

A valid point.

[swift-worldwide]

‪Are those .... cats ... on her socks ... while filming cats ‬... so extra and I’m all here for it

@taylorswift

[taylorswift]

Go method or go home indeed

[taylorswift]

I am a cat now and somehow that was everything #CatsMovie

[taylorswift]

I’m going live on Instagram tomorrow, July 23 at 5pm ET! I have some stuff I’m reeeeeally excited to tell you about, including some info on this Easter egg right here. 🏹🎯👀⬆️

[taylorswift]

I’ve been the archer

I’ve been the prey

Who could ever leave me darling…

But who could stay?

taylorswift.lnk.to/TheArcherTu

[taylorswift]

So excited to show you the deluxe versions of Lover!

You can get it at Target in the US or on my website! Cheers! http://taylorswift.lnk.to/lover-dlx

[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

[chris-smith95]

@taylorswift I’m literally sitting here sobbing thank you thank you thank you. 1 MONTH TILL #lover

[tay-knows-places]

Every Swiftie right now

[shininglikefireworkssss]

I died dead!

[mustlikeme4me]

I love it when her efforts are seen and recognized💗

[itsjustinyourwildestdreams]

HER POWER

[queen-olivia-benson]

I’m already a slut for TS7

[chris-smith95]

the tour can’t come soon enough.

a pastel era, watch me rock up lookin’ like a Disney princess.. @taylorswift

[chris-smith95]

Life goes by so fast sometimes that you forget to look back and love the little things that come along.

Although I don’t regret anything in my life, I wish I could go back in time & tell my younger self to not take things so seriously. Not to freak out over small things or too over analyze every single thing I do.

Still to this day people ask me why I love @taylorswift so much and I simply put it that she helped me through so much of my life growing up.

Figuring out the person that I was and growing too love myself, I owe so much of that strength and courage that I gained to her. I was at the lowest depts of my life and some how her music & lyrics stuck to me like nothing had before.

I was a shy, depressed & such a lonely person who pushed people away and didn’t allow the real me to shine because I didn’t want them to judge me or I didn’t want people to talk negatively about me. Still to this day I think back and realaize how much stronger I have become.

Through each era taylor has taught me how to love, choose good friends & to always be myself.

I am now 24 years of age with a group of friends I love, a boyfriend of 4 years who I want to marry & I am an openly proud gay man who lets no one judge me and i express myself through every aspect of my life.

Ive always wanted to thank taylor for everything that she does for not only me but for so many around the world, I know it would be so hard being in her world but I hope she knows she has so many strangers all around the world thanking them for saving their life and for being a beacon of hope and light. Someone who is strong, bold and daring is such an inspiration to look up too.

As a new era is about to begin I want to put into the universe that hopefully I get to meet this incredible and beautiful human, to look into her eyes and thank her for the person I became.

If you are reading this taylor, I love you & I cannot wait to support through this new chapter of your life & mine too.

Sending so much, hope we get to meet x

[coveredinyou]

4.26 || blue aesthetic

[chris-smith95]

The next era is becoming closer & closer, we have already been served with so much cannot wait to see what else this era will bring for @taylorswift and all her fans around the world, slowly counting down every second!!! @taylornation