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sex ed in the south is so concerning lmfao. my bible teacher taught it and he told us women cant actually orgasm. his evidence was that he’d been with his wife for 30 years and I quote “if the female orgasm was real i would have seen it by now.” miss banks if you’re out there i am so sorry ma’am

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The Legacy of Jenna Hunterson ✦ 2019 Edition

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Laura Benanti as Baroness Elsa Schrader in the Sound of Music.

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Moments In The Woods | Sutton Foster as The Baker’s Wife Into The Woods at The Hollywood Bowl (July 26, 2019)

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Can we take a brief moment to acknowledge the amount of notes this got?

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this just proves the lyrical variety taylor has. she can be fun and write songs like ME! she can get political like with you need to calm down. but she can also be vulnerable and reflective like in the archer. and they can all be on the same album too.

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“I’ve got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you” IM CRYING BECAUSE I FELT THAT

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‪the archer sounds like a transition song in an 80s coming of age film where the protagonist realizes nobody’s going to fix their problems for them and they reminisce about the good times before they realize they gotta just move on ‬

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Delicate + The Archer (This is an easter egg and you can’t convince me otherwise)

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THE WAY SHE SINGS CAUSE I LIKE YOU WHEN SHE PERFORMS DELICATE ACOUSTICALLY

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No explanation needed

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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