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Tonight the story continues, as the music video for “willow” drops at midnight eastern. I’m forever grateful to the following creatives who have helped and guided me to be able to direct my own videos: Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, producer Jil Hardin, 1st AD Joe ‘Oz’ Osbourne, Co-1st AD Ev Salomon, Exec Producer Rebecca Skinner, editor Chancler Haynes, set designers Ethan Tobman and Regina Fernandez and visual effects geniuses Grant Miller and David Lebensfeld. Thank you to our medical inspector who made sure every precaution was taken for our safety. I’ll see you guys in the YouTube premiere page chat before midnight to answer some questions 🧙‍♀️

📷: Max Wanger

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Reminder. 🌹

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Me, adoring the skies. 😍☁

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💫🌻 turned 1 today!

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“Bad experiences from the past can be good memories. It’s kind of like you come to peace with everything that has happened, and what used to be bad memories or experiences, you just accept them.”

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10 posts!

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The Little Prince 🤴

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Tired but I'm trying. 🔮💫

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All you need is LOVE from yourself 🌷🌿

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You're lovely. 🌸

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I love Paulo Coelho so much. ❤

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DAGNY Live at Glorietta 4 Park, Makati City

Dagny is a Norwegian Pop Singer and Songwriter from the Tromsø, Norway who had success with her debut single "Backbeat". On October 06, 2018

Hey, check out my first ever blog. 😊 Thank you! ❤

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DAGNY Live at Glorietta 4 Park, Makati City

Dagny is a Norwegian Pop Singer and Songwriter from the Tromsø, Norway who had success with her debut single "Backbeat".

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On October 06, 2018 I've seen her live and that was a great one. She has three shows here in the Philippines that time and I've been to her second show in Glorietta 4 Park Makati City.

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That time I don't know what to do. Happiness, excitement and nervousness were all I felt. Yes, I've been waiting for that moment to happen for too long and she's finally here! I have a ‘meet and greet' passes that made me so happy but I was late and it made me sad. Though I was so happy because I reached her live show and I was in front wherein I almost really freak out.

I have a sunflower in my hand. Knowing I'm in the front so I thought there was a possibility that I can give it to Dagny. Her voice was impressive and full of energy. Watching her live was a dream. Her voice is better than studio version (for me). She noticed me while she was singing “Bullet” we called it now "Hit Your Heart". She reached my hand and she accepted the sunflower I was reaching to her. That time I was actually between happiness and amazement because she performs right in front of me singing. She sounds amazing and I love her band.

I was also singing every song she's been up to. Her last song was Love you like that and it made me sad a bit knowing that was her last song to perform. I really didnt pass the chance to meet her personally, a mixed emotion of sadness and happiness at the whole time though these feelings were really blissful. After the show, I look for her and my eyes caught her on the tent backstage so I made a way; I asked one of the guards that I have something to give to Dagny and the guard joined me to see her and was able to give my presents to her. I was a happy kiddo that moment. I was so impressed on her tallness. I am 5'1 feet only and she really adjusts to my height in able to talk to me. She gave me a beautiful smile and a warm hug. That made me adore her more. She has a kind heart. She talks to me although I'm not fluent in speaking English but despite of that she did understand me. I gave her my watercolour painting, she accepted and likes it, I saw on her tantalizing eyes and angelic smile. I was stucked and starstruck to her kindness. I melted so much and I appreciated all of that. I am very thankful to the time she allotted me on meeting her. I love her in many different uncountable ways. I really love her beyond words. I can tell you guys, that she's a very nice singer who exists today. Dagny's songwriting is impressive. She writes songs that everyone can like and relate.

She's very down to earth person I've ever met. I'm glad we got to meet last year. It's a life changing experience meeting a talented & rising Pop Singer from Norway. That day was so magical. It changed me in many different ways. I'm so excited for her new journey and more album to come. I love her. 💞

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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,

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Taylor

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I stand with Taylor. ❤❤❤

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I love this quote. 🍃🌺🌿

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Old but gold. 💫