KATY🐍

Just a UK Swiftie praying to meet Taylor but I guess I’ll just stumble on home to my dogs...alone.

[taylorswift]

Don’t know what else to do

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

Taylor

[heartbreakprincessss]

I STAND WITH TAYLOR💗

[taylorswift]

I think the fishbowl scene is my favorite metaphor in the Lover video. And guys.. I’ve performed on stage with Christian Owens for years. He’s unbelievably talented and it was so amazing to have him in the Lover music video!

Taylor Swift - Lover

Go to Taylor Swift - Lover.

[heartbreakprincessss]

AND THE CRAZIEST THINGS HAPPENED TODAY

FIRST I WAS CALLED TO CHECKOUT NO.13 IN A SHOP, THEN AT FIVE GUYS WE WERE ORDER NO.13 AND THEN I SAW THE LOVER JOURNALS IN HMV (I might be okay but I’m not fine at all😭😭💖🤯) I DO NOT BELIEVE IN COINCIDENCES

THIS. WAS. FATE.

[heartbreakprincessss]

COULE NOT BELIEVE IT WHEN I SAW THESE IN HMV MEADOWHALL TODAY. I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD GET THE DELUXE VERSION IN HMV IN THE UK THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY AT TARGET IN THE US OR ONLINE OTHERWISE ID HAVE BEEN CANPIMG OUTSIDE ALL NIGHT THURSDAY😂😩😭💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[heartbreakprincessss]

A CRAZY THING HAPPENED TODAY I WAS IN A SHOPPING CENTRE AND SUDDENLY SAW POSTERS FOR LOVER AND THEN REALISED HMV WAS SELLING THE DELUXE JOURNALS ID NO IDEA I CRIED SO BAD AND MY MUM SAID I NEEDED TO GET A GRIP BC WE WERE IN PUBLIC😂😩😭💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[ts-1989]

[taylorswift]

LIT

[taywantsyoutostay]

‪for a healthier option, lover will be out August 23rd @taylorswift

[taylorswift]

WE LOVE CAKE CUTENESS 13/10

[sophisticatedswifts]

“I guess I’m just not good enough for people my own age. Or maybe I’m just not bad enough... ✌🏻”

—Taylor Swift at 13

[taylorswift]

I read the least embarrassing ones. Those were NOTHING compared to what you have coming your way from 13 yr old me

[taylorswift]

And so it goes, you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round... The Lover music video is out now!

[taylorswift]

Sharing some never-before-heard lyrics from the new album every day + some of my favorite love songs on the Lover Enhanced Album playlist on @Spotify 😻 taylorswift.lnk.to/loverenhanced

[taylorswiftnow]

I LOVE YOU

[taylornation]

Title track “Lover” out August 16!!! 

Pre-order here: TaylorSwift.lnk.to/LoverTU

[taylorswift]

WELL SO THIS IS A THING THAT’S HAPPENING. September issue of Vogue and I’m so so so grateful to Anna, Tonne Goodman, Sergio Kletnoy and basically anyone who was like ‘yeah she can be on the Sept issue cover’. What an amazing experience shooting with Inez and Vinoodh.

[taylornation]

Sunnies every color of the rainbow and shirts to match 🌈💗 Shop the You Need To Calm Down Collection looks here 👉 store.taylorswift.com

[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

[taylornation]

Can you just not step on our gowns? 💃✨🎶

Taylor’s new song “You Need To Calm Down” is OUT NOW 👉 https://TaylorSwift.lnk.to/LoverTu

[taylorswift]

Some of us had champagne on set and it shows 🥂

[bananaofswiftss]