Baby Let The Games Begin ❤️

Ireland | 22 | Swifty | REPUTATION TOUR: • Dublin - 15 & 16 June • Nashville - 25 August | 1989 WORLD TOUR: • Dublin • London | SPEAK NOW TOUR: • Dublin

[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

[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

[nightmare-dressedlikea-nightmare]

taylor said she is waiting for us to calm down before she releases more info, but the problem is we do calm like she does calm 

[labhaoisec]

Step into the daylight and let it go.

[it-feels-like-a-perfect-night]

what time is it? time to listen call it what you want, obviously 

[labhaoisec]

Waiting on @taylorswift to make an official TS7 announcement like...

[tayloralison]

taylor comes online to make an important announcement and sees us talking about holes in a fence

[lovestory]

the graphic designer who put stamps and flowers on random dates of the calendar thinking it was a fun and fresh idea reading the theories

[labhaoisec]

😂

[irishreputation13]

When you can’t find anything to watch on Netflix but then see the reputation tour again

[everydayislikeabatttle]

there’s honestly not a single song that taylor could sing as a suprise song on tour night that i wouldn’t be happy with tbh. like lmao she could break out into thug story and i’d scream every word

[sunsetbabe]

Reputation Tour Parallels 

[mymelanch0lia]

DROP EVERYTHING NOW

[dontblamemegan]

STOP

[labhaoisec]

❤️❤️❤️

[hesgonnasayitslove]

dear parents, just because your child is smiling at their phone doesn’t mean they have a boyfriend/girlfriend. maybe they’re just looking at pictures of taylor swift with a 13 on her hand in 2018

[labhaoisec]

😂😂

[mystolenlullabies]

Being a Taylor Swift fan

[labhaoisec]

Can we seriously redo last weekend 🙈❤️🐍 @taylorswift

[pnwswiftie]

Petition for a Taylor Swift theme park with snake rollercoasters, Delicate tea cup rides, a HAUNTED mansion (with a view), Getaway bumper cars, Submarine ride in a champagne sea, PLS @taylorswift MAKE IT A THING

[andimjustlikedamnits7am-blog]

TAYLOR WE BEG!! I WILL LITERALLY BE THERE EVERYDAY OMG MY HOME!

@taylorswift

[pnwswiftie]

I already live here, in my dreams @taylorswift

[builtafireswift]

OMG KIMBERLY UR MIND YES!!!

[loversvinyl]

You are a genius! This honestly has to be a thing! Like I’d gladly spend all of my coins to be there

[pnwswiftie]

I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING BUT THIS PLACE RN…. what should we call it? 13 flags?

[run-away-with-me-yes]

Can there be a maze called WONDERLAND?

[pnwswiftie]

ABSOLUTELY 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

[run-away-with-me-yes]

I’m also thinking a wildlife conservation area wildest dreams themed kinda like the safari in Animal Kingdom at Disney world

RED would def be a roller coaster with red maseratis

Getaway Car I see being a cross between like the great movie ride and tower of terror but that’s just because I have THOUGHTS about what the music video should look like… I need to post about that separately…

OUT OF THE WOODS??? That could be an insane ride where you go through all the terrains AND THEN YOU PET CUTE WOLF PUPPIES AT THE END

I can literally go on… also can I use this as my application to be creative director for this theme park???

[pnwswiftie]

IM LIVING FOR THESE IDEAS

[funnylesley]

If this girl can do it so can Taylor❤❤

[builtafireswift]

THERE CAN BE A RIDE THAT IS JUST A SLOW TRACK OVER WATER WITH VIDEO SCREENS ALL AROUND THE WALKS THAT JUST SAY “IF A MAN TALKS SHIT THEN I OWE HIM NOTHING” OVER AND OVER

AND THERE CAN BE A SUPERGIRL RIDE FOR SUPERMAN

AND A BOOTH WHERE YOU BURN PICTURES

[illusionistswift]

ok whoever made this I love you @taylorswift

[pnwswiftie]

[pnwswiftie]

Theme park name: Wonderland or 13 flags time to vote

[coffeeatmidnight18]

VOTE: http://pollmaker.vote/p/QV55F2TT

[pnwswiftie]

THANKYOU @coffeeatmidnightxo okay swifties lets do this so we can open our theme park

[builtafireswift]

and your tickets are shaped like cats and when you go through the gate and it puts a happy pic of meredith/Olivia when ur ticket works!! Because it has to be very ~detail oriented~

[pnwswiftie]

I’m drawing blueprints

[builtafireswift]

it can be in Wyomissing, PA!!! On the Christmas tree farm!

[recognizeanywhere]

Omg and there could be swings that are caticorns?!

[recognizeanywhere]

Also

I would be willing to help @taylorswift design stuff for it 💓

Other ideas:

Getaway bumper cars

Mirror Gorgeous Maze

White Horse Merry-GO-Round

End Game Karaoke

Dance Dance Taylor Evolution

4th of July Water Slide

[pnwswiftie]

AN END GAME ARCADE

[builtafireswift]

AND there can be a mini movie place where people go like if it’s too hot and it’s just the tour movies on repeat

[abbieswiftie]

AND THERE CAN BE A POOL THAT YOU JUMP FROM THE BALCONY INTO

[theothersideofthedoor13]

AND FOR A IDSB RIDE COULD THERE BE LIKE FIRE AND STEAM AS YOU GO UP A BIG HILL AND ON THE WALLS IT SAYS THEYRE BURNING ALL THE WITCHES ON THE SIDE

[missswiftie7]

I AM LIVING FOR THIS THREAD AND THESE IDEAS. Should def be called wonderland. Can we make this happen @taylorswift @taylornation 💯💯💯💯💯💯

[reputaytertot-deactivated202107]

And a water themed ride with ‘I think I am finally clean’ at the end

[pnwswiftie]

Me reading all of your beautiful ideas and wanting every single one of them to come to life oh my god

[meetmein-the-afterglow]

I Know Places scavenger hunt where you find little foxes throughout the water park and if you get a picture with all of them you get a prize

A 13 minute long firework show called Sparks Fly because it is so captivating

[9tay8tay9]

I want to live there please

[longlive94]

A theme park???!!!! Sign me up!🤗❤️

[pnwswiftie]

@taylorswift @taylorswift @taylorswift @taylorswift

[labhaoisec]

@taylorswift

[speakredswift]

This slope is TREPcherous,
This outfit took ages
This slope is TREPcherous,
I hope Tay likes it ❤️

@taylorswift
@taylornation 
For my tour costume I recreated the Treacherous tour outfit and combined it with the rep mountain outfit to make TREPCHEROUS

There is about 1000 gems through the outfit, which had to be individually stuck down and they keep falling off 😩

So why did I choose this?

My first ever concert was the Red tour.
Younger me was mesmerised by it. Everything about the tour was incredible. The stage,the lights, the outfits, the dancers, the band, the set list and TAYLORRRRR

So far the red tour was the best day of my life! (Rep tour you could be taking reds spot 😂)

So I wanted to include that in my tour costume and sign! First I came up with the sign, I think @taylorswift would appreciate the pun and it matches the outfit well! sign coming later this week! 😂

And then after a very long time going through pretty much every outfit Taylor has ever worn, I decided to do the treacherous outfit with a reputation twist :) So Taylor!! Hopefully you are reading this :) I’m so looking forward to seeing you on June 22nd at Wembley stadium!

@taylorswift @taylornation

Please tag Taylor and Taylor nation!!

[speakredswift]

@taylorswift @taylornation

[butthislcveisours]

@taylorswift @taylornation LOOK AT THIS OMG

[amelielovestaylor]

@taylorswift @taylornation PLEASE PLEASE LOOK AT THIS

[amelielovestaylor]

@taylorswift

[labhaoisec]

@taylorswift @taylornation

[labhaoisec]

Finally a real life visual representation of what I see in my head when Tay hits that high note. 💥 📷: me