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hold on to spinning around🌹| 19 | london

[taylorswift]

This album is very much a celebration of love, in all its complexity, coziness, and chaos. It’s the first album of mine that I’ve ever owned, and I couldn’t be more proud. I’m so excited that Lover is out NOW: taylorswift.lnk.to/Lover

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THAT’S IT. THAT’S THE POST. IT’S ALL THAT MATTERS.

[taylorswift]

Guys I’m so grateful for you, and for how much you love Lover. I’m overwhelmed with emotion and so proud of this album..and every time I think about how proud I am, I just can’t help but become so completely elated because.. this one is mine. 🥺😭💗 Gonna cherish this moment forever. Never gonna stop thanking you for it either.

[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

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Cat lady thirst trap

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I’ve been the archer

I’ve been the prey

Who could ever leave me darling…

But who could stay?

taylorswift.lnk.to/TheArcherTu

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What if I’m alright right here?

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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.

[taylorswift]

My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. All’s well that ends well, to end up with you. 💙

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Wanted to thank Abby Aguirre for writing such a thoughtful piece and for diving into my pastel cryptic world of hints, Easter eggs, and numerology. We also talked about sexism, equality, and all things Lover. I ate an entire cheese plate by myself. On stands soon-ish.

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💘

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I’d be a fearless leader. I’d be an alpha type.

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Threw a party to celebrate with the people who made the ME! & YNTCD videos with me- and we had so much fun that ‘Drunk Taylor’ is trending on Twitter. CHEERS. 😆🍾👍👏

[behindsthemall]

alright taylor time to define “meow” as an adjective and you sure as fuck can’t use google for this one

[taylorswift]

Ok I got this one *rolls up sleeves*

Meow - {meeee-yowwww} noun adverb verb or (as seen tonight on the teen choice awards) an adjective.

Noun form: A feline greeting. Can be used to express ‘throw treats 2 me’, ‘turn on the faucet and let me have a fancy waterfall drink’ ‘Help I’m lost in a house I’ve lived in for my whole fuzzy life’ or ‘IM AWAKE AT 4AM SO YOU HAVE TO BE AWAKE AT 4AM’ ‘I’m judging your outfit and I hate it’ or ‘TONIGHT WE STAMPEDE FOR NO REASON’

For small kitten version of ‘meow’, see ‘mew’

Other common cat sounds include meeps, nyengs, mlems, grrrrs, mows and eeeeeeeps.

Meow as an adjective = basically when something is just catty in nature or aesthetic. ‘Your eye liner is so meow.’ Because it’s cat eye liner. That leather body suit is very meow. Because your friend is dressed as cat woman for Halloween. Meow also doubles for ‘cute’. Cause cats are CUTE. For use in dramatic situations or ‘cat fights’ per say, see ‘hiss’. ‘They really tried to come for me and it was all very hiss.’

Can be used as an adverb when interchanged with the word ‘now’

As in..

Time to go to bed meow.

[ssparksfly]

you painted me golden ✨