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Taylor Swift attends the Republic Records MTV VMA 2022 after party at the Fleur Room in Chelsea on August 29, 2022 in New York City.

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I’ve got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you

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Taylor Swift photographed by Angelo Pennetta for LOVE Magazine Issue #2, 2009

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It’s a love story, baby, just say “Yes”.

lover was released on one of the worst nights of my life lmao but good god I am so obsessed w that masterpiece of an album

#taylor swift #reptour #lover #lover ts

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People are making eloquent posts articulating their thoughts on the album and analysing lyrics and im here like,,,

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HE GOT MY HEART *CLAP* BEAT *SCREAMS* SKIPPING DOWN 16TH AVENUE *AGGRESSIVELY SHUFFLES* I GOT THAT UH *THROWS HEAD BACK* I MEAN *FLIPS TABLE* WANNA SEE WHATS UNDER THAT ATTITUDE LIKE *DOES THE HOKEY POKEY* I WANT YOU *JUMPS IN AIR* BLESS MY SOUL *PUNCHES AIR CONTINUOUSLY* AND I AINT GOTTA TELL HIM *NODS TO BEAT* I THINK HE KNOWS *WHIPLASH* I THINK HE KNOWS *COLLAPSES*

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What if I’m alright right here?

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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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If you’re a republican and i’ve made you feel welcome on my blog please know from the bottom of my heart that is not my intention so you better yeet yourself off my blog thanks