TS7 WE’RE READY FOR IT🌸

Caroline | 22 | michigan | taylor fan since I was in elementary school and now I teach elementary | 6/11/11 Speak Now Tour Detroit, 5/4/13 Red Tour Detroit, 5/30/15 1989 Tour Detroit, 8/28/18 Rep Tour Detroit Just a girl waiting for her chance to meet Taylor

[ohisntdelicate]

"I will never change, but I'll never stay the same either. “

[falsegod]

[finding-wonderlaand]

I cannot stress this enough!!!! I literally have 10 followers on tumblr, never had/still don’t have any TN or Taylor notices, and was/still am a very small Twitter account! SHE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN! AND FIND YOU! AND MEET YOUR CUTE ANGELIC FACES ♥️ And that’s it.....that’s the tweet 👏🏽✌🏽

@taylorswift

[cruellesummer]

’Cause all of my enemies started out friends Help me hold on to you

[stateofgr8]

Me: *posts on here once a month*

Also me: dang why am I not invited to a secret session

[fiveholesinthefence]

2014-2019

[dancingtotaylorsbeat]

Everyone looks so happy in these!!

[ihearttaylorswift]

I love Taylor Alison Swift with all my rice krispie heart

[hopeineverloseyou]

are people going to stop calling a woman standing up for herself a temper tantrum. WHEN

[whisperingswift]

Now I understand the butterfly... she is literally free

[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

[sparksflys]

Lover is out in 50 days

[swiftie-stephanie]

This lady at Denny’s just told me that I need to calm down

[taylorswift]

This was my prime. This was it.

[onahistorybookpaige]

…the start of an age💗

[swiftslover]

my tumblr name wins

[taylorswift]

AHEAD OF HER TIME!!!!!

[taylorswift]

Lover, album out August 23. Cover shot by the artistic genius that is Valheria Rocha 💗 Pre-add, pre-save, pre-order (all the pre stuff you feel like doing) Can’t wait for you to hear this. taylorswift.lnk.to/LoverTu

[jessicaswiftie1989-deactivated2]

Taylor broke Instagram this is so funny

[taylorswift]

I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. 😂