•lover august 23•

— i like boys and em dashes. dancing with my hands tied, while my heart remains breakable, but never by the same hand twice —

[cellphonehippie]

Passed down like folk songs The love lasts so long

seven, Taylor Swift (2020)

insp

[solitudeisfine]

learning how to code my first app: the basics! hbd, @taylorswift!

i hope this decade will be your most prolific yet. *insert baby yoda emoji here*

[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

[solitudeisfine]

aftermath: i guess we all know who broke THE instagram...,.,...,.,,.

[solitudeisfine]

so wait a second???? ‘you re my person’ being mentioned in her recent favourite film and on the jacket pin!! god i just love her i wanna see her happy forever—

now go watch Someone Great on Netflix, dir. Jennifer Robinson, because all I can say is: IT SCREAMS TAYLOR SWIFT and it’s also a really beautiful and poetic movie about the art of letting go, the joy of heartbreaking love and making mistakes and having fun at the same time!! gosh

[taylorswift]

This is Benjamin Button. He’s a good boy.

taylorswift.lnk.to/MEtu/youtube

[solitudeisfine]

GUYS I FOUND THE TS7 EASTER EGGS!🦋

[solitudeisfine]

*cries in butterfly* 🦋😭🦋😭

[solitudeisfine]

does anyone feel the need to marry right now so they can kindly ask taylor to sing king of my heart for them or is it just me???

[solitudeisfine]

and this is the moment we knew she’s gonna kill it with Cats alongside Idris, Jennifer and Tom Hopper. this woman i swear—

[helpmeholdontoyoux]

Reblog this while you still can.

[solitudeisfine]

having a how-many-taylor-videos-can-you-watch-in-a-day on my birthday while she sings i know places in tokyo at the second to last show of the rep tour, huh... it really is one of my best birthday so far, isn’t it isn’t it isn’t it? boop

[solitudeisfine]

1, 2, 3 LET’S GO DRINK

we sure had fun trying to sing don’t blame me last night. @taylorswift, thank you for taking us to church, ily

[newsoundtrxck]

I still can’t believe Taylor plays dancing with our hands tied acoustically on tour?? It just gives a whole different vibe to the song and the lyrics stand out so much more?? I didn’t think I could love this song even MORE, but when everything else is gone, it just really shows how well-written that song actually is? +++ it shows how her songs don’t need a lot to be good, like actually good. And her VOICE?? Oh my GOD? It’s just so soothing and pretty, I could literally talk about this for hours, but just know I cry every time I think about this

[solitudeisfine]

petition™ to be included in reputation (Deluxe) i’ll cry

[newsoundtrxck]

A drink for each AMA she won last night

[1989badblood13]

@taylorswift

[jayylovestayy]

but you could make me a drink @taylorswift

[state-of-swift89]

1 2 3

[delikateswift-blog]

LETS GO BITCH

[ts1989fanatic]

@taylorswift

[enchanted-wonderstruck-deactiva]

I am so on board for this photoset @taylorswift. 

[hauntedcats13]

Taylor: I’m even more excited for the next chapter

Me:

[solitudeisfine]

all we had to do was stay and support her and we did so why is no one talking about/requesting ayhtdws as a possibly legit b stage surprise song for the next internatinal tour dates tho¿?

[phew i can finally go to sleep now, thanks for coming to my ted talk xo]