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flower-swift

how i sleep at night knowing we were right all this time and now we have the receipts to prove it

tayloswift

Taylor Swift arriving at 2019′s Billboard Women in Music

taylorswifh

Happy 30th B-Tay Taylor Swift!

taylorswift

WHO DID THIS 🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭💗💗💗

youlivewithgoats-blog

“I wish that no one ever waited 4 hours to text you back when you know they’re holding their phone. It’s rude. I wish no one ever messed with your head, and I wish no one ever gave you mixed signals. I wish when you asked somebody “do you wanna be with me?” they never ever said “I don’t know.” I wish they only ever told you yes or no because you deserve to know the truth.”

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Taylor Swift

Clean Speech, 1989 world tour, Hyde Park 6/27

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taylor having a meeting with all of the writers on speak now

queen-olivia-benson

opening up to people= exposing how much you actually love taylor swift

irishreputation13

Can I go where you GOOOOOOOO

tiedwithswift-blog

That's myself reading all about the secret sessions while I'm on my couch trying not to cry.

theonethingshedidright

im screaming

stunningtaylor

LMAO @taylorswift

itwasntasingle

You can't spell disappointment without men

dressuplikehipsters

remember that time i accidentally let taylorswift see my background on my phone in club red and it was this

and she was all “oh my god let me see that”

and i was all “fuck fuck fuck”

then she just turned to me and looked me dead in the eyes and said “we were”

seleniftie

Still the best thing ever.

angelofcities

good afternoon i hope people who don’t keep up with taylor as much as we do + those who don’t necessarily like her music understand that this goes WAY deeper than taylor owning her own music. it’s someone who gave her a chance to reach her dream rip it right out of her hands. it’s two (maybe more?) men discrediting her success because they feel threatened by her power. it’s people who stabbed her in the back when all she wanted to do was make music and do something she loved, AND have something to show for it.

it’s so much more than “i don’t really like taylor’s music.” it’s women in this industry being treated unfairly and it doesn’t matter how “big” of an artist you are. women have come a long way but we still have far to go.

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