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Clau | Chile | 23 | ✨Taylor Swift ✨

[swiftie-clau]

I love you and your music, I stand with you and I’m so proud of you. HAPPY 30th BIRTHTAY TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💝🎉🎁🍰✨ @taylorswift https://www.instagram.com/p/B6B928cnbm4/?igshid=1n7uflgbcmviv

[swiftie-clau]

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That last “my”’s vibratto GIVES ME LIFE!!!! 💖✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rk2GonlQt/?igshid=t3k4ysqkajug

[ivebeenthearcher]

I’m so sick of running as fast as I can wondering if I’d get there quicker if was a man...

[swiftie-clau]

Please @taylorswift @taylornation just let us know the rest of the tour dates before october 22 🙏🏼✨ #Lover #taylorswiftbrasil2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B22e7JvH6ZZ/?igshid=10fdgxykyx776

[thebesttayever]

You have no idea how much it means to us that you’re finally coming to Brazil, thank you so much, you’re making our dreams come true! We love you!!! Can’t wait to see you 💘 @taylorswift @taylornation

[swiftie-clau]

😭

[swiftie-clau]

can’t quite believe this is real. #TaylorSwiftBrasil2020 @taylornation @taylorswift (en Allianz Parque) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hHjbfHDmf/?igshid=1t6b6xmdoxltj

[taylorswiftpdf]

🍂 RED prologue 🍂

[swiftie-clau]

There’s an old poem by Neruda that I’ve always been captivated by.

[swiftie-clau]

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This is how I learn and fall in love with every @taylorswift song, by doing covers 💖✨🌸 #daylight #lover https://www.instagram.com/p/B10HkK1HkZT/?igshid=1gur7zguxhyde

[tswiftsedits]

Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on August 26, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

[prettyslittlemind]

it’s my BIRTHDAY!! I’m 20!!!!! I love @taylorswift !!! I love Lover!!!! 💕✨🧚🏻‍♂️🌈 @taylornation

[taylorswift]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLOR 💗💗💗🌸🌸🌸💘💘💘💗💗💗🌸🌸

[swiftie-clau]

😭😭💖💖💖💖🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[itwasntasingle]

TAYLOR NATION IS PERFORMING TONIGHT

[tshifty]

so excited for them wow, what an amazing opportunity, they’ve come so far,

[taylorswift]

Taylor nation right now

[swiftie-clau]

😂😂😂😂😂

[swiftie-clau]

19.89 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZBpHInmwH/?igshid=1offsvdfadv1n

[swiftie-clau]

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Happy to see you smile, tonight will be awesome!! 💖👑💞 @taylorswift https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvkS48HDX9/?igshid=10rzpsf93w9rn

[swiftie-clau]

Happy to see you smile, tonight will be awesome!! @taylorswift 💖👑💞 https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvjsjYHRfe/?igshid=1g3qlcj5zy9f4

[swiftie-clau]

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Um.. get a good lawyer. Nothing else left to say. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzYvfuJHDY6/?igshid=14wqbsriwfju9

[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

[swiftie-clau]

SO MAD RIGHT NOW 😤

[swiftie-clau]

I’m obsessed with this photo. https://www.instagram.com/p/By83xyJneBI/?igshid=obwnhjz1fpmn