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Happy 30th B-Tay Taylor Swift!

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WHO DID THIS 🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭💗💗💗

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Don’t know what else to do

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

Taylor

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taylor will never do anything as funny or iconic as this ever again

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this will never be lived down in the fandom

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we will never let this go I hope you know that @taylorswift

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This was the day I learned fire is hot. 🤦‍♀️

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What if I’m alright right here?

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@taylorswift let me know if you’re interested! my manager will be in contact :D

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Sometimes the internet is bad but in this moment it is truly good.

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This morning’s news

My heart hurts so much after reading Taylor’s open letter about Scooter Braun. The fact that one man could go so out of his way to try to destroy one young woman shouldn’t surprise me given the fact that this women is Taylor Swift.

And above all Taylor Swift is grossly mistreated by not only the public, but her also her peers.

Ya’ll love to talk shit about Taylor and how she’s a spoiled white brat, but let me ask you something? Why? Why do you hate her?

“Well the Kimye thing!”

You mean when Kanye West made a sexist song using derogatory language and punished Taylor Swift for it? You mean when he created a naked sculpture of her to humiliate and embarrass her?

“But she doesn’t do anything for gay people! She’s a fake ally! She doesn’t use her platform for good! She’s appropriating gay culture!”

This argument has been my favorite over the last month, because are we sure we’re talking about the same Taylor Swift? Because it seems as though everyone who has been saying this is very conveniently trying to ignore Taylor’s equality act Petition, which has been signed by not one, but two 2020 presidential candidates and has been sent to the white house for Congress to review. They also seem to forget how many LGBTQ+ POC starred in her last music video and their remarks how it was the most inclusive loving set, where they were felt not only safe, but celebrated. (Also I’m bi, so this isn’t coming from a straight person)

And there are countless other remarks and arguments as to why Taylor Swift is the devil incarnate and I could sit here and debunk all of it, but I urge you to ask yourself why? Why are you obsessed with putting down a powerful woman who has only ever used her platform for good?

This morning’s news has only reenforced what I’ve always known deep down inside. Taylor’s power and her success is intimidating to men in “power”. It intimidated Kanye, S***t, Sc**ter, and all the other people who have constantly tried to put her down.

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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,

💔

Taylor

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A happy meal 🍔 🍟 💗

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Just like my life, this video was co-executive produced by Todrick 😸

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Some of us had champagne on set and it shows 🥂

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my whole family is a swiftie family and at our family reunions, we jam to @taylorswift!! 🌈🦋💓 @taylornation

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I WATCHED THIS FIVE TIMES ALREADY!!!! The choreography! The lyric memorization! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 13 standing ovations 4 u

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when someone just won't calm the hell down

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YUP that’s the face 💁‍♀️

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Seriously can we just ADDRESS THIS because I’m CACKLING?? Is it a statement??? Are her arms just warm?? There’s no need to decide. what a 2000’s icon™️

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this has the same energy as that one episode of glee when brittany wears leg warms on her arms because she forgot it was winter and wore a tank top and her arms got cold

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Omg YES??????? The good ol’ Leg Warmers For Cold Arms™️??? Of course.

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its the same photo hldhfgsdfg

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Also, I love that she’s standing IN HER WARDROBE wearing this, like out of the 2000’s context, historians will think this is some kind of teenage makeover attempt where she tried to make her own sleeves

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‘When you’re 15 and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them’

But when you’re 16, you wear arm warmers with cowboy boots cause you DGAF

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

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This was my prime. This was it.

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Like can you just not…

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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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hey uhhhh @taylorswift not to question you but you do know there’s a leaked concept that you and katy dress as fries and a burger and kiss. you do know that’s dumb, right? please tell me you know it’s dumb

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also this isn’t me making jokes or anything. if there is indeed a scene like that, you need to cut it right now before it airs because it’s genuinely a really bad idea. seriously.

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in case y’all are confused as to where i got this information!

taylorswift

Guys. That is ABSOLUTELY false. To be an ally is to understand the difference between advocating and baiting. Anyone trying to twist this positivity into something it isn’t needs to calm down. It costs zero dollars to not step on our gowns. 💗✌️