Wonderstruck

DCP Alum Fall 2016/Spring 2017 ••• Swiftie Since '06 ••• M.A. Theatre, Villanova University 2019 🏳️‍🌈

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My students (I teach high school) know what’s up… @taylorswift

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A saga for any Swiftie:

I ordered a Cardigan and vinyl of folklore from the Taylor Swift online store in August

FF to October - still no shipping confirmation. I email the store. Response: “oh those were preorders they’ll ship in November.” Sure, cool! Whatever I’m cool to wait a little bit longer.

November - order processes but never get a shipping confirmation. Just “your order is ready to ship” on UPS. Email again. No response until

December - “your order seems to be lost in the mail. Would you like a reshipment or refund?” Reshipment I say(duh).

Two days later from a different customer service rep (day evermore is announced): same email as previous BUT apparently now the Cardigan is out of stock...

Today: cardigan is back in stock on the website in my size but nobody is returning my emails...

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I’m elated to tell you that my 9th studio album, and folklore’s sister record, will be out tonight at midnight eastern. It’s called evermore. To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in. I’ve never done this before. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released. There was something different with folklore. In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales. I loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives. So I just kept writing them. And I loved creating these songs with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, WB, and Justin Vernon. We’ve also welcomed some new (and longtime) friends to our musical kitchen table this time around…

📷: Beth Garrabrant

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It’s so good. So good.

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Quality Monday Night: fiancée, kitten and I all watching the @taylorswift City of Lover Concert together ♥️💕♥️

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Just finished watching #MissAmericana and wow wow wow wow. My partner and I just keep singing “Only the Young” randomly back and forth across the apartment 😂

also. @taylorswift you’ve been my hero since I was 11 (I’m coming up on 26 😬) and no matter what you decide to do next, I’ll always be rooting for you.

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Wearing cat socks and listening to #ChristmasTreeFarm on repeat all day in order of the 30th birthday of @taylorswift ✨🎉

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@taylorswift this was the BEST way to start the weekend after my first full week as a high school Production Arts (design and tech for live shows!) teacher 💕💜💕💜💕

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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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Yaaaaaaas this twirl, dip and clink 👌🏻🏳️‍🌈🌟💕💜💙 @taylorswift

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Hayley Kiyoko in the #YNTCDvideo is a WHOLE DANG MOOD 🏳️‍🌈💕🌟 @taylorswift

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Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down (Lyric Video)

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Everyone please stand for the gays’ new national anthem, You Need To Calm Down.

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YAAAASSSS @taylorswift YAAAASSSS

Actual conversation between my girlfriend and I immediately after listening. I think I’ve officially converted her into a Swiftie...

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Showcase was AwesoME! @angelaroselongo and I coordinated @taylorswift style to celebrate 🎉 #awesome #me #taylorswift #gradschool #theatre #itwasMay13 (at Villanova Theatre) @taylornation
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxbX3thjJbA/?igshid=gnc31c90zqgq

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Just reiterating my Insta Post here because OH MY DAMN, @taylorswift

Thanks for the freaking best early 25th birthday present EVER

💖🌈🐣🎉

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Netflix marketing team: So for the poster, we were thinking-

Me: CAN YOU MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A ZOMBIE HUNTER

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🧟‍♀️🔥⚔️👌🏻MISSION. ACCOMPLISHED. @taylorswift

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a snake queen and a lesbian queen