Step Into The Daylight And Let It Go.

I’m Erica! 24, DPT class of ‘21, dog mom, coffee connoisseur. I’m heavy in the school so I’m not online a terrible amount, I love meeting new people and hearing new stories!

[swiftlyerica13]

Hey friends what is that gentleman yelling right before taylor plays Cornelia Street that makes her laugh??

[swiftful-thinking13]

it’s wild to watch the older footage because I experienced that in real time

[9tay8tay9]

THIS FANDOM IS INCREDIBLE 🥺❤️❤️

[rbhvleo]

[tswiftneedsyou]

Don’t Blame Me (2017)

[shedidntevenswear]

Relatable

[eldestshowgirl]

PERHAPS THE SPARKS FLY DRESS AND THE GIRL WHO WORE IT HAD A GLOW UP

[the-swiftie-scientist]

PERHAPS IM PROUD AND CRYING

[repu-kate-tion]

PERHAPS I CANT HANDLE THIS

[taylorswift]

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

[swiftlyerica13]

Oh hell no this will not stand no sir

[swiftlyerica13]

Hi hello it’s me Erica popping out from under the mountain of grad school because this new album stuff got me all excited

I really think that the amount of times the color “blue” is referenced in Lover can’t be a coincidence! It has to mean something!!!

[swiftlyerica13]

Guess who’s watching the voice this season it’s me I am

[sunhazeys]

u ever wake up from a dream like “damn i guess i’m not coping with THAT as well as i thought i was”

[hopeineverloseyou]

i love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard

[inkskinned]

the thing is, somebody cares. i know your best friend seems really busy all the time and is shit at texting but she still loves you and she talks to you more than she talks to anyone else and you’re the only breath of calm she has on this planet. the boy in your science class loves seeing what music you’re listening to on your headphones - he has the same taste and wishes he had the nerve to ask you about it. your english teacher loves the insight you have on your papers. somebody cares. the person who lives down the street from you notices when you are sick because they don’t see you stomping your way to the schoolbus - it’s how they know it’s time to get their breakfast ready. somebody is looking for you at the party, even if they don’t know they’re really looking for you - but when you don’t show up, some part of them is disappointed. somebody is looking for you in the library, in the spot where you eat lunch, in front of that one step you always seem to trip on. i know your parents are a complicated mess and there’s drama between your friends and your love life is sort of shaped like a constant question and everybody seems all caught up in their own lives and their own happiness and nobody really notices: but somebody always does. every face in your dreams is someone you have met, and that means that you are in a million’s stranger’s heads. they see you when they go to bed. and somebody cares. somebody still thinks about you even though you were just a person with a nice outfit or good eyeliner or a great smile or because you were having one of those moments that are so charmingly human in nature or because they regret not asking if you needed help when you fell or because they wonder what you were thinking about or drawing or writing or just because you’re alive, and that makes you fascinating. somebody cares. when you were on break from work and saw a dog hanging his head out of the car and suddenly broke into a smile: there was a girl in the back of that car, and I was her, and I still think about you, and i hope you get more chances to smile like that. and there is you, sitting here reading this, and by some small extension, meeting me, and i am telling you, I care. somebody always does. i promise. i promise. you are loved.

[swiftlyerica13]

This is just. Really nice.

[not-a-dryl]

Person: It’s only September. Stop with all the Halloween stuff.

Me:

[down-in-flames13-deactivated202]

it really be like that already swifties

[yikes-aubs-blog-deactivated2024]

september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. 

[only1ofme13]

People always ask me, what is your favorite @taylorswift song? It’s a hard question to answer, given there are so many beautifully written, raw, emotional pieces. But I️ finally have my answer... Thug Story, by Taylor Swift ft T Pain. A classic we must not forget.

[queen-olivia-benson]

ANNIE THIS IS AMAZING!!!!

[swiftlyerica13]

Honestly something I never knew I needed in my life until this moment

[swiftlyerica13]

SHE DID IT! YOU DID IT!!!!!