Tareq

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[tareq-shehab]

My poetry book Escapism is available on Amazon Kindle as an ebook now!!

The book explains different emotions in the style of poems. You can get it here: https://amzn.to/2SJ7UDd

“Adolescent Days” one of my favorite poems is attached to this post

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[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[deepthoughtsvibes-deactivated20]

I never thought I would say this but I miss my old self. I want to go back to the time when things were easier and I was free. Free from all the thoughts I have now. I guess my good days are over now and all I have are memories. Things were better then. I feel so sad when I thinking about the time. I am homesick for my old self.

(-deepthoughtsvibes)

[sa-dnesss]

[tareq-shehab]

Was it actually time?

Or were you too polite to say I wasn’t interesting enough?

[rabbruad1]

“You owe it to those who care for you to let them know what’s up with you.”

— Bruce Adler (via rabbruad1)

[deepthoughtsvibes-deactivated20]

I wonder who I would be if I wouldn’t have depression. I wonder where I would be if Anxiety wouldn‘t always win. It hurts to know that I could be someone else.

(-deepthoughtsvibes)

[stephenstilwell-deactivated2021]

“Did you lose yourself in the process of loving others first?”

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s.s. (stephenstilwell)

[stephenstilwell-deactivated2021]

“Don’t make me spend another night alone in this rotting, aching house.”

—

s.s. (stephenstilwell)

[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[maybenotboring]

sure, I don’t get a “healthy” amount of sleep like SOME PEOPLE do but can they do THIS *stands up, blacks out for a second*

[tareq-shehab]

2 weeks since lover came out and false god gets better literally everyday.

The production, lyrical content, metaphors, the way she says “I’m New York City” all are absolutely amazing.

20 years later when people come back to this album, false god will absolutely be timeless.

[imanightmar3]

[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

[tareq-shehab]

“You searched the world for something else to make you feel like what we had, and in the end in wonderland we both went mad”

@taylorswift ‘s wonderland will always be special