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Me practicing looking happy today at work given yesterday’s situation where the patriarchy tried to control/own Taylor Alison Swift.

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@taylorswift love you

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Me practicing looking happy today at work given yesterday’s situation where the patriarchy tried to control/own Taylor Alison Swift.

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@taylorswift love you

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we truly stan Meredith Blake in this house!!!!

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PICTURED: My exact facial expression when I realized, after racking my brain, that I simply couldn’t recall the last time someone told a MAN that he was having a “temper tantrum” after publishing thoughts regarding an industry injustice (where that man was considered an expert) on an online platform...anyone???

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@taylorswift deserves better.

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Ok WE DID NOT JUST STEP INTO THE DAYLIGHT for TWO MEN to RUIN this for us right now. No ma’am! @taylorswift this cannot be happening to you right now NOT IN THIS ERA I WILL NOT ALLOW IT

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So frustrated for her. Love love love you tay.

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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WE ARE SMARTER THAN YOUR LIES. @taylorswift

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SINGLEHANDEDLY TAKING DOWN THE PATRIARCHY AND ELIMINATING HATE with her weapon of choice AKA a WRITING UTENSIL and ELOQUENT WORDS @taylorswift

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POLITICAL TAYLOR IS THE BEST TAYLOR. DON’T TRY HER.

@taylorswift @taylornation

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“AND YOU CAN WANT WHO YOU WANT” - @taylorswift @taylornation #SIGNED

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SPOILER ALERT: NO ONE DID #ICONIC @taylorswift @taylornation

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IT WAS PERFECTION! AND IF THE FLYING DANCERS DID NOT REMIND YOU OF THESE FLYING FAIRY DOLLS FROM THE NINETIES THEN please don’t tell me because it means I’m old

@taylorswift @taylornation

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Lol I’m serious though send help @taylorswift

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Oh damn never seen that color blue

This is Benjamin Button. He’s a good boy.

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MY PARENTS, ladies and gentlemen. They are the MOST and they TRY. @taylorswift @taylornation #MEoutNOW

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@taylorswift: SPELLING IS FUN!

Spelling Bee Kids: *quaking*

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Honestly I’ve never felt closer to @taylorswift than when she said “spelling is fun” which is really on brand for me