kate13swift

[kate13swift]

I hear you. ❤️

The hurt is real 😭

@taylorswift @taylornation

FOR TAYLOR RE: TICKETMASTER LOVER FEST PRESALE

Taylor, there’s a lot of VERY VALID and IMPORTANT POSTS being made right now that I STRONGLY agree with and think you should listen to! I’m just making this so you can get the full backstory in one concise place. Click “keep reading”.

Keep reading

[kate13swift]

Taylor Swift: LoverFest

All I have to say is what a disappointment. I live in Canada and I’m a huge fan of swift and have been since she came out with Teardrops On My Guitar in 2006; I’ve been a Swiftie ever since. I’ve always relied on TicketMaster to buy all of my concert tickets, (despite their processing fee, facility charge and service fee they charge on every ticket) and liked the idea of #VerifiedFan ticket purchasing. During Taylor’s reputation era, I thought collecting all of the “Boosts” was a fun way of collecting points to increase yourself on the priority list when purchasing your tickets. I made sure I did everything I could to increase my chances and ended up scoring great floor seats when it came to reputation pre-sale. HOWEVER, LoverFest was completely different. I got my e-mail telling me I have “Preferred Priorty Access” and did everything I needed to score my spot in line, I joined the TicketMaster “waiting room” as soon as it opened, and waited until 4pm PT for tickets to start selling. Since I live in Canada, I planned a trip for my sister and I to fly to Los Angeles, go to LoverFest and stay for a few days - it would be the first trip with my sister and she happens to be a die-hard Swiftie as well. It was perfect! I calculated a budget for flights, AirBnB (accommodations), Uber/cab fare, food, shopping expenses and of course the tickets. I figured if we’re flying to a different country to see the one and only Swift, I wasn’t going to settle for nose-bleed seats, I wanted the best of the best. My sister and I were aiming for Pit-Access but would take as close as we could get, depending on where I stood in line for tickets. When tickets went on sale, I watched my screen count down from 2000+ people for almost a full hour before I was able to purchase mine. Pit seats were already gone, closest seats to the stage were row 26 at the top of the heart shape. Okay, whatever - still not bad. As I go to order, my screen is telling me to “sit tight, we are securing your verified tickets” and just showing a loading icon. The whole TicketMaster website was extremely slow, which I can understand judging by how many people were buying tickets, but seriously? Next thing you know, I get booted off my loading screen and I’m back to the Ticket Master home page. At this point I’m LIVID and crying. I go back to wait in line .. AGAIN, by this time all of the floor seats are gone. I called my sister in tears because we lost the tickets that TicketMaster were supposed to be “securing” for me. I’m just so disappointed. So now we’re not going. I go online and I see all of these happy Swifties excited for LoverFest and I wish I could join that excitement, but instead I’m sad and angry. I probably sound ungrateful or whatever but I just cannot bring myself to spend all that money to fly, stay in LA to be up in nose-bleed section and barely see Taylor. I’m 28 years old with a full time job in the medical field. I cannot justify going to that extreme, spending all that money if I get mediocre seats, you know? It was a “go big or go home” idea for me and now I guess I’m staying home. I really wish that TicketMaster’s website was more reliable and wasn’t so glitchy, otherwise I would have been another happy & excited Swiftie, but today I’m not, just disappointed. 😢😭

@taylorswift @taylornation

[kate13swift]

‘ Wtf is happening TicketMaster Verified Fan?!Been waiting to “secure” my verified tickets for 10min now. ‘

This was me last night.

[kate13swift]

you deserve to own the art you make.

[kate13swift]

A man who has never shown support for Taylor is about to own 98% of her discography.

The six albums she’s released. The soundtrack singles. The unreleased music.

Let me remind you what the 6 albums of Taylor Swift contains.

Self-titled was about growing up, going through hard changes and figuring out who you were. Love songs, breakup songs, songs about bullies, eating disorders, and just trying to figure out how the world works.

Fearless was about no worrying about the past and to just keep believing in a new future. It’s about change, it’s about evolution, it’s about turning yourself into a stronger person by reflecting your past.

Speak Now was about being a hopeless romantic. Being in the honeymoon phase all the time; getting the rush of being in love at such a young age. Speak Now was about speaking up for yourself, whether it was confessing love or defending yourself when getting torn down, and slowly diving into the pool of romance.

Red was about heartbreak, and figuring out life after it. It’s about reflection and dealing with the self-deprivation of “what did I do wrong?” during a break up. It’s about figuring out who you are and that heartbreak doesn’t define you.

1989 is about remembering who you are, and falling in love again after being afraid to. It’s about enjoying the small things, and just having fun. To not stress about hate. To not dwell on the what if’s. It’s about starting over, mending your past and finally accepting who you are.

Reputation is about keeping ahold of who you are. It’s about realizing that you’re worth so much more than what people say about you, that you have people who care about you who don’t care about your reputation, and that even in the lowest of your time, you can always rise above.

Taylor Swift is a songwriter, she has written/co-written every single one of her songs. These albums are her storybooks. Each album tells a different era of her life. Now, she doesn’t have the rights to her stories. The stories she’s been telling since 2006. Not to mention, the person who DOES have the rights doesn’t care about Taylor — just about how much certain songs sell.

This isn’t right. This isn’t fair. Taylor, I’m sending all of my love to you. You will rise above this. I know that, because you taught me so.

@taylorswift it’ll be okay.

[kate13swift]

#WeStandWithTaylor

[kate13swift]

LOL

HSKDJSKSKS

[kate13swift]

[kate13swift]

CHER’S TWEET IM FUCKING LOSING MY MINDDDDDD ARE YOU KIDDING ME

[kate13swift]

#WESTANDWITHTAYLOR

PERIOD

[kate13swift]

Chin up @taylorswift, we’ll always have your back. Can’t wait for August 23rd! Xo

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

[kate13swift]

YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN!! @taylorswift @taylornation

[kate13swift]

Bringing @taylorswift into surgery with me. @taylornation

[kate13swift]

Such a fun project! @imreadyforittay Thank you letting me be a part of it!! We all love & support you @taylorswift !💕 @taylornation

Less than one day now! I didn’t exect there be so many people who wanted to send in their photos holding up 1 finger to celebrate one day to go until the countdown ends! Thank you to all 219 of you who sent me their photo! I hope Taylor gets to see your amazing faces on here and how excited we all are for the new era of TS7! Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to be involved and please feel free to tag @taylorswift and @taylornation like crazy so they too can see amazing you all are! Go over to my Instagram too and like and tag Tay over there too!!!! 💗

[kate13swift]

ONE DAY LEFT UNTIL 4.26 ✨ we can do this Swifties!!!! 💕🦋 @taylorswift @taylornation

[kate13swift]

Checking out the Taylor Swift filters - both old and new. 😍💖 @taylorswift @taylornation. Sorry I’m such a goofball. 🤓

[kate13swift]

I KNOW I WASN’T THE ONLY ONE THAT STAYED UP FOR THIS SCREENSHOT AND THE NEW FILTER.. 😂😍 @taylorswift @taylornation