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My mother and I are raging over this. I supported Scooter and his team for years. No more.

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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✌🏼 Friday calmness ✌🏼

@taylorswift

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@taylorswift the irony.

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IM: SCARED

Going live tomorrow on Instagram at 5pm ET 😁

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THANKS TAY

What if the reason she hasn’t given us the album title yet is because this isn’t the lead single…

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HE IS SO HANDSOME. LOOK AT HIS EYES, WOW

This is how he prefers to travel.

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don’t mind ME! ... it all happened so fast.

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oh, don’t mind ME!

@taylorswift @taylornation

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i just audibly said “NO” out loud. no one strikes fear in my heart like @taylorswift. i love it so much.

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BRENDON

Brendon talking about Taylor Swift’s countdown (April 24th, 2019)

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gorgeous shirt, check.

thank you for the pretty filters, @taylorswift 🌸✨🦋🌈

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DONT PLAY TAYLOR

I am -

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but we been knew

CRYPTICALLY PLANNING FOR MONTHS?? TAYLOR HAS REALLY BEEN GOING ALL OUT FOR US I LOVE HER💗

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i’m listening to Hey Stephen and a new picture is posted that tells us NOTHING so what’s new?

4.26

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i’ll just be crying, thanks

“Hi guys, I’m Taylor! It’s nice to see you all! That’s the understatement of the century…I’m so honored to perform for this room of such incredible, influential human beings. Thank you so much for wanting to be there while I’m here, doing this. Thank you so much again to TIME Magazine for doing this. It’s really wondeful. Every year this edition comes out, I read it cover to cover, and just having read the stories of the people who are here tonight, I am so honored to be here tonight. […] You are by all definition of the thing changing the world in so many different ways and all the different reasons you are in the magazine and in the room tonight….you have been working at those things for your whole lives probably. And it’s just really cool to be in a room where you’re honored, and I’m honored to be with you, it’s just a whole honor thing. (laughs) Thanks guys. Thank you. I think the reason why I would be on the list is because of the things I write, predominantly songs, occasionally open-ended letters, the odd length instagram caption…but mostly it’s songs. And for me, writing, I’ve always known that it was the main pillar holding up my career and I’ve always known it was the main pillar of my sanity as well. And I’ve always looked at writing as a sort of protective armor which is weird because you’re writing about your life, it’s very vulnerable. But I think that when you write about you’re life it gives you the ability to process your life, and I used it as a way of justifying the things that happen to me whether they’re good or bad […] I first started writing when I was 12, and I’d be at school and I’d have a bad day and nobody would talk to me and I’d sit and think, no, it’s okay, when I get home I’m gonna write a song about this, and maybe I’ll feel okay. This day sucked, but it was worth it. And, um, I love my job and I love that I get to write and I love that so many women came before me […] I think that one of my favorite things about female writers, about writers in general, people who take what happens to them and put it out into the world, is if you write, you can turn your lessons into your legacy. So I’m just really happy to get to do this.”

-Taylor Swift, roughly transcribed by @friendlyneighborhoodpegacorn

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Taylor. You didn’t. 🥺✨💕🌸

— Martha Hunt’s Instagram story

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okay okay okay okay okay okay

OKAY

i’m just gonna light myself on fire real quick

we’ll talk later