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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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*Meanwhile, on Twitter

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So, during the recent Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival, someone made two lanterns, one depicting Popuko and the other Pipimi, wich got quite the spotlight

Look at them go

Together

Unstoppable

And then, in a dramatic turn of events, one of the lamps combusted

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So, Gentiana is not Shiva, but her messenger?

So let’s talk a little about lovely, lovely Gentiana. Most of this is not new, but there is some very interesting information contained in her profile that explains a bit about what we see in the Ultimania. 

A beautiful apostle sent by the gods who keeps watch on the side of the Six. One of the twenty apostles used as apostles/messengers to the gods. 

“I visited Tenebrae when Luna Nox Fleuret was born, and stayed close to her like a shadow since then. Although my appearance/existence is supernaturally that of a persons appearance, I have little direct interference with society. I will reach out to the King of Lucis with Luna. I will appear everywhere Noctis goes and show him the way.”

So of course, as usual– this is written from a lore-in-game standpoint, however the game makes a huge point of telling us that it’s only the Oracle and the King of Lucis that can understand the gods. Gentiana on the other hand can be understood by most of our major cast. This is theory, but I suspect Gentiana was more than just Shiva, and her body is something of a housing for Shiva as one of her original servants/apostles. 

That being said, Ardyn does state “the face you wore the day you died” therefore, Gentiana has died and can be nothing other than Shiva herself– no matter if it is a housing for her (possession) or not. 

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The Dravanian Forelands Aesthetics

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The Holy See of Ishgard Aesthetics. Enjoy :)

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Eorzean Aesthetics - Coethas

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Eorzean Aesthetics - Thanalan

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Real Life Disney Villains, by Jirka Vinse Jonatan Väätäinen

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Exclusive: Preview the Arrowverse crossover

On the bright side, things look SUPER on The CW! We’ve got the scoop on the EPIC upcoming crossover starring The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow and dozens more!

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