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AHHH I FORGOT THAT YOU EXISTED SASSSSS I LOVE IT

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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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“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won’t hurt so badly.”

— Jenny Han, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

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He asked me, “why are you so scared?”

And I hesitated for a moment on how to answer him, “I don’t know.”

But in my mind I knew exactly why. I was scared that the more I let him in, the harder it’s going to be when he leaves.

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Sometimes I think too much and fear that he’ll one day wake up and decide not to love me anymore

-A.A.

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Be careful, my heart is like a locker room, you can’t get out once you’re in and only i have the key.

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It’s so hard to believe that tonight will be the last time we wear these costumes, play this set list, do this choreography, and then say goodbye to the Reputation Stadium Tour. Thank you to the crowds that have lit up our year. We do this last one for all of you. ❤️ PS make sure to scream loud for Maria Wada and Maho Udo tonight!! Their families are here and this is their hometown show 💥💥💥💥💥💥 📷: Jun Sato // Getty Images Entertainment 

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THANK YOU TAYLOR FOR REPUTATION WORLD TOUR ❤️

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Amen

i never want to hear anyone badmouthing the reputation era do y’all understand. from the start, she was that. bitch. taylors social media blackout? haunting. the snake videos? iconic. the first time you heard the old Taylor was dead? showstopping. THE LWYMMD VIDEO?? Yet to be topped. the monologue afterward?????????? w o w. ready for it? takes no prisoners. gorgeous? she’s cute but she’ll fuck you up too. call it what you want with all those cute personal videos?? call 911. when rep was released and Taylor was out in public for the 1st time in years and happy… what a week. the rep magazines are breathtaking and the poems will forever knock the wind out me. 

then the first night of the rep tour when we all were hopping from one livestream to the next and then we all got stuck watching that one where the dude didn’t stop coughing? but then the girl on Instagram saved us? braver than any u.s marine. remember the chill down your spine when you realized Taylor combined nyd and long live? then bad blood and should've said no fucked up your mind a little? 1, 2, 3 let’s go bitch? if a man talks shit then i owe him nothing? suprise songs we’ve never heard performed live? taylor literally walking through the crowd? babe live? jesus loves you? thank you for treating me like a human being? karyn? why she disappeared visuals? ICONIC.

the rep era gave us Taylor on the TIMES magazine Silence Breakers cover. It gave us Taylor getting the love she always deserved. It gave us the Pride speech. The end to her political silence. Her meeting more fans than she ever has before. It gave us Taylor doing better than she ever was.

And she’s even more excited for the next chapter. 

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I was screaming, “long live the look on your face”

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𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖚𝖒 𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖗:  May 8, 2018 - November 21, 2018

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It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age. 

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hey if ur not from america get a blank map and just. fucking guess the states

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