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are people going to stop calling a woman standing up for herself a temper tantrum. WHEN

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SO PROUD OF HOW STRONG YOU ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. Thank you for being the shining light that you are. I pray in time you will have the opportunity to own YOUR work.

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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Had to get both obviously... this is double dare 😍

Let the games BEGIN.

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I casually reference Taylor swift in every single conversation and people are like what

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straight up.

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she stepped into the daylight ✨🥂💫🐥

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‪how does everything just magically add up to 13 who is making that happen‬

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“je suis calme” merchandise? would love to see it. super relatable for someone who is stressed 24/7

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Going from, “got a long list of ex loverS” to being so happy that she’s naming a whole album after her only Lover is a real glow up.

@taylorswift @taylornation

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Okay but like... she said they hid clues about new music IN THE MURAL. What if there actually is something behind it??

@taylorswift what are your thoughts?

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I am -

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happy ts7 eve ✨

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Step into the daylight and let it go…

@taylorswift @taylornation

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So if I don’t get to meet @taylorswift, my cause of death will be “died from lack of meeting Taylor Swift” and then it will go viral and my sister will get to meet her... fml.

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My boyfriend and I met online. I swiped right because he listed Taylor Swift as one of his favorite artists. So far it has worked out! 😂

@wineandqueso

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Now we just need the ducks in sunglasses. Don’t let them near the foosball table 😳

4.26

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Announcer- “How long have you been an islanders fan?”

Me- “My brother dragged me here—but pre order reputation on iTunes.”