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taylor literally meets hundreds of fans but she still tries as hard as she can to genuinely remember faces, names & i just can’t believe how lucky we are to have someone who cares about us that much

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Do you know what kind of filter taylor us using?

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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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After countless years we haven't seen each other

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I was told to calm down

but

how can I calm down ?

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Gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj  TaylorSwift.lnk.to/YNTCDTu

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@taylorswift flying like a Macaw

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There are definitely moments when it’s like this cloud of an idea comes and just lands in front of your face, and you reach up and grab it. A lot of songwriting is things you learn, structure, and cultivating that skill, and knowing how to craft a song. But there are mystical, magical moments, inexplicable moments when an idea that is fully formed just pops into your head. And that’s the purest part of my job. It can get complicated on every other level, but the songwriting is still the same uncomplicated process it was when I was 12 years old writing songs in my room.

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Taylor Swift and her pride outfit for Wango Tango 2019

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This is your teacher excitedly call you for a recitation

And this is you prentending to be excited that you've been called but actually nervous

'cause you don't know the answer

And you got no choice but to give your teacher this answer

And this is your teacher after you gave that answer

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the 123 let’s go bitch tonight was literally louder than any of the times that the other artists held their mics out and tried to get the audience to scream their actual lyrics i feel basdfkasdljfsa she’s an icon  

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When Spelling Isn't fun anymore

when you did something bad and it feels good

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Me watching taylor's performance tonight: oh! That would be a good meme

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Taylor made a lot of meme reference tonight

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Like mother like daughter

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Taylor represent us all of our facial reactions and gestures when we are singing her song but IKYWT wouldn't be complete without this

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ask me if i’m okay… (i’m not)