The day Taylor sees the Grammy I made for RED is the day I can die happily

THE KINDNESS OF YOU DOING THIS

taylor puts so much effort into every tiny detail in everything that she does & that’s one of the things that has made her so successful. she has never done anything halfway - from driving around and giving cookies out to radio stations who played her songs to adding hidden easter eggs in her music videos to having a 110 foot tall screen on her stadium tour, filled with the most stunning visuals - she’s never failed to put her whole heart into her work

sunshine

yes

LIT

Just a little reminder ♡

☘reblog for good luck☘

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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WE ARE TRULY THE LEAST CALM ABOUT THIS! You Need To Calm Down video comes out tomorrow at 8:15am ET 😍

Taylor’s new album arrives on August 23rd! #PreorderLover NOW 👉 taylorswift.lnk.to/LoverTu

ellen literally asked taylor if she left an easter egg during the interview but ELLEN WAS THE EASTER EGG i’m screaming

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Thank you for such a wonderful experience @entertainmentweekly - I loved getting to shoot with Peggy Sirota and talk with Alex Suskind (yep I said it, I did an actual interview with a human journalist!! 🎉) Wanted to rep as many things/people I love on the jacket 💗 and more in the interview. Hair by Riawna Capri -Make up by Brett Freedman and styling by Joseph Cassell

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today’s mood board

YUP YEP YES UH HUH

I am -

WTF IM DEAD

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT

TAYLOR WTFG