This album is very much a celebration of love, in all its complexity, coziness, and chaos. It’s the first album of mine that I’ve ever owned, and I couldn’t be more proud. I’m so excited that Lover is out NOW: taylorswift.lnk.to/Lover

scott borchetta is comparing the uniqueness of the mona lisa to taylor’s albums, suggesting that you should not buy remastered copies of them. does he realize that he never wrote or sang any of taylor’s songs, therefore her music is NOT his original work..?

Calling Taylor Swift a fucking substitute for Taylor Swift is just...ridiculous. I almost pity him for this pathetic attempt.

So basically he’s saying Taylor shouldn’t remake all of her old albums because they won’t be as popular or as talked about as they were when they were originally made?? Does he not understand that we’re in this to support her? Idc if I’ve heard Back to December 100 different ways on a hundred different albums. @taylorswift wants to remake her music so that she has ownership. We will support her. That’s all.

Let 👏🏻 Taylor 👏🏻 Do 👏🏻 What 👏🏻 She 👏🏻 Wants 👏🏻 With 👏🏻 HER 👏🏻 Music 👏🏻

I GOT BANGS TODAY, IM WEARING MERCH, & IM MOVING TO NYC IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS. @taylorswift BETTER WATCH OUT IM COMING FOR YOUR BRAND

Why is no one talking about what happened in São Paulo yesterday?

The sky turned completely black around three in the afternoon partly because of smoke coming from the Amazon rainforest, WHICH IS 2300 KILOMETERS AWAY FROM THE CITY, where the government has greatly increased the amount of land being burned for profit. People are getting sick, animals are dying, native territory is being lost to the flames.

This is what the sky looked like in my city yesterday, in the early afternoon.

It got so dark so fast the city had to turn on the lamp posts and night lighting.

Please talk about this. Reblog this post, non-brazilians especially.

I must report a crime

This man must be stopped.

I GOT BANGS TODAY, IM WEARING MERCH, & IM MOVING TO NYC IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS. @taylorswift BETTER WATCH OUT IM COMING FOR YOUR BRAND

I bought some cute neon lights for my dorm and thought they were very ~on brand~ for the Lover era

I GOT BANGS TODAY, IM WEARING MERCH, & IM MOVING TO NYC IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS. @taylorswift BETTER WATCH OUT IM COMING FOR YOUR BRAND

Invited to a Secret Session then ghosted by TN

With Lover secret sessions happening, I am struggling with a lot of difficult feelings. Sessions bring up a lot of pain for me because I was invited to one in 2014. @taylorswift​ @taylornation​

In October 2014, Taylor Nation sent me an ask via Taylor’s tumblr (this was before they had their own account). It was a confidential message and it was the same exact message people who went to the secret sessions got. It was also sent to me on the same day a lot of people who went to the RI secret session got their messages. When I emailed them my information I was never contacted back. I waited all day for a call. All the sessions came and went and nothing. In panic, I emailed them again and again. I was in complete distress. I left school that Friday thinking I would be meeting Taylor. At the time, I had poor coping mechanisms and I stopped eating because I was so anxious about getting the call. I ended up passing out because I literally did not eat for two full days. I was in the ER when people got out of the secret session I was made to believe I was going to. I have spent the last five years asking myself what I did wrong. Why Taylor wanted to meet me and then suddenly didn’t. I spent so many nights crying myself to sleep. I have reached to them so many times, and gotten no response. I was a 15 year old thinking I was about to meet my hero but I spent my weekend in the hospital instead.

In an email I wrote to Taylor Nation two days after I got my DM I wrote “I’ve just been really really sad about this and it’s killing me because I want to know what I did wrong. Why I wasn’t called. If you could just tell me that, then I wouldn’t have to wonder why, if it’s that Taylor didn’t want to meet me, or that my blog wasn’t special enough or that I wasn’t special enough, etc. I thought this would be the best weekend of my life and it has ended up being the worst… My mind goes to the worst places and I really need to let this go and stop feeling like I somehow messed it up or that you guys or Taylor rejected me or hate me and I was just wondering if you could help me out with that.”

Five years later and I still haven’t met Taylor. Taylor Nation never explained what happened (though they did invite me to GMA later, an experience I am grateful for) and when I stopped by the Taylor Nation booth during the 1989 tour Sierra said “you’re Eugenia right? It’s so nice to finally meet in person” which means she must have read all my emails, because she was the person who I had emailed when everything happened. I just want my chance to meet Taylor and tell her how much she means to me.

Please help fix this @taylorswift @taylornation

Lover 💕 Friday, August 23. 

Pre-add, pre-save, pre-order: taylorswift.lnk.to/lover

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

ladies and gentlemen a man has entered the chat

thank u god for jack antonoff

I KNEW JACK WOULD GO OFF