And now you’ve all got yours
The only way to spend Valentine’s Day night is like this
I’d never walk Cornelia Street again @taylorswift @taylornation
We stand with Taylor ❤️
Taylor just so know that we love you and we will always have your back. No matter what those horrendous people say or do we will always be with you
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
When @taylorswift releases a song at midnight you just gotta stay up for the next two hours bopping along to the song
So...Taylor. did. that. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@taylorswift you were amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🦋💕
What happens when you speak to your sister about dinner and your and Taylor’s influence shines through @taylorswift @taylornation
What do you do when Taylor releases a new song & video? Answer: Blast it on your tv and have the time of your life 🦋
ME is the best song ever and you can bet I’m gonna have it on repeat for the rest of my life @taylorswift
There ain’t no I in “team”, but you know there is a “me” @taylorswift @taylornation
Brendon talking about Taylor Swift’s countdown (April 24th, 2019)
GIVE THE MAN AN OSCAR!
This was some of the most impressive acting I have EVER seen.
IM SO EXCITED OMG ONLY THREE HOURS
So I’m gonna be at a reherseal when Taylor does the interview so I won’t be able to watch so I need y’all to keep me posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You seem like the right person to ask but what the fuck is going on in the Taylor Swift fandom? Are they OK?
Okay friend, I’m going to give you the run down. Are you sitting comfortably?
2PM GMT - SOME TAYLOR SWIFT FANS DECIDE - FOR SEEMING ABSOLUTELY NO INTELLIGIBLE REASON - THAT THERE IS A MURAL IN NASHVILLE THAT RELATES TO TAYLOR’S NEW ALBUM
THERE ARE NO FACTS TO BACK THIS UP
TAYLOR HAS NOT SPOKEN OF THIS MURAL
HER TEAM HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF THIS MURAL
THE ONLY VAGUE LINK IS THAT IT RELATES TO HER INSTAGRAM AESTHETIC
THEY’RE GATHERING IN THEIR HUNDREDS BY THIS MURAL CONVINCED THAT SHE’S GOING TO SHOW UP
WHY?
ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING REASON
FLASH FORWARD (and we’re taking on the world together, and there’s a drawer of my things at your place) TO 5PM GMT
AND THE ENTIRE TAYLOR SWIFT FANDOM ON TUMBLR IS BRACING FOR THEIR MOM TO CALL THEM BOO BOO THE FOOL LIKE SHE DID WHEN THEY ASSERTED CONFIDENTLY THAT BECAUSE THERE WERE FIVE HOLES IN A FENCE ON ONE OF HER INSTAGRAM PICTURES THAT A COUNTDOWN WAS HAPPENING
THEY’RE ASSUMING CRASH POSITIONS
THIS IS GOING TO BE AN OUTING OF STUPIDITY TO THE ENTIRE WORLD
NEWS CREWS ARE GATHERING —- AGAIN FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THE FANS THINK SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS THESIS
EVERYONE ON TUMBLR IS DISTRESSED
DISMAYED
“THE WORLD WILL KNOW THAT WE’RE INSANE!!” THEY CRY, THEIR SELF-AWARENESS THEIR LAST REDEEMING FEATURE
AND THEN
WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST
TAYLOR ‘I’M POTENTIALLY THE ONLY PERSON MORE BATSHIT CRAZY THAN MY FANS’ SWIFT GETS HER CLOWN ASS ON INSTAGRAM
AND CONFIRMS THAT IT IS HER FUCKING MURAL AND THAT SHE IS ON THE WAY THERE
“YOU FIGURED OUT (my secrets and I figure out why you’re guarded, you say we’ll never make my parents’ mistakes) THE CLUE!” SHE SHRIEKS
THERE WERE NO CLUES
NOT ONE
THEY TURNED UP IN DROVES BECAUSE THEY ALL DESPERATELY NEED TO GET A JOB
AND THEN - 6PM GMT - THIS ANGEL/DEVIL WOMAN TURNS UP AT THE MURAL AND TAKES WHAT SEEMS LIKE A SELFIE WITH LITERALLY ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE WHO’S THERE - WHICH BY THE WAY, IS ABOUT 500 PEOPLE AT THIS POINT
AND SAYS! NOTHING ABOUT THE ALBUM! NOTHING ABOUT THE SINGLE! NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING!
SHE JUST SHOWS UP AND SAYS HEY (it was enchanting to meet you)
OUTSTANDING
LITERALLY OUTSTANDING
WHO KNEW SUCH CLOWNERY AND TOMFOOLERY WAS POSSIBLE?
NOT I, GENTLE READER! NOT THE FUCK I!
I’m literally in love with Taylor Swift, I have never wanted to be a celebrity’s friend more than in this moment. She’s so messy and I live for literally every second of it, we are SOUL MATES.
That’s it, that’s the tweet