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@losinghimwasswift / losinghimwasswift.tumblr.com

Nora // 23 // Norway
I spend my time reading about conspiracy theories and obsessing over Taylor Swift • Speak Now Tour 03/09/11 in Oslo, Norway •
Red Tour 02/04/14 in London, UK • Reputation Stadium Tour 01/06/18 in Chicago, IL •
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taylorswift

Don’t know what else to do

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

Taylor

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Taylor Swift didn’t write “Change” for you to think that things won’t get better.

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fireworkshow13

So uhhhh…. I cracked it.

Ok so I know you’ll never notice me and have never creeped me but @taylorswift I have dug DEEP into your Easter eggs and have an 113 tweets long thread on Twitter with Easter Eggs you said haven’t been solved yet but I have discovered them right down to those murals in France but I’m irrelevant and you’ve never seen me. Anyways if you see any of them, I hope it’s this one… I think this is a pretty big Egg.

@taylorswift @taylornation @tree-paine

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This is impressive I applaud you

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swiftlyfindingmyplaceinthisworld

I’m speechless.

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meaningtotellyou

the fact that we have taylor’s speech format is so funny to me

“i think for me, pineapple pizza just isn’t something i like. and that’s okay. it’s okay not to like things, yknow? if you don’t like pineapple pizza, don’t be afraid to say it out loud”

“…and when you say it out loud, it’s important….to speak now.” 

“i see you all online all the time, talking about pineapple pizza, going back and forth. it’s so funny to me! i love you guys”

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“So I’ve been looking out at this crowd tonight just in lovestruck wonder. And you know, one of the things i wanted to do on this tour is, you might notice your'e wearing a light up bracelet, and if you didn’t notice, you are wearing one! And the reason why I wanted these bracelets to happen is because I can see every single person in this stadium. I can see when you’re dancing, I can see when you’re singing, I can see when you’re moving and its the coolest thing in the world because I want to be able to see you, and so if you’re in the top row of the top section, and you think I can’t see you, that would be incorrect. I can see you, and you look incredible. Stating the obvious, we have a lot of people at the show tonight who live in Chicago, right? Yes, that’s a lot of people! We also have a lot of people who have traveled a long way to be here, right? We have people from Wisconsin here tonight, people from Indiana, Iowa, all over the place, and I want to thank you so much for traveling to the show, if you traveled five minutes or five hours, or if you got on a plane, I appreciate it so much, because I’ve been putting albums out since I was 16 and uh my life has kind of had a pretty predictable schedule in terms of like, I would put out an album and then I’d go on tour and then I’d make another album and then I’d put out that and go out tour and it was like this over and over until this last time, which was like sixth album, and this time around, I decided that rather than going right back into making an album, putting it out, and going on tour, that it would be important for me as a human being to figure out what kind of person I would be, what decisions I would make to, what I’d do, how I’d spend my time if there was no spotlight on my life at all. And the fact that you guys just cheered for me taking time off just shows how absolutely understanding and thoughtful you are! It was really important for me to take a second, take a breather, and look around, and the coolest thing was that you guys were here when I got back, so thank you for that! And I missed this so much, I missed you so much, I missed the feeling, cause what I didn’t realize until recently is the feeling that I get when I’m on stage and you’re here and we’re all singing the same words, that feeling that I get is like this emotional validation. And I write songs in my room by myself and that is a feeling that a lot of the time comes from extreme insecurity, like loneliness, like feeling ike I’m the only person feeling this type of humiliation or heartbreak or whatever, and when I stand on the stage, and you’re singing the words back, ‘I’m like, it wasn’t just me! They’re going through this too.’ And I wonder if at times you thought you were alone feeling something, and you see the girl next to you, or the guy next to you knowing the words too, and so many others, thinking they felt that way too. Maybe you can be friends or there’s a glint of recognition in your eye, and I think that reaching out to meet people and make friends, or even being like ‘I want to get you know you better, I have a crush on you, you are so great,’ because when you risk rejection, when you put yourself out there, I think all that stuff, relationships and crushes, it’s all very delicate, you know?”

— Taylor before Delicate in Chicago on June 1

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