The More You Know The Less You Feel

I'm impressed with the presence of none

I'm possessed from the beat of the sun

Hurry up 'cause I'm making a fuss

Fingers up 'cause who can you trust?

The Man Lyric Video is out now!

Hey you! “Put your eyes on me, in this moment now, capture it, remember it.” 🥺😻 And then go pre-order Fearless (Taylor’s Version) at taylor.lnk.to/fearlesstaylorsversion 💛💛

Scuze me, do you have the time?

No. I don't believe I do. I certainly didn’t have it this morning, did you leave it somewhere?

No, I don't have the time. I use a little of it like everyone else. But I don't have it. I think the Navy has it. In Washington, isn't it? They keep it in an observatory, that’s right.

Sure, they let out a little of it each day. Not too much too soon. They wouldn't want to give us too much time. Just enough.

The GE 8131-4A does not have AM or PM. You just have to guess (based on sunlight, I suppose). When setting the clock, just make sure that you don't pull out the alarm function until it's less than 11 hours before you want to wake UP.

I can't stand my own mind

America, when will we end the human war

Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb

In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result, a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history, and memory. I’ve told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve. Now it’s up to you to pass them down. folklore is out now.

📷: Beth Garrabrant

Calm down and come see the ’Bigger Dick’ foreign policy theory at work.

Drink it up, it's my favorite song

Change, change, change to the distortion

‪Stoked to relive our Paris show tonight when the City of Lover concert airs at 10pm ET/9pm CT on ABC - then tomorrow on Hulu and Disney+ 💕 It was the best album release party I could’ve wished for 😆✨💐🎆🕶 love you guys 💋‬

Let me calm you down ’cause I’m going to 🍓

And we now welcome to the programme a young awful from Liverpool. Is that right?

That's right!

In fact your the first awful from Liverpool I've ever seen.

Great.

And you brought three of your friends, could you please introduce me?

Yes there's Orange Parasol and Mango Stone.

What about Bål McCharmly?

Grandberry juice.

And did they have anything to do with your drink? Did they help you or hinder you in anyway?

No, they poured it out for me.

That's right, I mean they can sell?

Oh they spell very greatly🙀

Do you take this magnetic force of a cat to be you’re?

Partnership is in danger of growing stuck

I'm taking it to stranger new places

Moodboard made by me!

I can’t calm down. Please tag TayTay. I need this.

@taylorswift @taylornation

October past and present & the future too. It’s all I’ve got and I’m giving it to you. 🚫

Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.

Pre-order now: https://taylor.lnk.to/taylorswiftmidnights

No fear brittanyspears 🎤

What light through yonder window breaks

It is the East and Juliet is the sun

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven yet so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night

Taylor when she wrote “and I ain’t tryna mess with your self expression but I’ve learned the lesson that stressin and obsessin bout somebody else is no fun”

It’s always been my belief that when a musician chooses to release his or hers art to the world it belongs to anybody who is willing to listen. It’s always been a trade-off between personal integrity and how many people you want to reach basically. There is always a price to fame and you’ve paid it alright.

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

There’s something wrong with the drummer.

Bored girl at the holiday party.

”Taylor uh, any song she wants, Taylor Swift. Preferably one I have writing on. That would be awesome.”

‪Walked into the studio to a surprise birthday party from Jack Antonoff and Laura Sisk - it’s equally wild and cozy to think it was the three of us in a room making a song called Lover here last year. ♥️‬