In The Last Seconds Of Our December

Hi guys have I told you lately that I LOVE YOU

It’s nice to have a friend 💕🐾  Happy#NationalCatDay!

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

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

Yeah I showed up at your party...then made a thematic album chapter about it 😄

taylor.lnk.to

Taylor Swift - folklore: the yeah I showed up at your party chapter

Listen to folklore: the yeah I showed up at your party chapter by Taylor Swift.

"the Best thing though in this town

is that everything always stays bright where it was ⚾

nobody’d move

nobody’d change

the only thing that would change could be that of You" 🌾

“if the shoe fits walk in it everywhere you go.” 🚶‍♀️🌾 

911 what’s your emergency?

So yeah, she went psycho on the banana phone

Ma’am, who is the emergency for?

Nurse she's out again

🍷 🐍 biiig isolation 🐍 🍷

Tell me something boy, ain’t it hard keeping it so hardcore?

Now I understand the butterfly... she is literally free

I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall

Like the holy scriptures that said ’meet me behind the mall’

Or bow it seemed to confess

She didn't sing much but only confirmed that the center of the earth is the end of the girl

& I would really care less

You All Over Me (feat. Maren Morris) (From The Vault) and Love Story (Taylor’s Version) - Elvira Remix are out now because in this house we dance and cry at the SAME TIME 💛😭💃

https://Taylor.lnk.to/fearlesstaylorsversion

That’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard

Half psychotic, sick, hypnotic

Got my blueprint electronic

Go!

Don't slow!

Drive it, clean it, lights out, bleed it

What’s the name of this club?

The details are golden like daylight ☀️ 

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