wildest dreams

Saying Goodbye Is Death By A Thousand Cuts - TS

you need to calm down…

☆･:*:･ﾟ☾,｡･:*:･ﾟ★

that’s the kinda heartbreak time can never mend (insp)

And so it goes, you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round... The Lover music video is out now!

TS Gorgeous // 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

Lover artwork remake because I fell in love with the back cover picture ♡

shake it off: it’s fine!! i don’t care what you say!! i’m not listening to you!!

yntcd: no actually please shut up

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1 ,2 ,3, Let’s Go Bitch

everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool

“At the very beginning of the album, I was pretty proud of coining the term, ‘There will be no explanation; there will just be reputation.’ And so that was what I decided to go through the album, it was a big one, and I stuck with it. I didn’t go back on it, I didn’t try to explain the album because I didn’t feel like I owed that to anyone. There was a lot that happened over a couple years that made me feel really, really terrible and I didn’t feel like expressing that to them, I didn’t feel like talking about it and I just felt like making music, going out on the road on a stadium tour, and doing all I could for the fans. Everything I did was for them and I didn’t need every headline, the cover of this or that, I just needed to think of ways to reach out to them in ways I hadn’t before. So the relationship between me and my fans strengthened over the course of reputation and made it something I’ll look back on and see as one of the most beautiful times of my life. I realized, ‘It’s me, and it’s them, and that’s what makes this fun for me.”

our theories:

Babydoll when it comes to a lover…