TEWL In Mammals Is Also Known As Insensible Record Loss (IRL), As It Is A Process Over Which Fans Have

Hey this is K-d but my producer calls me Perry now 🤩 I just moved out of my parents' house in Pentecostal to this wicked studio in Stockholm!

I spent all most of the day broke n dreaming on the boulevard. I started out in front of the ABBA but everyone said I looked 2 young & healthy. So I got back up the street to the GAP where all the hot n cold college kids shop.

I was there until about 5:15 or 6. "Is that all you need?"

“That’s not the one I wanted” “it doesn’t have a head” “what do we do with it now” “I’m not asleep my mind is alive” WHAG TEHRBJS THATS HILarioUS I LOVE YOU @taylorswift

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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I hadn’t done a Rolling Stone cover in 5 years, and hadn’t seen Brian Hiatt since I got in 2 car crashes while driving him around during our interview in 2012. 🤦‍♀️ There were no cars driven this time, but we had a lot to catch up on. Thank you Rolling Stone and Brian for everything you did to make this cover happen. And Erik Madigan Heck for taking these photos, absolutely loved working with you!

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Levi’s ✔️

Cardigan ❌

Tight in the end 🏈

Touch me while my bros play Grand Theft Auto

If there wasn’t a better time to Speak Now or forever hold your peace… ✌️🌸 

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

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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.

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

ok but WHO stepped on her gown? who stepped on his? who am I fighting? *cracks knuckles*

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

1989 plot summary from Wikipedia

11-year-old Luke Solo (Tom Taylor b. July 16 2001) experiences visions involving a midnight Strider, the Man in Black, who seeks to destroy the Hairy Style and bring balance to the Balls while a Bountyhunter opposes him

Spinning in my highest heels, luv

The whispers in the hallway says: two

A ship floating aimlessly

Looking for a cause

Know your enemy

All you got was camouflage

Have we known Taylor 10 seconds or 10 years? ✨ Taylor will be the first-ever recipient of Billboard’s Woman of the Decade Award at the 2019 #BBWomenInMusic event on December 12th!

Miss Americana 🎬 January 31 on Netflix

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