Julia, 🐚 Eyes, 💨 Smile, Calls Me. So I Sing A Song Of Love For Julia.

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

The representative from California has the floor

America, why is your television full of names

America, when will the Saints go marching in

i’m sick of your insane demands

When can I go on the internet and buy what I need with my good looks

America, after all, it is you and I who are perfect, not the next post

Excited to announce the City of Lover Concert! We filmed my show in Paris in September and thought it’d be fun to share it with you 😄May 17 at 10p ET on ABC and available the next day on Hulu and Disney+! 

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

Rose that flows of angel hair

& midnight feathers in the air

And weather can-yons anywhere⚡️

I've looked at chords this way ❄️

Firework

This Love (My version!) is out & I’m currently reliving the 1989 tour in my head and spiraling, it’s fine http://taylor.lnk.to/thislovetv

Tonight in Paris!!! Thank you to everyone who flew from all over the world to be at the City of Lover Concert! 💗💗💗

📷: Dave Hogan

Us waiting for this wildest winter to end. 🥶🧣 At least there are only eight days until the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards!! Did you vote today? Go to kidschoiceawards.com every day until March 13th to vote for Taylor in three categories!

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

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

What kind of colors have you been painting lately?

Christmas Tree Farm watercolor trio

In the last seconds of our December

How do you wanna be remembered

For generosity, or monstrosity

Where do you really want to be

At the end of his or hers love story

Pretty sure this encapsulates all of us

@taylorswift @taylornation

Leave a whisker, on my pillow. It must have been Olivia.

💔

(Taylor Swift is set to become a billionaire)

alright taylor time to define “meow” as an adjective and you sure as fuck can’t use google for this one