That Was The Beauty Of The 90’s. It Was So Intense It’s Like The Other Decades Never Happend. I Have

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!

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

NO IT’S JOEY

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself too seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs and members of Green Day.

Do you ever want to leave a long trail of destruction

And mow down any bullshit that confronts you?

Do you ever build up all the small things in your head

To make one problem that adds up to nothing?

Debbie Harry in New York City, 1977

Pink and purple sky up on the roof

Sun’s still up, still curfew

Stressed out lately, me too

This love is worth the drive in my black TLU

/feeling u22

Not a lot going on at the moment

Tonight, I'm a

You guys, we are T-minus 5 DAYS away from #TaylorSwiftCityOfLover 🙀 which performance are you looking forward to most?! 💘✨

The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.

And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now.

https://taylor.lnk.to/thetorturedpoetsdepartment

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

Shave, thou hast slain green

Billie, take my curse

Live: 4 ever

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The links which though find'st about me

The ldiot T'wat of American

Seek him out upon the Iris Potato

The vault door is about to be as unhinged as you’ll think I am after you watch this video. 

Level: Expert

Happy decoding! 

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

A work-in-progress hero is something to be

HE! LOOKS! UP!GRINNING! LIKE! A!DEVIL!