What Is Perry's Job?

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

That time I went as James Dean, daydream, white t-shirt

so me and my girlfriend, you met her, she's from uh La Jolla?

uh anyway, we got some money from her lawyers

so we're gonna stop by because

she's got a blank space baby

That's better Johnny, I mean Jimmy. You know I miss you. Ever since the band broke up, I miss you. We all missed ya. The Beatles missed ya. All the Beatles missed ya.

Happy Halloween Lovers 💘🎃✨

Scuze me, do you have the time?

No. I don't believe I do. I certainly didn’t have it this morning, did you leave it somewhere?

No, I don't have the time. I use a little of it like everyone else. But I don't have it. I think the Navy has it. In Washington, isn't it? They keep it in an observatory, that’s right.

Sure, they let out a little of it each day. Not too much too soon. They wouldn't want to give us too much time. Just enough.

The GE 8131-4A does not have AM or PM. You just have to guess (based on sunlight, I suppose). When setting the clock, just make sure that you don't pull out the alarm function until it's less than 11 hours before you want to wake UP.

I can't stand my own mind

America, when will we end the human war

Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb

In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result, a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history, and memory. I’ve told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve. Now it’s up to you to pass them down. folklore is out now.

📷: Beth Garrabrant

Welcome to Americana, please make your selection followed by the # sign now

“Miss Americana & the heartbreak prince” 😱😱 @taylorswift

Calm down and come see the ’Bigger Dick’ foreign policy theory at work.

Drink it up, it's my favorite song

Change, change, change to the distortion

‪Stoked to relive our Paris show tonight when the City of Lover concert airs at 10pm ET/9pm CT on ABC - then tomorrow on Hulu and Disney+ 💕 It was the best album release party I could’ve wished for 😆✨💐🎆🕶 love you guys 💋‬

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!

'One batch, two cats' w/ Frank Castle

'No files on this Frankie boy,' he thought; but to his amusement there seemed to be a box of lies from his wife -- who was still eating from the garden gate apples. 'I carrot pancake of red and hat with her weeping about whatshisface,' his thoughts willowed, fighting as he spoke. 'I must deliver it and her to her home á bored. She will be made welcome.'

He gathered her in the box (for she was only 177 centimeters or 5 feet 9 11⁄16) and headed for her writetful home. Frank knocked up The Corrs of his wife's mothers castle. She opened the Coors.

'I've brought Maria home, Mrs. Morrissey' (he could never call her and run). He opened the box and pleasured Maria on the coorstep.

'I'm not having all those files in my home!' shouted Mrs. Morrissey (who was very housebroke), shutting The Smiths. 'She could have at least offered me a cup of joe' thought Frank lifting the wind back upon his shoulders.

How come that guitar’s in the hospital?

‘Cats’ School w/ Taylor Swift

Have arrived in the land of cat cafes and eternal cuteness TOKYO HI 💕🌸🍭🍬🎆 I’m off to stare into pastel aquariums and hug all the people CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS LATER!

🍬💕pretty city 🍭🌸

Now, the first daughter on the thirteenth night

Told the first father that things weren't right

My compositions, she says, are much too white

He said, come here and step into the daylight

I actually did grow up on a Christmas tree farm. In a gingerbread house, deep within the yummy gummy gumdrop forest. Where, funnily enough, this song is their national anthem. #ChristmasTreeFarm song and video out now 🎄

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"Christmas Tree Farm" by Taylor Swift

Listen to the new XMAS Song!