That Guy, So Critical 🍄

Tonight, I'm a

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

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… ✌️🌸 

The Man - Live From Paris  ✨ Song/video tonight at Midnight ET

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

Swear I’ve seen it before 👑 🐝

50′s Housewife Taylor who’s husband just died of “”Mysterious Circumstances”” appreciation post 

A visionary, vision is scary

So it’s finally out! Miss Americana is on Netflix and I’m really excited for you to see it. I want to thank Lana Wilson for her endless curiosity and for wanting to make this film. It’s pretty wild to be sharing this much of my life because it’s pretty scary to be vulnerable! (understatement of the century) But I’m also so grateful to the critics and journalists who have so thoughtfully watched and reflected on the film. 🙏🌯🐱🎒🎶 taylorswift.lnk.to/MissAmericana

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!

Hey you! “Put your eyes on me, in this moment now, capture it, remember it.” 🥺😻 And then go pre-order Fearless (Taylor’s Version) at taylor.lnk.to/fearlesstaylorsversion 💛💛

For black and for white 👟

For yellow and red OnO

Dressed to the nines ㄥƖㄥ

Like we're made of starlight 🌈

Ultraviolent quilter, you must be using filters🪒

How else could you tie your head to the sky?

This new conviction has left me wondering how you could concern yourself with ordinary clowns 👔

Like what's this morning's war got to say?

And which brand of weapons to make?

"This is an umbrella to take into the wind"🪁

According to my jet lag it is one hundred o clock celsius.

Recipe for 1 batch (or 2 if ur ready for it)

1 tbsp. Neat

5/15 oz. The sky looks bread

2 🌼. Call my name through the cream

Ah, ah-ooh

I'm not lonely babe, I am free

1 ds. Cinnamon

4 cups Goo goo juice

Herbs

2 sp. ice girls

when you’re proud of your buns so you post them on the internet