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Taylor Swift’s speech for receiving the Artist of the Decade award at the 2019 American Music Awards

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“I said, “The only way I’m coming to your house is if I can hold your new cat.” He’s an adorable baby. I think I can trust her and she can trust me. We’ll see each other in the halls of the music industry and not avoid each other. We’ll embrace and I think it’s amazing that we’ve had this opportunity to change. I just hope that other people can learn from it too.”

— Katy Perry on reuniting with Taylor Swift

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I kind of had a long-ass rant on Twitter.

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Anyone else realize Lover is 18 songs? Taylor’s never given us that many songs standard.

But you know what else is 18 songs? The 1989 tour setlist. RED was 17. reputation was 19. Lover is about the same length as the setlist from Taylor’s last 3 tours.

What if she recorded Lover so that it could tour on its own because she didn’t trust Scurvy Backstabber with her masters? What if the reason the reputation tour felt so much like a retirement tour was because she knew it might have been - for her old songs? Maybe that was why she played stuff for us we’d been begging for for years like Breathe.

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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

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you guys screaming about TS7 and i’m still crying listening to delicate

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Taylor Swift’s M&G outfits during the Rep Tour