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Give me some of that wine ghorL! Hahaha. @taylorswift 🤗

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REDputation is coming!!!!

@taylorswift 👁💞😂

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Hi guys have I told you lately that I LOVE YOU

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"You said it was a great love, one for the ages.

But if the story’s over, why am I still writing pages?"

Death By A Thousand Cuts / Someone Great 😭

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#Lover #cinematicparallels #icant #crying #taylorswift #dbatc #someonegreat

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Inject this to my mind and my heart. #Lover

Lover 💕 Friday, August 23. 

Pre-add, pre-save, pre-order: taylorswift.lnk.to/lover

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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,

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Taylor

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This scene. 😂

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IM GOING TO FRAME THIS.

my rep room story:

Keep reading

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Each scene we are introduced to in the video shows off a new letter in Taylor’s dance moves… each letter spells out JOE.

then the next scene we see Taylor going into a room where their love turns her world completely upside down… the shows us that she is falling for him.

We then see Taylor back on her feet and walking forward… but this time she is out of the darkness and dancing in the light… with the light of freedom on her face…  she has found him and she and can truly be herself.  

But there is still a worry that their love is so delicate and pure that any wrong turn or her reputation still may stop it being true… so she pulls back.

She thought she was ready to be seen… and to be herself again…she was back in a light… but she still had more growing and learning to do.. she was met with fake smiles… again…

So she was taken out of her world… what she knew, away from the glamour and parties and to another side she hadn’t seen for a long time. 

we see Taylor dancing around people going about their day to day lives, at the train station, on the train and on the streets… a place she wouldn’t have been able to go to for very long time. 

on the train she notices that he has her heart.. and she will be with him.. but she has one thing left to do…

Instead of dancing for him… she has to dance for herself. 

it was in these moments going back to her roots when she truly found herself again and was able to love again… because she now loves herself. 

Taylor was ready to be seen again… because she could see herself.

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Taylor Swift surprises fans, shoots whiskey, relives 'love story' at Bluebird Cafe

Taylor Swift may be a global pop icon these days, but the Nashville resident hasn’t abandoned her country roots.

About 40 patrons settled in for an Easter eve concert at Bluebird Cafe Saturday night. Prolific country songwriter Craig Wiseman topped the bill, but it was an unannounced appearance from Swift that stole the show.

Wiseman, who met Swift at a charity show when she was a teenager, was in on the surprise and welcomed Swift to join him. She received a standing ovation.

“I wanted to say a big thank you to the Bluebird Cafe,” Swift said, perching on a stool beside Wiseman. “I think any songwriter in town would echo my sentiments and say that this is kind of the only place where this exists – this particular place where you get to come and hear the writer’s take on the songs they’ve put out into the world.”

Swift started writing songs in Nashville when she convinced her family to move to Music City when she was 14 years old. The singer, now 28, said she learned a lot about writing songs in Nashville, but one of her earliest lessons was that all a song needed was three chords and a simple concept.

“If there’s truth in it, don’t over think it,” she said. “It can be the same three chords over and over again.”

The best and possibly catchiest example of Music City’s three chords and the truth in her catalog, Swift said, is her  "Shake It Off.“ Wearing a black turtleneck and her blond hair pulled into a ponytail, Swift strapped on a black acoustic guitar and launched into the pop song with a fervor reminiscent of an arena show.

However, Swift’s superstar status didn’t excuse her from a good-natured stroll down memory lane with Wiseman. The songwriter, famous for penning songs including Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” and Kenny Chesney’s “Young,” recalled a CMT afterparty at his office that had Swift complaining of a headache the next day. Wiseman is a key player in the career of Florida Georgia Line. The duo name-dropped Fireball Whisky in its song “‘Round Here,” and the whiskey company supplied Wiseman’s publishing house with a surplus of their product. When Swift showed up at Wiseman’s CMT afterparty, he showed her the bar, the deejay and the wine. But, what she really wanted was access to the Fireball Whisky shot room.

“I got her a shot of Fireball, and then I got her another one,” Wiseman recalled, explaining that Swift retreated to a balcony in a VIP area. “For the rest of the party, I would go get a shot of Fireball … and snake my hand through the people (on this balcony) in her general direction. I don’t even know if she took it, but it disappeared.”

Swift laughed that the whiskey wasn’t all that disappeared. She said that she and friend Ed Sheeran stole Wiseman’s large, inflatable bottle of Fireball that was standing in the corner.

“I was going to take it home!” Wiseman gasped as the crowd laughed.

The songwriter pulled a silver, insulated mug out of a gift bag near his seat. He popped the lid and unpacked several tiny bottles of Fireball.

“For old-times sake,” Wiseman said.

“Should we play another song?” Swift asked the crowd, strumming her guitar. “Did you want to hear music tonight or did you want to hear about CMT afterparties?”

“I’ll tend the bar,” Wiseman quipped. “I’ll be ready for you.”

Swift turned her attention back to the Bluebird Cafe. Until recently, no one had charted a hit with a song Swift had written alone but herself.  Last year Little Big Town nabbed a No. 1 country hit with the Swift-penned “Better Man.” The song went on to win Song of the Year from the Country Music Association and a Grammy Award. Swift savored the opportunity to sing “Better Man” for the crowd.

“When I would play writers nights … I didn’t have the experience of a writer writing something and then it going out into the world and you earing it from someone else’s perspective until recently,” Swift said, referring to “Better Man.”  "Little Big Town gave me the opportunity to feel that way … to be at the Bluebird and play a song you’ve maybe heard on the radio.  I will always be forever grateful to them for that.“

After the song, she and Wiseman did shots of Fireball straight out of the tiny bottles. Wiseman wore bunny ears.

"I’m literally watching you, and I’m just going to do what you do,” Swift told Wiseman. “I’m going to look you in the eye the whole time.”

Swift tentatively tipped the tiny bottle back, then fully committed when she realized Wiseman wasn’t putting his drink down.

When they finished, Wiseman took the empty bottle from Swift and said he was going to sell it and donate the money to charity.

While it seemed the joke was on Swift, she repaid the veteran songwriter – reminding him that he passed up the opportunity to co-write one of her biggest hits. She was 17 years old when she and Wiseman had their first co-writing session, and Swift wanted to make sure she was prepared. She brought him a couple of verses and a chorus of a song she’d been working on and a few backup ideas. She played him the song, and Wiseman said he didn’t get it. They wrote a different song, but Swift went home and finished writing her original idea.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about the idea,” Swift told the audience. “I thought there was something to it. I really liked it.”

As she told the story, Wiseman looked embarrassed and repeatedly shook his head.

“This is the song I almost wrote with Craig Wiseman,” she said. “It’s called ‘Love Story.’”

Swift’s performance was filmed for a documentary in honor of Bluebird Cafe’s 35th anniversary. The cafe is in the midst of a year-long celebration of the milestone and Swift’s appearance will surely be a highlight.  The Bluebird Cafe is particularly sentimental for Swift – Big Machine Label Group’s Scott Borchetta saw Swift play the room when she was an 8th grader and offered her a publishing deal.

Swift launched her career from Nashville as a teenager in 2006 with her song “Tim McGraw.” She charted follow-up country hits including  "Our Song,“ "Love Story” and “You Belong with Me” before shifting her creative focus to pop music in 2014 with her album “!989.” Driven by the lead single “Shake it Off,” the album sold nearly 1.3 million copies its first week in stores to make it the largest sales week for an album since 2002.

Swift released her second pop album “Reputation” in November. These days Swift’s country performances are almost as rare as her club shows. The singer’s Reputation Stadium Tour will launch in May and will visit Nashville’s Nissan Stadium Aug. 25. Tickets are available now through Ticketmaster.

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I saw the sea in you, it was a mirage...🌅

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What happens in Antipolo, stays in Antipolo. #TGD #TGDKickstarts2018 😁🎂🍽💜💕 (at Cristimar Village)

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2017, sweetie, I'm so sorry. 2018, sis, you ready for me? Here's to more adventures this 2018. Hahaha. #travelldon #goodbye2017 #hello2018 😁 (at Tanawan Falls in Dingalan)

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Cluster fam, as you know we’re bringing you a conclusion to the Sense8 story next year. Been a little quiet here, just super busy making it as perfect as possible for you.

Spoiler alert: it’s incredible. We’ve got more love to go around, action, explosions, Eiffel Towers and answers to all of your burning questions - Will Wolfgang get rescued? Can Whispers just GTFO already? Will Lito lose another flip flop??

With much love, here’s a sneak peek at all the hard work the cast and crew have been up to behind the scenes of our Finale Special. See you in 2018.

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“Marvel’s Jessica Jones” has unfinished business. Just don’t get in her way. 

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“But what can I say? You’re gorgeous”