Be Strong. Believe.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

Bi girls are still wlw even when they’re dating men! They deserve a happy and loving relationship no matter who they’re dating!

If you imply bi girls don’t experience attraction or love for women as strongly as lesbians bc they’re “available to men,” your solidarity means nothing!

Nobody is “available to men,” ew! There isn’t some type of ‘wlw purity’ scale; bi girls love women and that’s all there is to it!

If you don’t listen to bi girls when they say something is hurtful and/or biphobic, your solidarity means nothing!

Non bi people don’t get to decide what is or isn’t biphobic! Listen to bi voices and boost them!

We need strong and true solidarity in wlw communities; not just empty, feel good platitudes! So:

Support bi girls!

Cherish bi girls!

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,

💔

“congratulations you’re approved!”

“congratulations you’re accepted!”

“congratulations you’re promoted!”

“Age is just a number” means middle-aged people can still find love.

“Age is just a number” means 30+ people can still find love.

“Age is just a number” is not an excuse to be a pedophile.

Nothing is an excuse to be a pedophile.

So don’t.

Just don’t.

BRIGHTER SUNS, DARKER SHADOWS MASTERLIST

Credence Barebone x Reader | As Grindelwald gathers power and followers, he plans to hit his archnemesis, Albus Dumbledore, where he least expects it. He abducts his favourite student just after her graduation and plans to use her as leverage to draw Dumbledore out of the protected boundaries of Hogwarts, yet he doesn’t know that this student has a secret power. While imprisoned in Nurmengard, the student somewhat befriends a man claiming to be Aurelius Dumbledore, and with each passing day they come to realise just how interwoven their fates appear to be.