Dust Off Your Highest Hopes

INTRODUCING ME!

Well well here I am again. So this is ME!… yep just a normal 21 years old girl. This year I celebrate 10 amazing years of being a Swiftie, and I still remember the first time i heard Tay Tay on the radio omg. 

Right now I’m a architecture student, in case you don’t know about this career, it’s super tough, college in general it’s hard I know. And by the afternoon i’m a waitress so I can pay for my materials, taxi, personal stuff, and of course my Ts stuff.

Why I’m making this post? because like I told you… my career and my job don’t give me the time to be online like I used to. And well I really need the job and I really need my future as an architect. But like I said, I post this so maybe @taylorswift can see that just because most people don’t post daily on any website just like tumblr, instagram, twitter, etc. We still love you and soport you. I know I’m not the only one who feels sad when you hate the fact that you can’t be online to talk to Tay, or make her laugh with some good meme (by the way everytime they are better) or just something.

Maybe this is dramatic, but I’ve been on this ride over 10 years, and I know that I will meet Tay when the time comes, but right now I  would really appreciate if you help me make my dreams come true.

With love, Melissa Abigail

pd; oh by the way, I’m from Mexico, so maybe my grammar it’s weird and also it’s kinda hard to buy all Taylor’s merch when they pay you 10 dlls per day lol

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,

💔