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Surprise!! 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is on its way to you 🔜! The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways, and it fills me with such excitement to announce that my version of it will be out October 27th. To be perfectly honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long! Pre order 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on my site 😎

Anyone else freaking out that we are getting #StellaxTaylorSwift?! 💕

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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TS7 does not just mean a new album, new music and tour dates. No it‘s soooo much more! At the begin we swifties get all those incredible and exciting feeling. Long nights waiting for a countdown ending, getting up early to watch a new music video. And not to forget all those tears of HAPINESS when we can listen to a new song for the first time (in the middle of the night)

After the exciting journey of searching your eastereggs the album s out. It‘s there. Pure Love! It was like this when you published fearless, speak now, red, 1989, reputation and so it will be with TS7 ✨ so after THE DAY, the lurking season begins. We‘re all out of control, having a big relationship to our phone / tumblr …. cause we try to get noticed by you. No, no just a post, THE POST! cause as you know we‘re creative af. So we start doing projects, veeeery crazy videos, learning your dance moves, posting covers, or any other awesome ideas 💡. This is all for you Taylor and we love love love doing this for you.

Then we get noticed by you and we‘re dying BUT we raise up from the death, taylor we do it all the time. We get that heart-attack and we‘re just the happiest humans in the world!

We‘re listening to your songs all the time. everytime and everywhere, learing the lyrics, actually we dont need to learn it cause we get it after listen to them 1000 times 🥳

And then…. Tour dates…. better than any date with any guy (lol)! Cause we can see and hear you live and just being in the same room… big „room“ AS YOU ARE! we can dance we can scream we can cry and be happy happy happy af. Having the time of our life. We can feel your love and we can share our love to you. (Omg I‘m getting emotional I miss rep tour London).

A PALE PINK AND PALE BLUE CAN MAKE A LIGHT PURPLE.

SHE HAS ALSO BEEN EMPHASIZING PURPLE.

WHY AM I LOOKING SO MUCH INTO THIS?