✨alex✨

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

This morning I had a thought and I tweeted it, it looked something like this:

“What I find most saddening about Andrea’s health struggles is that it shows that no matter how much money you have, what level of access to care, the best treatments and doctors; it doesn’t matter. That punches me in the gut and I hope it changes in the future. Support research 💗”

I wish I could have written more of what was on my heart but Twitter’s character limit really limits how much you can say. In the hour that followed I thought to myself...wait, I can do something about this. WE can do something about this. We are quickly coming upon the season of giving. I wanted to do something to help. So, with the help of @spainlovestay and @heyshannonmarie I spent some time this afternoon putting together a crowdrise campaign as a Swiftmas gift to @taylorswift, Andrea, and the rest of the family to raise money for the American Cancer Society to help fund cancer research. Our goal for this campaign is to raise $13,000 by Christmas and it is dedicated to Andrea. So far the response has been wonderful and I am SO HOPEFUL that we can meet or maybe exceed our goal.

I think most of anyone reading this has known someone who has had to deal with cancer. My best friend lost her mom in February, my other best friend’s dad has been fighting for years, another friend lost his dad just weeks ago. My mother in law and sister in law are breast cancer survivors, one of my close friends unfortunately lost her battle with breast cancer at just 40 years old. I could go on. Bottom line, WE NEED MORE RESEARCH.

If you are willing to help, you can do so by sharing the campaign or by donating. I have nearly 9,000 followers on Twitter and about 2,000 here on Tumblr. That means that if 1/11th of my followers donated $13 we could get there. We have nearly 2 months. WE CAN DO THIS. Skip your coffee for just 2 days and join me in supporting research to end this awful disease. Let’s show Taylor and Andrea how generous this fandom can be and that when we put our minds to it, we can do amazing things 💗 🎄🎁