∆ Arshia Taylor ∆

Honestly, you are just embarrassing yourself.

I shouldn’t even care to pull out pictures and anything as receipts to prove myself to you, to prove the jobs I’ve done, where I’ve worked, who I am and where I perform.

After all, you are so scared of being judged by everyone and exposing your own indendity.

If you have a problem then go ahead and talk in the group about it, show your concern and we all will be so happy to talk to you, specially the people who know me and know who I am.

So...

Just to point out a few things

Enjoy the following pictures of me having the honor to perform in my city’s City-Hall, performing an original song that I wrote with my own guitar and on my own bed, I was certificated right after the performance for my studies and hard work.

Me performing in clothes I’ve made

Picture of my Diploma and Me at age 18 :)

Picture of my first Fashion show at age 16, within the first month of studying fashion

1. Speaking to UMG and actually working with them are two thing people seem to be getting confused here. Yes, he has reached out to them but as you can understand people are very busy at UMG so it was a better option to set this up alone.

2. I don't know Arshia well enough to comment specifically about these things but I do know he has loads of passions and is a very exentric person. This can come across as lying or pretentious but I don't think that's the case.

3. The location isn't disclosed to people without a ticket as I have explained they don't want people who couldn't get a ticket or aren't even fans to be there.

so there is this “fan” event happening at lover fest berlin and it’s super sketchy and pretty much sounds like a scam, i don’t know all the details since the people behind it are acting all secretive but here are all the details i’ve got so far

the team behind it is a bunch of grown up people (age 20-34)

they kinda make it sound like they are taylor nation but they are NOT, in fact they have nothing to do with taylor or her team, they’re just regular fans

they also make the whole event sound like you’re gonna end up meeting taylor or like your chances of getting noticed by her will at least be higher if you attend (that’s not gonna happen though)

they don’t really give out information, you can apply and then they’ll do “interviews” and they’ll ask questions like “have you met taylor before”, if you get picked they’ll call you and tell you how much you have to pay

yes you have to pay (even tho you probably have already spent a lot of money on your tickets)

once again yes you have to pay actual money in order to hang out with other fans (or with them but since they are just regular, random fans that’s the same thing)

we don’t actually know what the event is or what happens there since they don’t give out that information, we also don’t know how much you have to pay since they also don’t openly talk about that

• we don’t pick people based on if they’ve met Taylor or not Or how long you’ve been a fan

• we ask about your life as swifties to just build conversation and know which music direction to go with our event and what songs to put on our event playlists

• we legit were advised by *2 lawyers* to do interviews because we want to make sure everyone is real, no scammers or people with bad intentions, no creepy old people praying On kids and actual fans

• and all the money people pay for are legit funded into the event , it’s funded into food and drinks, games, activities and everything offered in the event. + we make zero profit from it

• all the team is doing the event on volunteer bases we even are paying the tickets ourselves

• we have mentioned multiple times that the event is NOT organized or connected in anywyas to Taylor. It’s even stated on every flyer.

• you can legit ask anyone who got ticket to the event and they can assure you it is not a scam

• we only have limited spaces of people to join, why is it so hard to understand that we can’t simply host a public event in a public space with 1000s of people walking around, specially since we can’t in Germany without registration

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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