Danni

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did a little photo shoot with my favorite books to read!🥺🤩💗😊 it might be an understatement to say that i love(r) this albulm @taylorswift @taylorswift i love you so much!

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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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There once was a snake known by everyone and no one.

Her name was Karyn.

No one understood her, or tried to.

Most people were scared she was going to swallow them whole.

This made Karyn sad. No one wanted to be her friend.

So she just hid away in her underground world where no one could find her.

But then one day word came around to her that there was someone just like her.

Someone misunderstood by the world.

Someone people didn’t bother getting to know before judging them.

This made Karyn feel less alone.

She met up with this person and the both instantly got along.

Karyn and Taylor; two misunderstood souls that felt so understood by eachother.

Taylor told Karyn about her tour.

And her plan to turn people’s words around so they didn’t bit them.

Karyn loved the idea and now they’re happily on tour together.

On Tuesday I received a DM from them, I gave them my info and they called me on Wednesday saying they had an opportunity for me and told me when to go to will call. They asked me if I had anyone I wanted to bring with me and I said it was just gonna be me. They never asked if I’d met taylor- heck, they didn’t even say it was a MG. I received a message the next day saying I had been confirmed.

I picked my paper up at will call today. I went in the stadium. I got in line. They checked my name off the list. Gave me the wristband. Everyone was queuing up. Then this lady comes up and pulls me out of the line and told me to confirm if I’d met taylor before and I was like yeah? And she said well when we found out you had we gave your spot to someone else so unfortunately you’re not allowed it. I was like are you kidding? You can’t do this? You got my info and called me and I’m here I have my wristband and everything, how can you do that without telling me first? She couldn’t even look at me. She kept looking away and saying there’s nothing she could do. I tried to explain how so many people have met her multiple times and Taylor requested me and she said “it’s cause everybody lies” and I was like “well I didn’t lie? I wasn’t asked?” And she had no response.

She then said she was gonna go quickly but I should wait here and she’s come back. Everybody else went in for the M&G and I knew I wasn’t gonna go cause obviously lol. I stood ALL ALONE for 30 minutes before she came out and said it was not gonna happen, it’s out of her hands. And I just kept being like seriously you can’t do this. And she was just like “well we are damned if we let you in and we are damned if we don’t” like? Wtf? I kept asking whose decision this is and she kept repeating there’s nothing she could do lmaoo. I told her how Taylor sits on stage every night and talks about how she loves seeing her fans grow up and meeting them multiple times, and she just went “well she also says she wants to meet new people” LIKE!? I started crying and I legit begged her to do something about it. “You can’t do this to me” I said. She then went “well I’m gonna have to and now I’m gonna go do other parts of my job” and then she left my crying ass standing there all alone.

Victoria cane and comforted me thankfully but I still haven’t stopped crying. I’m with rasmus now in my seat but like I’m in no way going to enjoy this concert.