capture it. remember it.

and all at once you are the one i have been waiting for…

This album is a love letter to love itself—all the captivating, spellbinding, maddening devastating red, blue, gray, golden aspects of it. In honor of fever dreams, bad boys, confessions of love on a drunken night out, Christmas lights still hanging in January, guitar string scars on my hands, false gods and blind faith, memories of jumping into an icy outdoor pool, creaks in floorboards and ultraviolet morning light, finally finding a friend, and opening the curtains to see the clearest, brightest daylight after the darkest night.

Dear taylorswift, We don’t know if we speak on behalf of all your fans, but we know we’re voicing some of our friends’ opinion right now. You see, we couldn’t be happier each time that you’re online interacting with us on social media. It’s always fun when you reblog gifs, repost edits and comment on our videos. It’s fun for us and we imagine that it’s fun for you. 

But you want to know what isn’t fun at all? Having that nice video of one of your concerts — that even helped in making that amazing gif set that you liked or reblogged — being taken down. Having your entire Youtube, Vimeo or Tumblr accounts being terminated after receiving three strikes because of content related to you received strikes overnight. To add to the mix, it’s not only videos from this tour that are receiving strikes. Videos from the Fearless Tour, that are almost SIX years old, were the reason some of our friends got their accounts terminated FOREVER. 

We’ve seen gifs and photosets being the reason why people receive strikes on Tumblr lately. Don’t you think this is a little bit excessive? I mean, we don’t know exactly if it’s up to you those decisions, but we’ve got your back when you wanted us to protect your music. We understood when you said that music has value and we appreciate every single thing that has been done for us.  But we also want to share our amazing experiences with our friends. For some of us this is the only way we have to “be there” so we hold on to every crumb we get. Just take time to think about those that never have been experienced one of your concerts and don’t have any perspective that one day they could possibly make it. 

We only know how some specific concert was magical because we had someone who shared that experience with us. On social media we live for that: experiences. But lately we are not sure what we are allowed to share since we’re risking losing all the effort we’ve put on our accounts. 

It’s sad to see that when you’re so close to us, we have to hold back on how we express ourselves because we don’t want to lose our accounts or our memories of all those amazing years that we’ve been following you daily. 

With love,