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Finn Cole

Taron Egerton

Jack O'Connell

Joe Cole

Iwan Rheon

Lover 💕 Friday, August 23. 

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,

💔

Emma Gonzalez

Malala Yousafzai

Ruby Bridges

Greta Thunberg

Mari Copeny

Autumn Peltier

Afreen Khan

Sophie Cruz

Charlottesville Black Students Union

Naomi Wadler

DAPL protestors (names not found)

aries: you must let go of the things you cannot control. you need to let the wind take you where it pleases without causing a fuss.

taurus: no more giving into your sadness. you must fight it, battle it, do not let it consume you. not anymore.

gemini: love with all your heart, let your guard down and start wandering your heart.

cancer: let yourself breathe. stop holding on so tightly to things that may or may not be yours and here to stay.

leo: get your fierce self back. say no, be bitchy, let people know when they’ve made you mad. stop holding back.

virgo: you have to let love come in, stop pushing it away or you’ll never feel the most beautiful things.

libra: let go of your negative thoughts and live in the now. you might miss out if you don’t start looking around.

scorpio: let the past live in the past. those mistakes are gone, what matters is today.

sagittarius: make time for yourself, let yourself breathe and feel free again.

capricorn: it will all work out, you just have to be patient and keep on believing in the universe.

aquarius: embrace the unknown, you too often get stressed out before you even know what is coming.