You Keep All Your Money In A Big Brown Bag Inside A Zoo, What A Thing To Do.

I jammed with Paul McCartney, how was your night?

Hey Dave, what’s up?

Hey Perry, last night I jammed with Paul McCartney, how was yours?

My night? Awesome, read to my kids. You can’t spell awesome without me you know?

"60 seconds? You're gonna give me" ..

Attention @katyperryblog shoppers, due to safety regulations we no longer carry fireworks.

Pretender or Best of you? Tie

I don't know why we're talking about these gods among men, but I'm here for it 💜🤘

It’s always been my belief that when a musician chooses to release his or hers art to the world it belongs to anybody who is willing to listen. It’s always been a trade-off between personal integrity and how many people you want to reach basically. There is always a price to fame and you’ve paid it alright.

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,

💔

Taylor

Remember. Whatever.

November 12. Remember it. 

That time I went as James Dean, daydream, white t-shirt

so me and my girlfriend, you met her, she's from uh La Jolla?

uh anyway, we got some money from her lawyers

so we're gonna stop by because

she's got a blank space baby

That's better Johnny, I mean Jimmy. You know I miss you. Ever since the band broke up, I miss you. We all missed ya. The Beatles missed ya. All the Beatles missed ya.

Happy Halloween Lovers 💘🎃✨

And we see you over there on the internet

During a Zoom music theory class the teacher asked what notes are in the 1st inversion of C#

One renegade put an F in the chat

You wouldn’t be the first renegade to need somebody 🌹

Collage by Graham Tolbert

Photo by James Reynolds

The object of tennis is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.

In baseball, the object is to go home!

And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

While we’re looking for things to do at home, I thought it’d be fun to share behind the scenes of my dad’s acting debut. 🎾

Pink and purple sky up on the roof

Sun’s still up, still curfew

Stressed out lately, me too

This love is worth the drive in my black TLU

/feeling u22

Not a lot going on at the moment

Nah man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is to begin with.

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE SCENE. 

ya know, I can't believe I even thought 

about getting back together with you

we are never ever getting back together

can’t talk right now, I’m doin hot squirrel shit 🐿

deep in the jungle, where the mighty sergeant lies

billy and his shears were taken by surprise

captain marvelous zapped him right between the eyes

what did you win?

a marvelous time 🥲