Taylor swift tumblr quotes1/7/2024 ![]() ![]() Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. ![]() ![]() Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. 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. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. 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. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. 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. For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. ![]()
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