She continued, “I needed to make the excruciating alternative to go away behind my previous. Music I wrote on my bed room flooring and movies I dreamed up and paid for from the cash I earned enjoying in bars, then golf equipment, then arenas, then stadiums.
Some enjoyable details about as we speak’s information: I realized about Scooter Braun’s buy of my masters because it was introduced to the world. All I may take into consideration was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve obtained at his palms for years.
Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a telephone name to be leaked after which Scooter obtained his two shoppers collectively to bully me on-line about it…Or when his consumer, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my physique bare. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given a possibility to purchase. Basically, my musical legacy is about to lie within the palms of somebody who tried to dismantle it.
That is my worst case state of affairs. That is what occurs whenever you signal a deal at fifteen to somebody for whom the time period ‘loyalty’ is clearly only a contractual idea. And when that man says ‘Music has worth’, he means its worth is beholden to males who had no half in creating it.
Once I left my masters in Scott’s palms, I made peace with the truth that ultimately he would promote them. By no means in my worst nightmares did I think about the client can be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the phrases ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was after I was both crying or making an attempt to not. He knew what he was doing; they each did. Controlling a girl who didn’t wish to be related to them. In perpetuity. Which means without end.
Fortunately, I’m now signed to a label that believes I ought to personal something I create. Fortunately, I left my previous in Scott’s palms and never my future. And hopefully, younger artists or children with musical goals will learn this and find out about tips on how to higher defend themselves in a negotiation. You need to personal the artwork you make.
I’ll at all times be happy with my previous work. However for a more healthy possibility, Lover shall be out August 23.
Unhappy and grossed out,
💔
Taylor”
