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we don’t talk about the fact that jin wrote the ending of spring day enough! the whole song is so bittersweet and a big part of what makes it that is the change in lyrics in the ending despite the repetition of the same chorus melody!! the original lyrics “snowflakes are falling and flying further away bit by bit” as well as “how long do i have to wait, how many more sleepless nights do i need before i can see you again, before i can meet you again” is replaced with “cherry blossoms are blooming and the winter is ending” and “if you wait a little longer, wait a few nights longer, i will come meet you, i will come get you” and that replaces melancholy with hope, bitterness with sweetness, and winter with spring. personally i think the hope inspired by the ending even changes the meaning of the last “bogoshipda” from “i miss you” to “i want to see you” and that’s not only really clever but also very touching; that hope is at the very heart of the emotions and message spring day conveys as a song and jin did That.

— outro: t e a r

his hairrrr omg

rip to all jungkook stans.

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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

rip to all jungkook stans.

beauty

someone help him

rip to all jungkook stans.

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