KittyHazelnut is Weird

Everybody here was someone else before...

Y'all Taylor Swift just preformed at the Prime Day concert and I know no one cares and unless you've see Zootopia or own 1989 you probably don't know this song, but she sang Welcome to New York acoustic, and it's really not a good song and I've basically skipped it since I got the album in 2014, but the stripped back, just Taylor and her guitar version is literally so good and I genuinely can't explain how much I love it

I did record the whole thing on some new shitty screen recorder program I downloaded about 15 minutes before the show though so it is possible that I have the whole thing recorded (idk it's taking a million years to load) (a million years as in about hour and still going, which is close enough) so I might be able to show y'all how amazing it is

But you wanna know what's even better? 

You can skip the next two paragraphs if you don't care about the backstory, and honestly, you might as well stop reading now because the rest is stupid if you don't hear her say it herself

I don't know if y'all are up to date on the Taylor v. Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta drama (that Demi Lovato for some reason felt the need to drag herself into because she can't miss an opportunity to bring down Taylor), but basically, Scott owned her old record label, which owns the rights to all the music of her first 6 albums. He said Taylor could only get them back if she signed a 10 to 12 year contract with that label, and earned each album back, one at a time. 

Now, Scott has a track record of shooting down every good idea Taylor has ever had (including switching to pop and working with some of the best writers and producers out there), and he's very much only in it for the money, and Taylor knew better than to lock herself into a deal with him until she's in her 40s. Then Scott sold his label to Scooter, who's been linked to funding a literal terrorist organization, which has been linked to the bombing of civilians in Yemen, so needless to say, he's a shitty guy. He's also Justin Bieber and Kanye West's manager, and even though I hate Justin, I'll be the first to admit that their feud is a lil childish on both ends. But if y'all remember 2016, Kanye released a song with the lyrics, "I think me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous." This was some hug controversy because Taylor said she never agreed to those lyrics from her supposed friend, and then Kim leaked an edited version of their (illegally recorded) phone call, and everyone called Taylor a snake (thank you, locals, for giving us I Did Something Bad), even though even that video didn't have the second half of the lyrics (and, spoiler alert, you can't make someone famous when their second album debuted higher than any of your own, at the time or now). Then the creepy ass music video came out, where they put a naked wax figure of Taylor between him and known rapist Bill Cosby. All of this was sanctioned by Scooter, and it sent Taylor into hiding for months. It's also the reason she turned her instagram comments off and doesn't use Twitter much. There's also this whole thing about how Scooter orchestrated Justin's "what up Taylor" insta post back in 2016 too but at this point, y'all get it. She hates Scooter, so the fact that he now owns her masters really pissed her off.

Now, back to the present, this is Taylor's first real public appearance since then (if you don't count her hiding from the paparazzi under an umbrella getting off the plane from her 4th of July party), and people were really wondering what she was going to do, if anything, about Scooter. Well, she made it very clear, in a very casual way, that she writes all her music. It is hers. It should be no one else's. (that's not the direction she made it seem like she was going in but I think it was.) She made a comment like "Little known fact, I actually started in country music," after Scooter changed some of her country albums to say pop on iTunes. And, my personal favorite, which I am begging you to look up on Twitter because I love it, she finished the night with Shake It Off, and when she got the the bridge, she was like, "while you've been getting down and out about the LIARS AND THE D I R T Y  D I R T Y  C H E A T S  O F  T H E  W O R L D, you could've been getting down to this sick beat." Like, she yelled it with her entire soul. And if you listen closely to the live stream audio, you can literally hear someone yell "FUCK HIM!" after and basically I died

So yeah I'm gonna hope my screen recording is almost done now because I've eaten half a pint of Ben and Jerry's in the last 15 minutes

I take it back, it's only up to 35%, and this isn't even the final step fml