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Exclusive:“Scooter Braun spent $200 million on Taylor Swift to help her build her new studio while they were still dating. Before Taylor Swift betrayed him, Kim Kardashian says, ‘I’m telling you this for the fans to understand the type of person she is.’”
Scooter Braun‘s case against Taylor Swift is clearly not over yet, the manager has spoken again about the process of buying The Big Machine Records and consequently the purchase of the singer’s music catalog.This time, Braun denied the narrative launched by Swift, who said that she had not had the opportunity to buy her own songs when he bought the label where the singer began her career.
When participating in the program “The Beat“, on the MSNBC channel, Scooter saw an excerpt from an interview with Taylor where the singer explained that “she did not have the opportunity to buy her own songs” and that is why she would record again in order to return it your own work. After the video, the manager replied:bad blood between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun has inspired song lyrics, forced celebrities to take sides and incurred the wrath of Swifties.
The drama came to a head in June 2019 when it was announced that Braun’s media company, Ithaca Holdings, had acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group for $300 million. Through the deal, Braun became the new owner of Swift’s first six albums with Big Machine Records: her self-titled debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and
The bad blood between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun has inspired song lyrics, forced celebrities to take sides and incurred the wrath of Swifties.The drama came to a head in June 2019 when it was announced that Braun’s media company, Ithaca Holdings, had acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group for $300 million. Through the deal, Braun became the new owner of Swift’s first six albums with Big Machine Records: her self-titled debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation.
Swift condemned the business deal via Tumblr, calling it her “worst case scenario” and claiming that she’d faced “incessant, manipulative bullying” from Braun for years.That August, the singer announced her plans to rerecord her first six albums in an attempt to regain the rights to her masters. “I think artists deserve to own their own work,” she told Robin Roberts during an appearance on Good Morning America.after Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine made headlines in July 2019, Swift slammed the business deal via Tumblr.
In the lengthy blog post, the musician claimed that “for years,” she’d “pleaded for a chance to own my work” but was instead “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.”Swift, who became Big Machine’s first client in 2005, continued: “I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, [Big Machine Records founder and CEO] Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past.
The 12-time Grammy winner then claimed that she found out Braun had purchased her masters after the deal was made public. “All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years,” she wrote. “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.