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Over the past decade, overmuch has been said (and sung) astir Taylor Swift’s “feud” with Scooter Braun. And though it feels similar we’ve heard it all, Scooter is continuing to telephone retired the misconceptions.
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For a speedy reminder, astatine the clip of Taylor’s infamous beef with Kanye West successful 2016, Scooter was the rapper’s manager. We don’t precisely cognize however progressive Scooter was successful each the Taylor/Kanye drama, but, astatine the tallness of the feud, Justin Bieber posted a screenshot from a FaceTime telephone with Scooter and Kanye to his Instagram page. In this pic, Scooter and Kanye were laughing, and JB captioned it, “Taylor swift what up,” which, if you’re Taylor, astir apt didn’t consciousness each that great.
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Scooter discovered Justin and managed him for 15 years. He managed Kanye betwixt 2016 and 2018.
Three years later, successful 2019, Taylor’s erstwhile manager Scott Borchetta sold his grounds label, Big Machine Records, to Scooter’s company, Ithaca Holdings, for $300 million. This meant that Scooter would nett from the income and usage of each of the euphony that Taylor released done Big Machine during her 10-year declaration with them, which, arsenic I’m definite you know, included her archetypal six albums.
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Given Scooter’s ties to Kanye and that full situation, Taylor was not pleased astir the Big Machine sale. In a lengthy Tumblr station astatine the time, Taylor said that Scott selling to Scooter was her “worst lawsuit scenario,” and went connected to assertion that Scooter had “stripped” her of her life’s enactment that she “wasn’t fixed the accidental to buy.”
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Scooter — who coiled up selling Taylor’s full catalog to Shamrock Holdings for much than $300 cardinal successful October 2020 — has said connected much than 1 juncture that erstwhile helium acquired Big Machine, helium assumed that it meant that he’d get to work with each of the artists that the statement covered. “I thought it was going to beryllium an breathtaking thing,” helium said connected the Diary Of A CEO podcast successful 2025.
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Instead, Taylor acceptable retired connected a well-documented ngo to rerecord her aged music, making the “Taylor’s Version” editions of Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989. While doing so, she precise overmuch framed Scooter arsenic her “nemesis” on the way, releasing a full big of scathing tracks that fans judge are astir him.
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So, present that each is said and done, and Taylor is the arrogant owner of her OG masters, erstwhile again, Scooter has opened up astir being perceived arsenic the atrocious feline successful the story. “[I] went from being like, loved and appreciated for implicit a decennary to virtually a villain the adjacent night,” helium told Suzy Weiss during a caller quality connected her Second Thought podcast, successful which helium firmly acceptable the grounds consecutive connected the existent quality of his narration with Taylor.
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“I volition accidental thing that volition truly sum it up that I don’t cognize if I’ve ever truly said: I don’t cognize Taylor Swift. I deliberation I’ve met her successful my beingness 3 times. I person ne'er had a important speech with her successful my life,” helium said. “I, 1 time, got invited to a backstage enactment by her. She told maine she had the utmost respect for me. I told her I had the utmost respect for her. You don’t walk $300 cardinal buying a statement that she’s connected unless you’re excited astatine the accidental to enactment with her. I volition ne'er genuinely recognize that situation, to this day. I privation her thing but the best.”
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Scooter said helium learned “a tremendous amount” from the acquisition and chose to “grow from it.” “I’m grateful for it astatine this constituent successful my life,” helium said. “But I deliberation there’s this large misconception that, like, we knew each other, and we had this feud and, like, I managed her for years. And radical are usually shocked to find retired that I legitimately don’t cognize her and didn’t person galore interactions with her and ne'er truly knew her.”
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“And similar I said,” helium continued, “I deliberation I met her 3 times successful my life, and I deliberation I spoke to her truly erstwhile for similar much than 2 minutes. But it was a precise bully conversation. And beyond that, thing ever. And past the 3 years anterior to america buying Big Machine, she and I had nary contact. I deliberation it was 2 years. The enactment was similar 2 years earlier oregon 3 years earlier, and past we ne'er had immoderate interaction done the full thing. So I’m conscionable arsenic confused that this is portion of my beingness arsenic you are. But I take to larn and turn from it.”
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On different affirmative note, Scooter said that 1 of the bully things to travel retired of the concern was however it accrued different artists’ consciousness astir owning their music. “The majority, to this day, of masters are inactive owned by labels,” helium said. “As confusing arsenic [the concern was] to me, I deliberation what it did bring to airy is that artists are going to commencement wanting to ain their masters, and I deliberation you’re seeing artists much and much bash that, and I deliberation that’s great.”
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