Scooter Braun OK With Taylor Swift Re-Record Albums—But Not Weaponizing Fanbase
Scooter Braun got candid about his beef with Taylor Swift, whose masters he infamously bought for $300 million in 2019, saying he has no problem with T-Swizzle re-recording her hits so she can own the publishing rights. But the music industry exec said there is one thing he doesn’t particularly care for — Tay weaponizing her fanbase.
In an interview on MSNBC‘s The Beat with Ari Melber, the Schoolboy Records founder—who has worked with artists like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Demi Lovato—spoke about how he got his hands on the masters. He then admitted that the singer has “every right” to re-record hits like 1989 and Reputation.
“The person who owned Taylor’s masters throughout her career was not myself, and when I was buying a record label, I actually said to that group, ‘If at any point she wants to come back and be a part of this conversation, please let me know because I wouldn’t do this deal,'” Braun said. “I was shown an email—which has now been made public now—where she stated that she wanted to move on from that negotiation and wasn’t interested in doing that deal anymore.”
Tay and Scooter became embroiled in a highly publicized dispute when he got his hands on her masters in 2019 after purchasing her former label, Big Machine Records. The acquisition meant that Taylor lacked the creative freedom of owning the songs from her first six albums.
The Bad Blood singer began re-recording the music in 2021, via Republic Records. So far she has re-recorded Fearless and Red, with fans eagerly awaiting the next “Taylor’s Version” release so they can support the star.
He continued, “I think Taylor has every right to re-record. She has every right to pursue her master's, and I wish her nothing but well, and I have zero interest in saying anything bad about her. I’ve never said anything bad about her in the past, and I won’t start to now. The only thing I disagree with is weaponizing a fanbase.”
Scooter says his family received "numerous death threats" after Taylor claimed he stopped her from playing her old hits and argued that her willingness to weaponize her Swifties is incredibly “dangerous.”
“There’s a responsibility with a fanbase,” Scooter said of Taylor's fans, who have been calling him out for years. “The artists I work with have very large fan bases. You don’t do that. It’s very dangerous. There’re people in that fan base who have mental health issues. There are families involved and I think that’s very, very dangerous.”
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