Scooter Braun on Taylor Swift Masters Dispute: ‘It’s Time to Move On’
The pair started feuding in 2019 when Braun bought Taylor’s old record label and the rights to her masters.
Scooter Braun is ready to get past his beef with Taylor Swift.
According to Deadline, the former music manager addressed their years-long feud at a Bloomberg Screentime event in Los Angeles, where he also confirmed he’s seen the Max documentary, Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood.
“I watched it recently,” Braun said. “I wasn’t going to watch it because I just thought it was going to be, like, another hit piece. And I pretty much stayed quiet about this kind of stuff. And my dad called me and my mom, and they were like, ‘We just watched it. We think you should watch it.’ So I did.”
As far as his dispute with Swift goes, he said, “Look, it’s five years later. I think, everyone, it’s time to move on.”
But Scooter thought “a lot of things” were “misrepresented” in the doc.
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“I think that it’s important in any kind of conflict that people actually communicate directly with each other. I think doing it out on social media and in front of the whole world is not the place,” he explained. “And I think when people actually take the time to stand in front of each other and have a conversation, they usually find out the monster’s not real, and that hasn’t happened. And that has not happened.”
The pair have been beefing since 2019 when Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings bought Taylor’s old record label, Big Machine and the rights to her masters, and subsequently sold them to the private equity firm, Shamrock Capital in 2020. To date, Swift contends that she wasn’t notified of the sale beforehand.
“A few weeks ago my team received a letter from a private equity company called Shamrock that they had bought 100% of my music, videos and album art from Scooter Braun,” Swift wrote online in 2021. “The letter told me that they wanted to reach out before the sale to let me know but that Scooter Braun had required that they make no contact with me or my team or the deal would be off.”
Since her masters were sold, Swift has been re-recording her albums as Taylor’s Versions to guarantee that she owns all of her music. She has since released four of those albums: 2021’s Fearless (Taylor's Version), 2021’s Red (Taylor's Version), 2023’s Speak Now (Taylor's Version), and 2023’s 1989 (Taylor's Version).
