Taylor Swift tears up telling story of how she got her masters back
Speaking to boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce on a "New Heights" podcast episode that very aptly dropped Aug. 13, Swift choked up multiple times while telling the story.
As Swift grew emotional, she explained, "I don't ever really talk about it."
"I haven't gotten my hopes up about this in a decade," she explained. It was a couple of months after the Super Bowl when she got a call from her mom that delivered the good news: "You got your music."
Swift struggled to say this as she teared up once again. "I very dramatically hit the floor, for real. Bawling my eyes out," she told the Kelces.
Taylor Swift's mom Andrea and brother Austin helped bring her masters home
"After the Eras Tour, I had a meeting with my team, and we decided this might be a good time to approach the current owners of (her masters)," Swift said.
"The owners of it was a private equity firm called Shamrock Capital. I knew them to be aboveboard people; they had been very friendly to us," she continued. "What I was looking to do, though, was I wanted to buy my music outright. I don't want to be in a partnership; I don't want to own 30% of it. I want to own all of it. But it was a long shot to think they would do that."
She chose to make this a personal matter rather than a business decision.
"I'm in the business of human emotion. I would so much rather lead heart-first in something like this. Because for me, this is not 'I want to own this asset because of its returns,'" Swift explained. "Everything that I've ever done is in this catalogue."
"Rather than send lawyers or management and a big crew," she instead flew out her mom Andrea and brother Austin, as her emissaries of sorts to potentially broker the deal in Los Angeles.
"They told them the whole story of all the times we've tried to buy it, all the times it's fallen through. All the times we had gotten plans together and figured out something we thought was going to work and it didn't last minute," Swift said.
And it worked.
Travis Kelce also cried over Taylor Swift's music catalog news
"Nothing New" collaborator Phoebe Bridgers was one of the first to hear the news, Swift said, reenacting the barely coherent, weepy phone call.
She explained that Travis was playing video games when she knocked on the door to tell him she got all her music back.
"I was so happy you were there when that happened. Because I couldn't stand," Swift told Travis.
"I mean, I started crying too. You know I'm a crier," he said. Holding her hand, he said, "I was blown away that you had been doing this your entire life."
Contributing: Bryan West, USA TODAY Network
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