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Perth Now
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Carole King praises inspirational Taylor Swift
Carole King has praised Taylor Swift as an inspiration. The 'Cruel Summer' hitmaker revealed on Friday (30.05.25) that she had regained control of the rights to all the songs from her early albums, 'Taylor Swift', 'Fearless', 'Speak Now', 'Red', '1989' and 'Reputation', and the 83-year-old singer-songwriter has joined Taylor in celebrating the milestone. Carole shared the announcement on her Instagram Story and over a photo of Taylor raising her hands in celebration, she wrote: 'You continue to inspire! [heart, heart hands and music notes emojis] (sic)" Taylor was furious in 2019 when music manager Scooter Braun bought her former label, Big Machine Records, and her master recordings, which he then sold on to Shamrock Capital in 2020, prompting her to re-record and release 'Taylor's Versions' of 'Fearless', 'Speak Now', 'Red', and '1999'. But on Friday, the 35-year-old pop star shared with fans the news she had reaquired the rights to her records. She shared in an emotional post on her website 'I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news. All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close , reaching out for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled then yanked away. But that's all in the past now. 'I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me. And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life's work." Taylor went on to add that buying back the rights was her 'greatest dream come true' and she praised those at investment firm Shamrock Capital for offering her the opportunity. The 'Bad Blood' singer has been a fan of Carole for many years, and in 2021, she introduced the 'Where You Lead' musician for her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She said: "I cannot remember a time when I didn't know Carole King's music. 'I was raised by two of her biggest fans, who taught me the basic truths of life as they saw it: That you should treat people the way you want to be treated, that you must believe you can achieve whatever you want to in life and that Carole King is the greatest songwriter of all time... 'Carole taught artists like me that telling your own story is worth the work and struggle it takes to earn the opportunity for your story to be heard."
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How Scooter Braun's $300M Taylor Swift gamble sparked years of controversy: Full timeline
The acquisition of Taylor Swift's early albums by Scooter Braun ignited a highly publicized feud over ownership and artistic control (Getty Images) What began as a record deal gone wrong has since evolved into one of the most public and emotionally charged disputes in the music industry. Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun 's feud is no longer just about ownership of masters — it's about power, creative control, and how artists are treated in an industry dominated by billion-dollar players. The deal that changed everything: Scooter Braun's acquisition of Taylor Swift's catalog I n 2019, the music world was stunned when Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Label Group — and with it, Taylor Swift's first six albums. The $300 million deal meant Braun controlled the master recordings of Fearless, Red, 1989, and more. Swift didn't hold back in her response, calling it her 'worst case scenario' and alleging she had been subjected to 'incessant, manipulative bullying' by Braun. Despite Swift's desire to purchase her own catalog, she said she wasn't even given a quote. 'These master recordings were not for sale to me,' she declared, making clear that the decision was not only a business betrayal but a deeply personal blow. Taylor Swift's powerful response: Reclaiming her art Refusing to be silenced, Swift launched her re-recording campaign, starting with Fearless (Taylor's Version) in 2021. 'Artists should own their own work,' she wrote, setting a precedent for other musicians and sending a strong message about artistic independence. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Frankenthal: GEERS sucht 700 Testhörer für Hörgeräte ohne Zuzahlung GEERS Undo Each re-release became a cultural moment, powered by loyal fans and her refusal to back down. The singer's actions weren't just about reclaiming music — they were about regaining dignity and control over her legacy. As she later told TIME, 'There is one thing I've learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things.' Scooter Braun's defense and eventual retreat Braun, for his part, expressed regret. 'I regret and it makes me sad that Taylor had that reaction,' he told Variety. While he denied bullying and said he tried to speak with her, the damage was done — and the court of public opinion had largely sided with Swift. By 2024, Braun lost major clients like Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, and in 2025, he announced his retirement from artist management. Though he insisted, 'It's time to move on,' fans weren't so quick to forget. Also Read: 'Swiftie independence day': New video of Taylor Swift singing 'Getaway Car' melts fans as she reclaims control of her music legacy With a docuseries, public statements, and a relentless pursuit of creative control, Swift's battle with Braun has become a landmark case in entertainment history. As her team stated, 'None of these men will ever be able to take anything away from Taylor's legacy.'
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift dominated streaming charts (again) after buying her music back
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift announced Friday that she was able to purchase back her entire catalog of music from Shamrock Capital, ending a years-long saga. The 14-time Grammy winner had been in the midst of re-recording her first six albums after they had been purchased by Big Machine Records and music manager Scooter Braun back in 2019. Braun would go on to sell them to Shamrock Capital in 2020. Swift had already recorded Fearless (Taylor's Version), Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Red (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version), with just Reputation and her debut album Taylor Swift waiting for the re-record treatment. After Taylor's Version was released for each album, Swifties would generally refer to the originals as the "stolen versions" and wouldn't stream or purchase them. With the originals no longer "stolen," Swift's albums made a huge jump into the top 10 on Apple Music and Spotify following the announcement. According to various reports from Forbes, chart following sites like Pop Vortex and online accounts like Pop Base, Reputation and Taylor Swift have taken over the top two spots on Apple Music's Top 100 Albums list. Taylor Swift now has 4 albums in the Top 10 of the US iTunes Album Chart:#1 — reputation#2 — Taylor Swift#8 — Speak Now#9 — 1989 (Deluxe Edition) — Pop Base (@PopBase) May 31, 2025 All of Swift's catalog seemingly got a boost from Friday's news, with all 15 studio albums reportedly in the top-100 at one time. Swift was the first to be able to unseat the wildly popular country artist Morgan Wallen and his new album, I'm the Problem, from the top spot. Miley Cyrus has rounded out the top-5 with her new release Something Beautiful. This article originally appeared on For The Win: Taylor Swift dominated streaming charts (again) after buying her music back
NBC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff re-create iconic moment to celebrate her historic masters purchase
Taylor Swift is enjoying her 'Reputation' era again after breaking the news that she now owns her master recordings. Swift announced in a May 30 letter on her website that after re-recording four of her albums — dubbed 'Taylor's Version' — she bought back all of her masters, including her 2006 self-titled debut and 2017's 'Reputation.' Swift's longtime friend and producer, Jack Antonoff, shared a video of the duo on X the night of May 30 as they enjoyed a 'guilt free' listen of 'Reputation' to celebrate the news. In the clip, Swift and Antonoff sang the album's ninth track, 'Getaway Car' and re-created a viral moment from her 2020 documentary 'Miss Americana' where they wrote the song together. Swift was initially carrying her cat Meredith at the start of the video before placing the feline down to finish the tune with Antonoff, who screamed as the clip ended. 'rep forever guilt free listening!' Antonoff captioned the post. After re-recording four of her albums, including 'Fearless,' 'Speak Now,' 'Red' and '1989,' Swift addressed in her May 30 letter to fans whether she would be re-releasing the rest of her first six albums to complete the project. 'What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it,' Swift wrote on her website. 'The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it…To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or the photos, or the videos. So I kept putting it off.' However, Swift shared, 'I've already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now.' Whether fans will get to hear 'Taylor's Version' of those two albums — or even just the vault tracks — remains unknown, with the singer writing, 'But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.' After working with Swift on several tracks from 2014's '1989,' Antonoff and Swift kicked off a long partnership of co-writing and producing her subsequent albums, including 'Reputation,' 'Lover,' 'Folklore,' 'Evermore,' 'Midnights' and several songs on her most recent record, 'The Tortured Poets Department.' During an October 2023 appearance on 'Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist,' Antonoff opened up about his friendship and working relationship with Swift over the decades, including why he thinks they work so well together. 'That relationship has gone on and on and on and I think we've just pushed each other endlessly,' Antonoff explained. 'I could quantify our relationship in very reductive ways about the things we agree on, the sounds we like, but the truth is, we've just grown together. She's put an amazing amount of belief in me.'
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift Reveals Why She Hasn't Released ‘Reputation TV' Yet: ‘I Kept Hitting a Stopping Point'
Taylor Swift finally revealed why we haven't seen Reputation (Taylor's Version) yet — are you ready for it? In a heartfelt letter to fans, Swift excitedly announced that she regained control of her music, purchasing her recordings from the investment firm Shamrock Capital. 'I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but never owned until now,' she wrote. 'All I've ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy.' More from Rolling Stone How Taylor Won Taylor Swift Got Her Old Albums Back, But Her Re-Records Were Still a Massive Success Taylor Swift's Vinyl Records Are on Sale After Revealing She Now Owns All of Her Music While the news was certainly a reason to celebrate, it left fans with one major question: What about Reputation (Taylor's Version), one of two albums left to re-record and release? (Fans have also been waiting for her to release her debut album, as well, but Reputation was largely speculated to be the next drop.) Well, Swift came with answers and offered an update on the re-recording of the 2017 album, which fans have been feverishly waiting for ever since the last Taylor's Version, 1989, in October 2023. 'I know, I know,' she wrote, causing the ears of every Swiftie across the globe to perk up. 'What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it.' She continued: 'The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off.' That's not to say that Swift won't release the Reputation vault tracks — or her complete re-recording of her 2006 self-titled debut, which she confirmed is already in the can. 'There will be a time (if you're into the idea) for the unreleased Vault tracks from that album to hatch,' she said. 'I've already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.' It's important to note that this doesn't kill the Debutation fan theory — that Swift would release both Reputation TV and the debut TV simultaneously. But neither appear to be imminent, as Swifties were anticipating (they most recently expected the announcement to be made during the 2025 AMAs). Swift herself seemed to tease Reputation TV during the Eras tour, particularly during her first Miami show in October 2024, when she sported a new Reputation bodysuit — the only costume she hadn't swapped since launching the tour in March 2023. She premiered 'Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor's Version),' the first taste of the Reputation re-recording, on the Amazon Original series Wilderness in August 2023. It was featured on another series just last week, in the penultimate episode of The Handmaid's Tale (star and executive producer Elisabeth Moss confirmed she's a Swiftie). Back in 2019, Swift spoke about Reputation in her Rolling Stone cover story, and how, despite it being dark and divisive, the album represented a period of happiness in her personal life. 'The one-two punch, bait-and-switch of Reputation is that it was actually a love story,' she said. 'It was a love story in amongst chaos. All the weaponized sort of metallic battle anthems were what was going on outside. That was the battle raging on that I could see from the windows, and then there was what was happening inside my world — my newly quiet, cozy world that was happening on my own terms for the first time.' Swift first released Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April 2021, following Scooter Braun's multi-million-dollar acquisition of her original masters in 2019. She followed up Fearless TV with re-recordings of Red (November 2021), Speak Now (July 2023), and 1989 (October 2023). Whether or not she ever releases Reputation TV and Taylor Swift TV, her re-recordings were highly influential to the music industry, encouraging other artists (including recently, John Fogerty), to do the same. 'Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this flight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen,' Swift said. But Swift regaining control of her recorded music is a massive, joyous achievement in itself, one that she joked she might celebrate by getting a shamrock tattooed on her forehead (please don't). Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
