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Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scooter Braun Shares How ‘Deeply Unfair' Backlash to Taylor Swift Feud Turned Out to Be a ‘Gift'
Now that Taylor Swift has bought back the masters to her first six albums, Scooter Braun is reflecting on his part in the yearslong back-and-forth he ignited by purchasing the singer's catalog from Scott Borchetta back in 2019. While speaking about the feud during an episode of The Diary of a CEO posted Monday (June 9), the music mogul began by sharing how he'd originally had high hopes for his relationship with the 'Fortnight' singer after he bought Big Machine Label Group from Borchetta for a reported $300 million six years ago, gaining ownership of Swift's back catalog in the process. Shortly afterward, the pop star shared a Tumblr post calling the sale her 'worst case scenario,' accusing Braun of 'incessant, manipulative bullying' over the years and including a screenshot of a post from Justin Bieber featuring Braun and Kanye West with the caption, 'Taylor swift what's up.' More from Billboard Taylor Swift & Scooter Braun's Feud: A Timeline Kylie Minogue Joins Prestigious '21 Club' at London's O2 Arena Kevin Parker Previews New Tame Impala Music During Barcelona DJ Set Braun says that he was 'shocked' when he read Swift's post. 'When I bought Big Machine, I thought I was going to work with all the artists on Big Machine,' Braun recalled on the podcast. '[Taylor] and I had only met three or four times. One of the times, it was years earlier, it was really a great engagement. She invited me to her party. We respected each other.' 'In between that time since I'd seen her last, I started managing Kanye West,' he continued. 'I managed Justin Bieber. I knew she didn't get along with them. This is where my arrogance came in. I had a feeling she probably didn't like me because I managed them, but I thought once this announcement happened, she'd talk to me, see who I am, and we'd work together. Then this Tumblr comes out, and it says all of this stuff, and I was just shocked.' The involved parties would spend the next few weeks disputing details of how the deal went down — including whether or not Swift found out about the purchase only as it was publicly announced, which she claimed in her post — with Braun later writing in an open letter of his own that he was 'disappointed' in the 14-time Grammy winner for having 'remained silent' despite his family receiving 'numerous death threats' amid the debacle. Swift would later announce plans to re-record her old albums, while the retired manager eventually sold her catalog again to Shamrock Holdings. 'I couldn't fix the relationship that I didn't have, but then I was able to figure out, 'You know what? We'll sell it,'' Braun said of selling to Shamrock on The Diary of a CEO. 'In the world of streaming, the re-records will only help the old catalog as much as they help the new catalog. Both will get a bump. I showed how everyone can be a winner here, and I was able to sell the catalog and — I don't want to go into too much detail, but it's now come out very factually that I did offer it [to Taylor] … multiple times in that process. They said no, I sold to someone else, washed my hands of it and moved on.' Swift has also previously addressed Braun's alleged offers to sell her catalog back to her, though she recalls it much differently. According to the 'Karma' artist, his team had asked her to sign a non-disclosure agreement before she could even 'bid on [her] own work.' 'He would never even quote my team a price,' Swift wrote in a post on X at the time. 'These master recordings were not for sale to me.' Billboard has reached out to Swift's rep for comment. In any case, the musician walked away from negotiations and hammered away at her Taylor's Version re-recording project, releasing highly successful new versions of Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989 between 2021 and 2023. Everything came full circle at the end of May 2025, when Swift announced that she'd finally been able to acquire her old catalog from Shamrock, about which Braun told Billboard at the time, 'I am happy for her.' On the podcast, Braun reiterated that he only hopes for the best for Swift. 'I can't worry about everyone's niece being mad at me,' he quipped. 'What I gotta do is show up for my niece, and I gotta show up for my friends and my family. I wish everyone involved, across the board, whether I know them or not, good wishes.' Even so, the businessman confessed that the fallout was hard on his mental health and personal life, especially as he was going through a tough time with then-wife Yael Cohen that would eventually lead to a divorce. 'When something happens to you that feels deeply unfair, and you can't fix it, then you've really got to look at everything and realize the role you played in this or that, who you want to be,' Braun said of his disagreement with Swift. 'Everything in life is a gift,' he added. 'Having that experience allows me to have empathy for people I worked with. I never knew what it was like to be on the global stage like that. I never knew what criticism like that felt like.' Watch Braun's full interview on The Diary of a CEO above. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Fox Sports
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox Sports
Tickets On Sale Now for Season Finale in Nashville
INDYCAR Weekend Ticket Packages Start at $70 Tickets are on sale now for the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone season finale weekend at Nashville Superspeedway, and the event Aug. 30-31 also will feature a bold new name. Previously known as the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix for the past four years, the Labor Day Weekend celebration will become the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix in 2025 and into the future. The new branding aligns the event with one of Tennessee's fastest-rising premium spirits and further solidifies the Borchetta name's deep roots in American racing culture. The Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix once will again serve as the final race for both the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone, and the 2025 champions will be crowned for both series at the fast 1.33-mile concrete oval at Nashville Superspeedway. Fans can purchase Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix weekend ticket packages, hospitality passes, camping, parking and more at Weekend ticket packages start at just $70 for the action-packed event that will feature championship racing along with live music and family-friendly activities at Nashville Superspeedway. Premium Plus grandstand seating, which includes a reserved parking spot and tip-up seats overlooking the start/finish line, can be purchased for just $150 per person for the weekend. Grandstand tickets for children 12 and under are priced at just $10 for the weekend when accompanied by an adult ticketholder. Camping packages at Nashville Superspeedway are also available for the weekend starting at just $200 for the Glade Campground. Campers will need to purchase race tickets separately. Exclusive hospitality ticket packages are also available for The Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix. Fans can purchase tickets to the RPM Club and Champions Club, which both feature exclusive seating, gourmet food and beverage options, access to the enclosed, climate-controlled clubs, private restrooms, paddock passes, premium parking and more. Ticketholders can also secure additional passes for the weekend, including paddock passes, reserved parking and tailgate parking. For more ticketing options and information, fans can visit Borchetta Bourbon was first introduced in 2021 by Big Machine Distillery, timed to coincide with the inaugural 2021 Big Machine Grand Prix. Proprietor and entrepreneur Scott Borchetta, who played a crucial role in bringing INDYCAR SERIES racing back to Nashville, aimed to create a connection between Indianapolis and Nashville – one that was fortified by the discovery of a 1911 INDYCAR SERIES race at the Nashville Fairgrounds, the same year the Indy 500 was first held. The limited-edition, cask-strength, single-barrel bourbon was designed to honor Nashville's early motorsports history, with its label showcasing a photo of the Nashville starting lineup and a bronze replica of the Marmon 'Wasp,' the winning car from the first Indy 500. recommended
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift Buys Back Her Masters: Read Her Full Letter
Taylor Swift is finally able to say 'You Belong With Me' to her master recordings now that she has reclaimed them. The pop superstar announced on Friday (May 30) that she has purchased them from Shamrock Capital, six years after Scooter Braun first acquired her catalog from Scott Borchetta. Posting photos of herself posing with the covers of her first six albums on Instagram, Swift shared the news with fans by directing them to a letter published on her website. In the lengthy message, the 14-time Grammy winner got candid about how emotional of a process this has been for her — 'I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,' she wrote — before sharing details about the purchase as well as giving updates on the last two Taylor's Version re-records, which fans have been expecting her to drop ever since she started redoing her first six albums in an effort to win back control over the music Borchetta sold in 2019: Reputation and 2006's self-titled debut. More from Billboard Taylor Swift Buys Back Her Masters From Shamrock, Reclaiming Her First Six Albums The Amity Affliction Cover Turnstile's 'Holiday' for 'Like a Version' Mariah Carey Celebrates 20 Years of 'The Emancipation of Mimi': Stream It Now But more than anything, Swift emphasized just how much ownership of her entire discography means to her nearly 20 years into her career. 'To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it,' she wrote. 'To my fans, you know how important this has been to me — so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released four of my albums, calling them Taylor's Version.' 'The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music,' she added in her letter. 'I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now.' Read Swift's entire letter below. Hi, 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 thiiiiiiiis 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 and 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 the concert album art and unreleased memories. The magic. The single entire life's work. To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me — so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released four of my albums, calling them Taylor's Version. The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music. I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now. 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. I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. The way they've handled every interaction we've had has been honest, fair, and respectful. This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: My memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful. My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead. I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it. 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 the 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. There will be a time (if you're into the idea) for the unreleased Vault tracks from that album to hatch. 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. I'm extremely heartened by the conversations this saga has reignited within my industry among artists and fans. Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen. Thank you for being curious about something that used to be thought of as too industry-centric for broad discussion. You'll never know how much it means to me that you cared. Every single bit of it counted and ended us up here. Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine… finally actually are. Elated and amazed, Taylor Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
