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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2019 17:41:59 GMT
Taylor Swift wrote a lengthy post on her Tumblr account after it was announced Scooter Braun's company, Ithaca Holdings, had acquired Taylor's old record label, Big Machine Records, for $300 million. Taylor left Big Machine late last year after her 10-year contract expired, and signed a new record deal with Republic Records, an imprint of Universal Music Group. http://instagram.com/p/BqXgDJBlz7d When she announced the new deal on Instagram, Taylor revealed she would own the master recordings of all her music going forward, but Big Machine Records would retain the rights to the masters for all six of her previous albums in perpetuity. That basically means the label — and, now, Scooter Braun — will profit from sales and use of Taylor's old music for the rest of forever. In yesterday's Tumblr post, Taylor said she'd been given the option to get back the rights to her masters if she signed a new contract with Big Machine, essentially meaning she'd "earn" the rights to one old album for every new one she released.
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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2019 17:29:47 GMT
Taylor Swift's VERY public war with Scooter Braun over rights to her masters has backfired for the singer -- 'cause people are playing those old tracks ... which only helps her enemy. We monitored Amazon's 'Movers and Shakers' music chart all day Monday -- following Taylor lashing out at Scooter Sunday for buying Big Machine Label Group, and the rights to all her old albums as a result -- and it looks like folks were craving some OG Taylor. Four of her old albums -- which were produced under a Big Machine contract -- saw significant spikes in CD purchases ... with a couple of them even climbing to the top spots on the 'M&S' list. Taylor's debut album, "Taylor Swift" peaked at #3 Monday in digital sales -- up 471% --and her fourth studio album, "Red," peaked at #4 -- up 433%.
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 17:48:52 GMT
On Sunday, Taylor Swift shared a Tumblr post in which she responded to the news that Scooter Braun's company, Ithaca Holdings, had acquired her former record label, Big Machine Records, for $300 million. http://instagram.com/p/BwnT2J4DJCt In the Tumblr post, she revealed that Big Machine — and, by extension, Scooter Braun — will retain the rights to all six of her albums "in perpetuity". She described the situation as her "worst nightmare". For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it. This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2019 17:32:42 GMT
It’s very easy to talk around Taylor Swift, rather than about her. After all, the media has been doing it for years now. Swift has been used as a means of excavating a whole range of trends in modern pop music and contemporary culture, her personas examined as symptoms of the various phases of post-9/11 America. Over the last six years, she’s been described as a blight on country music; an offshoot of America’s aesthetic fetishisation of fascism; and a haughty, furiously apolitical princess cut off from the fans that she claims to support. It’s not hard to see why the media can’t seem to decide quite who she is. Chameolonic transformations have become part and parcel with the pop process — these days, most mainstream musicians spend their time in the sun trading cliches with each other, Miley Cyrus going country just as Katy Perry goes political just as Billie Eilish goes dark, and on and on, ad infinitum.
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2019 17:50:17 GMT
Last night, Taylor Swift dressed up in a glittery onesie and took the stage for the first time since calling out Scooter Braun (and Justin Bieber...and Kim Kardashian...and Kanye West) for being a manipulative bully.
While performing at the Amazon Prime Day concert, Taylor went ahead and sang “Shake It Off,” which—as you probably know—includes the lyrics “Just think, while you’ve been getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats in the world, you could have been getting down to this sick beat.”
Apparently, Taylor put a special/shady emphasis on the whole “liars and dirty, dirty cheats of the world” section, and fans are convinced this was her not-that-subtle way of shading Scooter—not to mention her old record label, Big Machine. And honestly, the video speaks for itself:
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