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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2019 17:33:58 GMT
In the 1950s, an iconoclastic quantum scientist and mathematician named Hugh Everett developed the many-worlds theory, a controversial idea that would lay the groundwork for a canon of alternate universe sci-fi detailing parallel dimensions. Everett’s work focused on the splits in the universe caused by measuring quantum objects, but became fodder for the idea that alternate realities besides our own are forming continually. I don’t know how many people in the audience at Wednesday night’s Amazon Music concert at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom have nerded out on Everett’s theory, but a bastardized version played out as Taylor Swift brought her stadium show to a far more intimate gathering to promote the site’s Prime Day next week. In one universe, Taylor Swift the consummate businesswoman has been publicly airing out her grievances over music manager Scooter Braun’s purchase of her former record label Big Machine and, subsequently, the master recordings for her first six albums. “This is my worst case scenario,” she wrote late last month on Tumblr. “All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at [Braun’s] hands for years.” It’s the closest the music industry has had to a hot war in a while, with pop stars taking sides in Braun v. Swift like it’s the last two minutes of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video. In one sense, it’s very inside baseball, with “industry insiders,” shadowy cabals of kingmakers and the rest of the music industry all watching a typically backroom deal play out in a public setting. In another, it has led, softly, to a wider discussion about an author’s ownership (or lack thereof) of their own music that is only beginning to reverberate.
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2019 17:37:37 GMT
Kelly Clarkson, our country’s beloved cover queen, has thought long and hard about how Taylor Swift can prevail over her unfortunate masters-ownership drama with Scooter Braun, and she might have just cracked the code: Go back to the studio, and do it all again. In a Twitter message directed at Swift on Saturday evening, Clarkson advised her peer that the best course of action might be for Swift to rerecord all of her songs from Taylor Swift to Speak Now to 1989 and release them, knowing her fans will flock to purchase anything she releases. This move would ensure Swift would own the new versions, thus rendering the old masters obsolete. (JoJo did something similar, and it was a success.) “Just a thought, you should go in and re-record all the songs that you don’t own the masters on exactly how you did them but put brand new art and some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions,” Clarkson wrote to Swift. “I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2019 1:28:05 GMT
The 38-year-old music manager is making light of his recent drama with Taylor Swift on social media. "Last couple of weeks have really taken a toll on me," he shared on Instagram, alongside an altered photo of himself looking a lot older. If anything, he playfully joined the recent online trend of celebs transforming themselves into old people. Naturally, the entertainment executive's 3.1 million followers took notice, including some of his famous friends. "Handsome," Sam Smith commented on Braun's post. "Bruhhhhhhhh," Graham Bunn wrote. While Scooter has yet to publicly address his drama with the 29-year-old blonde beauty, this comes pretty darn close. In fact, it's been a "couple of weeks" since news of their rift caught like wildfire. For those unfamiliar, Swift called out the New York native last month after learning he would soon own the masters to her recordings. Braun reportedly purchased the "Bad Blood" singer's former label, Big Machine Records, for a reported $300 million.
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2019 4:54:17 GMT
Taylor left Big Machine Records in late 2018 when her six-album/10-year contract ended. She went on to sign a new deal with Republic Records and is set to release her first album under the label next month. http://instagram.com/p/B0WMEdfHlnH Later that day, Taylor shared a lengthy Tumblr post in which she expressed devastation at being denied the right to own her master recordings with Big Machine, and described the fact that Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun would retain ownership of her "life's work in perpetuity" as her "worst nightmare". Speaking to Billboard, Scooter revealed that he and Taylor first met back in 2010 when Justin opened a show on her Fearless tour, and he recalls her being "kind". http://instagram.com/p/B0PfWkVHYWg He explained that he also met Scott for the first time that evening, and immediately related to him since he had signed a 15-year-old Taylor to his new label, Big Machine, five years earlier. "Our stories were familiar," Scooter said. "Everyone at Big Machine — Taylor was kind, Scott was kind. Everyone was kind to me and Justin when we were doing that show, and you don't forget those things. I never forgot that, and we started a friendship."
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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2019 1:29:51 GMT
Swift calls out Scooter Braun Earlier this Summer, Swift accused Braun of bullying her in the past after he purchased her old record company, Big Machine Records. She took to her Tumblr page to express that she was “sad and grossed out” by the fact that the original recordings of her first six albums (known as masters) would rest in the hands of someone she has personal issues with. Soon after Swift called Braun out, she announced that she would be re-recording her first five albums beginning next year. http://instagram.com/p/B1rqZzFjieV Swift makes an announcement while promoting Lover In an exclusive interview with Good Morning America, Swift revealed her reasoning behind this decision. Speaking about her most recent album, Lover, Swift explained how excited she was to finally own the music she’d created. “One thing that’s really special to me is that it’s the first one that I will own. Which is a concept that they’re [Swift’s fans] very supportive of,” she confessed amongst a screaming crowd of fans. It’s been a Summer for the Swifties. With nonstop attention on the lyrical phenom that is Taylor Swift, there isn’t a week that’s gone by where the famous singer‘s name hasn’t been in the headlines. Ever since Swift announced her newest studio album, Lover, which has already shattered several world records across the globe, all eyes have been on the talented 29-year-old. But Swift also garnered a different type of attention this Summer when she publically called out Scooter Braun for acquiring ownership of the masters for her first six albums. But now Swift plans to re-record those songs and she has Kelly Clarkson to thank for the idea.
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