Taylor Swift is calling on fans for help after accusing Scooter Braun, along with Scott Borchetta, of banning the singer from performing a medley of her OG hits at the AMAs. That wasn’t the only bombshell in her Twitter essay!
Taylor Swift’s beef with Scooter Braun, 38, is not over yet. She was “grossed out” after the music manager acquired the masters to her first six albums in June of 2019, and the 29-year-old pop sensation is now claiming that Scooter and Big Machine Label Group’s founder/Taylor’s former label boss, Scott Borchetta, won’t let her perform any of the songs from these records at the American Music Awards on Nov. 24! “Guys — it’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would bere-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year,” Taylor revealed in a Twitter essay, shared on Nov. 14. As a refresher, Scott signed Taylor onto Big Machine Records when she was just 15 years old. She announced her decision to leave BMLG in Nov. 2018, and made the move to Republic Records and Universal Music Group.
Along with the AMAs bombshell, Taylor dropped even bigger news: a Netflix documentary about the singer is in the works! “Additionally – and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news — Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years,” Taylor revealed to her Twitter fans. “Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.”
Taylor then revealed the alleged ultimatum offered to her by Scott, whose record label (BMLG) was purchased by Scooter in a reported $300 million deal this past summer. “Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to o and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun,” Taylor revealed. HollywoodLife has reached out to Scooter’s rep for comment.
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— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 14, 2019
Obviously, Taylor is not happy with those alleged terms, who feels like she’s being told to “be a good little girl and shut up.” She even declared that “this is WRONG,” pointing out the fact that neither Scooter nor Scott was involved in the song-writing process of albums like Reputation and Fearless. As a last resort, Taylor is now turning to fans, urging them to “let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this.”
Taylor is even looking for help from “several artists” that Scooter managers whom she believes “care about other artists and their work,” and whom she also hopes “can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote.” That led Twitter fans to flood the pages of singers like Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato with pleas to stop supporting Scooter, who manage all these artists.
Sourse: hollywoodlife.com
