Scooter Braun says Taylor Swift fans “made the horrible miscalculation that I care” – NME

Scooter Braun has said that Taylor Swift fans “made the horrible miscalculation that I care”  about their anger over him purchasing the singer’s masters and selling them for a profit. Braun’s company Ithaca Holdings acquired Swift’s back catalogue in 2019 when it purchased her old record label, Big Machine Label Group. Braun sold Swift’s masters to Shamrock Capital for $300 million the following year, prompting huge backlash from her fanbase. Swift herself wrote in a Tumblr post that this was “the worst-case scenario” for her, calling him out for his “incessant, manipulative bullying” Swift subsequently began a project to re-record songs from her first six albums so she could own her music again. Between 2021 and 2023, Swift released ‘Taylor’s Version’s of her albums ‘Fearless‘ (originally released in 2008), ‘Red‘ (2012), ‘Speak Now‘ (2010) and ‘1989‘ (2014), with the re-recordings cumulating in billions of streams that broke Spotify records. In May, Swift bought back her masters, giving her control over her entire catalogue for the first time. “I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” she wrote. “But that’s all in the past now. All of the music I’ve ever
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