{"id":283986,"date":"2019-11-21T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1095908"},"modified":"2019-11-21T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:23:00","slug":"scooter-braun-finally-addresses-taylor-swift-drama-and-calls-himself-the-bad-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/scooter-braun-finally-addresses-taylor-swift-drama-and-calls-himself-the-bad-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter Braun Finally Addresses Taylor Swift Drama and Calls Himself the &#8221;Bad Guy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.535273368607\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.509700176367\">\n<p><strong>Scooter Braun<\/strong> is finally addressing the dramatic situation involving&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Scott Borchetta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;recent&nbsp;months, Taylor Swift has spoken openly about her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1093725\/taylor-swift-s-former-record-label-fires-back-at-singer-s-false-information-amid-music-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feud with&nbsp;Braun and Borchetta<\/a>. She&#8217;s used social media as a tool to convey her displeasure with the two men and to implore her fellow musicians to support her in this ongoing dispute. Naturally, many of those musicians have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1093645\/celebs-react-after-taylor-swift-takes-another-stand-against-scooter-braun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">come to her aid<\/a>, whether it be via social media or in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>All the while, Scooter has chosen to remain silent on the matter. He acknowledges this while <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/music\/news\/scooter-braun-breaks-silence-taylor-swift-bad-guy-1203412278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speaking<\/a> at the&nbsp;2019 Entertainment Industry Conference, co-sponsored by <em>Variety<\/em> and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t talked about this in six months. Not once. I haven&#8217;t made a statement about it,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scooter reveals his belief that&nbsp;publicly addressing the situation won&#8217;t do anything to bring it to an end. He explains, &#8220;I just think we live in a time of toxic division, and of people thinking that social media is the appropriate place to air out on each other and not have conversations. And I don&#8217;t like politicians doing it. I don&#8217;t like anybody doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>He adds, &#8220;If that means that I&#8217;ve got to be the bad guy longer, I&#8217;ll be the bad guy longer, but I&#8217;m not going to participate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191021\/rs_1024x759-191121144505-1024x759-scooter-gj-11-21-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Scooter Braun\" alt=\"Scooter Braun\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Michael Buckner\/Variety\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>Scooter also reveals he&nbsp;wants to sit down and have a &#8220;closed door&#8221; discussion with Taylor to hammer out their issues. Braun says he genuinely believes much of the controversy stems from &#8220;miscommunications,&#8221; which he won&#8217;t discuss because he doesn&#8217;t want to &#8220;add to the narrative.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his desire to put an end to this saga, he says this drama is taking a toll on him personally. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard, because I can handle it pretty easily, but when it gets to a place where there&#8217;s death threats and there&#8217;s offices being called and people being threatened\u2026 it&#8217;s gotten out of hand,&#8221; he shares. &#8220;Right now we&#8217;re in a scary time where people say things and then people might not be in the right mindset and do really horrible things. And we&#8217;re inciting all of this by continuing these arguments in public. We just need to go behind closed doors and see if we can have a conversation. And if we&#8217;re not having conversations, then I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to find resolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.465694006309\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019920\/rs_634x1024-191020185232-634.taylor-swift.ct.102019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Taylor Swift, We Can Survive concert\" alt=\"Taylor Swift, We Can Survive concert\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Getty Images for Entercom<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.546698872786\">\n<p>His comments come just days after Swift announced she was&nbsp;declined the right to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1093620\/taylor-swift-calls-out-scooter-braun-and-scott-borchetta-s-tyrannical-control-of-her-music-as-battle-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sing her old music at the 2019 American Music Awards<\/a>. She claimed in a long, emotional statement that Scott and Scooter told her&nbsp;&#8220;they&#8217;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&#8217;m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She then asked her fans to &#8220;let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this,&#8221; which&nbsp;had the unintentional effect of causing&nbsp;fans to send threatening&nbsp;messages to both men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the days following, it was revealed by Big Machine records, in a statement not authorized by Dick Clark productions, Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1094554\/taylor-swift-is-now-allowed-to-perform-her-old-music-at-the-2019-amas-amid-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would be allowed to perform her old catalog<\/a> at the award show after all. &#8220;The Big Machine Label Group and Dick Clark Productions announce that they have come to terms on a licensing agreement that approves their artists&#8217; performances to stream post show and for re-broadcast on mutually approved platforms,&#8221; Big Machine Label Group said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;This includes the upcoming American Music Awards performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1095908\/scooter-braun-finally-addresses-taylor-swift-drama-and-calls-himself-the-bad-guy?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Braun is finally addressing the dramatic situation involving&nbsp;Taylor Swift and&nbsp;Scott Borchetta. In&nbsp;recent&nbsp;months, Taylor Swift has spoken openly about her feud with&nbsp;Braun and Borchetta. She&#8217;s used social media as a tool to convey her displeasure with the two men and to implore her fellow musicians to support her in this ongoing dispute. Naturally, many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-11 03:05:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}