{"id":2445885,"date":"2019-07-01T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=853911"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:52:16","slug":"scott-borchetta-denies-taylor-swifts-accusations-defends-scooter-braun-after-big-machine-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/scott-borchetta-denies-taylor-swifts-accusations-defends-scooter-braun-after-big-machine-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Borchetta Denies Taylor Swift\u2019s Accusations, Defends Scooter Braun After Big Machine Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta<\/a> responded to accusations Taylor Swift<\/a> laid out in a Tumblr post<\/a> Sunday where she called the sale of her master recordings to music manager Scooter Braun \u201cmy worst cast scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier Sunday, Big Machine announced that Braun\u2019s Ithaca Holdings had acquired the label \u2013 and with it, Swift\u2019s back catalog \u2013 for over $300 million. That afternoon, Swift wrote she was blindsided but not surprised by the sale, but felt Borchetta betrayed her by selling her catalog to Braun. \u201cAll I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I\u2019ve received at his hands for years,\u201d Swift wrote of Braun, who she claims coaxed and egged on the feud between her and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n

Borchetta responded in his own post<\/a> Sunday night, with the exec stating that the deal was settled upon earlier that week during a shareholders\u2019 call; Swift\u2019s father Scott is a Big Machine shareholder and, according to Borchetta, was represented on the call by a 13 Management lawyer. Borchetta added that he texted Swift at 9 p.m. Saturday night about the impending deal. \u201cI truly doubt that she \u2018woke up to the news when everyone else did,’\u201d Borchetta said of Swift\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n

A rep for Swift did not reply to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Swift also stated that \u2013 prior to signing with Universal \u2013 Big Machine Label Group offered a pathway to owning her masters with a new contract where she would \u201c\u2018earn\u2019 one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in,\u201d a claim that Borchetta denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you will read, 100% of all Taylor Swift assets were to be transferred to her immediately upon signing the new agreement,\u201d Borchetta countered alongside a photocopy of the proposed contract. \u201cWe were working together on a new type of deal for our new streaming world that was not necessarily tied to \u2018albums\u2019 but more of a length of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Borchetta added, \u201cTaylor had every chance in the world to own not just her master recordings, but every video, photograph, everything associated to her career. She chose to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Swift expected Big Machine Label Group would be sold following her exit, she felt \u201csad and grossed out\u201d that Borchetta sold to Braun. \u201cWhen I left my masters in Scott\u2019s 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,\u201d Swift wrote. \u201cAny time Scott Borchetta has heard the words \u2018Scooter Braun\u2019 escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his post, Borchetta defended the sale to Braun and the music manager himself while simultaneously throwing Swift under the bus, saying the singer declined Braun\u2019s invitations to perform at a pair of high-profile appearances.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs to her comments about \u2018being in tears or close to it,\u2019 anytime my new partner Scooter Braun\u2019s name was brought up, I certainly never experienced that. Was I aware of some prior issues between Taylor and Justin Bieber? Yes. But there were also times where Taylor knew that I was close to Scooter and that Scooter was a very good source of information for upcoming album releases, tours, etc, and I\u2019d reach out to him for information on our behalf,\u201d Borchetta wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cScooter was never anything but positive about Taylor.  He called me directly about [the] Manchester [benefit concert] to see if Taylor would participate (she declined). He called me directly to see if Taylor wanted to participate in the Parkland March (she declined). Scooter has always been and will continue to be a supporter and honest custodian for Taylor and her music.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of Swift\u2019s Tumblr note, artists have taken sides, with many allegedly unfollowing Braun on social media. Halsey penned a lengthy letter<\/a> in of support for Swift on Twitter, while Bieber both apologized to Swift but defended Braun, his longtime manager, in an Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Braun himself has remained quiet following Swift\u2019s Tumblr post, the manager\u2019s wife Yael took to Instagram<\/a> for a \u201cpublic airing of laundry.\u201d \u201cYou were given the opportunity to own your own masters, you passed,\u201d Yael Cohen Braun wrote. \u201cAnd girl, who are you to talk about bullying? The world has watched you collect and drop friends like wilted flowers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond that, it\u2019s easy to see that the point of putting this out was to get people to bully him,\u201d she added. \u201cYou are supposed to be a role model, but continue to model bullying.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta responded to accusations Taylor Swift laid out in a Tumblr post Sunday where she called the sale of her master recordings to music manager Scooter Braun \u201cmy worst cast scenario.\u201d Earlier Sunday, Big Machine announced that Braun\u2019s Ithaca Holdings had acquired the label \u2013 and with it, Swift\u2019s […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 19:45:12","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}