'My musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it,' Taylor Swift wrote on Tumblr in response to news that Scooter Braun acquired her back catalogue in a $300 million deal.
“I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in,” Swift wrote. “I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future.”
Swift then explained that she had to make the “excruciating choice” to leave her past behind when she left the label. “Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums,” she wrote. According to Swift, she learned of the label’s purchase at the same time as the rest of the world.
Swift then explained why she was so upset about the deal. “All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at [Braun’s] hands for years,” Swift wrote.orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked.
Swift ended the post on a grateful note, advising other creators out there to protect themselves and negotiate,
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