{"id":292277,"date":"2025-07-26T03:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292277\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:35:13","slug":"scooter-braun-says-taylor-swift-fans-made-the-horrible-miscalculation-that-i-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292277\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter Braun says Taylor Swift fans &#8220;made the horrible miscalculation that I care\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Braun has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> fans \u201cmade the horrible miscalculation that I care\u201d\u00a0 about their anger over him purchasing the singer\u2019s masters and selling them for a profit.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-end-impact-3820896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras Tour comes to an end: a look at its massive global impact<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Braun\u2019s company Ithaca Holdings acquired Swift\u2019s back catalogue in 2019 when it purchased her old record label, Big Machine Label Group. Braun sold Swift\u2019s 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 \u201cthe worst-case scenario\u201d for her,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-calls-out-scooter-braun-for-manipulative-bullying-after-he-buys-her-back-catalogue-2520900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling him out for his \u201cincessant, manipulative bullying\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swift subsequently began a project to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-says-she-plans-to-re-record-material-after-losing-the-rights-to-her-songs-to-scooter-braun-2540568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-record songs from her first six albums<\/a> so she could own her music again. Between 2021 and 2023, Swift released \u2018Taylor\u2019s Version\u2019s of her albums \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-fearless-taylors-version-review-2916595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fearless<\/a>\u2018 (originally released in 2008), \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version-review-3093107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red<\/a>\u2018 (2012), \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-taylor-swifts-collaborations-with-hayley-williams-and-fall-out-boy-3466259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speak Now<\/a>\u2018 (2010) and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-review-lyrics-tracklist-3522001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1989<\/a>\u2018 (2014), with the re-recordings cumulating in billions of streams that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swifts-1989-taylors-version-breaks-two-spotify-records-3525033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke Spotify records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-all-the-music-ive-ever-made-now-belongs-to-me-3866250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought back her masters<\/a>, giving her control over her entire catalogue for the first time. \u201cI almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut that\u2019s all in the past now. All of the music I\u2019ve ever made \u2026 now belongs \u2026 to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Braun has revisited the situation in a recent podcast appearance, which was recorded before Swift acquired her masters once again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, me even talking about this now, there\u2019s gonna be\u2026 They\u2019re gonna be yelling and screaming and this, that and the other,\u201d Braun said on a recent episode of Danielle Robay\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KFUiHY4JdAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Question Everything\u00a0<\/a>podcast. \u201cYou can\u2019t say anything right, and it is what it is. My response to that is they made the horrible miscalculation that I care. You know, I don\u2019t know those people out there. And if I met them in person and they needed my help, as a stranger, I would help them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI think people forget that when you have a fan base that big and 10,000 people are yelling at you, it feels like the world is ending, but that\u2019s less than 1 per cent of a fan base that big. I think most people are dealing with their own problems. I think most people are dealing with their own insecurities the same way I am, the same way every artist and every human being is. And I think it\u2019s just a more productive use of your time to not get stuck in the craziness of celebrity fodder and focus more on being kind to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the situation, Braun went on to argue that \u201ceverybody in the end won\u201d because of how successful Swift\u2019s re-recordings ended up being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she did incredibly well and basically had the biggest moment of her career, reinvigorating her career with each [re-recording],\u201d he said. \u201cIt was brilliant on her part, but also each time she released one, you saw a spike in the original catalogue. So, funny enough, everyone involved in the saga, from a business standpoint\u2026 One, she\u2019s the biggest she\u2019s ever been, the biggest artist of all time. We did really well with the asset. The people who bought the asset did really well because of those spikes. The only thing that I\u2019m sad about is, that\u2019s a great example where all ships can rise and there doesn\u2019t need to be an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braun recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/scooter-braun-feels-a-lot-of-guilt-over-young-artists-he-managed-calls-taylor-swift-backlash-deeply-unfair-3868675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called the backlash he faced \u201cdeeply unfair\u201d<\/a> in an appearance on Steven Bartlett\u2019s podcast\u00a0The Diary of a CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I bought Big Machine, I thought I was going to work with all the artists on Big Machine. [Taylor] and I had only met three or four times. One of the times, it was years earlier, it was really a great engagement. She invited me to her party. We respected each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn between that time since I\u2019d seen her last, I started managing Kanye West,\u201d he continued. \u201cI managed Justin Bieber. I knew she didn\u2019t get along with them. This is where my arrogance came in. I had a feeling she probably didn\u2019t like me because I managed them, but I thought once this announcement happened, she\u2019d talk to me, see who I am, and we\u2019d work together. Then this Tumblr comes out, and it says all of this stuff, and I was just shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the sale of Swift\u2019s masters, he said: \u201cI couldn\u2019t fix the relationship that I didn\u2019t have, but then I was able to figure out, \u2018You know what? We\u2019ll sell it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the world of streaming, the re-records will only help the old catalogue as much as they help the new catalogue. Both will get a bump. I showed how everyone can be a winner here, and I was able to sell the catalogue and \u2013 I don\u2019t want to go into too much detail, but it\u2019s now come out very factually that I did offer it [to Swift] \u2026 multiple times in that process. They said no, I sold to someone else, washed my hands of it and moved on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dispute was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/taylor-swift-scooter-braun-legal-battle-made-into-documentary-3754457#:~:text=A%20new%20documentary%20detailing%20the,is%20coming%20out%20in%20June.&amp;text=The%20singer%20has%20been%20re,which%20included%20Swift&#039;s%20early%20work.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0subject of Max\u2019s two-part documentary,\u00a0Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood<\/a>\u00a0last summer, and Braun said later in the year that \u201cit\u2019s time to move on\u201d, while claiming that \u201ca lot of things were misrepresented\u201d in the doc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/scooter-braun-says-he-should-have-handled-taylor-swift-situation-differently-3320781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He has also expressed regrets about how he handled the situation<\/a>, saying in 2022: \u201cI learned an important lesson from that. I think a lot of things got lost in translation. I think that when you have a conflict with someone, it\u2019s very hard to resolve it if you\u2019re not willing to have a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scooter Braun has said that Taylor Swift fans \u201cmade the horrible miscalculation that I care\u201d\u00a0 about their anger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,3020,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-292277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-pop","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114917443063806957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}