Scooter Braun is talking to the media and reflecting on his life, but does he regret
his role in the Taylor Swift drama or has he moved on?
What’s up guys, I’m Sussan Mourad here on Clevver News and who could forget the Taylor
Swift vs. Scooter Braun feud of 2019?
For those that need a refresher, it all started when Big Machine Records, the label Taylor
started with at the beginning of her career, got bought by Scooter for about $300 million.
Big Machine owned Taylor’s first six albums.
Scooter, most known as Justin Bieber’s manager, got put on BLAST by Taylor on the day of the
purchase, June 30th, 2019, with a lengthy Tumblr post that read, quote;
“I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world.
All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his
hands for years.”
Tay continued;
“Like when Kim Kardashian 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.
(See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which
strips my body naked.
Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity
to buy.
Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle
it.”
Several artists publicly took sides.
Justin Bieber, Sia, Demi Lovato and Kendall Jenner sided with Scooter while Selena Gomez,
Iggy Azaela, Halsey and Ed Sheeran sided with Taylor.
Enter Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Big Machine Records, who responded with his own blog post
on the record label’s website.
Scott had a clapback of his own, saying, quote;
“Taylor 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.”
It all went south quickly, becoming a war of words, with Taylor accusing Scott and Scooter
of withholding her music in November.
She said quote, “Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed
to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music
before I’m allowed to next year.”
Tay insisted Swifties go at both Scooter and Scott, saying, quote; “Please let Scott
Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this.”
And they REALLY did.
Days later, Scooter indicated he had received multiple death threats.
Regardless of who you support in this, death threats are NEVER acceptable.
He said at the time, quote; “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’t like politicians doing it.
I don’t like anybody doing it, and if that means that I’ve got to be the bad guy longer,
I’ll be the bad guy longer, but I’m not going to participate.”
Later that day, Scooter followed up with a public Instagram message to Taylor about the
death threats he and his family had received.
He publicly asked Taylor to talk.
Fast forward to today and Scooter is AGAIN talking about the Taylor drama.
In a recent chat with British GQ, he was asked about running for public office.
While he admitted he was interested, he indicated he was staying away, saying, quote; “The
reason I have shied away from it is because I have young children and I have to be careful.
Recently I was attacked very publicly by someone I don't know, someone who refused to have
a conversation with me, and I wish that person nothing but the best and hope that one day
a dialogue is had, because I think it all could have been avoided with proper dialogue,
but what it did teach me was that if my children were teenagers, if they were a little bit
older, this could have been very hard for them."
Obviously Scooter is referencing his feud with T-Swift.
While he also didn’t directly apologize, or even reference Taylor by name, he did concede
that he may have contributed to the backlash.
“If someone is angry at me then I must have contributed to their feelings in some way.
Right or wrong, I was part of that chain of reaction.
Having the ability to say sorry is also very important."
He added, "I'm also much more efficient if I can let that go.
It's startling how many of these things that you worry about turn out to be simple misunderstandings.
It's so easily fixed if you're smart."
Not necessarily an apology, but an admission that maybe, just maybe Scooter didn’t handle
things the right way.
Who knows, maybe one day down the track Taylor and Scooter can talk it out ???
Where do you stand in the Taylor/Scooter drama?
Should Taylor refuse talking with Scooter on this any further or do you think she should
she sit down with him and put this whole thing to rest?
Comment down below.
For more drama, check out what Bieber’s wife Hailey Baldwin had to say about the comparisons
she’s getting to Selena Gomez by clicking right over here;
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, I’ll see you next time!