{"id":52684,"date":"2025-06-01T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=52684"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:33:18","slug":"taylor-swifts-nemesis-sends-5-word-response-to-her-big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=52684","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s Nemesis Sends 5-Word Response to Her Big News.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2170703419-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2170703419-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2170703419-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2170703419-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Taylor Swift\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"672\" data-dom-ready-time=\"745\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">The one guy who has been standing in the way of Taylor Swift having her masters the past few years has been\u00a0Scooter Braun.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taylor Swift, who also happens to be the girlfriend of\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0tight end\u00a0Travis Kelce, posted on social media on Friday, May 30, for the first time since the end of her Eras tour last year and announced that she has regained control of her masters. The\u00a0Grammy-winning musician\u00a0came out with an emotional statement about what it means to get to have those masters back in her hands and really have all the rights over her music.<\/p>\n<p>The one guy who has been standing in Swift\u2019s way of having her masters the past few years has been Scooter Braun. One could call him her\u00a0\u201cnemesis,\u201d\u00a0as\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em>\u00a0points out, at least when it comes to her musical career. Now, Braun has commented on Swift buying back the rights to her first six albums.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Taylor Swift\u2019s Foe Issues Statement<\/h2>\n<p>Swift\u2019s feud with music mogul Braun started in 2019, when Braun\u2019s Ithaca Holdings acquired\u00a0Big Machine Records, which gave him full control over Swift\u2019s first six albums. At the time, Swift said it was a \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d and said she wasn\u2019t allowed to purchase her masters outright and instead was given a deal to \u201cearn\u201d the albums back one album at a time.<\/p>\n<p>But, in 2020, Braun sold the masters to\u00a0Shamrock Capital more than over $300 million. Even though Swift criticized the move at the time, saying it was the second time her music was sold without her even knowing about it, it ended up being a great thing for Swift, because she eventually worked out a deal with Shamrock Capital to purchase those masters.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Braun has broken his silence about the deal. His five-word statement after the move is simple: \u201cI am happy for her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Taylor Swift Owns Her Music Again<\/h2>\n<p>Swift took to\u00a0her Instagram page\u00a0on Friday, May 30, to share the news that she had officially bought back her music catalog.\u00a0\u201cYou belong with me,\u201d Swift shared with a range of colorful heart emojis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi. I\u2019m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow,\u201d Swift posted on her website as a\u00a0handwritten note. \u201cA flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news. All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cI almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled then yanked away. But that\u2019s all in the past now. I\u2019ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I\u2019ve ever made\u2026 now belongs\u2026 to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift added that \u201cto say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me \u2014 so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released 4 of my albums, calling them Taylor\u2019s Version.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"543006952b8ae7945dbb2d55b172c651\" class=\"embed_container\">\n<div class=\"lazy-embed lazy-embed--ssr embed-instagram-com lazy-embed--loaded\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKSF56YueNv\/\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKSF56YueNv\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=524&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fheavy.com&amp;rp=%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fkansas-city-chiefs%2Ftaylor-swift-nemesis-sends-response-news%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1373045.199999988%7D\" height=\"762\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty The one guy who has been standing in the way of Taylor Swift having her masters the past few years has been\u00a0Scooter Braun. 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