Taylor Swift’s nemesis Scooter Braun showed his support after the pop star announced that she finally bought back her masters.
“I am happy for her,” Braun said in a statement to Page Six Friday.
Swift announced that she bought back her life’s work in a heartfelt letter to fans on her website Friday — a week after Page Six exclusively revealed that buying back her masters was a possibility for the singer.
“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow,” she said in the letter shared on her official website.
“A flashback sequence of all the time I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell this news. All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through.
“All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs… to me.”
Braun’s feud with Swift dates back to 2019 when he notoriously bought the rights to her first six albums from — “Taylor Swift,” “Fearless,” “Speak Now,” “Red,” “1989” and “Reputation” — from Big Machine Records without her approval.
Swift accused Braun of being a “bully” and “the definition of toxic male privilege in our industry.”
A year later, investment firm Shamrock Capital purchased Swift’s music from the producer.
Swift began re-recording and re-releasing her music in 2021 as a way of reclaiming ownership over her songs.
She has already released “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” “Red (Taylor’s Version),” “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” and “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”
While Swifties had been expecting her to release “Reputation (Taylor’s Version)” for months, the “Blank Space” artist announced Friday that she “[hasn’t] even re-recorded a quarter” of the 2017 album.
She did, however, surprise fans by announcing that she has completely re-recorded her eponymous debut studio album.
“I’ve already re-recorded my entire debut alum. And I really love how it sounds now,” she said.
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