Posted on 12/13/2019 12:31:21 PM PST by Drew68
Pop superstar Taylor Swift slammed music industry manager Scooter Braun on Thursday after he reportedly bought the rights to her music with what she claims was funding from the family of left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Swift made the remarks during her acceptance speech for Billboard’s Woman of the Decade award Thursday evening, calling out the “unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying our music as if it’s real estate — as if it’s an app or a shoe line.”
Braun, 38, recently purchased the independent record label Big Machine and the master rights to Taylor’s first six albums, which Taylor said was funded by the family of left-wing billionaire George Soros.
“This just happened to me without my approval, consultation, or consent,” Swift said. “After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital, and that Carlyle Group.”
The Grammy-winner continued by reaffirming her new progressive worldview, complaining about the “toxic male privilege” in the music industry:
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The feud between Swift and Braun became public last month when Swift claimed that Braun was blocking her plans to perform songs from her first six albums at the 2019 AMAs, although she ended up singing them anyway.
Braun responded at the time in an open letter via Instagram, demanding that she speak “directly and respectfully,” while also complaining that his family had begun receiving death threats as a result.
“Since your public statement last week there have been numerous death threats directed at my family,” Braun wrote on Instagram.
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Anyhow, HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY, TAY-TAY!
Can't believe she's thirty. Damn, I'm getting old.
Ping
She was bribed to support the Democrats
Welcome to the radical Left Wing of America.
It's called "business," nitwit.
When you create something and sell it, it doesn't belong to you anymore.
Don’t say his name Taylor!
His name can not be mentioned!
Why does she feel the need to tell everybody her financial business? With her dad being a Banker, one would expect a little more discretion. She’ll likely always be wealthy, so maybe the usual guard walls of privacy come down.
Happy 30th Taylor.
Well I certainly ain’t buying it.
As usual, leftie Taylor Swift isn’t seeing the big picture. If someone sold your music without your permission, then it wasn’t your music to begin with.
2019: Kanye West, good — Taylor Swift, bad
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Who saw this coming?
Tay's REPUTATION with her new Friends might be in jeapordy.
She let her common sense out again.
(Link) Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince.
The Whole School is Rolling Fake Dice ;)
Big Machine took a chance and backed her and she, along with her father, took the contract they negotiated, now she cries it was all unfair to her.
A *Swift* apology coming in 3....2....1
Because despite all her vast millions, she still lost her most treasured possessions; the songs she wrote. She's 30. No husband. No children. No songs. She has nothing but money.
And Cats.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
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