While accepting her award for Billboard's Woman of the Decade, Taylor Swift used her acceptance speech to call out Scooter Braun.
of her former record label, Big Machine Label Group, "happened to me without my approval, consultation or consent."
During her Billboard acceptance speech on Thursday, the performer called out the acquisition again, saying, "To this day, none of these investors have ever [contacted me] or my team directly to perform their due diligence on their investment in me to ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art, my music… my handwriting. Of course, Scooter never contacted me or my team to discuss it prior to the sale or even when it was announced.
She continued, addressing those who had spoken out in support of Scooter; he has worked with Justin Bieber,, and Ariana Grande. "The definition of toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying, ‘But he’s always been nice to me’ when I’m raising valid concerns about artists and their rights to own their music," she said. "Of course he’s nice to people in this room, you have something he needs.
As previously reported, Scott Borchetta sold the label to Scooter in June 2019, thereby granting Scooter the right to all of Taylor's masters dating back to her 2006 debut studio album through 2017's
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