The pop singer attended Billboard's Women in Music 2019 event, where she was awarded Woman of the Decade.
Taylor Swift called out Scooter Braun, private equity, and"toxic male privilege" in the music industry in an extensive 15-minute speech at Billboard's Thursday evening Women In Music 2019 event, where she was honored as the publication's Woman of the Decade.
During her speech, Swift recounted her rise from a 16-year-old country musician to her eventual pop dominance, describing the past decade as one in which she served"as a mirror for my detractors: whatever they said I couldn't do is exactly what I did.
Towards the end of the speech, Swift turned her discussion to Scooter Braun and his June 2019 purchase of the Big Machine label, a deal that included Swift's entire catalogue at the label, and all the master recordings of her first six albums. She cites the deal — which she claims was funded by left-wing billionaire Soros family, 23 Capital, and the Carlyle group — as an example of the"unregulated world of private equity, coming in and buying up our music as if it's real estate.
And of course, Scooter never contacted me or my team to discuss it prior to the sale or even when it was announced. I'm fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it though. And I'll say the definition of the '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. And of course he's nice to you. If you're in this room, you have something he needs. The fact is that private equity is what enabled this man to think, according to his own social media post, that he could buy me.
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