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Taylor Swift publicly slams Scooter Braun at Billboard’s Women In Music Awards

The singer has taken another pop at the music manager

Taylor Swift publicly slammed Scooter Braun at Billboard’s Women In Music Awards last night.

On Thursday, the songstress was honoured with the first-ever Billboard Woman of the Decade award.

During her speech, the 30-year-old addressed the fact that Scooter’s company bought her back catalogue back in May.

Taylor passionately called out the “unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying our music as if it’s real estate.”

She continued: “This just happened to me without my approval, consultation, or consent. 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.”

“Yet, to this day, none of these investors have bothered to contact me or my team directly—to perform their due diligence on their investment. On their investment in me.”

“To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art, the music I wrote, the videos I created, photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs.”

Taylor then claimed: “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 let me just say that 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 right 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 enabled this man to think, according to his own social media post, that he could ‘buy me.’ But I’m obviously not going willingly.”

“Yet the most amazing thing was to discover that it would be the women in our industry who would have my back and show me the most vocal support at one of the most difficult times, and I will never, ever forget it. Like, ever,” she added.

Taylor has called out Scooter once again, after the music manager called for an end to their feud in an open letter last month – after his family started receiving death threats.

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