Scooter Braun Says He ‘Regrets’ The Way Buying Taylor Swift’s Music Catalog Happened

Scooter Braun opened up astir his feud with Taylor Swift that began aft his institution acquired the rights to her euphony catalog successful 2019, a determination she claimed had blindsided her. The celebrated euphony manager, who has since sold Taylor’s catalog, said helium has a “regret” astir however the concern transaction went down and feels the fallout was “unfair” during a caller interrogation with NPR’s The Limits podcast.

Scooter Braun said helium has a ‘regret’ astir however buying Taylor Swift’s euphony catalog went down. (Frank Micelotta/FXX/Picturegroup/Shutterstock)

“The regret I person determination is that I made the presumption that everyone, erstwhile the woody was done, was going to person a speech with me, spot my intent, spot my quality and say, ‘Great, let’s beryllium successful concern together,'” Scooter said. “I made that presumption with radical that I didn’t know.”

Scooter past gave his mentation of however it each went down, saying helium wanted to fto the artists cognize astir the acquisition beforehand, but helium had signed a declaration that prevented him from doing so. While Scooter did not place Taylor straight during the conversation, helium appeared to notation the Grammy winner.

“I was nether a precise strict NDA with the man who owned it and I couldn’t archer immoderate artist. I wasn’t allowed to,” Scooter explained. “What I told him was, ‘Hey, if immoderate of the artists privation to travel backmost and bargain into this, you person to fto maine know.’ And helium shared a missive with maine that’s retired determination publicly that the creator you’re referring to said, ‘I don’t privation to enactment successful my masters.'”

Scooter Braun didn’t straight place Taylor Swift during the interview. (Chris Chew/UPI/Shutterstock)

After the woody was announced, Taylor rapidly took to societal media to condemn it, calling it her “worst-case scenario” and saying she tried to bargain the catalog herself, but had to motion an NDA that prevented the woody from moving forward. “These maestro recordings were not for merchantability to me,” she concluded.

Looking back, Scooter said “things got mislaid successful translation.” He explained, “So erstwhile we finalized the deal, I started making telephone calls to say, hey, I’m a portion of this. And earlier I could adjacent bash that – I made 4 telephone calls; I started to bash those telephone calls – each hellhole broke loose. So I deliberation a batch of things got mislaid successful translation. I deliberation that erstwhile you person a struggle with someone, it’s precise hard to resoluteness it if you’re not consenting to person a conversation.”

“I deliberation successful immoderate conflict, you tin say, ‘I didn’t bash anything. It’s their fault.’ And you could beryllium right. You could beryllium justified.” helium continued. “And you could say, ‘This is unfair, I’m being treated unfairly. Or you tin say, ‘Okay, I’m being treated unfairly. I don’t similar however this is feeling. I can’t hole this, truthful however americium I going to look astatine it and larn from it?'”

Now Scooter wants to absorption connected the aboriginal with the hopes everything works retired for each parties involved. “So I take to look astatine it arsenic a learning lesson, a increasing lesson, and I privation everyone progressive well. And I’m rooting for everyone to triumph due to the fact that I don’t judge successful rooting for radical to lose.”