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Here’s a sentence we didn’t assume we’d be typing in 2024: Scooter Braun simply got here to the protection of Taylor Swift.
Who would’ve guessed?!
The former manager of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande has a nicely documented feud with the most important pop star on the earth.
He’s additionally the explanation followers are having fun with the re-release of all of her first seven albums.
In the years since this rivalry started, neither aspect has had a lot to say concerning the different – however after Taylor Swift obtained a rubbish message from President Trump, Scooter Braun stepped in.
Scooter Braun Defends Taylor Swift Against Donald Trump With Her Own Lyrics
On September fifteenth, hours earlier than Taylor and her mother cheered on boyfriend Travis Kelce on the his newest soccer recreation, the previous President took to Truth social to ship a not so delicate message to the Grammy winner.
After shading Taylor earlier within the week after she endorsed Kamala Harris for president after the talk, Trump determined it was time to get proper to the matter.
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” he posted on his social media for all of the world to see. Now, this wasn’t actually breaking information – however what got here subsequent actually shook Swifties.
Scooter Braun, music manager turned entrepreneur who discovered himself proudly owning all of Taylor’s masters just a few years in the past, reposted Trump’s message to Taylor.
And he referred to as out the previous Prez!
“Shake it off Donald,” he wrote, quoting maybe Taylor’s most well-known music of all-time. After that, Scooter posted his personal endorsement for Kamala in his sing off.
Scooter Braun reposts Donald Trump’s “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” publish:
“Shake it off Donald. Kamala 2024 ????????” pic.twitter.com/fj5NFqDZfP
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 15, 2024
Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s Drama Is Never Ending
The dangerous blood between Taylor and Scooter is known.
In June 2019, Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records in an enormous $300 million deal. Taylor Swift’s catalog, which included albums Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation, got here with the deal and was believed to be price about $140 million, Variety reported.
A number of days after the deal was signed, Taylor got here out to slam the deal, calling Scooter a “bully” and “the definition of poisonous male privilege in our business.”
With that, Taylor turned her marketing campaign to make the albums nugatory to their new proprietor, by rerecording her albums, one-by-one, and enamoring the general public to report these information over the originals.
By 2023, thanks partly to the re-releases and her epic Eras tour, Taylor was dubbed a billionaire by Forbes journal.
Scooter Attempting a Reconciliation?!
In 2020, Scooter bought Taylor’s masters to Shamrock Capital for $300 million. At the time, Swift spurned the information in a Twitter publish.
“This is the second time my music has been bought with out my information,” she stated within the publish. According to her, Shamrock stated that earlier than the sale, Braun required that the agency make no contact along with her or her crew, or the deal wouldn’t go forward.
Scooter has for essentially the most half remained hush-hush about the entire thing, defending himself solely when he felt the necessity to.
However, within the years since, he’s misplaced his different shoppers, like Justin Bieber, and even stepped away fully from managing.
But he’s additionally been extra, let’s consider, lively in posting cryptic digs at Taylor. When HBO launched a documentary about their feud in the summertime of 2024, he posted about it on Instagram, confirming he’d watched.
A number of weeks later he shared a TMZ publish concerning the party Taylor hosted at her Rhode Island mansion over Labor Day, a celeb-filled birthday bash for her pal Blake Lively.
“How was I not invited to this!?!” he wrote, including the curious hashtag, #laughalittle.
Clearly, he’s cool with making mild about issues at Taylor’s expense.
Well, we’d inform Scooter this if we might: if he’s hoping to get again into Taylor’s good graces, he ought to assume once more.
That ship has most positively sailed!
