{"id":3905,"date":"2026-05-29T01:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/scooter-braun-revisits-infamous-taylor-swift-feud-insists-he-doesnt-know-her\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:54:24","slug":"scooter-braun-revisits-infamous-taylor-swift-feud-insists-he-doesnt-know-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/scooter-braun-revisits-infamous-taylor-swift-feud-insists-he-doesnt-know-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter Braun revisits infamous Taylor Swift feud, insists he &#8216;doesn&#8217;t know&#8217; her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F05%2F129027825.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Scooter Braun is still confused to this day over his and Taylor Swift\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/16\/taylor-swift-says-scooter-braun-is-trying-to-silence-her\/?_gl=1*g66h6q*_ga*MTEzNTYyNDI0Mi4xNzc3MzI1OTAx*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3ODAwMTQ4NzIkbzEwOSRnMSR0MTc4MDAxNDg4NSRqNDckbDAkaDA.\">infamous beef<\/a> after he acquired her masters.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman spoke about their drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z3HyNmrJrZo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the \u201cSecond Thought\u201d podcast<\/a> episode that dropped Thursday. He stressed that he\u2019s had minimal interaction with the pop star, despite their very public feud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know Taylor Swift. I think I\u2019ve met her in my life three times,\u201d he said. \u201cI have never had a substantial conversation with her in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braun, 44, claimed Swift once invited him to a private party and that she told him she had \u201cthe utmost respect\u201d for him, but that was the extent of their interactions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Scooter Braun revisited his infamous feud with Taylor Swift during his appearance on the \u201cSecond Thought\u201d podcast episode that dropped Thursday. <span class=\"credit\">Second Thought\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The record executive said he\u2019s still \u201cconfused\u201d by his beef with Swift, insisting that he doesn\u2019t know her personally. <span class=\"credit\">Second Thought\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI will never truly understand that situation. To this day, I wish her nothing but the best,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are usually shocked to find out that I legitimately don\u2019t know her and didn\u2019t have many interactions with her and never really knew her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braun said his beef with the singer turned him into \u201ca villain\u201d overnight, but that in the end, he learned from the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what it did bring to light is that artists are going to start wanting to own their masters, and I think you\u2019re seeing artists more and more do that, and I think that\u2019s great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Braun said he\u2019s only had one brief conversation with Swift (she\u2019s pictured here in October 2021), in which they shared their mutual respect for one another.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>But Swift (seen here in November 2025) accused Braun of being a bully to her in a scathing 2019 Tumblr post in which she said she was devastated that he had acquired her masters. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Braun\u2019s feud with Swift, 36, dates back to 2019 when\u00a0he bought the rights to her first six albums\u00a0\u2014 \u201cTaylor Swift,\u201d \u201cFearless,\u201d \u201cSpeak Now,\u201d \u201cRed,\u201d \u201c1989\u201d and \u201cReputation\u201d \u2014 from her former record label, Big Machine Records, without her approval.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/06\/30\/taylor-swift-is-grossed-out-that-scooter-braun-is-going-to-own-her-music\/\">a scathing 2019 Tumblr post<\/a>, Swift shared that she was devastated that her master recordings had been sold off to Braun in a $300 million deal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8518119\/scooter-braun-acquires-big-machine-label-group-scott-borchetta\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScooter has stripped me of my life\u2019s work, that I wasn\u2019t given an opportunity to buy,\u201d\u00a0she wrote.\u00a0\u201cEssentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also claimed she had suffered \u201cincessant, manipulative bullying at his hands\u201d for years through his former clients Justin Bieber and Kanye West.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>After Braun sold her masters to Shamrock Capital, Swift (pictured here in December 2024) was able to buy her masters back from the investment firm. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for TAS Rights Management<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Braun \u2014 seen here in October 2021 \u2014 said he was \u201chappy\u201d for Swift after she bought back her masters in a statement to Page Six. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Investment firm Shamrock Capital ended up purchasing Swift\u2019s music from Braun in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2025, Swift announced <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/05\/30\/entertainment\/taylor-swift-announces-she-bought-back-her-masters-with-heartfelt-note-to-fans-bursting-into-tears\/\">she bought back her masters<\/a> from Shamrock Capital \u2014 after <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/08\/22\/taylor-swift-insists-shell-re-record-her-masters-in-2020\/\">re-recording four of her past albums <\/a>as a way to reclaim her music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,\u201d she wrote in an emotional message to her fans posted on her website. \u201cBut that\u2019s all in the past now. I\u2019ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found that this is really happening. I really get to say those words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the music I\u2019ve ever made \u2026 now belongs\u2026 to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/28\/entertainment\/scooter-braun-revisits-infamous-taylor-swift-feud-insists-he-doesnt-know-her\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Braun is still confused to this day over his and Taylor Swift\u2019s infamous beef<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/129027825.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}