For several months, Taylor has been at odds with Braun and Scott Borchetta after the high-powered music executives obtained the rights to her first six album masters.
"I spent 10
For several months, Taylor has been at odds with Braun and Scott Borchetta after the high-powered music executives obtained the rights to her first six album masters.
"I spent 10 years of my life trying rigorously to purchase my masters outright and was then denied that opportunity, and I just don't want that to happen to another artist if I can help it," the Grammy winner told Billboard about her decision to vocalize the behind-the-scenes drama. "I want to at least raise my hand and say, 'This is something that an artist should be able to earn back over the course of their deal—not as a renegotiation ploy—and something that artists should maybe have the first right of refusal to buy.'"
Braun, who manages Swift's pop music peers like Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande, has said he and his family received death threats because of the publicized feud and called for an end to the back and forth.
"To be frank, I was shocked and disheartened to hear that my presence in the Big Machine deal caused you so much pain as the handful of times we have actually met I have always remembered them being pleasant and respectful," he wrote on social media in November. "Knowing what I know now all I have wanted to do is rectify the situation. I'm open to ALL possibilities."
Swift has also since vowed to re-record and release her masters.