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<p>Remember when <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/news/taylor-swift-went-to-war-with-music-exec-scooter-braun-celebs-like-demi-lovato-took-his-side/">Taylor Swift went to war with manager Scooter Braun</a> for the rights to her old songs?</p><p>Yeah, she still doesn&#39;t own those recordings of the songs and probably never will &mdash; and now Scooter Braun is flexing his power by allegedly attempting to block her from performing the songs on TV.</p><p>&quot;The message being sent to me is very clear,&quot; Taylor said in her statement about the issue. &quot;Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you&rsquo;ll be punished.&quot;</p><p>Taylor is being honored with an Artist of the Decade award at the American Music Awards on November 25th. At the show, she of course wants to sing some of her biggest hits from the past decade. But according to a statement released by Taylor last night, Braun and his partner, Scott Borchetta, aren&#39;t allowing her to do that.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">honestly it is fucked that one of the most powerful and rich women in the music industry still has no control compared to a cabal of wealthy nerds whose wealth is founded on nothing</p>&mdash; Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) <a href="https://twitter.com/mollylambert/status/1195142318006902784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Taylor tweeted a lengthy statement, with a bleak &quot;Don&#39;t know what else to do&quot; accompanying three screenshots.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t know what else to do <a href="https://t.co/1uBrXwviTS">pic.twitter.com/1uBrXwviTS</a></p>&mdash; Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) <a href="https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1195123215657508867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The jist of it is that Taylor has been barred from performing her old songs on television because she&#39;s not allowed to record new versions of the songs until next year. Braun and Borchetta don&#39;t want her to record those new studio versions of her old music, because it could lessen the profits they&#39;ll receive for those recordings over time. So they&#39;re blocking her from performing the songs on TV, probably in hopes that she&#39;ll acquiesce and agree not to record the new masters next year.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kinda sad how Taylor Swift singlehandedly wrote Change about being signed to an underdog label and fighting to make it big and as soon as she really did make the label BIG big Scott Borchetta stabbed her in the back and made her the underdog again <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithTaylor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithTaylor</a></p>&mdash; Rachel (@taylortrivia13) <a href="https://twitter.com/taylortrivia13/status/1195306431043510274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;I&rsquo;ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show,&quot; Taylor writes in the statement. &quot;Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I&rsquo;m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I&rsquo;m allowed to next year.&quot;</p><p>Re-recording the music would give Taylor rights to those recordings, which is what Braun and Borchetta don&#39;t want. Still, it&#39;s unlikely that the old recordings would sell fewer copies because of a live performance of a medley of the songs. That&#39;s why it looks like Braun and Borchetta are just being d*cks and trying to ruin Taylor&#39;s performance out of spite.</p><p>Taylor also says a Netflix documentary about her is hanging in the balance because of Braun and Borchetta&#39;s ownership of the music.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>None of this is that out of the ordinary for the music industry. Taylor and her fans are framing it as an example of the male-dominated music industry patriarchy exerting its influence over a female artist. Some people agree with this characterization, while others say this is just the way the recording business works.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/ElodieFlaneuse/status/1195266811509530624</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Taylor also name-checked Braun&#39;s parent company, the Carlyle Group, a conglomerate that has its hands in pretty much everything.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/distancetimings/status/1195148635912065024</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Taylor Swift asking her fans to harass The Carlyle Group is the best finpop mashup of 2019.</p>&mdash; EMOly (@emilyforthewin) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyforthewin/status/1195136401626587137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Just like the last time Taylor brought this up in public, celebrities are taking sides &mdash; but Perez Hilton points out that not many celebs have come out in support of Taylor. This might be because Scooter Braun, who&#39;s also the manager of Justin Bieber and a few other A-listers, is such a powerful player in the music industry.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Taylor Swift is always championing other artists and artists’ rights. It’s so disheartening to see so many big name musicians stay quiet tonight. Especially those that are her friends! Just liking a tweet is not enough!!</p>&mdash; Perez (@ThePerezHilton) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePerezHilton/status/1195174618002329602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Still, some are saying the issue is more complicated than it looks.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">so bored of this ‘taylor swift being the victim’ narrative + how easily people fall for that without any understanding of how 💩 works</p>&mdash; Julz West (@ItsJulzWest) <a href="https://twitter.com/ItsJulzWest/status/1195253967271473153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>All in all, it&#39;s a big old mess no matter whose side you&#39;re on. At least she&#39;ll always have &quot;Cats&quot;?</p><p>Taylor&#39;s statement in full reads:</p><blockquote> <p>Guys - It&rsquo;s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year&rsquo;s ceremony.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I&rsquo;m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I&rsquo;m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn&rsquo;t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.</p> <p>Scott Borchetta told my team that they&rsquo;ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I&rsquo;m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.</p> <p>I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you&rsquo;ll be punished.</p> <p>This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I&rsquo;m asking for your help.</p> <p>Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I&rsquo;m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I&rsquo;m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.</p> <p>I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That&rsquo;s it. I&rsquo;ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA&rsquo;s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark. I love you guys and I thought you should know what&rsquo;s been going on.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Taylor Swift says Scooter Braun is blocking her from performing her own songs at awards show.

Remember when Taylor Swift went to war with manager Scooter Braun for the rights to her old songs?Yeah, she still doesn&#39;t own those recordings of the songs and probably never will &mdash; and now Scooter Braun is flexing his power by allegedly attempting to block her from performing the songs on TV.&quot;The message being sent to me is very clear,&quot; Taylor said in her statement about the issue. &quot;Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you&rsquo;ll be punished.&quot;Taylor is being honored with an Artist of the Decade award at the American Music Awards on November 25th. At the show, she of course wants to sing some of her biggest hits from the past decade. But according to a statement released by Taylor last night, Braun and his partner, Scott Borchetta, aren&#39;t allowing her to do that.honestly it is fucked that one of the most powerful and rich women in the music industry still has no control compared to a cabal of wealthy nerds whose wealth is founded on nothing&mdash; Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) November 15, 2019 Taylor tweeted a lengthy statement, with a bleak &quot;Don&#39;t know what else to do&quot; accompanying three screenshots.Don’t know what else to do pic.twitter.com/1uBrXwviTS&mdash; Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 14, 2019 The jist of it is that Taylor has been barred from performing her old songs on television because she&#39;s not allowed to record new versions of the songs until next year. Braun and Borchetta don&#39;t want her to record those new studio versions of her old music, because it could lessen the profits they&#39;ll receive for those recordings over time. So they&#39;re blocking her from performing the songs on TV, probably in hopes that she&#39;ll acquiesce and agree not to record the new masters next year.Kinda sad how Taylor Swift singlehandedly wrote Change about being signed to an underdog label and fighting to make it big and as soon as she really did make the label BIG big Scott Borchetta stabbed her in the back and made her the underdog again #IStandWithTaylor&mdash; Rachel (@taylortrivia13) November 15, 2019 &quot;I&rsquo;ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show,&quot; Taylor writes in the statement. &quot;Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I&rsquo;m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I&rsquo;m allowed to next year.&quot;Re-recording the music would give Taylor rights to those recordings, which is what Braun and Borchetta don&#39;t want. Still, it&#39;s unlikely that the old recordings would sell fewer copies because of a live performance of a medley of the songs. That&#39;s why it looks like Braun and Borchetta are just being d*cks and trying to ruin Taylor&#39;s performance out of spite.Taylor also says a Netflix documentary about her is hanging in the balance because of Braun and Borchetta&#39;s ownership of the music.None of this is that out of the ordinary for the music industry. Taylor and her fans are framing it as an example of the male-dominated music industry patriarchy exerting its influence over a female artist. Some people agree with this characterization, while others say this is just the way the recording business works.https://twitter.com/ElodieFlaneuse/status/1195266811509530624Taylor also name-checked Braun&#39;s parent company, the Carlyle Group, a conglomerate that has its hands in pretty much everything.https://twitter.com/distancetimings/status/1195148635912065024Taylor Swift asking her fans to harass The Carlyle Group is the best finpop mashup of 2019.&mdash; EMOly (@emilyforthewin) November 15, 2019 Just like the last time Taylor brought this up in public, celebrities are taking sides &mdash; but Perez Hilton points out that not many celebs have come out in support of Taylor. This might be because Scooter Braun, who&#39;s also the manager of Justin Bieber and a few other A-listers, is such a powerful player in the music industry.Taylor Swift is always championing other artists and artists’ rights. It’s so disheartening to see so many big name musicians stay quiet tonight. Especially those that are her friends! Just liking a tweet is not enough!!&mdash; Perez (@ThePerezHilton) November 15, 2019 Still, some are saying the issue is more complicated than it looks.so bored of this ‘taylor swift being the victim’ narrative + how easily people fall for that without any understanding of how 💩 works&mdash; Julz West (@ItsJulzWest) November 15, 2019 All in all, it&#39;s a big old mess no matter whose side you&#39;re on. At least she&#39;ll always have &quot;Cats&quot;?Taylor&#39;s statement in full reads: Guys - It&rsquo;s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year&rsquo;s ceremony. I&rsquo;ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I&rsquo;m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I&rsquo;m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn&rsquo;t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film. Scott Borchetta told my team that they&rsquo;ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I&rsquo;m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun. I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you&rsquo;ll be punished. This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I&rsquo;m asking for your help. Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I&rsquo;m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I&rsquo;m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men. I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That&rsquo;s it. I&rsquo;ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA&rsquo;s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark. I love you guys and I thought you should know what&rsquo;s been going on. 

Remember when Taylor Swift went to war with manager Scooter Braun for the rights to her old songs?  Yeah, she still doesn&#39;t own those recordings of the songs and probably never will &mdash; and now Scooter Braun is flexing his power by...