New Update in the Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun Feud
Taylor Swift, Scooter Braun
The feud between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun is officially getting the documentary treatment.
Discovery+ announced that the conflict between the singer and businessman, which began when Braun bought the music rights to Swift's first six albums in a $300 million deal in 2019, will be the subject of the new season of vs tentatively called Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood.
According to the season's logline, the show will have two episodes that explore both sides of the feud. One will focus on "Swift’s side that the sale was conducted without consulting her and that she has since been blocked from buying back her masters," while the other will explore "Braun’s allegations that Swift refused to negotiate and instead incited a public feud by pitting her fan base against him."
The show will reportedly feature legal experts, journalists and more, and is set to air on Discovery+ in June.
As the series is sure to cover, after Braun made the huge purchase of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label in 2019, Swift slammed the entrepreneur in an honest post on Tumblr, writing that she only learned about the deal "as it was announced to the world."
She claimed that she endured "incessant, manipulative bullying" from Braun over the years and that "Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it."
In the fall of the next year, Braun sold Swift's masters to Shamrock Holdings. He also alleged that he offered to sell the masters to Swift, although the singer claimed that there were unfavorable conditions surrounding the deal. After a time, Swift was allowed to re-record her music, leading to the series of Taylor's Version albums that have gone on to be huge successes.
Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood will join other seasons of vs like Johnny vs Amber, and Kim vs Kanye: The Divorce.
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