Tiffany Vogt

Taylor Swift paid a reported $360 million for songs she wrote herself. The man who owned them before says her revenge only made him richer. In the video below, Taylor tells her side, and Scooter Braun tells his. She signed with Big Machine at 15. The label owned every master. When her contract ran out in 2018, it offered her a deal: one old album back for every new album she delivered. She walked. A year later, Braun's company bought the whole label for around $300 million. Taylor found out from the news. So she re-recorded everything as "Taylor's Version." Fans switched. Sales of the original Red fell 45%. In 2020, Braun sold her masters to a private equity firm and kept a cut tied to future sales and streams. His words now: "Each time she released one, you saw a spike in the original catalog... We hit every one of our earn-outs." Last year she finally bought them back. She sent her mom and brother to make the pitch, not lawyers. When the call came, she hit the floor. She signed at 15. Was the label robbing a kid, or is a contract a contract no matter how old you are?