00:00So if people didn't know you from your work with all these artists like Bieber and Ariana,
00:04they definitely know you from the Taylor Swift saga.
00:06What happened?
00:08Started back in 2019.
00:10Scooter Braun has a message for Swifties who are still angry with him over the handling of Taylor Swift's masters.
00:17The music executive and former music manager made a recent appearance on Danielle Robay's Question Everything podcast,
00:23where he opened up about the hate he still receives from Swift's fanbase years after the original sale of her catalog,
00:30to Braun's Ithaca Holdings when he acquired her old record label Big Machine Label Group in 2019.
00:36The following year, Ithaca sold Swift's masters to Shamrock Capital for a reported $300 million,
00:42which the singer infamously criticized, leading her to re-record her albums.
00:47Braun told Robay of the incident,
00:48You know, me even talking about this now, there's going to be yelling and screaming and this, that, and the other.
00:54You can't say anything right, and it is what it is.
00:57My response to that is they made the horrible miscalculation that I care.
01:01You know, I don't know those people out there,
01:03and if I met them in person and they needed my help as a stranger, I would help them.
01:07Most of the time, when people actually sit in front of each other, the monster isn't real.
01:10He continued,
01:11I think people forget that when you have a fanbase that big and 10,000 people are yelling at you,
01:16it feels like the world is ending, but that's less than 1% of a fanbase that big.
01:20I think most people are dealing with their own problems.
01:23I think most people are dealing with their own insecurities the same way I am,
01:26the same way every artist and every human being is.
01:29And I think it's just a more productive use of your time
01:31to not get stuck in the craziness of celebrity fodder and focus more on being kind to people.
01:36You don't make a deal at that level unless you believe in her.
01:41You know, so I believed that she was going to become exactly who she's remained to be.
01:46Elsewhere in the interview, Braun said he believes everybody in the end one,
01:50despite the years-long feud.
01:51When she re-recorded, all ships rise in a world of streaming.
01:54So people were going on and they were A-B-ing them.
01:56They were listening in to see how much they sounded like the originals.
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