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https://variety.com/2019/music/news/taylor-swift-scooter-braun-ariana-grande-what-happens-next-1203257021/

"The tempest in a tea cup that took over the news cycle on Sunday continues into the holiday week, as Taylor Swift supporters like Haim and Allesia Cara add their name to the social media squad, while Scooter Braun defenders include clients Demi Lovato and Justin Bieber.

Braun’s SB Projects is home to such artists as Ariana Grande, Martin Garrix, Tori Kelly, Dan + Shay, Carly Rae Jepsen and Karlie Kloss, among others.

Will Grande join in the chorus? “She’s frustrated by the whole thing,” says a source, who suggests that Grande wants to speak out but Braun “is encouraging all of his acts to stay out of it.”

Braun himself is staying quiet and in an effort to diffuse further provocation, recently removing an endorsement of an Instagram post by Miami restauranteur David Grutman that seemingly mocks the situation by writing, “When your friend buys Taylor Swift.”

Braun’s business partner and Grande manager Allison Kaye posted a message on Sunday backing up Braun’s wife Yael Cohen Braun, who insiders say was prompted to go public out of concern for her kids’ safety. The Brauns are said to be “shocked and horrified” at the hate being directed at them from Swift fans and supporters, including former management client Todrick Hall, who appears in Swift’s latest video for the song “You Need to Calm Down.”

It’s advice all could stand to take and when cooler heads do eventually prevail and the various parties come to the table. “It’s inevitable that’s what will happen,” says an insider close to the situation. “There are shareholders, a board and a conversation to be had.”

But for now, Braun is the custodian of her masters and very much in the driver’s seat as it concerns the business dealings of Big Machine. His attempts to reach Swift directly have so far been fruitless.

As Variety previously reported, Swift went public shortly after Big Machine’s acquisition by Ithaca Holdings was announced, writing on Tumblr: “When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever.”

Borchetta, the founder of Big Machine Label Group, fired back at Swift for insinuating that she was not able to purchase back rights to her master recordings, posting documents that may refute Swift’s claim that she was only offered the rights to each of her previous six albums one at a time, as she turned in new albums to Big Machine, although Borchetta’s documentation is not complete.

For her part, Swift’s camp has remained relatively quiet outside of trying to distance her father, Scott Swift, from claims that he had knowledge of a Big Machine shareholder vote that took place on June 25 and was ratified three days later.

A spokesperson for Swift responded to the suggestion denying that Swift’s father is even on the board, and saying that he deliberately stayed off the last shareholder call for legal reasons.

“Scott Swift is not on the board of directors and has never been,” said the spokesperson. “On June 25, there was a shareholder phone call that Scott Swift did not participate in, due to a very strict NDA that bound all shareholders and prohibited any discussion at all without risk of severe penalty. Her dad did not join that call because he did not want to be required to withhold any information from his own daughter. Taylor found out from the news articles when she woke up before seeing any text from Scott Borchetta, and he did not call her in advance.”

Borchetta himself says he sent personally sent Swift a text message on Saturday, the night before news broke, that read, in part:

“I am entering into a merger/acquisition with Scooter Braun and Ithaca Holdings. This move will give us more pop culture super-power than ever before and I’m so excited about the future. … I want you to know that I will continue to be the proud custodian of your previous works and will continue to keep you and your team abreast of all future plans for releases of your work.”

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AMENiCURE
1 minute ago, Loeppke said:

Can someone please tell me what tf is going on right here on this day :saladga:

 

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Katharine Hepburn

This like game of thrones for millionaires :ladyhaha: 

xoxo Joanne
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FfFfFfFF

It's too late now.. Only Carly and Ariana stayed quite out of ''his acts''. And it was obvious he was using Justin's instagram as a platform and that message from Demi was probably written with his involvement. :wtf:

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TSUNAMI

Won't sign away my life to
Someone whose got the flavor
But don't have no follow through
Don't want no paper gangsta
Wont sign no monkey papers
I don't do funny business
Not interested in fakers.

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Thomas P
1 minute ago, hankhatesyouall said:

Can he silence me plz? 

Girl wut :selena:

I’m a simple guy to please, if you like Melodrama, we chill.
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JusKeepBreathin

But his wife gotta big mouth or large typing  fingers.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Regina George
7 minutes ago, hankhatesyouall said:

Can he silence me plz? 

:awkney:

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AMENiCURE
4 minutes ago, mauvais said:

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Oh, so this is fake then? Stans are truly insane :awkney: 

messs the fact they copied the exact way she talks :air:

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