Taylor Swift‘s feud with Scooter Braun is set to be explored in an upcoming series Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood on Discovery+.
The two-part documentary will delve deep into their fallout after the music mogul, 42, purchased the rights to Taylor’s, 34, first six albums in 2019, in a whopping $300million deal.
The new docuseries, commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. and Ireland, will be part of the VS series.
Its VS series also examines Johnny Depp and Amber Heard court case and Kim Kardashian and Kayne West’s divorce.
The two episodes of Taylor vs Scooter will look at both sides of the infamous feud, both for and against Taylor and Scooter with legal experts, journalists and those close to the duo presenting each side of the argument.
Taylor Swift’s, 34, feud with Scooter Braun, 42, is set to be explored in an upcoming series Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood on Discovery+
The two-part documentary will delve deep into their fallout after the music mogul purchased the rights to Taylor’s first six albums in 2019, in a whopping $300million deal
In 2022, the music manager appeared on the NPR podcast, The Limits with Jay Williams, and spoke about the deal which granted him the rights to music from multiple artists including Taylor’s first six albums.
The entertainment executive responded to the controversy, telling Jay, ‘I learned an important lesson’ from the purchase.
He appeared to be referring to Big Machine owner Scott Borchetta when he claimed, ‘When I did that deal, I was under a very strict NDA with the gentleman who owned it, and I couldn’t tell any artist.’
Scooter also indicated in the interview he wasn’t as realistic as he should have been when signing on the dotted line.
‘I was excited to work with every artist on the label. So when we finalized the deal, I started making phone calls to say, hey, I’m a part of this. And before I could even do that – I made four phone calls; I started to do those phone calls – all hell broke loose.’
‘So the regret I have there,’ he continued, ‘is that I made the assumption that everyone, once the deal was done, was going to have a conversation with me, see my intent, see my character and say, great, let’s be in business together.
‘And I made that assumption with people that I didn’t know.’
The New York native claimed he learned an important lesson from the controversy. ‘I can never make that assumption again. I can’t put myself in a place of, you know, arrogance to think that someone would just be willing to have a conversation and be excited to work with me.’
The new docuseries, commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. and Ireland, will be part of the VS series
The two episodes of Taylor vs Scooter will look at both sides of the infamous feud, both for and against Taylor and Scooter with legal experts, journalists and those close to the duo presenting each side of the argument
The Shake It Off singer claimed at the time that she was blindsided by the deal
The Shake It Off singer claimed at the time that she was blindsided by the deal.
In a lengthy Tumblr post, the Grammy winner accused Scooter of ‘incessant, manipulative bullying’ and claiming that he and Scott both knew what they were doing with the deal.
She said: ‘Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever.’
To date, Taylor has finished re-recording four of the six albums, which have included expanded deluxe edition tracks, unreleased From the Vault tracks and rarities.
Taylor marked four out of four rereleases to date topping the Billboard 200 albums chart with the October 2023 release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
Dubbed Taylor’s Version, the project kicked off with the rerelease of Taylor’s second album, Fearless, in April 2021, that was followed up by a new version of her mega-selling Red in November of that year.
Two years later, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) dropped in July 2023, followed by 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in October 2023.
In a lengthy Tumblr post, the Grammy winner accused Scooter of ‘incessant, manipulative bullying’ and claiming that he and Scott both knew what they were doing with the deal
The run of re-releases was particularly impressive, as Swift also released four new studio albums during that time period: Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020) and Midnights (2022), with a fifth, The Tortured Poets Department, which released in April.
Now that four re-recordings are in the can, Taylor only has her debut and Reputation left to complete her promise to do her first six albums.
By re-recording, Taylor is technically covering her own songs as new recordings, resulting in new masters she now fully owns, giving her licensing control.