Scooter Braun Opens Up On Buying Taylor Swift’s Catalog

Scooter Braun bought Big Machine Records in 2019.

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That included the first of Taylor Swift’s six albums.

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Taylor went public with how upset she was by the sale.

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She started re-recording her own albums, starting with Fearless and Red.

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Scooter recently appeared on the NPR podcast “The Limits With Jay Williams.”

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He said that he learned an “important lesson” from the public fiasco.

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Scooter admitted he made an “assumption” that everyone would want to work with him.

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He confessed, “I made that assumption with people that I didn't know.”

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Scooter said that he “can never make that assumption again.”

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