• Scooter Braun’s company purchased Taylor Swift’s masters in 2019, sparking a major industry feud after she claimed they “stripped her of her life’s work” without giving her a chance to buy them herself.
  • Scooter recently revealed he’s “confused” by the situation, claiming he’d only met Taylor three times and never had substantial conversations with her before or during the Big Machine deal acquisition.
  • Taylor successfully re-bought her masters in May 2025, ending the public dispute and prompting her to celebrate that all her music finally belongs to her once again.

Though Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s infamous beef over her masters seemingly fueled the internet since 2019, it looks like things are pretty tame since Taylor officially re-bought her music catalog last year.

His company, Ithaca Holdings, purchased the business behind Taylor’s first record deal, Big Machine Label Group, in 2019—including the masters to her first six albums. She then publicly slammed Scooter and her former Big Machine mentor, Scott Borchetta, in a Tumblr post where she claimed they “stripped her of her life’s work” when she wasn’t given a chance to buy her masters.

Now, Scooter is revealing more details regarding the situation—and claims he’s still “confused” by it since he “never really knew Taylor” to begin with.

“I don’t know Taylor Swift,” he said during a May 28 appearance on Suzy Weiss’ Second Thought podcast. “I think I've met her in my life three times. I have never had a substantial conversation with her in my life.”

Scooter, who used to manage some of music’s biggest artists, from Justin Bieber to Ariana Grande, admitted that he and Taylor “never had any contact” when the Big Machine deal was being made in 2019. However, he did dish that she had invited him to a private party two to three years before any of it went down.

“I got invited to a private party by her,” he shared. “She told me she had the utmost respect for me. I told her I had the most respect for her. You don’t spend $300 million buying a label that she’s on unless you’re excited at the opportunity to work with her.”

He went on to echo a sentiment he shared on the Diary of a CEO podcast last summer, which is that he’s “grateful” for the public feud since it taught him a lot.

“I chose to learn and grow from it. I’m grateful for it at this point in my life,” he said, later adding, “I will never truly understand that situation. I wish her nothing but the best.”

Taylor officially purchased her masters in May 2025 and never looked back. At the time, the Grammy winner wrote, “I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I've ever made... now belongs to me.”

Doesn’t seem like there’s any more bad blood here!