Scooter Braun breaks silence after Taylor Swift buys back master recordings

Scooter Braun obtained the rights to her master recordings in 2019

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Scooter Braun addresses Taylor Swifts purchase of her albums
Scooter Braun addresses Taylor Swift's purchase of her albums

Taylor Swift’s longtime nemesis Scooter Braun is congratulating the Grammy winner.

The Tortured Poets Department hitmaker, 35, announced this Friday that she has bought back the rights to her first six albums.

“I am happy for her,” Braun, 43, told The Independent in a statement Friday.

The feud between Swift and Braun dates back to 2019 when the music mogul's Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records, giving him ownership of Swift’s first six albums.

Swift claimed she was denied the chance to buy her masters at once and was only offered to earn it back one album at a time.

In 2020, Braun then sold the masters to Shamrock Capital for over $300 million, which Swift slammed as "the second time" her music was sold without her knowledge".

Braun's recent statement comes after reports that he was trying to “encourage” Shamrock Capital to sell Swift the master recordings.

Another source claimed otherwise, telling People Magazine Friday that the deal happened “in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him.”