Taylor Swift is reminded emotionally when she found out that she had the rights to all her music once and for all.
The 14-fold Grammy winner for the first time revealed in a letter to her official website in May that she had successfully bought the full rights and masters back on her first six albums and therefore made her owner of her entire discography. After years of the drama, the news came for the possession of Swift's music catalog, which culminated in her decision to re -record the albums that she did not have.
On the New heights Podcast – This is organized by her friend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason. On Wednesday, Swift started crying while giving an inside view of how her big purchase was created. For the beginning, she explained to own the rights to her music has always been a main goal for her. “It's a big deal,” she said in the podcast. “It has always been a big deal for me. Since I was a teenager, I've acted money to buy my music back to ever own it because it is usually the label that it belongs. But I always wanted this to happen.”
“My music was sold a few times. When it was sold for the first time, she really torn my heart out of my chest,” she said, referring to the original purchase of her champions by the former music manager Scooter Braun in 2019. “And I told everyone exactly how it felt for me.
Over a year and a half after the purchase, Braun Swift's Masters sold to the private equity company Shamrock Capital. Fast lead to the post-eras tour, Swift, said she and her team decided to contact the company, but she knew that she didn't want to “be in a partnership. I don't want to own 30% of it. I want to own everything”.
Instead of sending a “big crew” to meet with the company, Swift said that she sent her mother and brother to the meeting in Los Angeles. Swift remembered it and began to tear down what she apologized for. “Sorry,” she said and her voice broke. “They sat down and she – so I happen, I never really talk about it because it is – shoot,” she added, adding emotions again. “They sat down with Shamrock Capital and told them what that meant for me.”
She continued: “They told them the whole story of all the times when we tried to buy it, all the times when it was liked, all the times when we had planned together and found something out that we thought it would work, and not at the last minute.”
Swift remembered that her mother called her after reporting that Shamrock had listened to her and was “wonderful”, but not to get her hopes. Months later, after this year's Super Bowl, Swift was in Kansas City with Travis when her mother called her again.
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With tears in the eyes and her voice that broke again, Swift remembered: “I get a call from my mother, and she says … she says:” You, we, we … you have her music. “And I'm sorry, that is – it has literally been so long ago that this happened every time I talk about it [I get like this] – She said, “You have your music.” And I only hit the floor very dramatically. To be honest, I just started my eyes and I'm just as crying and somehow, like, not able [to talk]. I just thought: 'Really? Are really? Really? What do you mean? What do you mean?'”
The Life of a show girl Singer then told the strange story about how she immediately went to Tell Travis, the video games, the news, and she couldn't do it with sobs without “absolutely”, so he thought that something was wrong first.
But in the end everything was fine. Swift concluded: “Yes, that has changed my life. I can still believe it. Every time I think about it, I have to tell everyone because it is still the case that this affects the rest of my life. I think every day about this day, but instead of it is as if it hurts me in an urgent thought.
Elsewhere in the podcast at the top, Swift describes what she made about her new album after the record tour of the record tour, her experience as a member of the Chiefs Kingdom and all the details. The life of a show girl.