Taylor Swift praises 'smartest, most compassionate, and kindest' mother and brother
Taylor Swift praised her mother and brother after they helped her to get her master recordings back.
Taylor Swift praised her mother and brother as “the smartest, most compassionate, and kindest” people she knows after they helped her to get her master recordings back.
In 2019, music executive Scooter Braun acquired the masters of Taylor’s early discography — Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation — for $300 million, a move the artist publicly slammed, claiming she was not given the opportunity to purchase them herself.
The rights were later sold to the investment firm Shamrock Capital and Taylor revealed she only trusted her mother Andrea and brother Austin to get them back for her.
During an interview on The Graham Norton Show, Graham said: “You bought it all back from a corporate entity, you imagine there'd be an army of lawyers talking to another army of lawyers, but that is not how it went down.”
Taylor, 35, replied: “No, I sent in my mum and my brother. So basically my music was owned by a company called Shamrock Capital.
“We had to try figure out how to convince them to sell a very lucrative entity to us, even though it was still making them loads of money.
“So I was like the only people for the job are the people who have known me my entire life, know this entire journey I've been on, who've been supporting me, and who I work with everyday.
“They both work with me and they are the smartest people I know.
“And also the most compassionate, the kindest, the people who could tell the story of what we've been through as a family.
“So they went in and got my music back for me.”
Taylor previously revealed she was "in heaven crying" when she found out the news that she owned her works again.
Appearing on her fiance Travis Kelce's New Heights podcast, she recalled: "A couple of months after the Super Bowl in Kansas City, I get a call from my mom. She's like, 'You got your music.' I very dramatically hit the floor for real. Bawling my eyes out, weeping, like 'Really!?'"
She continued: "I said to myself, 'Go tell Travis in a normal way,' he was playing video games, and he put his headset down. I was like 'I got my music back!' And I was in heaven crying. This changed my life."
