Scooter Braun is a music executive who manages artists you probably have heard of or have listened to. He's got a relationship with Kanye West at a time when Kanye has a lot of beef with Taylor Swift. Scott Borschetta, the owner of Big Machine Records, Taylor's old record label, she was basically Big Machine. She was the main artist over there.
One of the biggest pop stars in the world is rerecording her first six albums at the artistic peak of her career. The Atlantic’s Shirley Li explains Swift’s gambit to reclaim her catalog.
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