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The cheery and popular Taylor Swift has decried the excessive and tyrannical control of some music executives over artists’ back catalogues and future careers.
The singer was very specific in her scathing attack on two music executives, namely, Scott Borchetta, the head of the Big Machine Label Group and Scooter Braun, the Music Manager of the Label Group.
The Big Machine Label Group was the record label that promoted Taylor Swift’s popular music albums such as the Eponymous Taylor Swift, Speak Now, Red and Fearless, 1989 as well as Reputation among others.
The BMLG is also managing popular artists such as Justine Bieber and Arianna Grande, among others.
Ms Swift accused these executives of preventing her from performing her hit songs at the American Music Awards held on the 25th of November 2019 because it would amount to re-recording which Taylor Swift was banned from engaging in until 2021.
The Singer-Song Writer won the Artist of the Year Award for the second year running at the Awards.
Taylor Swift has vowed to win back the control of her old music and her previous master recordings as she is currently with the Republic Records.
The popular singer wrote in an online statement: “I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for (sic) all artistes, and potentially help them to avoid a similar fate.”
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Ms Swift also noted that the messages being sent by these executives bother on entrenching contemporary slavery as she is being expected to “be a good little girl and shut up or you’ll be punished. This is wrong as these executives have not contributed to the writing of those songs.”
It is important to note that Taylor Swift was signed by Borchetta when she was a High School teenager in 2003.
She successfully recorded six hit albums with the record label, but she was not privileged to own the outright ownership of the hit albums’ master recordings.
