BY SHAWN GRANT • JULY 1, 2019

To kick off July, Taylor Swift called out celebrity manager Scooter Braun after he acquired her discography. Hitting Tumblr, Swift stated she was “sad and grossed out” at the fact that her albums are now owned by the man who provided her with “incessant, manipulative bullying” over the years.

The acquisition by Braun was one of the major pieces of news online over the weekend. Braun purchased Big Machine Label Group LLC, which would now make him the owner of Swift’s catalog, in addition to Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum and more.

“For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work,” Swift began. “Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.”

Swift states she has been bullied by Braun throughout the years and would call back incidents with other celebrities to compare the level of bullying Braun issued her.

“This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept,” she wrote. “And when that man says ‘Music has value,’ he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it.”

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