She Didn't Own Her Own Songs


She Didn't Own Her Own Songs In June 2019, Taylor Swift found out the way the rest of us did. A post went up. Big Machine Records, the label she'd signed with at 15 and the label she'd made, had been sold to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings for a reported $330 million. Inside that deal were the master recordings of her first six albums. Ten years of work. She had no say in the sale. She found out in real time, alongside her fans. Whatever you think of her music, sit with the business fact for...