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I’m attempting to assemble my ideas into one thing coherent, however proper now my thoughts is only a slideshow. As a flashback sequence of all of the occasions I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for an opportunity to get to inform you this information. All of the occasions I used to be thiiiiiiiiiiiis shut, reaching out for it, just for it to fall by means of. I nearly stopped pondering it might occur, after 20 years of getting the carrot dangled after which yanked away. However that’s all up to now now. I’ve been bursting into tears of pleasure at random intervals ever since I discovered that that is actually taking place. I actually get to say these phrases.
All the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.
— Taylor Swift, in a letter posted to her website, explaining that she now controls her complete music catalog, after she was capable of buy back the master recordings of her first six albums. Swift bought the grasp recordings from Shamrock Capital, the non-public fairness agency that purchased them from Scooter Braun in 2020. In line with Billboard, she reportedly paid about $360 million to regain possession of her masters. “I’m extraordinarily heartened by the conversations this saga has reignited inside my {industry} amongst artists and followers. Each time a brand new artist tells me they negotiated to personal their grasp recordings of their document contract due to this combat, I’m reminded of how essential it was for all of this to occur,” she wrote within the letter. “Thanks for being inquisitive about one thing that was regarded as too industry-centric for broad dialogue. You’ll by no means know the way a lot it means to me that you simply cared. Each single little bit of it counted and ended us up right here.”
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Regulation, the place she’s labored since 2011. She’d love to listen to from you, so please be happy to email her with any suggestions, questions, feedback, or critiques. You possibly can observe her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or join together with her on LinkedIn.
