celeb news Scooter on Taylor Again: "I was open to selling catalogs back at a fair market value"

[Brooklyn Baby]

I recommend watching the entire 2-minute clip.

 

 

"All artists have royalties coming to them from their masters and if they want an opportunity to buy them, they should have that opportunity and I'm completely open to that conversation.

 

I will also tell you though - to have that conversation, you have to have a conversation. You need to be able to sit in front of someone and have dialogue. What you can't do is say you want something and then never ever sit down at the table to have an actual dialogue.

And I wish everyone well, and in fact, what I learned from that experience was that I would never do a deal again where everyone wasn't involved in saying 'Yes, I agree with this deal.' I made the assumption. I made the assumption that everyone would be excited about us buying Big Machine. And that didn't come to be."

 

[BrokenMachine]

Not him playing the victim again 

 

Even when it has been used sarcasticaly in here, this time is true: #BelieveWomen 

[MONSTER NAVY]

as per usual she had to go and play the victim card. Lol 

[Shendelzare]

1 minute ago, MONSTER NAVY said:

as per usual she had to go and play the victim card. Lol 

as per usual, you stay acting ignorant 

[Protocol]

Why would Taylor Swift have been "be excited" about Kanye West's manager buying the label she's on?   What a narcissistic, slimy creep.

[SmittenCake]

3 minutes ago, MONSTER NAVY said:

as per usual she had to go and play the victim card. Lol 

scooters pronouns are he/him

 

but yeah idg why hes acting like a victim 

[G.U.Y. Gaga]

Honestly I do think that Scott tricked both and just ran away with his hands clean 

[VOSS]

Didn’t she say she refused to talk to him about buying them cause he wanted her to sign an NDA

[MONSTER NAVY]

6 minutes ago, Shendelzare said:

as per usual, you stay acting ignorant 

you thought u did something with this. 'iGnOraNt' lmfao.  

[Brooklyn Baby]

1 minute ago, VOSS said:

Didn’t she say she refused to talk to him about buying them cause he wanted her to sign an NDA

Yes he conveniently left that out 

 

[SmittenCake]

2 minutes ago, VOSS said:

Didn’t she say she refused to talk to him about buying them cause he wanted her to sign an NDA

was just going to say this

[BrokenMachine]

1 minute ago, VOSS said:

Didn’t she say she refused to talk to him about buying them cause he wanted her to sign an NDA

This. He made everything as possible to silence Taylor, yet when he wasn't able to do that he backs up, sells her masters and plays the victim

[Ascareus Kratos]

Ganbatte taylor

[feelslikeadream]

Listen, at the end of the day, it was for the best what happened; if Scott never sold the masters to Scoots, we would never have My Wigs Ricochet

[James_Dean]

1 minute ago, feelslikeadream said:

Listen, at the end of the day, it was for the best what happened; if Scott never sold the masters to Scoots, we would never have My Wigs Ricochet

Or all of the TVs and ATW10  

[More Than A Melody]

He’s a douche and she deserves to own her masters. And I don’t believe for a second that he was open to dialogue without something in return.

 

 

With thar said, it does bother me that we treat Taylor’s masters as this relic when most artists don’t own their masters unless they were lucky enough to go in on negotiations in a position of power. Harry is lucky enough to own his, but I think he’s one of the only examples in mainstream who can say he owns his entire catalogue nowadays.

 

I can’t imagine Abel or Dua or Justin or Adele own all their masters. Maybe for later work, but certainly not for all of it. When it first blew up people were saying that Taylor talking about her masters would open the conversation for other artists to demand theirs, to reevaluate how these things are handled. But that didn’t happen, it’s just a conversation about her masters over and over either because she’s releasing her re-recordings or because this douche brings it up again.

 

I just feel bad for all the artists who will never own their art and who don’t have the luxury to re-record their own material and repackage it to market themselves.

Edited April 29, 2022 by More Than A Melody

[feelslikeadream]

1 minute ago, James_Dean said:

Or all of the TVs and ATW10  

Are you a clumsy waiter? Cause you spilled.

[VOSS]

8 minutes ago, Taeyong said:

Yes he conveniently left that out 

 

The comparison to assault victims is very on brand

Edited April 29, 2022 by VOSS

[queenoftheclouds]

He's playing the victim again.

The first sentense is so wrong.

Many artists who don't have the masters also don't get any money from these songs. That's why they re-recorded it.

[feelslikeadream]

1 minute ago, More Than A Melody said:

When it first blew up people were saying that Taylor talking about her masters would open the conversation for other artists to demand theirs, to reevaluate how these things are handled. But that didn’t happen, it’s just a conversation about her masters over and over either because she’s releasing her re-recordings or because this douche brings it up again.

This isn't true though. I saw a lot of press about how Olivia owns her masters and how that came directly from her seeing Taylor's fight over hers. You're naming artists who debuted before Taylor v. Scooter when you need to see what happens with newer artists in order to understand Taylor's impact on this topic.

[Brooklyn Baby]

7 minutes ago, VOSS said:

The comparison to assault victims is very on brand

Well it would make sense for her to compare the two then since she was actually sexually assaulted 

Edited April 29, 2022 by Taeyong

[fauxtography]

I'm not surprised she's a liar, and manipulator. She probably threw another one of her toddler fits thinking they should be handed over.

 

Whatever, what is done is done! She'll get her master after she wastes the rest of her creative years remaking old albums to spite an old vendetta. Very taylor.

[Brooklyn Baby]

1 minute ago, fauxtography said:

I'm not surprised she's a liar, and manipulator. She probably threw another one of her toddler fits thinking they should be handed over.

 

Whatever, what is done is done! She'll get her master after she wastes the rest of her creative years remaking old albums to spite an old vendetta. Very taylor.

You ate that up

[vuelve88]

Yawn. He never mentions the NDA he tried to get Taylor to agree to before even negotiating. 
 

He also left out how even when he sold the masters, he included a clause to still directly benefit from royalties. 

[G.U.Y. Gaga]

10 minutes ago, fauxtography said:

I'm not surprised she's a liar, and manipulator. She probably threw another one of her toddler fits thinking they should be handed over.

 

Whatever, what is done is done! She'll get her master after she wastes the rest of her creative years remaking old albums to spite an old vendetta. Very taylor.

Lol she’s released more original albums that most faves on this site while doing rereleases