She read you should never leave a fight unresolved — and so she only went and won it. Taylor Swift has bought her masters outright, with “no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy,” as she told fans in a letter published on her website on Friday.
Following a lengthy battle during which Swift’s original record label Big Machine sold the masters to Scooter Braun, the singer-songwriter has now acquired her first six albums, music videos, concert films, album art and photography, unreleased songs, her “entire life’s work,” from Shamrock Holdings.
For fans like myself, this is an emotional moment. Swift was clearly bereft over losing the opportunity to own her masters, and has described her victory in owning her work outright as her “greatest dream come true.” Her Eras Tour, which took place throughout 2023 and 2024, was a celebration of her musical legacy thus far, which allowed those of us
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