Taylor Swift's Masters Feud With Scooter Braun To Be Examined In New Documentary

Taylor SwiftHis famous feud with Scooter Braun gets the documentary treatment. According The Hollywood ReporterDiscovery+ announced Tuesday (May 7) that its series Vs will spend his next season – titled Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood — Exploring how it all went down, from the mogul's acquisition of the pop star's tutors to the 14-time Grammy winner's 'Taylor's Version' re-recording projects and every fiery blogpost in between.

In an effort to equally represent both sides, the two-part series will reportedly include legal experts and journalists, as well as people close to Swift and Braun. It will examine the roles of gender dynamics, fan influence and artist rights while analyzing the SB Projects founder's $300 million purchase of the 'Karma' singer's catalog from Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records in 2019; as well as Swift's claims that Borchetta blocked her. her own efforts to obtain the rights to her first six albums.

Swift also claimed at the time that she wasn't told about the Braun acquisition before it happened — something Borchetta denied — writing in Tumblr post that he had learned the news only “as it was announced to the world.” “All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I had been receiving at his hands for years,” she had added of Brown. “This is my worst case scenario. That's what happens when you sign an agreement at fifteen to someone for whom the term 'loyalty' is clearly just a contractual concept.”

Premiere in June, Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood it follows previous installments that focused on Kim Kardashian's divorce from Ye — ex Kanye West — in 2021 and Johnny Depp's defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard in 2022.

“Taylor Swift's dispute with Scooter Braun over the ownership of her music has exploded into the mainstream, moving contract law from the boardroom to social media and into the public interest,” said Charlotte Reid, vice president of of commissioning, networks and streaming at WBD UK & Ireland. in a statement. “It's a high-profile, high-interest story that opened the conversation for fans and mainstream titles, one that will resonate with our viewers.”

In the five years since the initial impact of Swift and Brown's conflict, the musician has completed four of her six planned re-recordings, with Fearless (Taylor Edition) and Red (Taylor Edition) both debut at the top of the Billboard 200 in 2021 and Speak Now (Taylor Edition) and 1989 (Taylor Edition) entered No. 1 in 2023. The release of the re-recordings coincides with Swift's ongoing Eras tour, which recently made the star a billionaire.

“I spent 10 years of my life trying strictly to buy my teachers and then they denied me that opportunity and I just don't want that to happen to another artist if I can help it,” he said. Advertising sign in 2019. “I want my music to continue. I want them to be in movies, I want them to be in commercials. But I only want it if I own it.”