Taylor Swift vs The World | Revenge of the Swifties | 3

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

By 2019, Taylor Swift's battle to get her masters back from Scooter Braun has gone public. She decides to fight by deploying her own, very dangerous weapon -- the Swifties. And Braun pulls out all the stops to protect his $300 million asset.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. A note to listeners this episode contains references to online harassment and violence.
0:26.0	June 29th, 2019.
0:29.0	Taylor Swift is watching television at home in her New York City apartment.
0:33.0	She's been busy promoting her upcoming album, Lover,
0:36.0	which is due out in two months.
0:38.0	She's just beginning to wind down for the evening when...
0:41.0	It's a text from Scott Borchetta.
0:44.0	Hope all is well and congratulations on the success of your first two singles from
0:49.4	lover.
0:50.4	Swift smiles.
0:51.6	Her most recent two singles debuted at number two.
0:54.0	They're her first release at her new record label Universal Music Group.
0:58.0	It was a bitter break when she left Borchetta and his company Big Machine,
1:03.0	so it's nice of him to reach out.
1:05.0	Swift keeps reading.
1:07.0	Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Central,
1:09.0	the Wall Street Journal will announce that I am
1:11.0	entering into a merger acquisition with
1:13.2	Scooter Braun and Ithaca Holdings. Her stomach drops. Scooter Braun is
1:18.9	the super manager best known for shaping the careers of Justin Bieber and
1:22.4	Kanye West, two artists that she best known for shaping the careers of Justin Bieber and
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