Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your What Were You Trying to

accomplish by posting that blog? Really a valid question of music news and

criticism. I'm your host John Garamonica.

He said the way my blue eyes shined, but those Georgia stars to shame that and I said that's a lie.

Just a boy in a Chevy truck

it had a tenancy of getting stuck on back roads at night and I was right there beside

and all summer long

and then the time we woke up to find that

summer gone

when you think Tam were gone. When you think Tam were gone It's emergency times, Pop Civil War 2019, TM. I know you're expecting to

T.M. I know you're expecting part two of the hoodie cast and I'm sympathetic to you.

However, urgent things have been happening.

Sunday night is glued to my computer as the death row versus bad boy of American pop started to come into focus.

For those who don't know, Taylor Swift was signed for many years to a record label called Big Machine was an independent-ish Nashville label

That label owned her masters her father was a minority investor gave some of the seed money up front, but that's who she was signed to.

And recently she signed to a republic.

In so doing, walked away from Big Machine, walked away from her masters, and it was announced over the weekend that Big Machine had been sold,

and it had been sold to Ithaca Holdings. And for those of you who watch that show on CBS

about like the Cyber hackers, you guys know that Ithaca Holdings is the

parent company for Scooter Braun and his many myriad media enterprises. And you may think,

what a tremendous thing what a beautiful home a pop visionary the person who steered the career of Justin Bieber responsible for work with

Kanye West and Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande.

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