{"id":1802,"date":"2019-08-22T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:58:48","slug":"taylor-swift-plans-to-re-record-her-old-songs-to-own-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/taylor-swift-plans-to-re-record-her-old-songs-to-own-copyright\/music\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift plans to re-record her old songs to own copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taylor Swift has said she plans to re-record her own songs after her songs were bought by Scooter Braun. The pop star said in an interview it was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; her plan to re-record the songs so she owns the copyright to the new versions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1805\" style=\"width: 815px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-image-1805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1386434369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1386434369.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1386434369-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1386434369-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editorial credit: Tinseltown \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swift claimed Braun bullied her for years and she also said she felt &#8220;sad&#8221; and &#8220;grossed out&#8221; that he now owns her music. In June, Braun&#8217;s Ithaca Holdings company had bought Big Machine Label Group who released Swift&#8217;s first six albums.\u00a0In November, Swift signed with Universal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead, I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and \u2018earn\u2019 one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in,&#8221; <strong>Swift wrote at the time.<\/strong> &#8220;I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past,&#8221; she continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Swift continued to comment saying:<\/strong> &#8220;Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words &#8216;Scooter Braun&#8217; escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn&#8217;t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has said she plans to re-record her own songs after her songs were bought by Scooter Braun. The pop star said in an interview it was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; her plan to re-record the songs so she owns the copyright to the new versions.\u00a0 Swift claimed Braun bullied her for years and she also said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[25,755],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","category-music","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}