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Scooter Braun enrages audiences after ‘taking away Taylor Swift’s lifetime achievement’ for $300 million, yet still pretends to be the victim in a cryptic post.
Scooter Braun realized “All Too Well” that he didn’t score an invite to the party of the summer.
The 43-year-old took to social media to troll Taylor Swift after the singer threw a star-studded bash at her $17 million Rhode Island mansion over the weekend.
Braun posted a photo of the Max documentary “Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood” and wrote above the shot, “I finally watched it …”
The show examined Swift, 34, and the retired music manager’s highly publicized feud over his acquisition of her masters.
Braun then posted a follow-up story that showed a TMZ Instagram post featuring pictures from the Grammy winner’s soiree, writing, “How was I not invited to this?!?”
Swift held a get-together in the Ocean State to celebrate her close friend Blake Lively’s 37th birthday.
The guest list included Travis and Jason Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and more.
Meanwhile, fans may remember the reason why Braun wouldn’t make the cut.
In June 2019, Swift published a Tumblr blog, alleging that the Hybe America CEO had “stripped her” of her “life’s work.”
“I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past,” she wrote at the time
Swift also said that Braun acquiring her catalog — from her 2006 self-titled debut album through 2017’s “Reputation” — was a “worst-case scenario.”
This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept,” she continued. “And when that man says ‘Music has value,’ he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it.”
Meanwhile, Braun had a different version of events, telling Variety in 2021 that he asked Swift to meet with him “several times,” but she declined.
“I regret [it] and it makes me sad that Taylor had that reaction to the deal,” he told the outlet. “All of what happened has been very confusing and not based on anything factual. I don’t know what story she was told.”
Swift told Vogue in 2019 that she hadn’t tried to buy back her master recordings when she had the chance, which led to Braun selling them for more than $300 million.
“It was either investing in my past or my and other artists’ future, and I chose the future,” the artist admitted.
But Swift ended up rerecording all of her albums and, so far, has released “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” “Red (Taylor’s Version),” “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” and “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”
The star has continued to sing her originals throughout the Eras tour, along with her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Meanwhile, fans are anxiously awaiting her next rerecording.