Kelly Clarkson has offered sage advice to Taylor Swift amid her public battle with Scooter Braun.
Last month Taylor Swift penned an open letter on Tumblr, expressing her heartbreak over music mogul Scooter Braun acquiring the rights to Swift’s back catalogue. Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records – the label Taylor Swift released all of her albums on up until 2019 – for $300 million.
Swift described the acquisition as a “worst case scenario”, claiming that Braun was responsible for “incessant, manipulative bullying” over the years.
Now, Clarkson has weighed in on the debacle, encouraging Swift to re-record all the music she doesn’t own the masters to.
“@taylorswift13 just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions,” Clarkson tweeted on Saturday. “I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point.”
Clarkson isn’t the only music business figure to weigh on the debacle. Australian pop sensation Sia took to Twitter to show her support for Scooter Braun, “You’re a good kind man Scooter Braun I hope this passes quickly,” she tweeted. “I love you keep going.”
This sentiment didn’t sit too kindly with Taylor Swift fans, who were quick to put their sleuthing skills to the test and unearth dirt on Sia. Fans soon unearthed a photo of Sia sporting black face paint, which led to accusations of blackface — a claim that Sia denied. “For the Swift fans trying to make out that I would ever do blackface please see this video,” Sia wrote on Twitter. “I was painting myself into the backdrop, it was a precursor to the wig.”
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Noel Gallagher also offered his two cents on the situation, with the most apathetic take ever.
In an interview with Variety, Gallagher isn’t even taking a side because as he says, “they’re just American idiots.”
“You don’t own your own f—ing shit, which is why when I finally left Oasis, I started my own record label, because I wanted to own them,” he says.
“But I’m aware of the story of Taylor Swift and some idiot called f—ing Scooter. Scooter? Is that even a real name? [He adopts an American surfer accent.] ‘Scooter. F—ing Scooter.’ Um, I’m not a fan of Taylor Swift. I’m less of a fan of Scooter Brown or whatever his f—ing name is. They’re just American idiots. Which, really, I’d be f—ing ashamed of them, if I were you.”
