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Taylor Swift makes withering speech about Scooter Braun while accepting Billboard’s Woman of the Decade | Independent

Taylor Swift made a public condemnation of music manager Scooter Braun in a withering speech at Billboard’s Women in Music event, where she was honoured with the Woman of the Decade award. The pop star first spoke out against Braun, who manages artists including Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, after his company bought her former label Big Machine , along with the masters for her first six albums. She accused Braun of “bullying” her for years and has since confirmed plans to re-record at least some of her music from those six albums. Sharing headlinesIn her first public comments about the incident since Braun posted an open letter inviting her to “speak directly and respectfully”, Swift called out the “unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying our music as if it’s real estate – as if it’s an app or a shoe line”. “This just happened to me without my approval, consultation or consent,” she said. “After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalogue was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital, and the Carlyle Group.”She continued: “Yet, to this day, none of these investors have bothered to contact me or my team directly – to perform their due diligence on their investment. On their investment in me. To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art, the music I wrote, the videos I created, photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs.