Friday, July 3, 2026

Taylor Swift Goes After George Soros’s Family and Her Old Label for Releasing a Live Album of Hits, But What Did She Think Would Happen?

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I don’t get Taylor Swift. She was paid millions by Big Machine and Scooter Braun for her catalog. She had the chance to buy the catalog, or buy Big Machine. Instead, she took millions more and fled to Universal Music. Then she carped it about endlessly in public.

Now tonight Big Machine is releasing a live album from a 2008 radio show. Taylor is mad, she’s posted a notice to Instagram stories. She writes “It looks like Scooter Braun and his financial backers, 23 Capital, Alex Soros, and the Soros family and The Carlyle Group have seen the latest balance sheets and realized that paying $330 million for my music wasn’t exactly a wise choice and they need money.”

Yeah, one second. Taylor may not like it, but she told it to them. And she will be PAID handsomely on the publishing for all the times those songs are played somewhere. I mean, she will rake it in. So please, enough.

And this has nothing to do with coronavirus, as you’ll see writes. If there were a blizzard this week, she’d say How could they do this when it’s snowing?

So far there’s no listing anywhere for this album that Taylor is crying about. It’s not on amazon or Spotify. Let’s see what happens.

 

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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