Kelly Clarkson urged Taylor Swift to re-record her songs after Scooter Braun gained ownership of the masters (Picture: SiriusXM/Getty Images
Kelly Clarkson believes she might have offended Scooter Braun when she suggested Taylor Swift re-record her old albums.
In 2019, music manager Braun bought Taylor’s former label Big Machine Records, which made him the owner of all her master recordings, which she had been trying to buy back with no luck.
After the news, Kelly tweeted the idea that Taylor simply re-record her albums to encourage fans to stop listening to the older versions.
She wrote at the time: ‘@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.
‘I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point. (sic)’
As we all know, that’s exactly what happened and the rest is history, with artists around the world benefitting from the move.
Kelly thought it was a great idea (Picture: SiriusXM)
She suspects Taylor may have already had the idea (Picture: Shanna Madison/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Appearing on Andy Cohen’s SirusXM radio show this week, Kelly – who acknowledged that Taylor might have already had the idea herself at that point – admitted she actually ‘ran into’ Scooter shortly after her tweet.
‘I think Scooter took offense to it because we ran into each other, and I think he reached out at the time to my manager,’ she said in the preview for the interview, which will air in full on Friday.
‘I was like, “It wasn’t anything against him.” I just, when she came out and said that [about her albums] and I heard about it, I was like, “Whatever. Like, rerecord them. Your fans will support you.” They did!’
Scooter bought her former record label (Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
Kelly clarified that Braun ‘didn’t say anything’ to her directly, but she thinks he got in touch with her manager ‘at the time’.
‘I don’t know what happened or what was said, but I think he thought I was attacking him. I honest to God didn’t even realise who had the rights,’ Kelly revealed.
‘I didn’t even know all the information. All I heard was, “Man, I really want to own [my work].” ‘
The Since U Been Gone hitmaker pointed out that Taylor ‘writes everything’, so owning her own music is ‘so important to her’.
She added: ‘She’s a businesswoman. It felt wrong that she didn’t have the opportunity. Right? That’s the thing.
‘It’s like, if you have the opportunity and you choose to not pay that much money, that’s one thing, but to not have the opportunity to own something that is really important to you… I knew it was important to her.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted representatives for Scooter Braun for comment.
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