Kelly Clarkson: Scooter ‘felt offended’ at My Support of Taylor’s Rerecords

Kelly Clarkson encouraged Taylor Swift to be stronger and stand a little taller as she fought for her masters’ property – but her message didn’t sit well Scooter Brown.

In 2019, the american idol alum, 41, told Swift, 33, via Twitter that she had to “go in and re-record all the songs” she didn’t own the masters amid her dispute with Braun, 42 and Big Machine Records. When asked about the tweet during her upcoming SiriusXM City Hall with Andy CohenClarkson hinted that Braun was not happy with her advice.

“I think Scooter took offense because we bumped into each other, and I think that’s when he contacted my manager,” she confessed in an excerpt from the interview, which will air in full on Friday, June 23. was like, ‘It was nothing against him.’ I just, when she came out and said that [about her albums] and I heard about it, I was like ‘Whatever. For example, record them again. Your fans will support you.’ They did.’

The “Breakaway” singer clarified that Braun “didn’t say anything directly to her” about the tweet. “I don’t know what happened or what was said, but I think he thought I was attacking him. … I didn’t even know all the information,” she said. “All I heard was, ‘Man, I really want to own something [my work].’”

Clarkson explained that she understood where Swift was coming from in her property rights battle. “She writes everything. It’s so important to her. She is a business woman. It felt wrong that she wasn’t given the chance. Right? That’s the point,” she continued. “It’s like having the opportunity and choosing not to pay that much money, that’s one thing, but not having the opportunity to own something that really matters to you…I knew it was important to her .”

While the Voice coach admitted that she doesn’t “care” about owning her records in the same way Swift did, she still thought the issue was valid. “I thought, ‘Why don’t you just re-record them and your fans will support you,’ and literally, she’s a genius,” Clarkson said. “She didn’t just re-record it, she planned it, for example with this Eras Tour she’s going to [perform everything]. Like, this woman is brilliant.

When asked if Swift ever reached out to thank her for the inspiration, Clarkson said no. “She would have figured that out on her own, and she might have done that before I even tweeted it,” she teased.

The ‘Cardigan’ singer signed with Republic Records and Universal Music Group in 2018 after 13 years and six albums with Big Machine. Following the career move, Swift called out Braun and her former label in a lengthy social media letter, accusing the talent manager – who Justin Bieber, Kanye West and more – from “incessant manipulative bullying.”

“Scooter has taken away my life’s work, which I couldn’t buy,” she claimed in June 2019. “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to be in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it. This is my worst case scenario.”

The drama continued later that year when Swift claimed she was not allowed to sing her old music for her Artist of the Decade performance at the 2019 American Music Awards. Big Machine closed the Cats actress” “calculated” social media posts amid back-and-forth, noting in a November 2019 statement that they “had no right to stop her from performing live anywhere.”

A year later, the feud reignited when Braun sold Swift’s masters to a private equity firm, Shamrock Holdings – which she again claimed was done behind her back.

Despite setbacks, the “Midnight Rain” artist began the process of revisiting her old work. She dropped Fearless (Taylor’s version) And Red (Taylor’s version) in April 2021 and November 2021 respectively, including previously unheard vault tracks on each album. Her third re-recording, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)comes out on July 7.

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“I first made Speak Now, completely self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20,” Swift wrote via Instagram in May. “The songs that came out of this time in my life were characterized by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diary confessions and wild melancholy. I love this album because it tells a story about growing up, swinging, flying and crashing… and living to talk about it.