Scooter Braun is still confused about his and Taylor Swift’s infamous beef after winning her master.
The businessmen opened up about their drama on Thursday’s podcast episode, “Second Thought.” He stressed that despite their public feud, he had minimal interaction with the pop star.
“I don’t know Taylor Swift. I think I’ve met her three times in my life,” he said. “I’ve never had a proper conversation with her in my life.”
Brown, 44, said Swift once invited her to a private party and that he had “the utmost respect” for her, but insisted that was the extent of their interactions.
“To this day, I can’t really understand that situation. I wish her nothing but the best,” he stressed.
“Most people are shocked to find out that I legitimately didn’t know her, didn’t have much interaction with her, and didn’t know her at all.”
Brown said his fight with the singer turned him into a villain overnight, but he ultimately learned from the situation.
“I think what this has revealed is that artists are going to want to own their masters. I think more and more artists are doing that, and I think that’s great,” he said.
Brown’s feud with Swift, 36, dates back to 2019 when Brown bought the rights to her first six albums (‘Taylor Swift’, ‘Fearless’, ‘Speak Now’, ‘Red’, ‘1989’ and ‘Reputation’) from her former record label, Big Machine Records, without her permission.
In a scathing Tumblr post in 2019, Swift said she was shocked to learn that her master recordings were sold to Brown in a $300 million deal.
“Scooters stole my life’s work and denied me the opportunity to buy one,” she wrote. “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to fall into the hands of someone who wanted to dismantle it.”
She also claimed that she had suffered “constant manipulative bullying at his hands” for years through his former clients Justin Bieber and Kanye West.
Investment firm Shamrock Capital ended up purchasing Swift’s music from Brown in November 2020.
In May 2025, Swift announced that she had re-recorded four of her previous albums as a way to get her music back, and then bought back the masters from Shamrock Capital.
“After 20 years of dangling carrots and pulling them apart, I almost no longer believe that such a thing could happen,” she wrote in an emotional message to fans posted on her website. “But that’s all in the past now. Ever since I found out this is actually happening, I’ve been crying occasional tears of joy. Now I can really say those words.”
“All the music I’ve ever made…is mine now.”
Brown later told Page Six in a statement that he was “happy” that Swift was able to buy back Masters.
