Scooter Braun revisits infamous Taylor Swift feud, insists he ‘doesn’t know’ her

Scooter Braun is still confused to this time complete his and Taylor Swift’s infamous beef aft he acquired her masters.

The businessman said astir their play on nan “Second Thought” podcast section that dropped Thursday. He stressed that he’s had minimal relationship pinch nan popular star, contempt their very nationalist feud.

“I don’t cognize Taylor Swift. I deliberation I’ve met her successful my life 3 times,” he said. “I person ne'er had a important speech pinch her successful my life.”

Braun, 44, claimed Swift erstwhile invited him to a backstage statement and that she told him she had “the utmost respect” for him, but that was nan grade of their interactions.

“I will ne'er genuinely understand that situation. To this day, I wish her thing but nan best,” he insisted.

“People are usually shocked to find retired that I legitimately don’t cognize her and didn’t person galore interactions pinch her and ne'er really knew her.”

Braun said his beef pinch nan vocalist turned him into “a villain” overnight, but that successful nan end, he learned from nan situation.

“I deliberation what it did bring to ray is that artists are going to commencement wanting to ain their masters, and I deliberation you’re seeing artists much and much do that, and I deliberation that’s great,” he said.

Braun’s feud pinch Swift, 36, dates backmost to 2019 when he bought nan authorities to her first six albums — “Taylor Swift,” “Fearless,” “Speak Now,” “Red,” “1989” and “Reputation” — from her erstwhile grounds label, Big Machine Records, without her approval.

In a scathing 2019 Tumblr post, Swift shared that she was devastated that her maestro recordings had been sold disconnected to Braun successful a $300 cardinal deal.

“Scooter has stripped maine of my life’s work, that I wasn’t fixed an opportunity to buy,” she wrote. “Essentially, my philharmonic bequest is astir to dishonesty successful nan hands of personification who tried to dismantle it.”

She besides claimed she had suffered “incessant, manipulative bullying astatine his hands” for years done his erstwhile clients Justin Bieber and Kanye West.

Investment patient Shamrock Capital ended up purchasing Swift’s euphony from Braun successful November 2020.

In May 2025, Swift announced she bought backmost her masters from Shamrock Capital — aft re-recording 4 of her past albums as a measurement to reclaim her music.

“I almost stopped reasoning it could ever happen, aft 20 years of having nan carrot dangled and past yanked away,” she wrote successful an affectional connection to her fans posted connected her website. “But that’s each successful nan past now. I’ve been bursting into tears of joyousness astatine random intervals ever since I recovered that this is really happening. I really get to opportunity those words.”

“All of nan euphony I’ve ever made … now belongs… to me.”

Braun later told Page Six successful a connection that he was “happy” for Swift after she was capable to bargain backmost her masters.