Taylor Swift calls out 'toxic male privilege,' Scooter Braun and private equity firms during Billboard Women in Music Speech
during her Woman of the Decade award speech during Billboard’s 2019 Women in Music event. Swift previously called out Braun after his company purchased Big Machine Label Group and the master rights to her first six albums and allegedly tried to prevent her from performing at the American Music Awards, to which BraunNow Swift is calling out the other parties involved, including George Soros, 23 Capital and the Carlyle Group.
“This just happened to me without my approval, consultation, or consent,” Swift said during her speech, which also discussed sexism in the music industry. “After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital, and that Carlyle Group.
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