By: Gabrielle Taite
Singer Justin Bieber defended his manager, Scooter Braun, after artist Taylor Swift expressed her anger over Braun acquiring the rights to her master recordings.
Braun recently took over Big Machine Label Group, causing the Blank Space singer to make a lengthy post about how heartbroken she was. Additionally, Swift took to Tumblr saying “Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.”
Swift has also made claims that Braun has recruited Bieber and rapper Kanye West to bully her over the years, as West notoriously interrupted her speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards and in 2016, Bieber posted a screenshot on instagram of him, Braun and West with the caption “Taylor Swift what up.”
Swift’s dispute with West continued as the lyrics “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous” appeared in his song Famous. Both Kanye and Kim Kardashian West have repeatedly made claims that Swift approved over the lyric, however, the pop singer denied these allegation, causing Kim to leak a video of a phone call between West and Swift with her approving the line.
After Swift’s public disapproval of Braun’s newly found ownership, Bieber made a lengthy instagram post defending his manager and stating that both him and Braun have no problems with Swift. However, in the post, Bieber did ask what Swift aimed to gain from going public, even going so far as to write “What were you trying to accomplish with that blog post? Seems to me like it was to get sympathy.”
However, the singer has apparently made claims that he will no longer publicly comment on the dispute, according to the Hot New Hip-Hop website.
