Taylor Swift appears to have been granted permission to perform her old hits by her former record label, Big Machine.
For those who need a quick refresh, Taylor and Big Machine have been involved in a very public feud since the summer, when the label was bought out by music manager Scooter Braun, who looks after big-name acts like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, meaning he held the masters to her first six albums.
At the time, the Shake It Off singer described the situation as a “worst-case scenario”, claiming she had been “bullied” by Scooter and the acts he looks after in the past.
More recently, Taylor claimed that Big Machine had thrown the brakes on her performing a collection of her old hits at the upcoming American Music Awards, as well as including them in an upcoming Netflix documentary.
“The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished,” she wrote.
“This is WRONG. Neither of these men [Scooter or Big Machine’s Scott Borchetta] had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans.”
After Big Machine issued a rebuttal, insisting that they’d never tried to stop Taylor’s AMAs performance (which isn’t actually what she’d accused them of, we should note) and that the dispute was actually over money, the label has now said they have come to an agreement with Dick Clark Productions, who are behind the awards show.
However, Dick Clark Productions denied such an agreement had been reached, adding: “Any final agreement on this matter needs to be made directly with Taylor Swift’s management team. We have no further comment.”
Taylor Swift is to be named Artist Of The Decade at the AMAs on Sunday night, and is planning to perform a showcase of tracks from throughout her career to mark the occasion.
She signed with Big Machine when she was 15 years old, eventually joining Universal Music Group in 2018.
