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Speaker 1: This is the City with Hello and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Jess Mac with you and Swifties, we are waking up

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Speaker 1: to very big news. After six years, Taylor Swift finally

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Speaker 1: owns all of her Master's recordings. She has said, all

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Speaker 1: of the music I've ever made now belongs to me.

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Speaker 1: All of my music videos, all the concert films, the

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Speaker 1: album art and photography, the unreleased songs, the memories, the magic,

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Speaker 1: the madness, every single era, my entire life's work. She

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Speaker 1: released this letter overnight on her website. She has said,

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Speaker 1: to say it is my greatest dream come true, is

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Speaker 1: actually being pretty reserved about it now. It turns out

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Speaker 1: that this sale was only possible because of the success

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Speaker 1: of the Taylor's Version's re recorded albums and also the

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Speaker 1: Eras tour that allowed her to buy back her music,

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Speaker 1: and she said, I can't thank you enough for helping

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Speaker 1: to reunite me with this art that I I have

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Speaker 1: dedicated my life to but have never owned until now.

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Speaker 1: She's gone on to thank Shamrock Capital. Now, if you remember,

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Speaker 1: Scooter Braun originally bought these albums sort of out from

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Speaker 1: underneath Taylor, and only a year later he sold them

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Speaker 1: to Shamrock Capital and what was believed to be about

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Speaker 1: a three hundred million dollar deal. But she has thanked

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Speaker 1: them and said she's forever grateful for Shamrock Capital. They're

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Speaker 1: the first people that ever offered this opportunity to her,

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Speaker 1: and the way that they've handled every interaction has been honest,

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Speaker 1: fair and respectful. It was a business deal to them,

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Speaker 1: but I really felt like they saw it for what

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Speaker 1: it was for me, my memories and my sweat and

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Speaker 1: my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful.

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Speaker 1: I thought this was a funny line. She said, my

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Speaker 1: first tattoo might just have to be a huge shamrock

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Speaker 1: in the middle of my forehead. Okay, now let's get

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Speaker 1: to what everyone has been clowning about. We thought that

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Speaker 1: reputation was going to come out at the AMA's turns

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Speaker 1: out she hasn't even re recorded a quarter of it.

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Speaker 1: She said the album was so specific to that time

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Speaker 1: in her life. She tried to rerecord it. She kept

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Speaker 1: hitting this stopping point every time she tried to remake it.

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Speaker 1: All the defiance, the longing to be understood while feeling misunderstood,

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Speaker 1: the desperate hope, the shame borne Snarl and Mischief. It

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Speaker 1: was the one album in the first six that she

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Speaker 1: thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it, so she

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Speaker 1: kept putting it off, and she has said that there

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Speaker 1: will be a time if we are into that idea

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Speaker 1: the fans for the unreleased vault tracks from that album

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Speaker 1: to Hatch, I mean, of course, I think the vault tracks.

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Speaker 1: They're the only things from the albums we haven't heard before,

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Speaker 1: so of course we want those vault tracks. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound like we're going to get that full reputation album, though,

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Speaker 1: we will get debut. She has recorded all of that,

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Speaker 1: and she said that those two albums can still have

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Speaker 1: their moments to re emerge when the time is right,

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Speaker 1: and if it's something that we would be excited about,

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Speaker 1: which I think just by the fact of how many

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Speaker 1: Swifties tuned into the AMA's to see absolutely nothing, yes,

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Speaker 1: that is something that we would be excited about. She

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Speaker 1: went on to say she was extremely heartened by the conversations.

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Speaker 1: This saga has reignited within the industry among artists and fans,

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Speaker 1: and every time a new artist tells her that they

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Speaker 1: negotiated their own master's recordings in their contract because of

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Speaker 1: this fight. She's reminded how important this all was. She

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Speaker 1: goes on to thank the fans for all their goodwill, teamwork,

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Speaker 1: and encouragement, and she said, the best things that have

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Speaker 1: ever been mine finally actually are a very heartfelt letter

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Speaker 1: written from Taylor herself. I mean, the interesting thing is

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Speaker 1: there was a leak in the news from Scooter Braun's

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Speaker 1: team earlier this week saying that he was actually encouraging

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Speaker 1: Shamrock to make this deal with Taylor, but a source

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Speaker 1: close to the sale has firmly denied that. They said,

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Speaker 1: contrary to a previous false report, there was no outside

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Speaker 1: party who encouraged this sale. All rightful credit for this

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Speaker 1: opportunity should go to the partners at Shamrock Capital and

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Speaker 1: Taylor's Nashville based management team. Only Taylor now owns all

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Speaker 1: of her music. And this moment finally happened in spite

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Speaker 1: of Scooter Braun, not because of him, But can I

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Speaker 1: just say, very Scooter Braun of him to try and

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Speaker 1: to try and claim credit for all her success just

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Speaker 1: one last time. People were also saying that this deal

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Speaker 1: was between six hundred mil and one billion dollars, but

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Speaker 1: apparently it's actually closer to the three hundred mel Shamrock

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Speaker 1: paid for it back in twenty twenty. Round about three

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty mel, which for our ethical billionaire is

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Speaker 1: not really that much money considering how much that Errscure

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Speaker 1: just raked in now. As for Scooter himself, his public

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Speaker 1: response was very simple. He just said I am happy

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Speaker 1: for her, So I think time will tell if that

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Speaker 1: is actually the case or not. But a monumental day

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Speaker 1: for the music industry and for Taylor Swift herself of course,

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Speaker 1: reclaiming what was rightfully hers, all of those albums back

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Speaker 1: where they belong. Fingers crossed. We get those other two

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Speaker 1: at some point if she ever feels ready for it.

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Speaker 1: But until then, I think I'm off to listen to

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Speaker 1: the original style, which just hits a little bit different

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Speaker 1: than the new one. Thanks for listening, Jess Mack signing off,

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