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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Supermanager Scooter Braun is

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Speaker 1: best known for two things. First and foremost, shepherding and

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Speaker 1: shaping the careers of several pop superstars, ranging from Justin

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Speaker 1: Bieber to Ariana Grande. The other and more notorious thing

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Speaker 1: is his conflict with Taylor Swift, which arose after he

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Speaker 1: purchased Big Machine Records and, in doing so, her entire

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Speaker 1: back catalog. It's what caused her to begin to rerecord

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Speaker 1: and rerelease all of her old albums, and also began

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Speaker 1: a very public spat between them. Scooter argues it was

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Speaker 1: simply a business decision. Now, Scooter's opening up about the

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Speaker 1: backlash that ensued and the lessons he's learned from it,

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Speaker 1: telling Bloomberg, I chose to look at these moments when

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Speaker 1: you think someone is attacking you, or these moments you

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Speaker 1: think are unfair in two ways. One, you play a

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Speaker 1: role in every one of these moments because you are

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Speaker 1: part of the story. Two, you can choose to be

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Speaker 1: resentful and bitter and have that actually become the story,

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Speaker 1: or you can choose to say thank you for playing

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Speaker 1: a role in my growth. Scooter also recently stated he

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Speaker 1: regrets making assumptions about how the sale and subsequent conversations

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Speaker 1: would play out with Taylor someone he didn't know. That's

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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.