In a current interview, Kelly Clarkson revealed that Scooter Braun ‘took offense’ to her suggestion that Taylor Swift re-record her masters.
Kelly Clarkson revealed in a current interview with Andy Cohen for a SiriusXM City Corridor particular that Scooter Braun reacted negatively to her publicly suggesting to Taylor Swift that she re-record her masters amid Swift’s 2019 battle with Braun and her former document label, Massive Machine Data.
In 2019 after information broke that Braun bought the rights to Swift’s masters for her first six albums along with his acquisition of Massive Machine, Clarkson tweeted at Swift, “Only a thought, it is best to go in and re-record all of the songs that you simply don’t personal the masters on, precisely how you probably did them, however put model new artwork and a few type of incentive so followers will now not purchase the outdated variations.”
“I feel Scooter took offense to it as a result of we bumped into one another, and I feel he reached out on the time to my supervisor. I used to be like, ‘It wasn’t something in opposition to him,’” Clarkson tells Cohen. “When (Swift) got here out and stated that, and I heard about it, I used to be like, ‘No matter. Re-record them. Your followers will help you.’ Uh, they did. She has like each prime document proper now within the charts.”
Clarkson clarified that Braun by no means stated something to her instantly.
“He referred to as my supervisor on the time, I heard, and I don’t know what occurred or what was stated, however I feel he thought I used to be attacking him,” she says. “I used to be like, ‘I trustworthy to God didn’t even understand who had (the rights).’ I didn’t even know all the data.”
“I knew it was necessary to her, so I assumed, ‘Why don’t you simply re-record them? Your followers will help you.’ Actually, she’s a genius,” Clarkson continues. “Not solely did she re-record it, she deliberate this Eras Tour — like, this girl is sensible.”
Clarkson additionally says she doesn’t essentially suppose Swift bought the concept to re-record her music from Clarkson’s suggestion.
“I feel she is sensible. She would’ve provide you with that on her personal, and he or she perhaps already had earlier than I even tweeted it.”
Swift has re-recorded and launched new Taylor’s Variations of her albums Crimson and Fearless, with preparations to launch the newly recorded model of Communicate Now on July 7. She has additionally stated she plans to do the identical for her albums 1989, Status, and Taylor Swift, as a way to personal the masters of all her work.