Scooter Braun has insisted its “time to move on” from his feud with Taylor Swift.
The music executive famously fell out with the Bad Blood singer after he acquired her old record label and master rights to her first six albums in 2019, before selling the masters on in 2020.
Swift was left unhappy with the deal and revealed she hadn’t been notified before either sale.
“Look, it’s five years later. I think, everyone, it’s time to move on,” Braun told the audience at the Bloomberg Screentime event in Los Angeles on Thursday.
“I think that it’s important in any kind of conflict that people actually communicate directly with each other. I think doing it out on social media and in front of the whole world is not the place. And I think when people actually take the time to stand in front of each other have a conversation, they usually find out the monster’s not real, and that hasn’t happened.”
Taylor later decided to rerecord the music to regain the rights to her own songs, and released the albums as Taylor’s Version.
The rift sparked such public interest that it was the subject of a two-part Max documentary earlier this year, titled Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood.
When asked about his thoughts on the documentary, Braun revealed his parents had urged him to watch it.
“I watched it recently,” Braun, the former music manager, explained. “I wasn’t going to watch it because I just thought it was going to be, like, another hit piece. And I pretty much stayed quiet about this kind of stuff. And my dad called me and my mom, and they were like, we just watched it. We think you should watch it. So I did.”
He also insisted that “a lot of things were misrepresented” in the series.
