For years now, there’s been loads of chatter about Taylor Swift, Scooter Braun and the contentious deal remodeled the pop star’s masters (which she purchased again in Might). Then, when she launched Midnights in 2022, it was shortly speculated that one of many tracks was in regards to the former music supervisor and his ex-wife. Now, he’s totally addressed “Vigilante Shit” and acknowledged that he doesn’t imagine the music is about him and his former accomplice.
Within the monitor “Vigilante Shit,” Swift sings about “dressing for revenge” and never beginning something however ensuring it ends. There’s even a line that claims, “Don’t get unhappy, get even.” After which, lyrics, like those beneath, shortly made Swifties imagine this monitor was all about Scooter Braun:
She wanted chilly laborious proof so I gave her some / She had the envelope, the place you suppose she received it from? / Now she will get the home, will get the children, will get the delight / Image me thick as thieves together with your ex-wife
So, on the Question Everything podcast, Danielle Robay learn these phrases again to Braun and requested him if the music was about his life. In response, he acknowledged:
No, as a result of I speak to Yael daily. My ex-wife is considered one of my finest pals, so me and my ex-wife snicker about that stuff. We do not even name one another ex. That’s like my accomplice, that is the mom of my youngsters. That is my household for all times. I’ve a tattoo on my finger that claims ‘identical crew’ after my divorce as a result of she and I are on the identical crew for all times. That’s what we are saying to one another.
For context, Braun and Yael Cohen Braun had been married from 2014 to 2022, they usually share three youngsters, Jagger (9), Levi (7) and Hart (5). They filed for divorce in 2021, and it was finalized in September 2022. Notably, Swift’s album Midnights additionally got here out in October 2022, and plenty of thought its monitor, “Vigilante Shit,” could be about her relationship with Braun. Additionally they thought the lyrics about an ex-wife may have been referencing Yael.
Nevertheless, the music mogul totally turned that concept down on this new interview, explaining:
So no, I by no means thought that was about us. She by no means thought it was about us. And everybody else form of feeding into the hearth, nice technique transfer, however nah.
Up to now, Braun has additionally opened up about this feud with Swift, particularly in regard to the deal that led to her re-recording loads of her music. In 2023, he talked to Bloomberg about how he may very well be “indignant, resentful, bitter,” however may additionally “select to say thanks for taking part in a task in my progress.”
Total, he made it clear that he doesn’t imagine he’s related to this music off Midnights, and he’s spoken just a few occasions over the previous few years about shifting ahead from this contentious deal.
In the meantime, “Vigilante Shit” was Swift’s favourite music to carry out on the Eras Tour, and it grew to become fairly the second within the blockbuster tour that ran from early 2023 by means of the tip of 2024. She additionally owns all her music now. That shakes up Swift’s upcoming tasks, because it’s unclear what precisely will occur with Taylor’s Model of Taylor Swift and Status, though she has stated she would possibly launch them sometime.
Total, it looks as if each events are shifting ahead after this large, turbulent second. Nevertheless, each now and again, it comes again up and is some extent of dialog, and if that occurs once more, we’ll remember to hold you posted.
