Sheryl Crow has been in the music industry for decades, but that doesn’t mean she understands all the ins and outs of the latest news. On September 11, Andy Cohen asked her for her opinion on Taylor Swift’s drama with her old label, Big Machine Records, and celebrity manager Scooter Braun. And even though Sheryl, 57, is signed to that same label, she admitted that she didn’t really know what’s going on.
“I’m gonna be honest with you,” the “Soak Up The Sun” singer said. “I live with my head in a big hole. I stay out of that world.”
At the same time, she thought the general issue of masters ownership had been focused on a little too much.
“I will say one thing about masters. I signed with a record label 30 years ago and within 5 years it became owned by Interscope, and then Interscope got bought by Universal,” the “Picture” singer reminisced. “These things, that’s just the way the business goes.”
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“It’s totally not unusual for your masters to change hands like 9,000 times,” Sheryl said. “So I don’t know what the big stink was. I’m out of the loop. I don’t really know.”
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Taylor, 29, spoke out in a long
Tumblr post earlier this summer after Scooter, 38, buying Big Machine and, thus, her master recordings.
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Scott claimed the label gave Taylor the chance to buy her masters, which her lawyer vehemently denied. He also said Taylor had advance warning of the sale.
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Taylor said she learned about the sale online. “I knew Scott would sell my music. I knew he would do that. I couldn’t believe who he sold it to,” she told CBS Sunday Morning. “Because we’ve had endless conversations about Scooter Braun. And he has 300 million reasons to conveniently forget those conversations.”
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Weeks after the sale, she released her seventh studio album, Lover, the first one she completely owns.
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“It’s totally not unusual for your masters to change hands like 9,000 times,” Sheryl said. “So I don’t know what the big stink was. I’m out of the loop. I don’t really know.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Taylor, 29, spoke out in a long
Tumblr post earlier this summer after Scooter, 38, buying Big Machine and, thus, her master recordings.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
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Photo credit: INSTARImages
Scott claimed the label gave Taylor the chance to buy her masters, which her lawyer vehemently denied. He also said Taylor had advance warning of the sale.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Taylor said she learned about the sale online. “I knew Scott would sell my music. I knew he would do that. I couldn’t believe who he sold it to,” she told CBS Sunday Morning. “Because we’ve had endless conversations about Scooter Braun. And he has 300 million reasons to conveniently forget those conversations.”
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Weeks after the sale, she released her seventh studio album, Lover, the first one she completely owns.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
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