It appears that the conflict between Taylor Swift, her former label Big Machine Records, and the label's new owner, Scooter Braun, is far from over. On Thursday, Swift posted a statement on her Instagram Story, stating that a fan informed her of the impending release of a new "live album" recorded during a radio show appearance in 2008. According to Swift's fan account @blessedswifty, the album is titled "Live From Clear Channel Stripped 2008" and has been uploaded to Spotify with a release date of 2017.

"I'm always honest about these things, so I just wanted to let you know that this release is not something I approved," Swift wrote." It seems to me that Scooter Braun and his financial backers, 23 Capital, Alex Soros, the Soros Family, and the Carlyle Group, have looked at the latest balance sheet and realized that paying $330 million for my music is not necessarily a wise choice and that they need the money It looks like it."

"In my opinion... Just another case of shameless greed in the age of the coronavirus," Swift continued." Very tasteless, but very transparent." Marie Claire has reached out to Brown and Big Machine Records for comment.

In June 2019, Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings bought Big Machine Label Group, and with it, all of Swift's pre-"Lover" masters.In a Tumblr post (opens in new tab), Swift said that he owned his masters He said he had fought "for years" to keep them and described the sale to Brown as a "worst-case scenario." (Big Machine's Scott Borchetta disputed Swift's post in an online statement (opens in new tab).)

The following November, Swift claimed that Big Machine had prevented her from performing her old songs at the American Music Awards, tweeting that Borchetta and Brown were "exercising tyrannical control over someone who only wants to perform songs she wrote" (in new tab (Open). Big Machine denied Swift's claims, and the Guardian reported that her tweets were based on "false information" (opens in new tab). In the end, Swift performed a medley of her past hits (opens in new tab) at the awards ceremony and won the Artist of the Decade award.

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