Kelly Clarkson is speaking out about her idea for Taylor Swift to re-record her music.
The 41-year-old powerhouse singer and talk show host has revealed how Taylor’s former manager Scoter Braun reacted when Kelly publicly shared the idea that Taylor re-record her songs.
In case you didn’t know, right after Taylor’s master recordings were sold to Scooter as part of his purchase of Taylor’s former record label Big Machine Records, Kelly took to social media to publicly throw out the idea that Taylor re-record the old music. This is so that fans can then buy the new recordings instead of the older ones, which no longer belong to her.
On July 13m, 2019, Kelly tweeted:
“@taylorswift13 just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions.”
Now, Kelly has revealed that Scooter apparently reached out to her manager after that tweet!
During a SiriusXM Town Hall special, Kelly said:
“I knew it was important to her, so I thought, ‘Why don’t you just re-record them? Your fans will support you.’
Literally, she’s a genius. Not only did she re-record it, she planned this Eras Tour – like, this woman is brilliant.”
Taylor eventually did do just that — though Kelly said that she was never “thanked” for the idea. But Kelly added:
“I think she is brilliant. She would’ve come up with that on her own and she maybe already had before I even tweeted it.”
Kelly then went on to share how Scooter reacted to her suggestion:
“Scooter took offense to it… WE ran into each other, and he reached out at the time to my manager. I was like, ‘It wasn’t anything against him.’
When she came out and said that and I heard about it, I was like, ‘Whatever. Re-record them. Your fans will support you.’ Uh, they did. She has like every top record right now in the charts!”
She said more about Scooter’s reaction:
“He called my manager at the time I heard, and I think he thought I was attacking him. I was like, ‘I honest to God didn’t even realize who had the right.’ I didn’t even know all the information.
All I heard was, ‘Man, I really want to own,’ and I was like, ‘Man, that sone.’ She writes everything! It’s so important to her. She’s a businesswoman. It felt wrong that she didn’t have the opportunity, right? That’s the thing. If you have the opportunity and you choose to not pay that much money, that’s one thing, but to not have the opportunity to own something that is really important to you… I’m not that artist. I don’t care like what I own. I’m not a businesswoman at all.”
