How Taylor Swift Got Revenge on Scooter Braun, Kanye West? 'I Respond to Extreme Pain With Defiance'

In Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" 2023 cover story about Taylor Swift, the singer delved into her years-long feud with some of the music industry's giants: Kanye West and Scooter Braun.

"My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art," Swift simply explained how she managed to get over the traumatizing experiences she had to go through with the two men.

"But I've also learned there's no point in actively trying to quote unquote defeat your enemies," she added before stating, "The trash takes itself out every single time."

Taylor Swift, Kanye West's Decade Long Feud

Back in 2009, West climbed onstage alongside the "Cruel Summer" singer and tried to discredit her success by alluding that the award she won should have been given to Beyonce.

A few years later, West's then-wife Kim Kardashian leaked an edited phone call between the singer and the rapper, and accused Swift of lying about agreeing to a controversial line featured on West's song "Famous."

"I had all the hyenas climb on and take their shots," she told Time Magazine. "That took me down psychologically to a place I've never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn't leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls.

"I pushed away most people in my life because I didn't trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard."

Taylor Swift Goes Against Scooter Braun

Scooter Braun, a manager for several artists like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and more, bought the "Cruel Summer" singer's first six albums from Swift's former label Big Machine Records.

Swift claimed that her former label did not offer her to buy her own masters, however, following the deal with Braun, Swift decided to re-record all her first six albums in an effort to reclaim her work.

"Yeah, that's true. It's something that I'm very excited about doing because my current contract says that starting November 2020-so next year-I can record albums one through five all over again. I'm very excited about it because I think that artists deserve to own their work. I just feel very passionately about that," she said in an interview in 2019.

Reflecting on how she dealt with the situation, Swift said: "It's all in how you deal with loss. I respond to extreme pain with defiance."

Elsewhere in the story, she said, "Make no mistake-my career was taken away from me."

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Taylor Swift, Scooter Braun, Kanye West