Scooter Braun Calls for Communication with Taylor

Scooter Braun has finally broken his silence about Taylor Swift’s public feud with him, which began this summer after he purchased her original record company, Big Machine, and became the owner of her master recordings.

On Thursday, Braun, in his first public remarks about the situation since it began six months ago, called for “communication” with Swift.

“I haven’t talked about this in six months, not once…and that’s hard,” Braun said on stage at The Hollywood Chamber’s 2019 State of the Entertainment Industry Conference. “It’s hard because when there’s a lot of things being said, and a lot of different opinions, yet the principals haven’t had a chance to speak to each other, there’s a lot of confusion.”

Braun declined to go into further detail “because it’s just not my style” but called for an end to the public airing of grievances.

“I just think we live in a time of toxic division and people thinking that social media is the appropriate place to air out each other and not have conversations. I don’t like politicians doing it; I don’t like anybody doing it. And if that means that I’ve got to be the bad guy longer, I’ll be the bad guy longer, but I’m not going to participate,” he said. “What I’ll say is I think people need to communicate and when people are able to communicate, I think they work things out.”

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“[But] when it gets to a place where there’s death threats and there’s offices being called and people being threatened…it’s gotten out of hand,” he added.

The feud heated up recently after Taylor claimed Big Machine would not allow her to perform her old hits on Sunday’s American Music Awards, and called upon her fan base and fellow artists to tell Braun and Big Machine how they felt about that.

Braun declared he has “no ill will for anybody,” adding, “The moment people want to have a conversation with me, I’m ready to have that conversation, and I’m not going to add to the narrative…I just want to fix things and set a better example for people.”

Braun concluded the interview by laughing off a question about whether or not he plans to attend the AMAs.