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Taylor Swift went to publicly call them out in 2022 for this during her Eras Tour, it was then used as a key evidence
A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.
For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.
Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.
Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.
Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.
Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.
He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.
Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.
They're both wrong. It was a receipt.
He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.
The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.
escribió younger now después de pasar toda su adolescencia trabajando como una adulta, used to be young como respuesta a las críticas que recibió en sus 20s y lo injustos que fueron con ella y younger you sobre no olvidar a su niña interior, que trilogía perfecta
It's all "We want a girl's girl!" until it's two talented women hyping each other up but the other half of the duo is Taylor Swift. The blind hatred people have for Taylor bleeds into the treatment of other women who look up to her. This being perpetuated by so called "feminists"
@Variety If you were a Swiftie when this movie came out, you know it isn't shade. Taylor was a newer artist and she was still very country. Miley is saying the barn venue fit Taylor's aesthetic at the time, and she's not wrong
The way the background is playing her old clips from the Hannah Montana era, and knowing this is probably Miley Cyrus’s last song as Hannah… it’s honestly so emotional. It feels like we’re meeting our childhood one last time, just to say goodbye forever. No one talk to me rn
Her house burned down, the man she loved for over a decade cheated on her, she lost her voice, and her own father walked away when she needed him most. And through it all, she kept going, holding herself together. My heart aches for her. This song was meant for her