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Scooter Braun Opens Up About His Beef with Taylor Swift and The Two Life Lessons It Taught Him · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Supermanager Scooter Braun is
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  Speaker 1: best known for two things. First and foremost, shepherding and
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  Speaker 1: shaping the careers of several pop superstars, ranging from Justin
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  Speaker 1: Bieber to Ariana Grande. The other and more notorious thing
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  Speaker 1: is his conflict with Taylor Swift, which arose after he
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  Speaker 1: purchased Big Machine Records and, in doing so, her entire
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  Speaker 1: back catalog. It's what caused her to begin to rerecord
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  Speaker 1: and rerelease all of her old albums, and also began
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  Speaker 1: a very public spat between them. Scooter argues it was
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  Speaker 1: simply a business decision. Now, Scooter's opening up about the
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  Speaker 1: backlash that ensued and the lessons he's learned from it,
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  Speaker 1: telling Bloomberg, I chose to look at these moments when
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  Speaker 1: you think someone is attacking you, or these moments you
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  Speaker 1: think are unfair in two ways. One, you play a
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  Speaker 1: role in every one of these moments because you are
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  Speaker 1: part of the story. Two, you can choose to be
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  Speaker 1: resentful and bitter and have that actually become the story,
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  Speaker 1: or you can choose to say thank you for playing
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  Speaker 1: a role in my growth. Scooter also recently stated he
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  Speaker 1: regrets making assumptions about how the sale and subsequent conversations
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  Speaker 1: would play out with Taylor someone he didn't know. That's
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  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.