For years now, there’s been plenty of chatter about Taylor Swift, Scooter Braun and the contentious deal remodeled the pop star’s masters (which she purchased again in Could). Then, when she launched Midnights in 2022, it was shortly speculated that one of many tracks was concerning the former music supervisor and his ex-wife. Now, he’s totally addressed “Vigilante Shit” and said that he doesn’t consider the track is about him and his former companion.
Within the monitor “Vigilante Shit,” Swift sings about “dressing for revenge” and never beginning something however ensuring it ends. There’s even a line that claims, “Don’t get unhappy, get even.” After which, lyrics, like those beneath, shortly made Swifties consider this monitor was all about Scooter Braun:
She wanted chilly laborious proof so I gave her some / She had the envelope, the place you suppose she bought it from? / Now she will get the home, will get the youngsters, will get the pleasure / Image me thick as thieves together with your ex-wife
So, on the Query The whole lot podcast, Danielle Robay learn these phrases again to Braun and requested him if the track was about his life. In response, he said:
No, as a result of I speak to Yael every single day. My ex-wife is one in every of my finest associates, so me and my ex-wife chortle about that stuff. We do not even name one another ex. That is like my companion, that is the mom of my kids. That’s my household for all times. I’ve a tattoo on my finger that claims ‘identical workforce’ after my divorce as a result of she and I are on the identical workforce for all times. That is what we are saying to one another.
For context, Braun and Yael Cohen Braun have been married from 2014 to 2022, and so they share three kids, Jagger (9), Levi (7) and Hart (5). They filed for divorce in 2021, and it was finalized in September 2022. Notably, Swift’s album Midnights additionally got here out in October 2022, and plenty of thought its monitor, “Vigilante Shit,” is perhaps about her relationship with Braun. In addition they thought the lyrics about an ex-wife may have been referencing Yael.
Nevertheless, the music mogul totally turned that concept down on this new interview, explaining:
So no, I by no means thought that was about us. She by no means thought it was about us. And everybody else type of feeding into the fireplace, nice technique transfer, however nah.
Previously, Braun has additionally opened up about this feud with Swift, particularly in regard to the deal that led to her re-recording plenty of her music. In 2023, he talked to Bloomberg about how he could possibly be “offended, resentful, bitter,” however may additionally “select to say thanks for taking part in a job in my progress.”
Total, he made it clear that he doesn’t consider he’s linked to this track off Midnights, and he’s spoken just a few occasions over the previous few years about transferring ahead from this contentious deal.
In the meantime, “Vigilante Shit” was Swift’s favourite track to carry out on the Eras Tour, and it turned fairly the second within the blockbuster tour that ran from early 2023 by way of the tip of 2024. She additionally owns all her music now. That shakes up Swift’s upcoming tasks, because it’s unclear what precisely will occur with Taylor’s Model of Taylor Swift and Fame, though she has mentioned she would possibly launch them sometime.
Total, it looks as if each events are transferring ahead after this huge, turbulent second. Nevertheless, each every now and then, it comes again up and is some extent of dialog, and if that occurs once more, we’ll remember to maintain you posted.