Taylor Swift attacks Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta over AMAs song ban

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Taylor Swift says talent manager Scooter Braun is stopping her from performing a medley of old songs at an upcoming awards show. The singer, who said she was “sad and grossed out” after Braun and Scott Borchetta’s company acquired six of her previous albums in a deal worth a reported $300m earlier this year, released a passionate statement on Twitter. “I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the American Music Awards,” she wrote, adding that Braun and Borchetta “said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year.” She also accused the pair of preventing her from using old performance footage in a documentary that Netflix is creating about her life. Swift wondered whether the other artists the pair manage, including Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and Justin Bieber, “can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote.” She urged her fans to let Braun and Borchetta – the founder of her former record label – how they feel about their decision, and the hashtag #IStandWithTaylor is now trending around the world on Twitter.