Sheryl Crow is telling everyone to lighten up about Taylor Swift’s masters drama!
The music legend stopped by Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday where she was asked by a caller about recently signing with Big Machine Records — the label that, as Swifties will know, sold the rights to Tay’s masters via Scooter Braun without apparently giving the songstress a chance to purchase them herself.
Many of music’s biggest acts have since weighed in on Swift v. Braun/Big Machine; some sided with the 29-year-old, while others supported Justin Bieber’s manager.
But Crow apparently couldn’t care less!
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When the caller asked what she thought about the beef, the 57-year-old admitted:
“I’m going to be honest with you. I live with my head in a big hole. I stay out of that world.”
She did have something to say about it though.
The Soak Up the Sun singer confessed she doesn’t understand “what the big stink was” about Taylor not owning her masters because “that’s just the way the business goes”!
She explained to Andy Cohen:
“I will say one thing about masters is, you know, I signed with a record label 30 years ago and within five years then it became owned by Interscope and then Interscope got bought by Universal, so these things, that’s just the way the business goes. It’s totally not unusual for your masters to change hands like 9,000 times. So I don’t know what the big stink was, so I’m kind of out of the loop. So I don’t really know.”
Sounds like Sheryl does not want to be included in this narrative! LOLz!
Gurl has a point, of course: it’s very common for artists not to own their masters. But (and we write this with zero sarcasm), Taylor isn’t just *any* artist.
Kelly Clarkson put it best during a recent interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Explaining how she originally encouraged Tay to re-record her masters, The Voice coach said:
“I don’t really care about owning my masters or not. I’m just like, ‘Whatever, I’m going to sing them until I’m dead, it’s fine.’ Somebody can make money off it, I don’t care. But hers is [different]. Like, I write half or a little more than half of my stuff. And hers is 100 percent of it. So I can see how it would matter to her.”
She ain’t wrong. Tay writes all of her material — about half self-written, and half co-written — so she does have a personal diary-esque attachment to her songs most other artists don’t.
But clearly, that’s none of Sheryl Crow’s business…
Do U agree with the seasoned songstress? We mean, if recording her masters makes Taylor happy, it can’t be that bad… right?
Ch-ch-check out a clip of her interview (below)!
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