Taylor Swift’s BFF Jack Antonoff shades Scooter Braun amid shopper exodus

Music

By Gabi Duncan

August 27, 2023 | 9:44pm

Taylor Swift’s longtime BFF and collaborator Jack Antonoff weighed in on the exodus of Scooter Braun’s famous person shoppers.

The Bleachers lead singer — who not too long ago tied the knot with Margaret Qualley — shared a meme from The Sims sport through his Instagram Story Sunday.

The picture confirmed a feminine Sim gazing a pc whereas her child Sim lies on the ground in flames.

The textual content learn, “Not now sweetie, mommy is attempting to determine why Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and Idina Menzel simply fired Scooter Braun as their supervisor.”

Antonoff’s publish comes almost every week after Web page Six confirmed Demi Lovato had parted methods with Braun and his expertise administration firm, SB Tasks, in July.

Idina Menzel additionally ended her skilled relationship with Braun in January, per the Hollywood Reporter.

It has additionally been rumored that Justin Bieber — who has labored with the expertise supervisor since 2006 — was calling it quits with Braun.

Regardless of the “Yummy” singer’s reps shutting down studies, different sources informed Web page Six “the place there’s smoke, there’s fireplace.”

Moreover, Billboard reported final week that Ariana Grande was looking for new administration after 10 years with Braun, 42.

Nonetheless, a supply denied the rumors, telling Web page Six that Braun and the “Positions” songstress are nonetheless working collectively.

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A second supply acquainted with the state of affairs clarified that Grande, 30, and Bieber, 29, weren’t leaving SB Tasks, however moderately Braun was taking a step again.

“All of Scooter Braun’s shoppers are beneath contract, and negotiations have been happening for a number of months as Scooter steps into his bigger function as Hybe America CEO,” the insider informed us.

“SB Tasks are nonetheless dealing with each Justin and Ariana as they work via what this new construction seems like.”

After all, Swift, 33, publicly slammed Braun again in 2019 after he acquired the rights to her grasp recordings.

“Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given a chance to purchase,” she wrote in a lengthy Tumblr post on the time. “Primarily, my musical legacy is about to lie within the fingers of somebody who tried to dismantle it.”

Despite the fact that Braun later bought the masters for greater than $300 million in 2020, the enterprise transfer prompted the pop famous person to re-record her first six albums.

Thus far, she has re-released 2008’s “Fearless,” 2010’s “Communicate Now” and 2012’s “Crimson” — all of which Antonoff, 39, helped produce.

They’ve additionally teamed up on 2020’s “Folklore” and “Evermore” in addition to 2022’s “Midnights” and the extremely anticipated “1989 (Taylor’s Model)” which is ready for launch on Oct. 27.