Taylor Swift set off quite the chain of events last week when she took to the net to allege that her formerand Scooter Braun (who now owns her catalogue) were preventing her from using and performing her own hits.
Most notably at the upcoming American Music Awards, where the Pop force is set to receive the Artist Of The Decade honor.
Well, it seems the firestorm has worked in Swift’s favor. Because she’s now been cleared to perform her older bops.
Details below…
Big Machine issued the following statement moments ago:
“The Big Machine Label Group and Dick Clark Productions announce that they have come to terms on a licensing agreement that approves their artists’ performances to stream post show and for re-broadcast on mutually approved platforms. This includes the upcoming American Music Awards performances. It should be noted that recording artists do not need label approval for live performances on television or any other live media. Record label approval is only needed for contracted artists’ audio and visual recordings and in determining how those works are distributed.
It should be noted that recording artists do not need label approval for live performances on television or any other live media,” the statement continues. “Record label approval is only needed for contracted artists’ audio and visual recordings and in determining how those works are distributed.”
Still, drama abounds because Dick Clark Production (who produce the AMAs) have stressed that they had nothing to do with the press release (which was presented as “joint”) and didn’t even know about it.
“At no time did Dick Clark Productions agree to, create, authorize or distribute a statement in partnership with Big Machine Label Group regarding Taylor Swift’s performance at the 2019 American Music Awards. Any final agreement on this matter needs to be made directly with Taylor Swift’s management team. We have no further comment.”
Yikes!