It is The Ben and Skin Show, ninety seven point one The Eagle. We're gonna move sports to the bottom of the hour here coming up in about fifteen minutes or so.
But Katie, let's keep music news going. What you got over there.
So this was this report on Friday, and I know that we're on the Eagle, so a lot of people probably don't care, but I.
Do think it's interesting in terms of music.
All Right, Taylor Swift is getting her best, just get her master's back from her first five or six albums.
Okay, So just so people know, what masters refer to is the original recordings, and why that should matter to you is like you can think of a cover song that's a new master recording. You can go re record a song any number of times and create quote unquote new masters. But when a record company releases something, they release recordings that they refer to as the master recordings.
Ownership of her work basically for those six albums. And I think Big Machine Records, which the Scooter Broun is the name that you might have heard before here.
He's the guy who worked.
With Kanye Bieber to that that was one of his big ones. Yeah, and Taylor and Scooter bron have had some beef for a long time, but surely Taylor's beef turns into like a million people's beef because of her fans.
Yeah.
So I'm trying to read you a couple of text messages from a music friend of mine. Okay, he texted me that, I said, Taylor Grift strikes again.
Okay, all right, I think, all right, I think our listeners actually will like her being called Taylor Griff.
And I said, are you saying she could have bought these masters the whole time? So the company that bought the Masters was Shamrock. Shamrock was started with the nephew of Walt Disney, Roy Disney. Okay, so he's got some loot. So he has over three hundred million dollars he bought that. Taylor Shift has clearly over three hundred million dollars, right, Okay, so that's my point. I said, So she could have
bought them this whole time. Question Mark, this guy knows way more about this stuff than I need.
Uh huh.
He said, one hundred percent. That's what Scooter Braun has been saying this whole time. But her fans aren't having it. And I have seen this out there before, Like Scooter Braun didn't do anything wrong here, he's just doing business.
Yeah, he's doing business a lot of and and it's the type of business you're doing. This is why Prince was at war with the record labels and why he wrote slave across his face. He was like, why did you Why do you own something I created? I created that, Why do you own it? What's reasonable? And again, different, different people could have a different idea of what's quote
unquote reasonable. And I'm sure I don't know Taylor's exact position, but she's like, why should I have to pay you three hundred million dollars for something I recorded that You've made millions and millions of dollars off of what is fair?
What is the principle here? You know what I'll do.
I'll just re record all of it and tell my fans to listen to that.
And she did, and she did.
He said this as a music nerd, this is truly wild s. I can't wait to read the book on this. Her main motivation has always been Spie though, and that's what you do when you can't rely on talent, You make it a storyline.
This guy's going hard on Taylor, I would disagree that Taylor doesn't have to.
I would too. I would too.
And then later he did say that she is a talented songwriter. Yeah, and backpedal off that.
And by the way, when you have fu money, you can take spite to a whole new level.
Right and well, and that's the biggest f you was like, you know what, keep them.
I'm going to prove that I can rewrite the same exact song and then make more off of it.
And it's not even rewrite it, it's just re recording, recording it. Go back into the studio and re record.
It's pretty badass.
Yeah, now I can trying to pin him down on this, give me to tell me a little bit more, putting him in a place to give me some really juicy answers. Yep, And he said the business griff Side is the most insane to me. Being a billionaire and still being that into making money is a sickness. She still charges her fan it's like one hundred dollars for a hoodie and fifty for an album. If I were her, I'd be
selling that s for one dollar profit. And then he sends me a link to a website called the Tortured Poets Department variant tracker, which is her latest album, right, and how many variants of that release it has, because it'll get released and then it'll get re released, and she knows that her fans will go get that absolutely. And that's why I've always struggled with determining the business of the band and what a band is like the head of the band in her situation. But she's got
a team, and it's hard to know. And some mans have a little more control over how they do things, and some just say, I don't care. I do what I do and let the label handle it. And I just think it's interesting thing. I don't know that I have a hard opinion. I don't know enough about.
It to know.
I think it's interesting too. Like I'll give you an example. One of the reasons that and this is my opinion. I've not been told this, Okay, this is my opinion. One of the reasons everybody loves Dirk so much is he gave up like a hundred million dollars maybe more to stay a Maverick.
I'm willing to.
Bet Dirk's not happy he did that because now he's in a later stage of his life, and he's a businessman, and he's an investor, and he's all kinds of different things.
It's like the whole Luca thing.
When Luca got traded, he lost out on about seventy million dollars he won't be able to recoup.
And people are like, well, he's already rich. Who cares.
Yeah, you can buy a lot of things with seventy million dollars and can turn that into five hundred min You know. It's like that idea that being rich is a sickness.
I get it.
But let's talk about this. Maybe we'll talk about this later. Our friend Sarah Heppela wrote a great article about mort Myerson. You've been to the Myerson the Symphony, and he's talking about I wish the billionaires in this city would give back more to the city. Yeah, it's interesting. That's a big problem with humanity right now, in my opinion. If that guy was talking about by earlier Barry Diller. Barry Diller is a billionaire. Have y'all ever been to the high Line in New York?
I haven't.
It's incredible. He just donated it to the city of New York. It's this incredible. They turn an old elevated subway thing into a thing that you could walk through New York with all these gardens.
It's just unbelievable.
We have been there.
Yes, that's cool.
It's so cool. He said, I'm a billionaire. Why don't I give something like this to the community in which I.
Was just a big wage gap? Yeah? Right, the extreme on. It's crazy.
It's crazy if you had all that money, think about all the things Like, I don't know a lot about it, but I know the Walton family have created all these amazing bike trails and parks in the state of Arkansas. They've made so much money off Walmart or whatever. Yeah, anyways, I do think it's a fascinating conversation. I'm with you. It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. Let's do sports. Coming up next, we'll get
to the uh. We'll talk about this idea of a sports institution going away and why I was pissed off about it. We'll do all that next on The Eagle.