Taylor Swift could have chance to buy back music after Scooter Braun sparked bitter rift by buying them

Six years after she lost the rights to her back catalogue, Taylor Swift could have the chance to buy it back — but it won’t be cheap.

In a bizarre twist, it is the former music manager who caused bad blood with the star by swooping in and buying her masters in the first place that is encouraging the move.

Scooter Braun, alongside Big Machine, bought the master recordings of her first six albums in 2019 for $300 million.

The move sparked a bitter war of words with the pop star and prompted her to later go on to record new “Taylor’s versions” of the albums.

At the time, Swift wrote of Braun, who managed Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Kanye West: “I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world.”

She also wrote: “Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,”

“Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it,” she alleged.

Braun sold the masters one year later to investment firm Shamrock Capital, but Page Six reports the company is now interested in selling them back to Swift.

“Interestingly enough, one of the individuals who is encouraging this deal to take place is Scooter, who was at the center of the deal the first time around alongside Big Machine,” said a source told Page Six.

But if Swift is keen to buy back her masters, she will have to cough-up an eye-watering amount, estimated at between $600m to $1 billion.

The albums up for grabs are Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation — all of which Swift has re-released her own versions of, bar her eponymous album and 2017’s Reputation.

However, speculation is rife that album may be about to drop after Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version) was previewed in an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Look What You Made Me Do featured on the original Reputation LP and took aim at Taylor Swift’s enemies, including Kanye West, who she has famously feuded with in the past.

Swifties, who are known for finding Easter Eggs in everything she does, believe they have decoded when Taylor could unveil the album.