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Taylor Swift has opened up about the deeply personal way she finally regained control of her master recordings, a process that took six years and the support of her closest family members.
Appearing on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, the global superstar shared that her mother, Andrea, and brother, Austin, were the ones who helped her secure ownership of her early music catalogue.
Earlier this year, Swift completed a major deal to buy back her first six albums and all associated visuals from Shamrock Capital, the investment company that previously held the rights.
The acquisition, valued in the nine-figure range, marked a historic moment in Swift's career, ending a long and emotional fight for artistic ownership.
When Norton asked how she managed such a massive business transaction, Swift surprised the audience with her answer.
"No, I sent in my mom and my brother," she said with a laugh.
Family at the heart of the deal
Swift explained that involving her family made perfect sense because of the personal nature of the fight.
"My music was owned by a company called Shamrock Capital," she said. "We had to figure out how to convince them to sell a very lucrative entity to us, even though it was still making them loads of money."
She added that her mother and brother were the best people for the job.
"The only people I trusted to handle it were the ones who have known me my entire life, who know every part of this journey, and who have always had my back," Swift continued. "They both work with me and they're the smartest people I know, compassionate, kind, and able to tell the story of what our family has been through. So they went in and got my music back for me."
Swift's journey to reclaim her masters has been one of the most publicized in music history. Her original recordings, produced under Big Machine Records, were sold to Scooter Braun in 2019 without her consent.
Braun later sold them to Shamrock Capital in 2020, prompting Swift to begin re-recording her albums under the now-famous "Taylor's Version" banner to regain creative control.