Taylor Swift has won back ownership of her master recordings after fighting what seemed like an impossible battle for a decade. She couldn’t imagine she would ever own her music catalog again. The thought of not owning her masters troubled her deeply every day. Her life changed this summer. The record-breaking success of her Eras Tour motivated Swift and her team to reach out to Shamrock Capital, the private equity firm that owned her masters.
Swift shared the life-changing news with Travis Kelce at their home. She broke down during the New Heights podcast. “Really? What do you mean?” she asked through tears. This moment changed everything. Swift now has complete control over her master recordings. She can decide how to distribute and license her music, which shapes her legacy. “This will affect the rest of my life,” she said. The impact hit her hard, especially since she signed her first record deal at just 15 years old.
Taylor Swift has Opened Up About the Day
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“A couple months after the Super Bowl in Kansas City, I get a call from my mom. She’s like, ‘You got your music.’ I very dramatically hit the floor for real. Bawling my eyes out, weeping, like ‘Really!?’ I said to myself ‘Go tell Travis in a normal way,’ he was playing video games, and he put his headset down. I was like ‘I got my music back!’ And I was heaving crying. This changed my life.” — Taylor Swift, Singer-songwriter, 12-time Grammy Award winner, global pop icon
Taylor Swift tearfully shared her decade-long struggle to reclaim her masters during an emotional segment of the podcast. She experienced intrusive thoughts about not owning her music “every day” until she finally secured the rights to her [first six albums] from Shamrock Capital earlier this year. Swift chose an unconventional path and sent her mother Andrea and brother Austin to Los Angeles instead of lawyers to make a heartfelt appeal.
Swift’s voice broke with emotion as she explained, “I’m in the business of human emotion. I want it because this is my hand-written diary entries from my whole life”. Her mother’s simple phone call delivered the life-changing news: “You got your music”. Swift “very dramatically hit the floor” and started “bawling my eyes out, just weeping” at that moment.
The pop star rushed to share her joy with Travis Kelce, who was playing video games nearby. “I got my music back,” she told him before “absolutely heaving” with emotion. Kelce’s supportive nature showed as he dropped his controller immediately and embraced Swift, who collapsed “like dead weight” in his arms. He shared in her joy and admitted, “I started crying too, you know I’m a crier”. The painful daily thought turned into gratitude as Swift emphasized, “This changed my life”.
Taylor Swift Recalls telling Travis Kelce the Day She Got Her Masters
A life-changing moment happened when Taylor Swift shared her masters recovery news with Travis Kelce. She described this touching scene on the podcast. Swift talked about the time she received her mother’s call and tried to collect herself after the news. “I was like, ‘Get your shit together, just go tell Travis in a normal way,'” Swift recalled as she remembered her inner thoughts at the time she got her masters back.
She found Kelce absorbed in video games with his headset. The moment she walked in, her composure started to crack. “He puts his headset down. He’s like, ‘Guys, I gotta go,'” Swift remembered, adding “I think you thought something was wrong”. Her attempts to stay calm failed as emotions took over.
“I was like, ‘I got my music back,’ and then just start absolutely heaving crying,” Swift said. Kelce wrapped his arms around her as she fell “like dead weight”. “I had no power in my legs to support myself,” Swift admitted.
The moment became even more special with Kelce’s emotional response. “I started crying too, you know I’m a crier,” Travis shared during the podcast, while Swift added, “You were weeping”. Their deep connection showed as Swift celebrated her musical legacy. “I was so happy you were there when that happened. Because I couldn’t stand,” she expressed to him.
Taylor Swift and Travis
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“If this guy isn’t crazy, this is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.” — Taylor Swift, Singer-songwriter, 12-time Grammy Award winner, global pop icon
The podcast revealed much more than just an emotional recovery moment – it gave us a peek into Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship. Swift gave credit where it was due and said, “This podcast got me a boyfriend”. She found Kelce’s romantic pursuit charming and called it “the good kind of crazy”. The whole thing felt like “an 80s John Hughes movie” to her, with him symbolically “standing outside my window with a boombox”.
Swift openly admitted her football knowledge started at zero. “I didn’t know what a first down was, I didn’t know what a tight end was,” she shared. This lack of knowledge brought them closer together. “You weren’t judgmental about the fact I knew nothing about the world you were in,” she told Kelce with gratitude.
Their careers share surprising similarities. “On paper, we actually kind of have a very similar job,” Swift pointed out. “Our job is to entertain people for three-plus hours in NFL stadiums”. Kelce couldn’t help but marvel at Swift’s performance abilities: “I had never experienced something so mesmerizing on stage and then something so real and so beautiful in person”.
Swift takes a practical viewpoint about media attention: “My name can be in the actual headline and it can still be none of my business”. Kelce’s response to GQ was simple and heartfelt: “I love being the happiest guy in the world”.
Taylor Swift’s trip to get back her master recordings shows her persistence through a decade-long battle. What seemed impossible became real when she finally got her masters back. Of course, she broke down in tears on the podcast. She collapsed to the floor when she heard the news and rushed to tell Travis Kelce despite feeling overwhelmed.
Swift finally closed a painful chapter after years of daily worry about not owning her work. The podcast showed a different side of Swift – raw and vulnerable beneath her polished image. These recordings meant everything to her. They were like her “hand-written diary entries” from her whole life, making their recovery deeply personal.
Travis Kelce proved how real their connection was during this big moment. He put his video game down right away, hugged Swift as she cried, and shed tears with her. Swift really appreciated him being there for such a life-changing moment, which showed how much they support each other.
The conversation went beyond just Swift’s fight for her masters. They found surprising similarities in their careers even though they work in different fields. They both keep stadium crowds entertained for hours, though Swift knew nothing about football before meeting Kelce. Their different backgrounds made their bond stronger.
Swift’s appearance on New Heights did more than just tell the story of getting her music back. On top of that, it gave everyone a peek into her relationship with Kelce – built on respect, support, and the “good kind of crazy” she’s written songs about since she was a teenager. Now she controls her own legacy and has found a real relationship on her own terms.
