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Taylor Swift's TV Drama: Pop Star Claims Former Label Won't Let Her Perform Hits

It's the latest round in what has become an acrimonious — and deeply personal — failed business relationship between the pop megastar and Big Machine. Her former record label denies the accusations.
Taylor Swift, attending the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards in Newark, N.J. in August.

Back in August, it seemed as if the pop megastar Taylor Swift had found an end run around an acrimonious battle for control of her recorded catalog. She announced that beginning in November 2020, she would re-record the six albums made under contract for Big Machine Label Group, which owns those master recordings.

But Swift now says that things

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