U.S. rugby star and Olympian Ilona Maher and her sisters Olivia and Adrianna are not here for the Swiftie skepticism.
On this week’s episode of their podcast House of Maher, the trio dove headfirst into the cultural firestorm surrounding Taylor Swift’s long-awaited victory of reclaiming ownership of her music. After a years-long public feud with Scooter Braun — who bought the rights to her first six albums in 2019 when his company acquired Big Machine Records from Scott Borchetta — Swift now owns everything.
“Very good. Happy for her,” said Ilona, 28. “All my respect to T-Swift. All of it.”
The sisters weren’t just supportive. They were stunned that anyone could view Swift’s move as controversial.
“I think the touch grass element of this is that people called this move ‘scammy’ by her,” Olivia said. “That it was scammy for her to do, which I’m like, what are you talking about?”
Added Adrianna, “Because she had her ‘Taylor’s versions.’ They’re saying that she made so much money off of releasing ‘Taylor’s versions’ of her stolen albums, that her buying them back is ‘scammy’ because other people bought those bodies of work.”
To recap: When Braun’s Ithaca Holdings purchased Swift’s master recordings — spanning Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation — Swift vowed to re-record the albums herself. The result was a series of “Taylor’s Versions” that not only reasserted her creative control but reshaped the music industry playbook for artists fighting to own their work.
Then, on May 30, Swift announced that it was all hers.
“I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me,” Swift wrote on her website. “And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life's work."
For Olivia, that legacy now lives in stereo.
“Now there are two beautiful bodies of work,” she said. “Because those versions are slightly different.”
Ilona, not (yet) a full-on Swiftie, is ready to make the leap.
“I have a lot of respect for her,” she said. “I listen to a little bit of everything. I want to get on the Taylor Swift bandwagon because people who love her, love her.”
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