Swift said in a Tumblr post that she had been the victim of "incessant, manipulative bullying" by Braun for years. She accused him of orchestrating a music video by Kanye West that depicted her naked, as well as of releasing a recorded phone call with West in 2016.
Swift wrote that she repeatedly asked to purchase her masters, but was never given the opportunity by Big Machine. She also said that she knew they would eventually be sold along with the rest of Big Machine, but wrote that "never in [her] worst nightmares" did she think Braun would purchase them.
Big Machine signed 15-year-old Taylor Swift as its first artist in 2005, according to The Wall Street Journal.