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Channel 4 Film Reexamines Taylor Swift as Ex-Manager Criticizes Fan Tactics and Collaborator Reveals 2003 Songs

New interviews surface criticism of her use of fan pressure plus a claim of 16 unheard recordings from 2003.

Overview

  • Former manager Rick Barker says Swift encouraged fans to target Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun after the 2019 catalog sale, asserting that “no one stole her music.”
  • Barker recounts that threats followed the online backlash, arguing the dispute should have been handled privately rather than through fan mobilization.
  • Songwriter Robert Ellis Orrall displays a CD he says contains 16 unreleased Taylor Swift songs copyrighted in 2003, in addition to early demos recorded when she was 13.
  • Archival audio features Swift recalling her discovery at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe and her signing by Scott Borchetta to his then-new Big Machine Records.
  • The documentary also revisits the 2016 Kanye West/Kim Kardashian feud and Swift’s 2017 civil case win against DJ David Mueller, and it airs on Channel 4 on Tuesday, 30 September at 9:15 p.m.