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Shake it off, Scooter. Scooter Braun has reacted to Taylor Swift gaining control of her music catalog six years after the pair’s nasty feud over her masters. “I am happy for her,” Braun, 43,

told The Post on Friday. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES FROM PAGE SIX FOR THE LATEST TAYLOR SWIFT NEWS, PHOTOS AND MORE EXPLORE MORE Braun’s statement came shortly after Swift, 35, revealed that she

“finally” acquired the masters to her first six albums from private equity firm Shamrock Capital. “Hi,” the “Love Story” songstress started in an emotional statement on her website Friday.

“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for

a chance to get to tell you this news.” ------------------------- HERE’S THE LATEST ON TAYLOR SWIFT BUYING THE RIGHTS BACK TO HER MUSIC CATALOGUE ------------------------- “All the times I

was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through,” she continued. “I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled

then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now.” “I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,” Swift announced. “I really

get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.” Braun and the “Anti-Hero” singer’s dispute started back in June 2019 when the record exec bought Swift’s first

six albums from her former record label, Big Machine Records, for a reported $300 million. Swift argued that she was never “given the opportunity to buy” the masters herself and, as a

result, chose to re-record her first six albums to regain ownership of them. So far, she has released a “Taylor’s Version” of each record except her 2006 self-titled debut album, “Taylor

Swift,” and 2017’s “Reputation.” The “You Belong With Me” singer also slammed Braun at the time as an “incessant, manipulative bully” who “stripped me of my life’s work.” “Some fun facts

about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world,” Swift wrote in a Tumblr post in June 2019. “All I could think about was the

incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years.” “Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,” she added. “Essentially,

my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.” The pair’s feud took another turn in November 2020 when Braun opted to sell Swift’s masters to Shamrock

Capital for a reported $405 million. Surprisingly, sources claimed that Braun “encouraged” Swift and Shamrock Capital’s deal this week. “Interestingly enough, one of the individuals who is

encouraging this deal to take place is Scooter, who was at the center of the deal the first time around alongside Big Machine,” an insider told Page Six. “The team at Shamrock wants to make

sure that Taylor has knowledge that they are trying to put this deal to her,” the source added, “as they are not sure that she was ever offered them the first time around.” However, another

insider told People that Braun was not involved in this week’s deal between the “Folklore” artist and the private equity firm. “Contrary to a previous false report, there was no outside

party who ‘encouraged’ this sale,” the source said. “All rightful credit for this opportunity should go to the partners at Shamrock Holdings and Taylor’s Nashville-based management team

only.” “Taylor now owns all of her music,” they added, “and this moment finally happened in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him.” It is currently unclear how much Swift paid Shamrock

Capital to obtain her master recordings, although Variety reported that it was in the “mid-$300 million range.” Before gaining control of her music catalog and releasing a “Taylor’s Version”

of four of her six original records, Swift also launched her uber-successful Eras Tour that raked in more than $2 billion. She pointed to her “Taylor’s Version” albums and her Eras Tour as

the reason she was able to successfully obtain her master recordings. “The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned the Eras Tour into is why I was able to

buy back my music,” she said while thanking her fans on Friday. “I can’t thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to,” she added, “but have

never owned until now.”