Travis Kelce comforted Taylor Swift as she fought back tears while discussing the dramatic moment she found out she would get to own her masters.
During the singer’s appearance on Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast Wednesday, Swift said she thought about not owning her music “every day.” She then had to pause when she talked about how her mother, Andrea Swift, and her brother, Austin Swift, met with Shamrock Capital, who owned the rights.
“Sorry — this happens, because, I don’t ever really talk about it because…” she said as she started getting emotional. “They sat down with Shamrock Capital and told them what this meant to me.”
Swift said she was with Kelce when she got the news that Shamrock Capital accepted her offer. The singer recalled dropping to her knees and bawling her eyes out.
“We were in Kansas City, and I get a call from my mom and she’s like, ‘We got your music,’” Swift shared. “I just very dramatically hit the floor, for real.”
She said Kelce was playing a video game at the time.
“He puts his headset down. He’s like, ‘Guys, I gotta go,’” she recalled. “I think you thought something was wrong. I was like, ‘I got my music back,’ and then just start absolutely heaving.”
“Dropped, had no power in my life to support myself,” she continued. “Yeah, this changed my life.”
Kelce shared that he also cried heavily after hearing the life-changing news.
“I started crying, too, you know I’m a crier,” Travis acknowledged, to which Swift added, “You were weeping.”
“I can’t believe it still,” the 35-year-old pop star marveled. “This will affect the rest of my life. I think about this every day now but instead of it being an intrusive thought that hurts me, I’m like, ‘I can’t believe this happened. How lucky am I?’”
Billboard reported in May that Swift had to pay around $360 million to Shamrock Capital for her catalog, which is relatively close to what the private equity firm paid for it in 2020.
Swift announced the big news on her website, noting that she had been waiting to own all of her music for two decades.
“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” she told her fans. “But that’s all in the past now. I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found that this is really happening. I really get to say those words.”
“All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs… to me.”
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