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A man does something, it's strategic. A woman does the same thing, it's calculated. A man is allowed to react. A woman can only overreact. - Taylor Swift This November marks the moment Taylor Swift gained the right to re-record her first five albums after they were sold to Scooter Braun in June 2019. Swift says that this sale happened, "Without my approval, consultation, or consent, after I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright." Evidently outraged, Taylor Swift has been very vocal about the right of an artist to own their own work. Writing on Tumblr, Swift explains that "This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says 'Music has value,' he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it." Swift claims she was subsequently told she could not perform her old songs on TV unless she stopped tweeting about Braun and ...