Taylor Swift famously feuded with Big Machine head Scott Borchetta in 2019, Variety reported, after leaving the record label as a free agent the year before. Borchetta had sold Big Machine in June that year to Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato manager Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings. According to Swift, this "worst case scenario," as she put it in a 2019 Instagram story (via Variety), blocked her from owning the rights to masters of her first six albums (all of which were written or co-written by her). Swift shared with her followers that the only condition under which she could earn back her albums' rights would be if she records six new albums under the label (no biggie, right?).
Fast-forward to 2021's bonus track "It's Time to Go" off her 2020 album Evermore, released under her new label since 2018, Universal Music Group. The song's third verse is seemingly directed at Borchetta, Hollywood Life observed, with Swift morosely singing, "Fifteen years, fifteen million tears, begging til my knees bled/I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all, then wondered why I left/Now he sits on his throne, in his palace of bones, praying to his greed." Ouch, now that's what we call a zinger!
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