inked a reported $300 million deal for the Big Machine Records catalog and with it, the rights to Swift’s first six albumsSwift claims to have been blindsided by the deal, which seems questionable since her father was on the Big Machine board andin the weeks before it happened, but it’s possible the family turned a willfully blind eye. The singer has said
“I’m not like [Borchetta], making crazy, petty accusations about the past,” she says. “When you have a business relationship with someone for 15 years, there are going to be a lot of ups and a lot of downs. But I truly, legitimately thought he looked at me as the daughter he never had. And so even though we had a lot of really bad times and creative differences, I was going to hang my hat on the good stuff. I wanted to be friends with him.