Translated letter: Justin Bieber apologizes to Taylor Swift
After today's controversy, where Taylor Swift accused Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and other celebrities for bullying him, Justin Bieber has apologized to her through Instagram.
It all started when Taylor Swift found out that Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber's current manager, had acquired all of his songs from 2006 to 2017 for the purchase of the label with which Taylor Swift had a contract for those years, Big Machine Records.
Scooter Braun reportedly bought the record company for $300 million from Scott Brochetta, the businessman who discovered Taylor Swift's talent when she was just a teenager. Brochetta signed Taylor Swift and had several successful albums with her.
Taylor Swift wanted to have total control of her music but Big Machine Records wouldn't let her. The best offer that the label offered Swift was to give her full control of an album every time she delivered a new one, obviously this did not convince Swift, who ended up giving in and decided to say goodbye to all the music she had made in order to sign with another label.
Today, Taylor Swift made a letter on the Tumblr social network, which she distributed through her other networks, in her Instagram story we can see a capture of a video call where Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Martin Garrix and Scooter Braun appear. The image was originally uploaded to Instagram by Justin Bieber and had the description "Taylor Swift what up", making fun of Taylor Swift.
Apologies
The photo that Bieber uploaded is from 2016, as we all know, Justin Bieber has changed a lot since then, now he is a more focused and mature person, although he always has his problems. Justin, seeing what was happening, decided to delete the old photo where he made fun of Taylor Swift and released a statement apologizing. Here we bring you the translation.
The letter
"Hey Taylor. First of all I'd like to apologize for posting that picture, when I did I thought it was funny but looking back I realize it was insensitive... I have to be honest, the screenshot of the video call where we hang out Kanye Me and Scooter, it was my fault. They had nothing to do with it and it wasn't even part of what we were talking about, they even told me not to joke around like that. Scooter has taken care of you since the day you kindly let me open one of your concerts!!. The years have passed and we haven't crossed paths or spoken to communicate our differences, pains or frustrations. That's why I think that bringing that to social networks and making people hate Scooter is not fair. What were you trying to accomplish by posting that? Sounds to me like you were trying to get sympathy because you knew your fans were going to bully Scooter. Anyway. One thing you need to know is that both Scooter and I love you. I feel like the only ma The way to resolve conflicts is through communication. I don't think posting that is the solution. I'm sure Scooter and I would love to talk with you to resolve any conflicts, pain or feelings that need to be addressed. Neither Scooter nor I have anything negative to say about you, we really wish you the best. I don't usually respond to this kind of thing but when you try to ruin someone I love, it's crossing the line..."
Without a doubt, he apologized, but in the letter we can see that Justin, in addition to apologizing, also reproaches Taylor Swift for some things. For example when he says "I think you were trying to get sympathy because you knew your fans would go bully Scooter", it is certainly an apology but also a scolding. At the end of the letter Justin sentences with "You tried to ruin someone I love, you crossed the line", making it clear that although he apologizes, he does not agree with what Taylor did.
What do you think? Was Justin too rude? I think this will cause a lot of problems for the label that Scooter acquired, although I also think that if you were ever bothered, you can be bothered too. Already many other celebrities are expressing their support for Taylor Swift and it is also a worldwide trend on Twitter, Taylor definitely planted a bomb that will be difficult to defuse.