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Begin Again & We Are Never look like they'll be close to each other on the tracklist.
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Backbeat: Big Machine's Scott Borchetta On Taylor Swift Going Pop, Clear Channel Royalty Pact
Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta brought radio and labels back together in a landmark royalty deal earlier this year with Clear Channel that compensated a record label for pay-for-play performance royalties in addition to the historical compensation awarded to songs' writers and publishers. Next, Borchetta would like to see some similar cooperation between streaming music services like Spotify, where Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together," his label's biggest hit, has yet to appear.
"I personally struggle with that model - I don't think that it should be free," Borchetta told Billboard. "We've spoken with the services, and spoken with Spotify in particular - I'm meeting with them next week - and we've talked about a lot of different things. We just haven't hit on the right model that works for us. I don't have thousands and thousands of albums and hundreds and hundreds of artists, I have a finite artist roster and finite number of releases. If you're a big battleship like Sony or Universal and have tens of thousands of masters, that income stream makes sense at a big corporation. It doesn't make sense to a small record company."
Borchetta is also pleased with the progress with Big Machine and Clear Channel's royalty pact, which was the result of a conversation he had with CEO Bob Pittman and entertainment president John Sykes at this year's Grammys. "What it gets down to is, 'if you're not making a dollar in broadcasting, how can we ask for a dollar? But hey, where you are doing business, include us, and where you're not, we support you. We support the growth of radio - we love radio."
As for Swift's "Red," out Oct. 22, Borchetta is excited about the singer's stylistic shift to more rock and pop-oriented music. The record features collaborations with Max Martin and Shellback on "Never Ever" as well as Jackknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.), Train's Pat Monahan, UK singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, producer Jeff Bhasker (fun.'s "We Are Young") and Semisonic's Dan Wilson (Adele's "Someone Like You"), as well as continued work with longtime producer Nathan Chapman and a first-time team-up with Nashville mainstay Dann Huff, who pitched in for a few songs and re-worked "Never Ever" for country radio.
Although the latter has helped Swift maintain airplay with her country base, "There was a really specific moment that she and Max Martin and Shellback created and it's very much a pop record. We've never hidden behind what it is," Borchetta says. To that end, there likely won't be a dual commercial release of the song's country version a la Shania Twain's "Up!", her 2002 record that famously featured dual versions of every song to please pop and country fans alike. "As of now we have no plans" to release the country mix of "Never Ever," Borchetta added.
That similar lack of forcing genres translated to the rest of his input on the making of "Red." "We were in the studio pretty early on and the songs she was writing I would say, 'if it's country run toward it, if it's rock run toward it. You have the artistic license.' Our music needs to explore the edges like I feel it always has."
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Hmm, they seem to be on good terms now. Unless his Speak Now tour appearance, twice, made her remember things.
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Taylor should get over it already...she should know by now that Joe only used her so it wasn't so obvious that he's gay
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So Train is the band? 
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NO. 
This is definitely a drive by.
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So State of Grace is produced by Jacknife Lee?
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So we also know why WANEGBT isn't on Spotify? Although I wonder why her other music was put up there then?
"I personally struggle with that model - I don't think that it should be free," Borchetta told Billboard. "We've spoken with the services, and spoken with Spotify in particular - I'm meeting with them next week - and we've talked about a lot of different things. We just haven't hit on the right model that works for us. I don't have thousands and thousands of albums and hundreds and hundreds of artists, I have a finite artist roster and finite number of releases. If you're a big battleship like Sony or Universal and have tens of thousands of masters, that income stream makes sense at a big corporation. It doesn't make sense to a small record company."
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So was she already giving us another hint when she said she loves Drive By?
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So was she already giving us another hint when she said she loves Drive By? |
Possibly... combining Hey Soul Sister with Fearless on the tour makes me think this collab will have a ukulele 
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So that's the reason for spotify.
As for Swift's "Red," out Oct. 22, Borchetta is excited about the singer's stylistic shift to more rock and pop-oriented music.To that end, there likely won't be a dual commercial release of the song's country version a la Shania Twain's "Up!", her 2002 record that famously featured dual versions of every song to please pop and country fans alike. "As of now we have no plans" to release the country mix of "Never Ever," Borchetta added.
'if it's country run toward it, if it's rock run toward it. You have the artistic license.' Our music needs to explore the edges like I feel it always has."
Scott probably encouraged her as well since he loves rock music.
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So was she already giving us another hint when she said she loves Drive By? |
covered Drops of Jupiter, tweeted that she loved Drive By, mixed Hey Soul Sister with Fearless... I guess so.
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The record features collaborations with Max Martin and Shellback on "Never Ever" as well as Jackknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.), Train's Pat Monahan, UK singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, producer Jeff Bhasker (fun.'s "We Are Young") and Semisonic's Dan Wilson (Adele's "Someone Like You"), as well as continued work with longtime producer Nathan Chapman and a first-time team-up with Nashville mainstay Dann Huff,
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yesssssssssssssssssssssss
idk how I feel about Train though.
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covered Drops of Jupiter, tweeted that she loved Drive By, mixed Hey Soul Sister with Fearless... I guess so.
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Why are we so blind?
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yesssssssssssssssssssssss
idk how I feel about Train though.
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Train slays lives sis get on board 
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it's very much a pop record
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It's confirmed then. It sounds like a good pop album though
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Train slays lives sis get on board |
Recommendations?
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Ugh, I dont want a pop record, hopefully theres more songs like Begin Again 
And Train? Please no, just, no.
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It's confirmed then. It sounds like a good pop album though
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50 ways to say Goodbye, Marry me, Drops of Jupiter, and Calling all Angels.
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I wonder how good Pat and Taylor's voices will blend. 
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Ugh, I dont want a pop record, hopefully theres more songs like Begin Again
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Well the part that Cheers mentioned is about her song with Max Martin and Shellback and not the album as a whole. 
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