![]() The most damming piece of evidence from the lawsuit was an email Taylor’s dad supposedly sent to Scott Borchetta showing a prearranged agreement to dump Dymtrow before Big Machine would sign Taylor. Certain provisions of the lawsuit were initially thrown out, but the one claiming “unjust-enrichment” remained in tact. After allegedly being “strung out” by the Swift family, Dymtrow was dumped, allegedly at the behest of Scott Borchetta.ĭymtrow was only paid $10,000 for, as he claims, helping launch Taylor Swift’s career, and in response filed a lawsuit in 2007, demanding the 5%-10% of Taylor’s earnings his contract with her stipulated. Dymtrow was the one responsible for introducing Taylor to Borchetta and the booking agency CAA. He was hired in April of 2004 when Taylor was 14, and was fired by the family right before Taylor signed with Scott Borchetta and Big Machine in July of 2005. How might we know if this tactic was used in Taylor’s case? It could come out in litigation, which leads to the one possible unscrupulous event in Taylor Swift’s rise.ĭan Dymtrow was Taylor Swift’s first real manager a big, New York-based talent representative that also represented Britney Spears for a period. And let’s remember, Taylor’s first album was also the inaugural album for Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine record label, creating multiple reasons to show successful sales numbers. ![]() However this practice to artificially bloat sales numbers to increase visibility and attention through chart rankings is not uncommon, especially for inaugural albums. If he did, no smoking gun has ever surfaced to prove so. The support of Taylor’s dad helped her career, but saying it was “bought” seems like a reduction of her family’s efforts, including the efforts of Taylor’s mother who remains a major part of her management team.ĭid Taylor Swift’s dad buy a mass quantity of her first album to drive sales numbers?Īnother common accusation. ![]() Once she showed interest in showbiz and music, they paid for lessons, sent her to camps, chauffeured her to various songwriting sessions and coffee shop/club gigs, and eventually moved to Nashville as her career began to take off. They gave Taylor her gender-neutral name in hopes she would be big in the business world. ![]() Taylor’s music career was not foisted upon her by her parents. What Swift’s parents did do is support her no different than most families might support a child pursuing their interests. In fact Taylor was the one shelling out millions for her parents when she bought them a $2.5 million mansion in Nashville in August 2011. Swift’s family was solidly upper middle class, but in no way super-affluent to the tune of being able to shell out millions of dollars to make their daughter’s music career a reality. By most accounts, the Swift’s were wealthy, but not rich, living on an 11-acre tree farm before moving to the semi-affluent Wyomissing, Pennsylvania when Swift was 9, summering in a home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. Scott Swift is a financial adviser for Merrill Lynch. In truth, Eric Church may have had just as much to do with Taylor Swift’s success as Swift Sr (see below).ĭoes Taylor Swift’s dad own Swift Trucking? But Taylor’s success and meteoric rise depended way more on smart moves, her savviness with social networking, the appeal of her music (however good or bad you may think it is personally), the fact that her audience is the last bastion of the music buying public (little girls and their moms), and possibly most importantly, timing. Sure, money can set the wheels in motion, and make no mistake Taylor’s dad did offer material support to her career in its early stages. The problem is it really is impossible for anybody to buy the massive public appeal Taylor Swift enjoys. It sounds like such a sexy, plausible idea. Quick to discount the young songstress, this is the first accusation you will see of why Taylor Swift’s success is a sham. But you wouldn’t believe that from listening to Taylor Swift detractors or reading the comment threads on Swift articles.
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