Scott Borchetta
Music Executive
American · 21st century
American music executive; founder of Big Machine Records (2005). Signed Taylor Swift at fifteen and released her first six studio albums. Sold Big Machine, including ownership of Taylor's master recordings, to Ithaca Holdings / Scooter Braun in 2019, triggering the masters dispute that drove the Taylor's Version re-recording project.
Connection to Taylor Swift
Named biographical subject of Father Figure (EP14, Angela's reading). Recurring figure across the masters-dispute song cluster, Cassandra, my tears ricochet, Look What You Made Me Do, Mad Woman, this is me trying, and the precipitating cause of the Taylor's Version project.
Notable Works
- Founder and head of Big Machine Records, the Nashville label that signed Taylor Swift in 2005.