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    What is going on with Taylor Swift, her back catalogue and Justin Bieber?

    Taylor Swift is back in the headlines after denouncing the sale of her back catalogue. One Guardian Australia staffer asked another to explain this celebrity omnishambles … quickly
    by Michael McGowan explains it to Josephine Tovey Jul 01, 2019 4 minutes
    Taylor Swift called the sale of her back catalogue to talent manager Scooter Braun the ‘worst case scenario’. Photograph: Greg Allen/PA

    I was still absorbing the takes on Taylor Swift’s new music video when suddenly she’s in the news for entirely different reasons, and #WeStandwithTaylor is trending. What’s going on?

    Keep up, Jo. Swift has reignited old feuds and given us some new ones by responding to the sale of her former record label Big Machine – and, by extension, her six-album back catalogue – to the talent manager Scooter Braun.

    Braun previously represented Swift’s nemeses Kanye West – surely I don’t need to explain that – and Justin Bieber.

    In a lengthy Tumblr post describing the sale as “the worst case

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