Taylor Swift Wears a Green Asymmetrical Dress at American Music Awards in 2019
Taylor Swift's big night at the American Music Awards has begun. The singer, who will receive the Artist of the last decade award tonight, hit the red carpet in a glittery green asymmetrical dress. She wore her hair half-up, half-down and walked the carpet solo.
Swift's drama with Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta over whether or not she could perform her old music (her former record label Big Machine Label Group owns her early catalog) during the ceremony generated tons of headlines over the last week.
Swift posted a letter about things on her Tumblr last week. On Monday, Big Machine Label Group and therefore the AMA's producer Dick Clark Productions released contradictory statements regarding Swift's ability to play her old music.
Big Machine said, "The Big Machine Label Group and Dick Clark Productions announced that they need come to terms on a contract that approves their artists’ performances to stream post-show and for re-broadcast on mutually approved platforms. This includes the upcoming American Music Awards performance. It should be noted that recording artists don't need label approval for live performances on television or the other live media. Record label approval is merely needed for contracted artists’ audio and visual recordings and in determining how those works are distributed.”
Then Dick Clark Productions denied putting a press release out with them: “At no time did Dick Clark Productions comply with, create, authorize or distribute a press release in partnership with Big Machine Label Group regarding Taylor Swift’s performance at the 2019 American Music Awards. Any final agreement on this matter must be made directly with Taylor Swift’s management team. we've no further comment.”
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