Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato have dropped the controversial artist manager Scooter Braun. Billboard broke the news that Lovato (who goes by she/her and they/them pronouns) had said goodbye to her partnership with Braun's SB Projects, with whom she has worked since 2019. Grande has worked with Braun since the release of her first album, Yours Truly, in 2013.
Braun is perhaps best known as the person who acquired Taylor Swift's master recordings after his purchase of her former label Big Machine, which he then sold to a private equity firm—a move that spurred her to release "Taylor's Version" re-records of her albums. Though Grande and Lovato haven't publicly announced their reasons for parting ways with Braun, it's notable that it happened the same summer that Taylor Swift could become the proud owner of the highest-grossing tour of all time.
