Taylor Swift Creates Fake Band to Get Revenge on Scooter Braun via 'Killing Eve'

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As a 2010 Taylor Swift once said, “there is nothing I do better than revenge” and 2020 Taylor is no different.  After Taylor’s feud with ex manager Scooter Braun, she has cunningly found a way to promote her music without running it past him whatsoever. The crafty move is the latest in a very public back and forth between her and Scooter Braun, who last year purchased her label Big Machine Records. It means he has control over her whole back catalogue up until her latest album Lover, which was released via Republic Records last year.

Taylor currently has no rights over her music released before Lover, meaning that she also gets no royalties, however she’s since realised that you don’t need the labels permission, or in this case - Scooters - to cover a song.

Swift’s fans came to Twitter to shed light of what she had cleverly done. A cover of Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ featured on the most recent episode of BBC drama Killing Eve - but it was by a band called Jack Leopards and the Dolphin Club. Now this is where it gets interesting. The band didn’t even exist until Sunday evening, which was the day when the show aired in the US. However, when we delve deeper, the familiar name, Nils Sjoberg popped up as a producer on the track. This name appeared as a writer on Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s 2016 hit ‘This Is What You Came For’ and was later confirmed to be Taylor.

The members of the band also include Taylor’s brother, Austin, Jack Antonoff and a few other people who also have writing credits on the original 'LWYMMD' 2017 track. The band name is formed from Jack Antonoff’s first name and Austin’s Twitter handle of The Dolphin Club. Taylor has also previously said that dolphins are her spirit animal and fans believe the leopard reference in the name is a nod to her animal-print outfit from the original video.

Clearly pleased with her work, she shared the track on Twitter and captioned it: “Very stoked about this cover of LWYMMD on Killing Eve by Jack Leopards & The ­Dolphin Club!!”