The Two Columns
How Taylor Swift Lost Her Music and Got It Back
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books
A recorded song is not one piece of property. It is two.
The composition — words and melody — belongs to the writer. The master — this voice, this tape — belongs to whoever paid for the session. In 2006 those two columns pointed the same direction: up. In June 2019 someone bought the second one.
The Two Columns is an independent, unauthorized account of how Taylor Swift lost the recordings of her own voice and how she took them back. It stays with the public record: the Bluebird, the RCA development deal she walked away from, a startup label with no furniture, a booklet that printed the ℗ in the small type, country radio that could not see the girls on MySpace, and the sale that made the furniture visible.
It is careful about what can be known. It is not a scrapbook, and it is not a prosecution. It is a book about two ledgers, two cash flows, and a market that priced a fifteen-year-old's masters at the only moment she would ever sell them that cheap.
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