One assumes a second side of the latest chapter in the TAYLOR v. SCOOTER & SCOTT saga will eventually emerge, but as of Thursday night the latter two weren't returning reporters' calls and the former was racking up retweets, likes and sole ownership of a story that had a lot of observers scratching their heads and wondering if someone—not Taylor—needs to calm down. She says they're blocking her from performing any of her old songs at next weekend's AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, where she's being honored as Artist of the Decade, on the grounds that it would constitute an illicit "re-recording" of music that they own, which she's contractually allowed to do next year but not this year. It's standard for recording contracts to prohibit an artist from re-recording her own songs without permission for a certain length of time, a fact of which we were all reminded during the previous chapter of this saga. There's no dispute on the basic facts there. But if you're confused as to how a live performance on a TV show—which is a thing recording artists do—would count as a re-recording, get in line. You're not alone. Taylor tweeted that Scott Borchetta, the founder of her old label, BIG MACHINE, who sold the company this year to Scooter Braun, told her camp they'll grant her permission only if she agrees not to do actual re-recordings next year and to "stop talking" about the two men. "The message being sent to me is very clear," she wrote. "Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you'll be punished." Instead she tweeted—under the heading "Don't know what else to do"—and asked for fans and other artists to make noise on her behalf, which of course they're doing. (Side note: Doxxing is bad. Period.) According to Swift, who also made a plea to the CARLYLE GROUP, the private-equity firm that backed the sale, a NETFLIX documentary is also in danger because of permissions for music and performance footage that Big Machine controls. This is an ongoing battle between three strong-willed and extraordinarily successful people, and this chapter comes with an asterisk for now, since we know only one side of the story. Swift has made it clear from the start that this is personal for her. Braun and Borchetta have a business to protect. Does interfering in the career of their label's biggest (former) artist do that? What do Big Machine's current artists have to say? If they're not saying anything, what are they thinking? Can Swift take a risk and just go ahead and play her old songs anyway? Would the AMAs let her? We kind of know, at this point, what the endgame for her is. What's the endgame for Big Machine? What's a label to do when its biggest asset turns against it?... At the LATIN GRAMMYS Thursday night in Las Vegas, ROSALÍA became the first woman to win Album of the Year—for EL MAL QUERER—since SHAKIRA in 2006. She and ALEJANDRO SANZ each won three Grammys, while Urban Album of the Year winner BAD BUNNY called out the RECORDING ACADEMY for snubbing reggaeton in its nominations for the show's top categories... The LIL PEEP documentary EVERYBODY'S EVERYTHING, which opened Tuesday in 154 theaters, is in 18 US cities today, the second anniversary of the emo rapper's overdose death. It arrives, sadly and fittingly, in the midst of a wrongful death suit pitting his mother against his management agency, both of whom are heavily involved in the doc. A companion album featuring some previously unreleased tracks is also out today... The MECHANICAL LICENSING COLLECTIVE, which will administer mechanical licenses under the MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT, will be funded with $33.5 million in startup costs and first-year operating fees of $28.5 million, to be paid by streaming music services and other digital music licensees... Museumusic: YASIIN BEY's new album, NEGUS, arrives in the unusual form of a museum exhibition that has its US debut today in Brooklyn. SOLANGE is curating a multimedia show this weekend at the GETTY CENTER in Los Angeles. And don't sleep on JASON MORAN, whose show at New York's WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART continues through Jan. 5... The documentary series I'M WITH THE BAND: NASTY CHERRY, tracing the creation of a new pop band under the tutelage of CHARLI XCX, drops today on Netflix... It's FRIDAY and in addition to Lil Peep and Yaasin Bey that means new music from LADY ANTEBELLUM, CELINE DION, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, TEI SHI, TORY LANEZ, JAY PARK & HIT-BOY, ERIC NAM, DJ SHADOW, GAVILÁN RAYNA RUSSOM, ERI YAMAMOTO & CHORAL CHAMELEON, MADEON, JOE HENRY, JULIANA HATFIELD, LUH KEL, MILKY CHANCE, TINDERSTICKS, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, NECROPANTHER, PBDY, BREATHE CAROLINA, MAT MANERI QUARTET. ROCKIE FRESH, WESTLIFE, FRAN, BAYLEE LITTRELL and the QUEEN & SLIM soundtrack featuring new music by MEGAN THEE STALLION, LAURYN HILL, VINCE STAPLES and more... Plus new old music by the late great ARTHUR RUSSELL... RIP ALEX BERDOFF.