The lesson: true power is economic power. I was at a conference on, of all things, male allyship when the notice popped up on my phone. Taylor Swift had successfully purchased back all her early masters and related material.

Swift revealed that she has finally bought back the rights to her first six albums after a yearslong fight to regain control of her music.

Swift lost control of the masters when Braun snapped them up from the pop diva’s former label. She made her dissatisfaction with the deal known publicly; Braun sold the recordings to Shamrock for roughly $300 million, but Swift complained Braun would still benefit from her work.