Taylor Swift disowns new live album, calling it 'shameless greed'

Singer complains of 'tasteless' release amid coronavirus crisis by former label Big Machine, owned by frequent adversary Scooter Braun

Taylor Swift has disowned a new live album released under her name, calling it tasteless and "shameless greed" amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The album, Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008, was recorded when Swift was 18, around the release of her Grammy-winning second album, Fearless. The live album has been released by Big Machine, Swift's former label that was bought by music manager Scooter Braun from its founder, Scott Borchetta. Swift has frequently criticised Braun and Borchetta - leading Braun to allege death threats from fans to his family - and is planning to rerecord and rerelease her six albums put out by Big Machine to regain some control over her back catalogue.