Look what you made her do.
Taylor Swift, in a transfer to finish a long-running battle over who owns her music, introduced Friday that she has purchased again the rights to her first six albums.
“All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” the Karma singer wrote, asserting the information on her official web site. “I’ve been bursting into tears of joy … ever since I found out this is really happening.”
Swift initially misplaced the rights to her total catalogue of music in 2019 when her first report label, Big Machine, offered them to music producer Scooter Braun. It kicked off a feud between the singer and Braun, the latter of whom has fallen from grace within the music trade in consequence.
In November 2020, Braun rotated and offered the grasp recordings to the personal fairness agency Shamrock Capital for a reported US$300 million.
As a consequence, Swift introduced that she would re-record her albums to personal her new masters in a undertaking known as Taylor’s Version.
Her first re-recorded album, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), got here out in April 2021, and she or he has since launched new variations of Red, 1989 and Speak Now.
It was a bet that has paid off for the singer-songwriter — the entire releases have gone to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and she or he has impressed different singers to try to regain management of their very own grasp recordings.
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Now that she owns all of her unique work, Swift additionally hinted at what’s to come back — particularly addressing the long-awaited, extremely anticipated launch of Reputation (Taylor’s Version), which has had Swifties salivating because the conclusion of her record-breaking Eras Tour.
“I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” she wrote within the replace posted to her web site Friday.
“The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.
“To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or the photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch. I’ve already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now,” she continued, including that “if it happens, it won’t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”
In June of 2024, Braun introduced that he was retiring from music administration.
In his assertion, Braun talked about quite a lot of his shoppers from through the years, however not Swift: Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Andrew Watt, Lil Dicky, Tori Kelly, J Balvin, Demi Lovato, Zac Brown Band, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, Steve Angello, Carly Rae Jepsen, PSY and Quavo amongst them.
Many of the artists he listed had dropped Braun as a supervisor by that point.
“Every client I have had the privilege of working with has changed my life, and I know many of them are just beginning to see the success they deserve,” he stated. “I will cheer for every single one of them.”
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