Taylor Swift owns her music: the singer managed to buy her masters | After years of pull and loosen and Taylor’s Versions
Taylor Swift It is celebrating. After breaking records with his very successful The Eras Tour -who first brought it to Argentina -, the singer announced that after years of legal disputes He managed to buy the masters of his first six albums. “You Belong With Me,” he wrote on his networks and uploaded an extensive letter to his website to give more details. In addition, he revealed what will happen to the re -records of his debut albums (Taylor’s version) and Reputation (Taylor’s version).
“All the music I have made now belongs to me”Swift wrote. The list includes: its first six albums (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, reputation and 1989) Next to the art and photographs of each one, the films of their concerts and the songs that were not launched. “Each of the ages. The work of my whole life,” he celebrated.
And he added: “To say that this was my greatest dream come true is to fall short. To my fans, you know how important this has been for me.” And he thanked for the support they gave him during the re -regulations of his albums and The Eras Tour, which is what allowed him to buy his masters, although did not reveal the figure of the agreement.
In addition, he stressed that the negotiation with the Shamrock Capital record was “honest, fair and respectful.” “For them it was a commercial agreement, but I felt that they understood what it meant for me: my memories, my sweat, my writing and my decades of dreams.”
Taylor Swift versus Scooter Braun: The beginning of the fight
At the beginning of his career, Swift signed a contract with an independent seal in Nashville called Big Machinedirected by businessman Scott Borchetta. After his first six albums, Taylor left with a larger stamp, Republic Records. But as it became more popular, its previous catalog, which was owned by Borchetta, increased its value. Then swift He tried to buy his original recordings. But instead of suggesting a figure, Borchetta told her that the deal was that she could rescue her originals if she returned with Big Machine, and for each new album she recorded with them, she could recover the control of an old one.
Swift refused and Borchetta sold Big Machine and all the singer’s music to Scooter Braunmanager of one of the main enemies of the blonde in the music industry: Kanye West, who has dedicated himself to hosting her since 2009, when he jumped on the stage of the VMA awards to interrupt her and tell her that she did not deserve the award. And, as if that were not enough, Taylor had already denounced Braun for harassment and extortion, among other crimes.
Even so, the singer found him back. In addition to making public the dispute and putting the property of the music of the artists, He began to re -record his own albums with new songs, video clips, art and the aggregate “Taylor’s version”. Thus, the re -regions of Fearless, Grid (With the very 10 -minute version of the “All Too Well” ballad), Speak Now and 1989.
In 2020, Braun sold Taylor’s music to Shamrock Capital. At that time, the singer said that the operation was completed without her being informed at the explicit order of the manager.
What about reputation TV?
The relaunch of Swift’s discography was accompanied by clues (also known as “Easter Eggs”) in their videos so that their fans decode. In the “Bejeweled” video clip (song that is on the Midnights alb Speak Now (Taylor’s version). As a kind of chain, at the end of the video of “I can see you”, one of the new songs that included Speak Now (Taylor’s version)there was a poster that allowed to deduce that the next album was going to be 1989 (Taylor’s version).
The Swiftie world was dedicated to continuing clues, but found a totally new album, The tortured poet’s department. From the rest of the Taylor’s Versions or news, only increasingly crazy theories that gave rise to many memes. Until now.
In its extensive letter, Swift finally reveals what happens to the remaining two albums. In the case of Reputation (Taylor’s version)the most anticipated, the singer admitted that barely rewritten “a room of him”. “The album is so specific to a moment of my life and continued to find a blockade every time I tried to rebuild it,” he said and added that of those first albums “It is the only one that seems to me that it cannot be improved by remakeing it.”.
In the case of Debut (Taylor’s version)his first album is “completely re -registered” and “I really love how it was.”
“These two albums They still have their time to resurface when the moment is the indicatedif that is something that you would like. But if it happens, it will not be from a place of sadness and longing for what I would like to have had. Now It will be just a celebration”He said.
