Taylor Swift: 'Reputation is the one album I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it'
Taylor Swift has finally gone on the record about what happened to 'Reputation (Taylor's Version),' giving a raw and emotional report card to her fans that has sent the Swiftie universe into a tailspin.
In a very personal letter she released on Friday on her website, the 35-year-old superstar not only announced that she has officially purchased back her entire masters catalogue, but also answered the burning question: When is "Rep TV" coming out?
Swift's letter was a straightforward admission about the rumours over the re-recorded version of her 2017 best-seller album "Reputation." She wrote honestly, "I know, I know. What about Rep TV?"
For the first time, Swift confessed to her fans that the work is not yet done.
"Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it," she admitted, describing the experience of returning to the album as more emotionally complicated than she had expected.
Swift explained the rationale for the delay, detailing how "Reputation" was "so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping when I tried to remake it." She went on to explain the raw emotions attached to the creation of the album, stating,
"All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief," She said and made an astonishing revelation, "Reputation is the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it.
Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off."
Although Swift declined to say that there would not be a "Rep TV," she was candid about uncertainty. She suggested the album would never be re-recorded in its entirety, but did leave the window open for fans to one day hear previously unreleased "Vault" songs from the "Reputation" period.
"Sometime (if you're on board with the concept) there will be a time for the unreleased Vault songs from that album to come out," she promised fans.
Swift also gave an update regarding her first album, "Taylor Swift," released in 2006. She confirmed, "I've already fully re-recorded my whole first album, and I really love how it sounds now."
She stated that her debut and "Reputation" could "still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be stoked about."
Swift's letter follows years of her re-recording her musical heritage, since the disputed sale of her initial six albums by Big Machine Recordings. She has already delivered "Taylor's Version" re-recorded versions of 'Fearless,' 'Red,' 'Speak Now,' and '1989,' all to critical and commercial success.
She ended her letter on an optimistic note saying, "But if it does, it won't be out of a place of sadness and wistfulness for something that I want that I don't have. It'll just be a celebration now."
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