Taylor Swift Reveals Fate of Reputation , Taylor Swift Rerecordings
Originally appeared on E! Online
Look what you made Taylor Swift do.
The "Delicate" singer—who had been rerecording her first six albums following a music battle with Scooter Braun—officially revealed that she now owns all of her music. So, what will happen to the updated versions of Reputation and Taylor Swift?
"What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it," Taylor explained in a letter shared to her website May 30. "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 snark and mischief.'
Indeed, Taylor admitted that while the rerecording of her debut album was complete—and may be released at some point in the future—Reputation will not see the same fate.
'To be perfectly honest, it's the album in those first six that I thought couldn't be improved on by redoing it,' Taylor admitted. 'Not the music, or 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.'
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That said, she isn't completely scrapping them if her fans express interest in hearing them.
'If it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have,' she continued. 'It will just be a celebration now.'
The original version of Reputation, which Taylor released in November 2017 in response to criticism she'd been receiving in the press, featured 15 songs, including tracks about former boyfriend Joe Alwyn—"Gorgeous" and "King of My Heart"—as well as her feud with Kanye West on "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things."
It was Taylor's clash with Kanye and then-wife Kim Kardashian—at the height of which the Kardashiansstar posted parts of a conversation between Taylor and Kanye discussing his song "Famous" online—that led the "Bad Blood" artist to take a step back from the spotlight.
'You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,' Taylor recalled to Time last December, referencing the debate over if she knew she'd be referred to as "that b--tch" in Kanye's song. 'That took me down psychologically to a place I've never been before."
"I moved to a foreign country," she continued. "I didn't leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn't trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.'
And how does she feel about the Reputation era today?
'It's a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure,' Taylor told Time. 'I think a lot of people see it and they're just like, Sick snakes and strobe lights.'
Though she did confirm the updated version's vault tracks—if fans care to hear them—will be 'fire."
Keep reading for more fascinating facts about TSwift.
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