30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
All Taylor Swift songs are now 'Taylor's Version.' Swift finally acquires life's work.
All Taylor Swift songs are now officially Taylor's Version.
After a long and grueling feud with her previous record label and talent manager Scooter Braun, Swift now owns her masters.
The superstar, who was in Indianapolis back in November on her record-breaking Eras Tour, posted a lengthy letter on her website detailing that every aspect of her career including videos, concert films, art, photography and unreleased materials is under her control.
"All of the music I've ever made now belongs to me," Swift wrote.
Swift credited Shamrock Capital, the private equity firm that purchased the master rights to Swift's first six albums from Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings in 2020, for giving her the opportunity to purchase every aspect of her career work.
On her Instagram account, Swift posted a photo of herself sitting on the floor surrounded by her first six albums with the comment, 'You belong with me,' a nod to her hit from 2008's 'Fearless' album.
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Swift gives a final shoutout to her fans for rallying behind her during this process.
'Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, support and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine … finally actually are," Swift wrote.
Swift did confirm that she is still working on and plans to release "Reputation (Taylor's Version)" and her debut album, "Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version)." She teased fans in the letter by adding, "If you're into the idea."
Swift explained she kept 'hitting a stopping point' while trying to remake "Reputation," adding, '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 six that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it.'
Swift did note that her self-titled country-rooted debut from 2006 – has been rerecorded and added 'I love how it sounds now.'
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Swift has very publicly spoken about how important it is to her to own her own music, but for several years, she did not own the master recordings of her first six albums.
Although they were for sale in 2019, Swift claimed she was not notified they were for sale until they had already been sold, USA TODAY reported. That is what led to her re-recording these albums.
"Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work," Swift wrote on X, formerly Twitter when she announced her first re-recorded album, "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Since she has songwriting credits on every song in her discography, nothing prevented her from re-recording new versions of all her songs as long as enough time has passed since the original version's release.
You can tell which version of her songs are hers because she has added "(Taylor's Version)" to each track and album title. She has re-released four so far: "Fearless (Taylor's Version)," "Red (Taylor's Version)," "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" and, most recently, "1989 (Taylor's Version)."
The only two albums Swift has yet to re-release are her debut, "Taylor Swift," and "Reputation," which fans theorize she did on purpose, leaving only her name and reputation left to reclaim.
