Taylor Swift has regained control over her total physique of work. In a prolonged word posted to her official web site on Friday (May 30, 2025), Swift introduced: “All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”
The pop star mentioned she bought her catalog of recordings — initially launched via Big Machine Records — from their most up-to-date proprietor, the personal fairness agency Shamrock Capital. She didn’t disclose the quantity.
In latest years, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her first six albums in an try and regain control of her music.
“I can’t thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now,” Swift addressed followers within the submit. “The best things that have ever been mine … finally actually are.”
“We are thrilled with this outcome and are so happy for Taylor,” Shamrock Capital mentioned in a press release.
Swift’s rerecordings have been instigated by Hybe America CEO Scooter Braun’s buy and sale of her early catalog and represents Swift’s effort to control her personal songs and the way they’re used. Previous “Taylor’s Version” releases have been greater than standard re-recordings, arriving with new “from the vault” music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.
“I am happy for her,” Braun mentioned Friday (May 30, 2025).
She has additionally launched new music, together with final 12 months’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” introduced throughout the 2024 Grammys and launched throughout her record-breaking tour.
So far, there have been 4 rerecorded albums, starting with “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in 2021. All four have been massive commercial and cultural successes, each one debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Swift’s last rerecording, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” arrived in October 2023, simply 4 months after the discharge of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).” That was the identical 12 months Swift claimed the document for the lady with probably the most No. 1 albums in historical past.
Fans have theorized that “Reputation (Taylor’s Version)” could be subsequent: On May 19, “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” aired almost in full throughout the opening scene of a Season 6 episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Prior to that, the music was teased in 2023’s Prime Video limited-series thriller “Wilderness” and in Apple TV+’s “The Dynasty: New England Patriots” in 2024. Also in 2023, she contributed “Delicate (Taylor’s Version)” to Prime Video’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
But in keeping with the word shared Friday (May 30, 2025), Swift says she hasn’t “even rerecorded a quarter of it.”
She did say, nevertheless, that she has utterly rerecorded her self-titled debut album “and I really love how it sounds now.”
Swift writes that each her self-titled debut and “Reputation (Taylor’s Version)” “can still have their moments to reemerge when the time is right.”
Representatives for Swift and HYBE didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.
Published – May 31, 2025 02:10 am IST
