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Taylor Swift did this, which was long considered impossible: she is now the sole owner of her entire musical life-including the original master shots. “All the music I’ve ever made belongs to me now,” she announced on Friday (May 30th) in a statement on her website.
As “Billboard” reports, Taylor Swift has her master’s rights back from Shamrock Capital-the private equity company that she had acquired from Scooter Brauns Ithaca Holdings in 2020. According to media reports, Swift is said to have paid around $ 360 million for the deal.
Taylor Swift has creative control again
Scooter Braun had achieved the master’s rights in 2019 by buying Swift’s former label Big Machine Records – apparently without their knowledge. For Swift it was a nightmare: “Everything I could think about was the constant, manipulative bullying that I have been experiencing from him for years,” she said at the time. In response, she announced that she was re -picking up all of her earlier albums in order to gain control over her songs and the license rights again. In 2020, Braun finally sold the rights to Shamrock – for around $ 300 million. However, since Swift’s team should sign a confidentiality agreement that prohibited criticism of Braun, they initially dropped the talks. In the meantime, Swift has released four re-recordings: “Fearless”, “Red”, “Speak Now” and “1989 (Taylor’s version)”.
“To say that this is my biggest dream that has become true is actually quite reserved,” Swift now writes. “You, my fans, know how important this was – so much that I have met four of my albums in meticulously and they called Taylor’s version. The passionate support that you have shown this album To combine that I have devoted my life, which I have never observed so far. ”
Is “Reputation (Taylor’s version) still?
How the remaining two Re-Recordings-“Reputation” and the debut album “Taylor Swift” continue-left open. Especially with “reputation” she has not yet come on: “Full transparency: I don’t even have a quarter of [Reputation TV] newly recorded. The reputation album was so specific for this time in my life, and I kept encountering a hurdle when I tried to take it up again. Despite all of this, the longing to be understood while you feel deliberately misunderstood, the desperate hope, the growl born out of shame and the nonsense. To be honest, it is the only album of the first six, which I thought it could not be improved by a new edition. Not the music, not the photos, not the videos. So I kept postponing it. “