Singer Tayor Swift announced on Thursday that she will be recording new versions of the songs from her album “Fearless” and her entire discography from the past, after losing the authorship of her entire catalog due to an investment fund maneuver.
“This process is more satisfying and emotional than I could have imagined and has given me more determination to re-record all of my music,” the 31-year-old singer said in a statement posted on her social networks.
“Artists should be masters of their own work for many reasons, but the most obvious is that the artist is the only one who knows his entire work,” explains the famous singer.
Swift begins the recapture of his six albums with the release of a new version of his song “Love Story,” available for purchase in the digital version for $ 13 or in vinyl, CD and cassette versions.
The rest of the album (Taylor version, as the singer noted) will be out since April with six new songs.
The first album released by the artist in 2008 was made under the Nashville Big Machine label, which, as is common in the American music industry in the early days of a new musician’s artistic life, controlled most of the rights of their songs. .
In 2019, Swift signed a contract with Universal Music that gave her the rights to her future masters, but coinciding with this change, the musical executive Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine and all the mastered recordings of the artist’s first six albums, with different discs. Platinum. behind him.
The purchase, worth $ 300 million, was realized with the participation of the investment fund Carlyle Group and was later transferred to the investment company Shamrock Capital.
Swift was very critical of that move, saying it had stripped her of her entire life’s work and blamed Braun, who represents other pop stars like Justin Bieber or Ariana Grande, for being a manipulator and wanting to dismantle her work.