Taylor Swift shared her new recording of “Love Story”, the first of her efforts to re-record her first six albums after the controversial 2019 sale of her first master recordings. Listen to the song that first appeared on the 2008 Swift album Fearless, below.
Swift announced the fully updated Fearless on Thursday, although she had seen the re-recording of “Love Story” in early December. Fearless (Taylor version), which will be released on April 9 and is in pre-order in several editions, includes new recordings of six tracks that Swift wrote for the album when he was a teenager and that were never released. In a statement, Swift called Fearless (Taylor version) “The whole story, the whole vivid image … the whole dream landscape that is my fearless album.”
After Scooter Braun bought and later resold the master recordings for Swift’s first six albums, Swift said he would re-record them as a way to regain control of his work. Swift released his newest album ever with one day’s notice in December, less than six months after launch folklore Likewise.
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