Taylor Swift performs on stage during the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry on September 16, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Last year, Taylor Swift surprised fans with two new albums, “Folklore” and “Evermore”, and revealed that he was re-recording his first six albums in an effort to control his own masters.
On Tuesday, the musician announced during a segment on Good Morning America that his rewritten version of “Love Story” would be available at midnight. She also joked that she had just re-recorded her album “Fearless” and would release it to the public “soon”.
Its official website is offering pre-orders for the album, due by April 9.
The album features six songs that were not edited when the original was released. The album is officially called “Fearless: Taylor’s Version”.
“My version of ‘Fearless’ will have 26 songs because I decided to add songs from the vault, which almost made the original ‘Fearless’ album, but now I went back and recorded those so that everyone will be able to hear not only the songs that made the album, but the songs that almost did, “said Swift.
“Fearless”, which was originally released in 2008, is the most awarded country album of all time. It is the only album in history to win the Grammy’s Year of the Year album of all genres and the Grammy’s Country Album of the Year award, as well as the top awards from the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and the American Music Awards.
In November, Swift confirmed that the rights to his first six albums were sold by Scooter Braun to a private equity firm in a deal worth more than $ 300 million.
Swift tried to buy back his masters, but said that Braun’s team wanted her to sign a confidentiality agreement before she was allowed to look at Big Machine’s financial records and the NDA would also demand that she never again speak out against Braun.
The singer promised to re-record her old songs, recognizing that this would reduce the value of her masters.
Braun and Shamrock Capital Advisors were not immediately available for comment.
A month after the announcement of the deal, Swift released the new version of his hit “Love Story”. At that time, she told fans that she had not yet finished re-recording all of her songs, but allowed her friend Ryan Reynolds to use the new iteration for a Match site ad.
“I talked a lot about why I am remaking my first albums,” wrote Swift in a post on Twitter. “But the way I chose to do this will illuminate where I come from. Artists must own their own work for many reasons, but the most obvious is that the artist is the only one who really * knows * this body of work.”