Now that Taylor Swift officially owns her music, that leaves one very important question…
What is going to happen with Reputation (Taylor’s Version) and Debut (Taylor’s Version)?
In a letter she posted on her website on May 30 announcing the news to her fans, she also provided an update on those final two re-recordings.
“I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief,” she wrote. “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or the photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch. I’ve already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But if it happens, it won’t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”
Taylor Swift Celebrates the News on Instagram
To announce the news that her music is now hers, Swift posted a photo of herself surrounded by her first six albums on Instagram.
And Swifties immediately reacted to the exciting news.
“She’s finally the owner of all her life’s work!!! so so happy for her, welcome home debut, fearless, speak now, red, 1989, and reputation 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤,” one fan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“They’re all Taylor’s Versions,” another fan wrote.
“it was the end of an era, but the start of an age #CongratsTaylor,” a fan expressed.
Looking Back at the Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun Drama
Now that the entire saga is officially complete, let’s take a quick look back at how this all started.
In 2019, Big Machine Records, which was founded by Scott Borchetta and was where Swift recorded her first six albums, was sold to Scooter Braun even though the singer had made it clear she wanted to buy back her music.
Swift initially went on Tumblr, going off on Braun and Borchetta. And then in November 2020, Braun sold the music catalog to Shamrock Capital, which was the second time Swift’s music was sold without her knowledge.
At the same time, Kelly Clarkson gave her the idea in a July 2019 Twitter post to go and re-record all of her songs. And she clearly agreed.
Swift re-recorded four of her six initial albums – Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).
However, now she owns them all.
