Taylor Swift performs on stage during the 55th Academy Awards of Country Music 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 she had been re-recording her first six albums with the goal of controlling her own masters.
On Tuesday, the musician announced during a Good Morning America segment that his recorded version of “Love Story” would be available at midnight. He also mocked that he had just re-recorded his album “Fearless” and that he would release it “soon”.
Their official website offers pre-orders of the album, which will be released on April 9th.
The album includes six songs that did not make the cut 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 back, which are songs that almost made the original album‘ Fearless ’, but now I’ve gone back and recorded them so everyone can hear no just the songs that made the album, but the songs that almost made it, ”Swift said.
“Fearless,” which was originally released in 2008, is the most award-winning country album of all time. It is the only album in history to have won the all-genre album of the year and the country album of the year at the Grammys, as well as the top awards from the Country Music Association, the Country Music Academy. and the American Music Awards.
In November, Swift confirmed that Scooter Braun had sold the rights to its first six albums to a privately held company in a deal worth more than $ 300 million.
Swift had tried to get his owners back, but said Braun’s team wanted him to sign a non-disclosure agreement before he was allowed to examine Big Machine’s financial records, and the NDA would also have demanded that he not speak again. against Braun.
The singer promised to re-record her old songs, acknowledging that she would reduce the value of her teachers.
Braun and Shamrock Capital Advisors were not immediately available for comment.
A month after the deal was announced, Swift mocked the new version of her hit song “Love Story.” At the time, he told fans he hadn’t finished re-recording all of his music yet, but that he had allowed friend Ryan Reynolds to use the new iteration for a Match dating site ad.
“I’ve talked a lot about why redoing my first albums,” Swift wrote in a Twitter post. “But the way I’ve chosen to do this will illustrate where I come from. Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most obvious thing is that the artist is the only one who really * knows * this body of work “.