Taylor Swift has 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, which first appeared on Swift’s 2008 album Without fear, low.
Swift announced the fully updated version Without fear on Thursday, though in early December he had previewed the recorded “Love Story.” Fearless (Taylor version), which comes out on April 9 and can be pre-booked in several editions, includes new six-track recordings that Swift wrote for the album as a teenager and which were never released. In a statement, Swift called Fearless (Taylor version) “The whole story, the whole vivid image … the whole dreamlike landscape that is my fearless album.”
After Scooter Braun bought and resold the master recordings of Swift’s first six albums, Swift said he would re-record them as a way to regain control of his work. Swift released her new album forever with one day’s notice in December, less than six months after release folklore in the same way.
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