Taylor Swift has purchased again her grasp recordings. She made the announcement with a observe on her web site, sharing fortunately, “The entire music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.” It’s the primary time she has each owned the rights to all of her personal music. Discover the total assertion under.
Infamously, in 2019, Scooter Braun’s media holding firm, Ithaca Holdings LLC, acquired Large Machine Label Group. With that acquisition got here the rights to Swift’s first six studio albums. Swift denounced the acquisition and criticized Braun and his “bullying.” She additionally mentioned, “Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given a possibility to purchase. Basically, my musical legacy is about to lie within the fingers of somebody who tried to dismantle it.” (In a brand new assertion, concerning Swift’s acquisition of her masters, Braun mentioned, “I’m blissful for her.”)
Following the acquisition, Swift—who left Large Machine Label Group in 2018 to signal a cope with Common Music Group—pledged to re-record her albums in order that she may personal the brand new grasp recordings. She made it two-thirds of the way in which by, releasing new editions of Fearless, Pink, Communicate Now, and 1989. In accordance with her announcement, she completed the brand new model of her self-titled debut, however isn’t but positive when it could possibly be launched. She additionally mentioned she didn’t but end re-recording Fame—a re-recorded album that was extensively anticipated to come back out quickly on account of her previewing of “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model).”
Earlier than Swift launched any of her Taylor’s Model albums, nonetheless, Braun and his firm offered the musician’s masters to the Los Angeles funding agency Shamrock Capitol. On the time of the acquisition, Shamrock mentioned, “Taylor Swift is a transcendent artist with a timeless catalog. We made this funding as a result of we consider within the immense worth and alternative that comes together with her work.”
In her assertion at present, Swift thanked “everybody at Shamrock Capital for being the primary folks to ever supply this to me. The best way they’ve dealt with each interplay we’ve had has been sincere, honest, and respectful.”
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