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Singer Taylor Swift announced late Thursday, February 11, that she will be releasing a new version of her hit 2008 song “Love Story.”
“I’m thrilled to tell you that my new version of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is done and will be with you soon. It has 26 songs, including 6 never before released songs from the vault. ‘Love Story (Taylor’s Version)’ will be out tonight,” the singer and songwriter said in a tweet.
“Love Story,” first released in 2008, is among Taylor’s biggest hits. The love song, about star-crossed lovers, takes inspiration both from her personal experiences and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (although “Love Story” ends happily). For many, “Love Story” was how they discovered Taylor in the first place.
“Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” will be released around 1 pm Friday, February 12, in the Philippines. While Taylor didn’t say when Fearless (Taylor’s Version) will be released, capitalized letters in a note she posted on social media hinted at its release date: April 9.
Taylor earlier announced that she’d be rerecording her older music, following a year of “actively trying to regain ownership” of the master recordings of her first 6 albums.
The owner of a song or album’s masters can dictate how songs are re-produced and sold.
The master recordings of her first 6 albums were once owned by Scooter Braun, after he bought Big Machine Label Group through his company Ithaca Holdings in 2019. She’d later learn that Shamrock Holdings had purchased her masters through Scooter.
Taylor said that even though Shamrock now owned her masters, the deal made it so that Scooter would still profit from her old music. It was then that Taylor announced she’d be rerecording her first 6 albums.
Swift is among the biggest pop stars in the music industry today. She recently release two albums – folklore and evermore – during quarantine. – Rappler.com
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