changing the music industry

to perform her own songs at her AMA performance and not agreeing to “issue licenses… in connection with [her upcoming] Netflix documentary.”

According to Swift, Braun refused to sell Swift her masters for any amount of money, even asking her to sign an NDA which stated that she “would never say another word about Scooter Braun unless it was positive.” her to own her masters going forward. However, her first six albums were still out of her hands. take the narrative into her own hands by rerecording her previous work. Calling the new albums the “Taylor’s Version” of the original, Swift has slowly been working her way through her catalog, recording “copycat” versions of first six albums Her re-records have amassed worldwide success. Both Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) landed at the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 200. The announcement for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which comes out in July, surpassed 10 million likes on Instagram, Taylor’s only post to do so. As she wrote in March of 2021, “Artists should own their own work for so many reasons. But the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work.”

Re-recording her catalog gives her control of her music; after remaking a song, she can decide the way

Get a good lawyer that song is used. It also dilutes the value of the original records; fans will choose to stream the “Taylor’s Versions'” and radio stations, such as iHeartRadio, are pledging to only play the re-records She is also changing the way artists can monetize the art that they create; the music industry has so long operated in a fashion that demonetised artists.

In that same year, she signed with Republic Records, which allows