Taylor Swift will perform on stage at the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry on September 16, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Over the past year, Taylor Swift has surprised fans with two new albums, “Folklore” and “Evermore,” revealing that she recorded her first six albums in an effort to control her own masters.
The musician announced Tuesday during a section on Good Morning America that her recorded version of ‘Love Story’ will be available at midnight. She also teased that she had finished recording her album “Fearless” and would soon release it to the public.
Her official website offers pre-orders of the album which will be delivered on April 9th.
The album contains six songs that did not make the track when the original version was released. The album is officially called ‘Fearless: Taylor’s Version’.
“My version of ‘Fearless’ contains 26 songs because I decided to add songs from the vault, these are songs that almost made the original ‘Fearless’ album, but I’ve now gone back and recorded it so everyone will not just the songs that made the album can not be heard, but also the songs that almost made it, ‘Swift said.
“Fearless”, originally released in 2008, is the most acclaimed country album of all time. It is the only album in history to have won the Grammys’ All-Album of the Year and Country Album of the Year Award, as well as the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and the American Music. Awards.
In November, Swift confirmed that the rights to her first six albums had been sold by Scooter Braun to a private equity firm in a deal worth more than $ 300 million.
Swift tried to buy back her masters, but said Braun’s team wanted her to sign a deal before she could look at Big Machine’s financial records, and the NDA would also have required her to never again. to speak against Braun.
The singer promised to record her old songs again, acknowledging that it would reduce the value of her masters.
Braun and Shamrock Capital Advisors were not immediately available for comment.
A month after the deal was announced, Swift teased the new version of her hit song “Love Story”. At the time, she told fans she had not recorded all of her music yet, but allowed friend Ryan Reynolds to use the new iteration for a Match-dating ad.
“I’ve talked a lot about why I’re recreating my first albums,” Swift wrote in a Twitter post. “But the way I chose it will hopefully illuminate where I come from. Artists have to own their own work for so many reasons, but the most glaring thing is that the artist is the only one who really * knows * that body of work.”