Eagled-eyed followers have noticed a possible clue that Taylor Swift is perhaps teasing a brand new album after shopping for again her masters.
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On Friday (Might 30), Swift revealed that she now has management over her total catalogue after initially shedding the rights to it in 2019, when music supervisor Scooter Braun and his media holding firm, Ithaca Holdings LLC acquired Swift’s previous label, Large Machine Label Group.
When information first broke of Braun gaining the rights to her masters, Swift, who had made the transfer to Republic Information by that point, wrote in a Tumblr put up that this was “the worst-case situation” for her, calling him out for his “incessant, manipulative bullying”, and confirming her plans to re-record songs from her first six data in a bid to take management over her music as soon as once more.
The story then hit headlines once more in late 2020 after Swift confirmed that the possession of her again catalogue had modified fingers once more for the second time inside two years, when Braun offered the rights to the non-public fairness firm Shamrock Holdings in a $300million (£230m) deal. The singer shared an announcement on the time, by which she mentioned that the grasp recordings “weren’t on the market to me”.
In Friday’s announcement, Swift joyfully shared that she purchased her masters – in addition to her movies, live performance movies, album artwork and pictures and unreleased songs – again from Shamrock.
“I virtually stopped pondering it may ever occur, after 20 years of getting the carrot dangled after which yanked away,” she wrote within the letter to followers. “However that’s all previously now. All the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me.”
Followers took observe of the road: “All of the instances I used to be thiiiiiiiiiiiis shut, reaching out for it, just for it to fall by means of.” Swifties have seized on the actual fact she used 12 “i’s”, which they’re hoping means a comply with as much as The Tortured Poets Division (TTPD), her eleventh studio file, is within the works.
Some identified that the letter head design was not ‘TTPD’ themed, and was as a substitute an virtually Nice Gatsby-esque artwork deco graphic.
🚨 TAYLOR SWIFT’S LETTER HAS 12 ‘i’s pic.twitter.com/hyzENdycVp
— Kush (@kush07_) Might 30, 2025
miss taylor swift are you doing broadway, or is gatsby going to be a part of your twelfth album as a result of 12 i’s in triumphant pic.twitter.com/eFe3MNT00N
— chloe⸆⸉ | ✰ ✰ |⚢ (@uconnsbarca) June 2, 2025
With a purpose to regain management over her music, and to devalue Braun’s funding, Swift started re-recording all six albums, dubbing them ‘Taylor’s Model’ and including “From the Vault” tracks that had been written across the time of the unique songwriting classes however by no means launched.
Between 2021 and 2023, Swift launched ‘Taylor’s Model’s of her albums ‘Fearless‘ (initially launched in 2008), ‘Crimson‘ (2012), ‘Communicate Now‘ (2010) and ‘1989‘ (2014), with the re-recordings cumulating in billions of streams that broke Spotify data.
Re-recorded variations of the songs have since been utilized in movie and TV synchs, together with an up to date model of ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ – from the at the moment unreleased rerecording of 2017’s ‘Popularity‘ – which appeared within the new collection of The Handmaid’s Story earlier this month.
‘Popularity’ and Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut album are the one albums that haven’t been re-recorded, and followers have been speculating about their potential launch dates for the previous six years.
Nonetheless, now that the singer has reacquired her masters, there’s much less purpose to launch their ‘Taylor’s Model’.
Concluding her letter to followers, the pop star directed the dialog in direction of artists’ rights to their masters, after it was reported that main labels akin to Common Music Group, Sony Music Leisure and Warner Music Group had been trying to put a cease to artists following in Swift’s footsteps, and had been mentioned to have overhauled contracts for brand new signees in 2023.
“Each time a brand new artist tells me they negotiated to personal their grasp recordings of their file contract due to this battle, I’m reminded of how essential it was for all of this to occur,” she wrote.
“Thanks for being inquisitive about one thing that was regarded as too industry-centric for broad dialogue. You’ll by no means understand how a lot it means to me that you simply cared. Each single little bit of it counted and ended us up right here.”
