“Her law degree may not be real… but she did go to Stanford for a bit.”
On May 30, Taylor Swift made an announcement she had waited nearly her entire career to make.
No, it's not the the release of Reputation (Taylor's Version). In her own words, "I daydreamed about, wished for and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news."
Taylor Swift finally owns every piece of music she ever made. "All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me," she wrote in a letter shared on her website.
"And all of my music videos. All the concert fils. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life's work."
"I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent," she continued, "but right now my mind is just a slideshow."
The purchase of her life's work comes after it was originally purchased by Scooter Braun in 2019, a move that enraged Swift at the time, claiming she was never given the opportunity to buy her discography instead.
As a result, Swift took action and began rerecording all of the music Braun had purchased. As of Today, she only had two records to re-record, "Reputation" and her very first self-titled album, "Taylor Swift."
To now own all of her work, Swift calls it her "greatest dream come true," admitting saying even that "is actually being pretty reserved about it."
In her letter, Swift thanked her fans for standing by her as she re-recorded her music. "You know how important this has been to me," she wrote.
"The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music. I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now."
As for "Rep TV," Swift admits that she hasn't "even re-recorded a quarter of it."
The reason? "The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that i thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it."
Swift then announced that there will come a time that she will released the "unreleased vault tracks" from "Reputation," but that the re-recording of her debut album is finished. "I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right."
"But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have," Swift wrote. "It will just be a celebration now."
