Taylor Swift just put a debate in the Swiftie community to rest during her appearance on Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast.
The singer’s highly anticipated appearance on her boyfriend’s podcast, which he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce, delivered plenty of major updates, including an album cover for her 12th record, The Life of a Showgirl, and the announcement that it’ll be released on October 3.
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But among those updates was an answer to the all-important question of which version of Swift’s first six albums should we be listening to: the originals or the rerecords?
The saga of Swift’s early albums dates back to 2019, when music manager Scooter Braun bought Swift’s former record label Big Machine, which gave him ownership of all the songs from the now-35-year-old singer’s early albums: Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation.
In addition to having personal issues with Braun, who managed one of Swift’s longtime enemies, Kanye West, the singer was publicly devastated by not owning her masters and began a years-long pursuit to rerecord her early works as part of her “Taylor’s Version” series.
Swift rerecorded four of the six albums, leaving just her eponymous first album and Reputation left to be rerecorded. However, before the “Taylor’s Version” project was completed, the Grammy winner bought back her masters in May.
“All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” said the star, announcing the news on her official website. “I’ve been bursting into tears of joy… ever since I found out this is really happening.”
However, for Swifties who’d long stopped listening to original versions of the albums to throw their support behind the singer’s “Taylor’s Version” project, this left them feeling unsure about which versions were best to listen to.
Swift responded to that on New Heights, saying that she thinks the newer versions of her work are “better” but said fans are free to choose to listen to whatever they want.
“I wouldn’t put the re-records if they weren’t held up or were better. A lot of the vocals I did on the rerecords were better than the originals,” she explained. “But it’s like if you found the nostalgia you were listening to in the originals, and that’s when you were listening to when you were 12 and you were bopping your bedroom, go crazy. We got them all.”
Swift also spoke about the importance of buying back her work. “I want it because these are my handwritten diary entries from my whole life. These are the songs I wrote about every phase of my life. This is my photography, my music videos, most of which are funded, my artwork, everything I have ever done is in this catalog,” she said.
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