The majority of Swift's work was released under a deal she signed with Big Machine Records when she was 15, which gave the record label ownership of her masters.īy 2019, Swift said she "pleaded" with the label to let her buy her masters and was offered a deal where, if she re-signed with Big Machine, she could "'earn' one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in." Swift turned this down, signing a new deal with Republic Records that would allow her to own her masters going forward. But I only want that if I own it." Why doesn't Swift own her masters? "I do want it to be in movies, I do want it to be in commercials. "The reason I'm re-recording my music next year is because I do want my music to live on," she told Billboard in 2019. Without ownership of her masters, though, Swift claimed in 2019 her record label was trying to prevent her from performing a medley of her songs at the American Music Awards or from using her older music in a Netflix documentary.
Swift owns the rights to the compositions themselves, however, allowing her to re-record the songs. Owning her masters means Swift can control the way those particular versions of the songs are used, like granting permission for the music to appear in advertising.
Swift is re-recording her earlier albums because this will allow her to own their masters - that is, the songs' original recordings. Why is Taylor Swift re-recording her old songs? After a long wait, Swift recently revealed when the latest "Taylor's Version" will debut, though she still has a long way to go before the re-recording effort is complete.
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