While revealing she has officially bought back her music catalog, Taylor Swift shared a surprising statement about the status of the rerecorded version of Reputation.
“Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” Swift, 35, wrote in a lengthy letter shared on her website on Friday, May 30. “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 purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”
She added, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music or photos or videos. So, I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch.”
Swift has been steadily rerecording all her first six records after her former label, Big Machine, sold the masters to a third party. Only 2017’s Reputation and her 2006 self-titled debut are left.
“I’ve completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how that sounds now,” Swift added in her letter. “Those two albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But, if it happens, it won’t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”
This story is developing.
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