Eagled-eyed followers have noticed a possible clue that Taylor Swift is likely to be teasing a brand new album after shopping for again her masters.
On Friday (Might 30), Swift revealed that she now has management over her whole 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to it in 2019, when music supervisor Scooter Braun and his media holding firm, Ithaca Holdings LLC acquired Swift’s outdated label, Large Machine Label Group.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 Data 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 information 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 palms once more for the second time inside two years, when Braun bought the rights to the personal fairness firm Shamrock Holdings in a $300million (£230m) deal. The singer shared a press release on the time, through 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 nearly 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 prior to now now. The entire music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me.”
Followers took word of the road: “All of the occasions I used to be thiiiiiiiiiiiis shut, reaching out for it, just for it to fall by way 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 report, is within the works.
Some identified that the letter head design was not ‘TTPD’ themed, and was as an alternative an nearly 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 view 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), ‘Pink‘ (2012), ‘Converse Now‘ (2010) and ‘1989‘ (2014), with the re-recordings cumulating in billions of streams that broke Spotify information.
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 presently unreleased rerecording of 2017’s ‘Popularity‘ – which appeared within the new sequence 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 may be much less purpose to launch their ‘Taylor’s Model’.
Concluding her letter to followers, the pop star directed the dialog in the direction of artists’ rights to their masters, after it was reported that main labels resembling Common Music Group, Sony Music Leisure and Warner Music Group had been seeking 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 report contract due to this combat, I’m reminded of how vital it was for all of this to occur,” she wrote.
“Thanks for being inquisitive about one thing that was once considered too industry-centric for broad dialogue. You’ll by no means know the way a lot it means to me that you simply cared. Each single little bit of it counted and ended us up right here.”
