TAYLOR Swift has announced the re-recording of her breakthrough album featuring six new tracks in a battle against music manager Scooter Braun who bought the rights to her back catalogue.
The superstar says the album, titled Fearless (Taylor’s Version), will include 26 songs, with a handful of never-before-heard tunes which were written between the ages of 16 and 18.
Taylor Swift has announced her album Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is complete and fans will get the first single Love Story (Taylor’s Version) tomorrow
The first single from the album will be Love Story (Taylor’s Version) which she will release tomorrow – more than 12 years after the original peaked at No2.
Taylor, 31, decided to re-record her music after the masters of her old albums were bought by Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande’s manager Scooter, who she called an “incessant, manipulative bully.”
It means he will continue to profit from the original recordings of her music, although he won’t earn money from Taylor’s new re-recorded versions.
Announcing the news on Twitter, she wrote: “I’m thrilled to tell you that my new version of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is done and will be with you soon. It has 26 songs including 6 never before released songs from the vault. Love Story (Taylor’s Version) will be out tonight.”
She has re-recorded the album to prevent music manager Scooter Braun from profiting off her music, after he bought the masters for her back catalogue
Taylor was aged 18 when she first released Fearless and will include six never-before-heard tracks which she wrote as a teenager on Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
In a longer statement, she wrote: “I’ve spoken a lot about why I’m remaking my first six albums, but the way I’ve chosen to do this will hopefully help illuminate where I’m coming from.
“Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work.
“This process has been more fulfilling and emotional than I could’ve imagined and has made me even more determined to re-record all of my music.”
Taylor has toured the world and has sold more than 200million records worldwide during her career
She has not revealed when the album will be released, but fans believe it will be out on April 9 due to clues in her announcement which had the date capitalised.
Fearless originally peaked in the UK charts at No5 in 2008.
It went on to be named Album of the Year at the Grammys, which meant that at the time, she was the youngest artist to win the accolade.
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