Taylor Swift was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. As one of the undisputed biggest pop stars of the year, she has achieved numerous milestones, including newly recorded albums – and finally as the “Taylor Version”.
Now, however, Swift admits it hour She wasn’t convinced by the idea at first. The idea must have come to her during the 2020 pandemic, when she was recording folklore And foreverBut he wasn’t sure.
Kelly Clarkson, the singer and Swift’s friend, was very positive about the idea, Swift says. So did her father, Scott Swift.
– I looked at them and said, “How am I going to do that?” After all, no one wants to do their homework again if they walk away from you on the way to school, Swift tells TIME.
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Lost rights
That’s what it felt like when Swift lost the rights to her first six albums. In 2018, she signed with Republic Records, after being with Big Machine Records. She then wanted to bring her master recordings with her, but couldn’t when she signed the contract.
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Later, Swift wanted to buy Big Machine, but music entrepreneur Scooter Braun beat her to it. He bought all the rights to Swift’s first six albums and sold them in 2020.
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“I found out about Scooter Braun’s acquisition of my master recordings when it was announced to the rest of the world. All I could think about was the constant, manipulative bullying he had done to me for years,” he says in one Blog posts on Tumblr In June 2019.
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The “Taylor version” became a coping strategy to experience control over what I had lost.
– It’s about how you deal with losses. For me, it will be accompanied by great pain and challenge, the pop star tells TIME.
Writing history
When Swift dropped the remake talk now This summer, she rose straight to the top of the leaderboard plate 200. Being at the top of the list for the 12th time in her career, she made history as the woman with the most top-place finishes in history.
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Incidentally, she also made history as the only artist to have four albums in the top ten: Speak Now (TV), midnight (no 5), Promises (No. 7) and folklore (No. 10).
As of now Afternoon tour – a parade and tribute to her 10 albums, or “eras” – on her way to becoming the tour that grossed the most money at the box office. For now, Elton John is king Goodbye yellow brick road At the top of the list.
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Although Swift is “devastated” by the “loss” of her first six albums, she is clear that no matter what happens, good or bad, she will continue to create new things. And with great success.
She doesn’t want to sacrifice a single calorie to her “enemies,” as “garbage throws itself away every time,” she told TIME.
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