I’m so confused. My sister was telling me about how Taylor swift is re recording her old music because scooter Braun owns her old music and she wants to have sole ownership over it.
So how can she release similar or exact copies of songs she doesn’t own but other artist constantly have legal battles for having songs that have some similarities to it? Like Ice Ice Baby for example. Is she not violating copy right laws by doing this?
Edit: good news. I get it now!
I’m curious as to what the fan response is. Artists recording newer versions of their songs is not often received well, if for no reason other than that fans tend to still prefer the originals.
According to the article @moon_crush linked, she broke a popularity record previously held by The Beatles with them.
Well, what’s nice about it is that the old versions aren’t going anywhere. If you prefer the old one, great! You can listen to the old one. And if these new ones get played on the radio more due to them being new, well she gets that money now rather than some guy who didn’t write the song just because he had money when she needed it.
Personally, I prefer the old versions, especially for her older songs. I think she wasn’t quite yet so jaded, and she believed in the love fantasies she was singing about. I’m specifically think of the song Love Story. She doesn’t sound as excited in the rerecording of that one, and I can obviously only speculate that it is because she just doesn’t believe in that fantasy anymore due to all of her life experiences.
I’m very curious to hear the rerecording Ours, because you can actually hear her smiling in some lines with the way she pronounces the words in the original. I’m skeptical that she can recapture the magic of what I consider one of her best performances from her early career.
From reading between the lines of what Taylor has said, it seems like the new ones get played because IHeartRadio would prefer to keep Taylor happy than some skeevy music producer. Why would a major radio or streaming service want to alienate one of the most popular artists to save some money on streaming rights?
Also, a lot of Taylor’s fans are ride or die. I could see them actively choosing their streaming services or radio stations based on what version gets played by default.
She may feel more settled with Alonso?
Her fans are overwhelmingly supportive of her rereleases. Her former manager or whatever he was, made $250m profit from buying and then selling the master rights against her knowledge/wishes. It was a completely legal but shitty move and Taylor made the dispute very public. It wasn’t just her fans who supported her re-recording and rereleasing her albums though, a huge number of artists, music industry people, journalists and even politicians supported her.
Everyone loves the new versions. The new 10 minute version of all too well is amazing. She plays it at her eras concert every night and everyone knows the lyrics by heart
Were those re-recordings? I thought they were just longer edits.
Rerecording and cut verses. Since she owns the sheet and not the recording she had to remake the whole thing.
All of the “Taylor’s Version” albums and songs are rerecorded.