Taylor Swift Reveals She Bought Back Her Music Catalog Six Years After Scooter Braun Drama

Taylor Swift is the owner of all of her music!

Nearly six years after her music catalog with sold to Scooter Braun in 2019, the 35-year-old “Karma” singer has regained control of her masters, giving her control over her first six albums.

Taylor shared the exciting news on Friday (May 30) in an emotional letter to her fans.

Keep reading to find out more…“Hi. I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news,” Taylor wrote on her website.

“All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now,” the Grammy winner continued. “I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.”

She added, “And all of my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life’s work.”

Taylor‘s drama with Scooter began in June 2019 when he purchased purchased Big Machine Records from Scott Borchetta. Scott founded the record label in 2005 and Taylor was the first star he signed. When Scooter‘s company, Ithaca Holdings, acquired the label, he received control of all of the albums Taylor had made before she signed with Universal Music Group in 2018.

Those albums included 2006′s Taylor Swift, 2008′s Fearless, 2010′s Speak Now, 2012′s Red, 2014′s 1989, and 2017′s Reputation. Since 2019, Taylor has re-recorded, and re-released Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989.

Taylor continued in her letter, “To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me – so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released 4 of my albums, calling them Taylor’s Version. The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music. I can’t thank you enough for helping me reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but I have never owned until now.”

“All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy,” Taylor wrote. “I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. The way they’ve handled every interaction we’ve had has been honest, fair, and respectful. This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: My memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful. My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead.”

Taylor then went on to address all the speculation that she might soon be releasing Reputation (Taylor’s Version).

“I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it. 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,” Taylor explained. “All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”

She continued, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first 6 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 in to the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch. I’ve completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 album 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 wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”

“I’m extremely heartened by the conversations this saga has reignited within my industry among artists and fans. Every time a new artist tells me the negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I’m reminded of how important it was for all of this happen,” Taylor wrote. “Thank you for being curious about something that used to be thought of as too industry-centric for broad discussion. You’ll never know how much it means to me that you cared. Every single bit of it counted, and ended us up here.”

Taylor concluded, “Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, and encouragement. The best things that have ever been mine…finally actually are. Elated and amazed, Taylor.”