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SWIFTIES WILL BE GLAD TO HEAR THAT TAYLOR'S 'GREATEST DREAM' OF BUYING THE RIGHTS TO HER MUSIC HAS COME TRUE AT LONG LAST. 18:03, 30 May 2025 Taylor Swift has announced that
she now owns "all of the music" that she has has ever made. The star has spent the last few years releasing re-recorded versions of albums from earlier in her career, naming them
'Taylor's Version', following a dispute over her back catalogue. She told fans in a message on her website: "All of the music I've ever made ... now belongs ... to
me." Taylor said it includes all her music videos, concert films, album art and photography, and unreleased songs. She added: "The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single
era. My entire life's work." Taylor said: "I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slidehow. 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. "All the times I was thiiiiiiiiis 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 and then yanked away. But that's all in the past now. I've been bursting into
tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening." She added: "To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved
about it. To my fans, you know 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 to reunite me with this
art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now. Article continues below "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. I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer
this to me. [...] 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." She
also shared an update on Reputation (Taylor's Version), reported The Mirror. She said: "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. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood,
that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it."
Taylor said that she "kept putting it off" but suggested that there "will be a time," if fans want it, for the unreleased Vault tracks "to hatch". She added:
"I've already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if
that would be something you guys would be excited about". Taylor said it wouldn't be from a "place of sadness and longing" though, with it instead "a celebration
now". She concluded by writing: "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 they negotiated to own their own master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen." Article
continues below Taylor thanked fans for their support and said: "Every single bit of it counted, and ended us up here. Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, and encouragement, the
best things that have ever been mine ... finally actually are." JOIN THE DAILY RECORD WHATSAPP COMMUNITY! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp
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