By Conor Murray, Forbes | Billionaire pop star Taylor Swift purchased the rights to her first six albums back from Shamrock Capital, the singer said in a statement posted to her website Friday, after the sale of her master recordings in 2019 prompted her to re-record much of her early work.
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How Taylor Won
By Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE FOR MUSICIANS TO READ! | It happened — Taylor owns everything. All her songs, all her masters, her life’s work. She won. Eight years after her label Big Machine sold off her catalog, Taylor Swift has finally achieved her goal of buying it back herself. The most impossible battle of her career, the most invincible dragon she’s ever picked a fight with, the most doomed leap she’s ever taken. As she announced in her bombshell public statement on May 30, she bought her catalog from Shamrock Capital, after a six-year struggle for control over her own music. “The memories,” she wrote. “The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life’s work.”
It can’t be overstated what a victory this is for her, or the ramifications for other artists. This is the independence that generations of musicians have fantasized about, but never gotten close to seeing. “Long Live” hits different today. “New Romantics” hits different today. “Ours” hits different, so does “Dear John,” “All Too Well,” “I Did Something Bad,” and damn, don’t even start about “A Place in This World.” “It’s Time to Go.” All those songs feel bigger right now. It’s one of those “remember this moment” occasions. The patriarchy is having an extremely fucked day. Taylor won. How did this happen?
“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent,” Taylor wrote in her bombshell public statement. “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. All the times I was this close, reaching for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could 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 that this is really happening. I really get to say these words:
“All of the music I’ve ever made…now belongs…to me.”
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