{"id":2447823,"date":"2019-08-21T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=874173"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:10:45","slug":"taylor-swift-absolutely-plans-to-re-record-catalog-after-big-machine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-absolutely-plans-to-re-record-catalog-after-big-machine-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Plans to Re-Record Catalog After Big Machine Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Swift<\/a> refused to hide her discomfort following the announcement that Scooter Braun<\/a>\u2019s Ithaca Holdings had acquired Scott Borchetta<\/a>\u2019s Big Machine Label Group, especially since ownership of her masters were a huge part of the deal. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning<\/em>, Swift revealed a plan to circumvent Braun\u2019s ownership of her early recordings by re-recording them.<\/p>\n

According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, the interviewer asked Swift point-blank if she planned on re-recording her masters, something both Swift\u2019s fans and peers (including Kelly Clarkson<\/a>) had recommended she do. She responded, \u201coh yeah.\u201d When asked once more if that was a plan, Swift doubled-down with \u201cabsolutely.\u201d Video from the interview has yet to be released, but the full interview will air this Sunday at 9 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n

Swift was signed to Big Machine Label Group for 13 years until her contract expired in November. She then chose to sign a new deal with Republic Records and Universal Music Group<\/a>. For her new deal, she negotiated ownership for all her future masters while BMLG retained ownership of her first six albums.<\/p>\n

After the deal between Borchetta and Braun had been announced in late June, Swift took to Tumblr to show her disapproval<\/a>. She wrote that her \u201cmusical legacy was about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it,\u201d referring to Braun\u2019s involvement in her ongoing feuds with both Kanye West and Justin Bieber as manager for both artists. She also claimed she had no knowledge of the deal until it was announced online, which Borchetta refuted in his own blog post<\/a>. Swift maintained that she was not previously informed of the deal in her CBS This Morning<\/em> interview.<\/p>\n

In re-recording her masters, Swift would be joining a small \u2014 but vocal \u2014 group of artists like JoJo and Def Leppard who have re-recorded hit songs in attempt to wrest control back from their record labels. Any re-records of Swift\u2019s older songs would be competing directly for listeners (and royalty revenue) with the original recordings owned by Big Machine, unless Swift were to negotiate a deal to pull those original recordings offline.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone<\/em> has reached out to both Swift and Borchetta\u2019s camps for comment.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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