{"id":2447852,"date":"2019-08-22T07:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=874982"},"modified":"2019-08-22T07:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:09:31","slug":"taylor-swift-performs-lover-tracks-talks-re-recording-albums-on-gma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-performs-lover-tracks-talks-re-recording-albums-on-gma\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Performs \u2018Lover\u2019 Tracks, Talks Re-Recording Albums on \u2018GMA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GettyImages-1169556719-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a> performed two songs from her upcoming album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/taylor-swift-lover-is-a-guaranteed-success-873520\/\"><em>Lover<\/em><\/a> and a throwback track on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/good-morning-america\/\"><em>Good Morning America<\/em><\/a> Thursday morning, to a crowd of eager fans who had camped out the night before to see her. (She even <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/entertainment\/taylor-swift-sends-pizza-to-fans-camping-out-for-gma-concert\/5484649\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ordered pizzas<\/a> for them.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.8181818181818\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobinRoberts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@RobinRoberts<\/a> takes a look back at the first time we met <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@TaylorSwift13<\/a> \ud83d\udc97<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TaylorSwiftOnGMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#TaylorSwiftOnGMA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lover?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#Lover<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W1vUNMab63\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/W1vUNMab63<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jq6dOVTMNg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jq6dOVTMNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1164514141937139712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The performance included a rousing rendition of \u201cYou Need to Calm Down,\u201d sung back eagerly to Swift by her stans, as well as her lead single \u201cME!,\u201d sans Brendon Urie. She then surprised fans with a performance of \u201cShake It Off,\u201d the lead single from her fifth album <em>1989<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6376811594203\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udc0d\u2019S AND STONES NEVER BROKE MY BONES! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TaylorSwiftOnGMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#TaylorSwiftOnGMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Cto2yXDBk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5Cto2yXDBk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylornation13\/status\/1164518968192843777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.6944444444444\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcf9| Taylor performing \u201cME!\u201d On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@GMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TaylorSwiftOnGMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#TaylorSwiftOnGMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FJJvQUOb2x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FJJvQUOb2x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Swift Updates (@TSwiftLAMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSwiftLAMedia\/status\/1164520299129217024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9568345323741\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">EVERYONE SCREAMED &#8220;HEY KIDS SPELLING IS FUN!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TaylorSwiftOnGMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#TaylorSwiftOnGMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylornation13?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@taylornation13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udcdb\ud835\udcf8\ud835\udcff\ud835\udcee, Katerina (@ikywlover) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ikywlover\/status\/1164520088533393408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Swift\u2019s album&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-lover-album-what-we-know-869006\/\"><em>Lover<\/em><\/a> arrives this Friday, featuring 18 tracks including one with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dixie-chicks\/\">Dixie Chicks<\/a>, who have not released new material as a group in 13 years. She previously released the singles \u201cME!\u201d with Urie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-removes-me-lyric-874631\/\">now without the spelling line<\/a>) and \u201cYou Need to Calm Down,\u201d along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-the-archer-862685\/\">\u201cThe Archer\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-lover-new-song-new-album-listen-871277\/\">the title track<\/a>. She\u2019ll be opening the MTV Video Music Awards this Monday, which also happens to be the 10th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/kanye-west-storms-the-vmas-stage-during-taylor-swifts-speech-83468\/\">that infamous Kanye interruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week Swift announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-absolutely-plans-to-re-record-catalog-after-big-machine-deal-874173\/\">she will be re-recording the masters<\/a> of her earlier work, in order to circumvent a deal by her former label Big Machine and Scooter Braun\u2019s Ithaca Holdings, which now own the rights to her earlier recordings. Before her <em>GMA&nbsp;<\/em>performance, Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/culture\/story\/taylor-swift-record-music-year-important-artists-work-65115745\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to Robin Roberts<\/a> about her decision and stated that starting next year, in line with her contract, she would be able to record the albums all over again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.123989218329\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\u201cYeah that\u2019s true and it\u2019s something I\u2019m very excited about. My contract says starting from November 2020 I can start re-recording albums 1-5. I think artists deserve to own their own work. It\u2019s next year, I\u2019m gonna be busy.\u201d \u2014 Taylor on re-recording her music <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TaylorSwiftOnGMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#TaylorSwiftOnGMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W9e1kRN8Hb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/W9e1kRN8Hb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSwiftNZ\/status\/1164519603101298689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSomething that\u2019s very special to me about this album is it\u2019s the first one that I will own,\u201d Swift said on <em>Lover<\/em>. \u201cI think it\u2019s important for artists to own their work. I\u2019m gonna be busy, I\u2019m very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-lover-good-morning-america-874982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift performed two songs from her upcoming album Lover and a throwback track on Good Morning America Thursday morning, to a crowd of eager fans who had camped out the night before to see her. (She even ordered pizzas for them.) .@RobinRoberts takes a look back at the first time we met @TaylorSwift13 \ud83d\udc97#TaylorSwiftOnGMA#Loverhttps:\/\/t.co\/W1vUNMab63 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 14:45:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}