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Post by taytaytay on Aug 21, 2019 14:12:18 GMT -5
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Post by TaylorSwiftFan on Aug 21, 2019 14:16:06 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/taylor-swift-record-her-masters-scooter-braun-deal-1233621 Taylor Swift Confirms Plans to Re-Record Her Masters Following Scooter Braun DealIn an interview with Tracy Smith on 'CBS Sunday Morning,' the singer revealed that she "absolutely" plans to return to the recording studio. Taylor Swift has a plan to get her masters back. In clips from an interview with Tracy Smith on CBS Sunday Morning, the music superstar revealed that she intends to rerecord her songbook to offset the controversial $300 million deal between Scooter Braun and Big Machine Label Group founder Scott Borchetta that put earlier versions of her masters in the hands of Braun. Following the news that Braun's Ithaca Holdings had acquired Big Machine Label Group, and with it the entire catalog Swift released through Borchetta's label, Swift took to Tumblr to share why she was upset with the deal and directly addressed Braun and Borchetta. She referred to the deal as her "worst case scenario" and notes that she learned of the deal "as it was announced to the world," and that the news immediately brought her back to "the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at [Braun's] hands for years." Borchetta responded to Swift's fighting words in his own post, titled "So, it’s time for some truth…," where he wrote that her dad, Scott Swift, is a shareholder in Big Machine and was notified of a call with shareholders taking place June 25, saying that all shareholders were notified of the pending deal with Ithaca. Borchetta also argued that Swift and her attorney Don Passman went over the document in great detail and talked through the deal together. In the in-depth interview, Swift tells Smith that despite contrary reports from Big Machine officials, she learned of the deal "when it was online" and heard nothing from anyone in her team about it. When Smith asked whether Swift would re-record her past songs to regain control of her master recordings, the singer responded, "Oh yeah." "That’s a plan?" Smith asks to which Swift says, "Yeah, absolutely." Swift's interview with Smith is set to air in full on Aug. 25. The interview arrives amid the release of Swift's anticipated new album Lover, set to release Friday. To celebrate the album release, Smith will also give an exclusive behind the scenes look at the creation of Swift’s new music video and for the release of her new single. The interview will broadcast Sunday, Aug. 25 at 9 a.m. ET on CBS.
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Post by TaylorSwiftFan on Aug 21, 2019 14:17:24 GMT -5
This is huge news! I didn’t think she would do it. How long will it take? And does she plan to make it sound all exactly the same?
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Post by SydneyPaige on Aug 21, 2019 14:28:54 GMT -5
I was wondering where everyone was getting this news from! This is so great! It'll probably take a few months to maybe a year or 2 to re-record everything but it's going to be so cool as soon as she does! I will literally buy them all!
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Post by Roman on Aug 21, 2019 14:32:10 GMT -5
I don’t know. But maybe Taylor saved her material in some way, so she only needs to render it new and make some minor improvements. I can’t imagine her recording and producing every sound and song from scratch.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Aug 21, 2019 14:43:06 GMT -5
I don’t know. But maybe Taylor saved her material in some way, so she only needs to render it new and make some minor improvements. I can’t imagine her recording and producing every sound and song from scratch. She'd have to. BMR still has control of her masters (AKA the original audio recordings) if she were to just republish the originals with some audio changes it she would have to pay the 300 million dollars for it. Taylor still has rights to the composition and the lyrics but not the audio itself. That's why she would have to start from scratch. Jojo did the same thing with her first 3 albums.
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Post by Roman on Aug 21, 2019 15:00:19 GMT -5
I don’t know. But maybe Taylor saved her material in some way, so she only needs to render it new and make some minor improvements. I can’t imagine her recording and producing every sound and song from scratch. She'd have to. BMR still has control of her masters (AKA the original audio recordings) if she were to just republish the originals with some audio changes it she would have to pay the 300 million dollars for it. Taylor still has rights to the composition and the lyrics but not the audio itself. That's why she would have to start from scratch. Jojo did the same thing with her first 3 albums. Maybe she can use the recordings from producers and put the songs back together.
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Post by taytaytay on Aug 21, 2019 15:07:43 GMT -5
I don't think she's going to re-record everything, just her biggest hits. It would be a lot to do everything and she's never going to be able to recreate some of the songs in the way they were in the original-Last Kiss re-recorded will never be as raw as the original. I think it'll just be the songs everyone knows as well as some fan favourites.
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Post by MyCastleCrumbledOvernight on Aug 21, 2019 15:12:11 GMT -5
Wow. I’m not sure how I feel about it... it’ll be interesting, but I don’t think I’ll buy anything. Her earlier stuff like say Picture To Burn would be so weird now, it would be weird in the way her voice has developed now an accent would be so fake.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Aug 21, 2019 15:12:30 GMT -5
She'd have to. BMR still has control of her masters (AKA the original audio recordings) if she were to just republish the originals with some audio changes it she would have to pay the 300 million dollars for it. Taylor still has rights to the composition and the lyrics but not the audio itself. That's why she would have to start from scratch. Jojo did the same thing with her first 3 albums. Maybe she can use the recordings from producers and put the songs back together. Maybe but I'm pretty sure that not even the producers have the rights to the audio either, just the composition.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Aug 21, 2019 15:19:30 GMT -5
I don't think she's going to re-record everything, just her biggest hits. It would be a lot to do everything and she's never going to be able to recreate some of the songs in the way they were in the original-Last Kiss re-recorded will never be as raw as the original. I think it'll just be the songs everyone knows as well as some fan favourites. I've seen people saying that but I have to respectfully disagree. I mean, of course it won't be as raw as the original but I think now that the news is out there, if she didn't re-do everything it would cause an uproar. More than that, I think that her original album sales must have decreased significantly due to this whole fight with BMR. People still want a way to listen to her originals without supporting scrappy doo and this is a way for her to do that so people can support her and people will gladly re-purchase her first 6 albums if it means that they are helping her instead of soap brush and sponge mop. Also even though it won't be as raw as the original recording, re-visiting the old songs will still probably create some form of emotion, if anything they might bring a new emotion to the table. So idk, I think she is going to re-do her whole discography, we'll have to wait and see.
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Post by MyCastleCrumbledOvernight on Aug 21, 2019 19:44:39 GMT -5
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Post by FearlessStarlight on Aug 21, 2019 20:26:16 GMT -5
THIS.IS.EVERYTHING!!!!
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Post by FearlessStarlight on Aug 21, 2019 20:26:51 GMT -5
Also I hope they'll be released on actual cds and such too!
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Post by SydneyPaige on Aug 21, 2019 20:30:39 GMT -5
I saw this article earlier but to be honest, they don't have much of a leg to stand on. Taylor is more savvy with a lawyer than most other pop stars, I'm sure she triple checked her contracts to make sure she could. She wouldn't have said that she was re-recording her old music in an interview if she wasn't able to. Also the one smart thing she DID do was make sure that she had the PUBLISHING rights. The only thing BMR still has the rights to is the actual audio of the original recordings. If Taylor was to take those same recordings and re-publish them THEN she would be in hot water but there's nothing stopping her from taking the lyrics and compositions and re-recording them however she likes and there's diddly BMR can do about it. Also if anyone has the money to go to court it's Taylor.
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