--- title: Taylor Swift Will Re-Record All Her Old Songs description: Taylor Swift has announced she will rerecord her old songs in an effort to regain control of her back catalog canonical: https://time.com/5658695/taylor-swift-rerecording-old-songs/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-22T15:49:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T07:13:28.271Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Taylor Swift Says She Will Re-Record Old Songs Following Ownership Dispute og:description: Taylor Swift has announced she will rerecord her old songs in an effort to regain control of her back catalog og:url: https://time.com/5658695/taylor-swift-rerecording-old-songs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65c549c0be6a5fa2/698a01bedb2987da92264080/taylor-swift-rerecord-old-songs.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2019 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Says She Will Re-Record Old Songs Following Ownership Dispute twitter:description: Taylor Swift has announced she will rerecord her old songs in an effort to regain control of her back catalog twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65c549c0be6a5fa2/698a01bedb2987da92264080/taylor-swift-rerecord-old-songs.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Says She Will Re-Record Old Songs Following Ownership Dispute by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 22, 2019 3:49 PM CUT  Taylor Swift attends the 2019 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 01, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Taylor Swift attends the 2019 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 01, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 22, 2019 3:49 PM CUT Taylor Swift has announced she will re-record her old songs in an effort to regain control of her back catalog. “That’s true and it’s something that I’m very excited about doing,” Swift said Thursday when asked about her plans to rerecord some of her music on ABC’s _Good Morning America_. “My contract says that starting November 2020—so next year—I can record albums one through five all over again.” > [](https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1164517518859354112) Swift appeared on _GMA_ ahead of the release on Friday of her new album, _Lover_. “One thing that’s really special to me about this album is that it is the first one that I will own, of my work,” she said to raucous cheers. Swift’s struggle over [owning her music](https://time.com/5618336/taylor-swift-scooter-braun-masters/ "undefined") turned into a public feud with the music manager Scooter Braun in late June, when the singer’s back catalog was included in the sale of the record Label, Big Machine Label Group, to Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings for $300 million. The catalog has Swift’s masters, which are the recordings of a song from which later copies are made, from her first six albums. In a [Tumblr post](https://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/185958366550/for-years-i-asked-pleaded-for-a-chance-to-own-my "undefined") following the sale, Swift, who left Big Machine for Universal Music Group’s Republic Records, wrote that she had “pleaded for a chance to own my own work” for years. Big Machine, she said, offered her the chance to “‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in.” Scott Borchetta, the original owner of Big Machine, has said he previously offered Swift a deal that would include her owning her music. Now, it appears Swift will gain back control of the catalog by heading back to the recording studio, though it is unclear what the process of rerecording old music looks like. “I’m very excited about it because I think that artists deserve to own their work,” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5658695/taylor-swift-rerecording-old-songs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5658695/taylor-swift-rerecording-old-songs/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Says She Will Re-Record Old Songs Following Ownership Dispute","datePublished":"2019-08-22T15:49:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T07:13:28.271Z","description":"Taylor Swift has announced she will rerecord her old songs in an effort to regain control of her back catalog","url":"https://time.com/5658695/taylor-swift-rerecording-old-songs/","keywords":["Music","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65c549c0be6a5fa2/698a01bedb2987da92264080/taylor-swift-rerecord-old-songs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65c549c0be6a5fa2/698a01bedb2987da92264080/taylor-swift-rerecord-old-songs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2019 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals","caption":"2019 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/music/","name":"Music"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5658695/taylor-swift-rerecording-old-songs/","name":"Taylor Swift Says She Will Re-Record Old Songs Following Ownership Dispute"}}]}] ```