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Taylor Swift\u00a0sent a powerhouse crew to negotiate the purchase of her master recordings: Her mom and brother.<\/p>\n
During her Wednesday appearance on the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast, Swift recalled how she reclaimed the master recordings of her first six albums from Shamrock Capitol. She explained the purchase was a long time coming, adding, \u201cSince I was a teenager, I\u2019ve been actively saving up money to buy my music back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout the 2020s, Swift re-recorded the albums she lost the rights to, and thought it was the \u201cclosest I would get to owning my music.\u201d However, after the success of her \u201cEras Tour,\u201d she and her team decided it was the perfect time to get back full ownership of her masters.<\/p>\n
Swift said the reasons she wanted to buy back her music were deeply personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, this is not, \u2018Oh, I want to own this asset because of its returns, because of the dividends that I will receive over the years,\u2019\u201d Swift said. \u201cI want it because these [are] my handwritten diary entries from my whole life. These are the songs I wrote about every phase of my life. This is my photography, my music videos, most of which I funded. My artwork, everything that I\u2019ve ever done, is in this catalog.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rather than send \u201clawyers or management\u201d to the negotiations, Swift sent her \u201cmom and brother,\u201d who\u2019ve been her business partners throughout her career. Swift said the advantage of sending her family was that they were able to convey \u201call the times we\u2019ve tried to buy [the masters], all the times it\u2019s fallen through, all the times we had gotten plans together and figured out something we thought was gonna work and it didn\u2019t at the last minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a couple of months of waiting, Swift\u2019s mom delivered the good news.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom calls me afterwards and she like, \u2018Look, you know, they were wonderful, they heard us out, we have no idea which way they\u2019re gonna go with this,\u2019\u201d Swift recalled. \u201cAnd so I was like, I get it, I get it. I haven\u2019t gotten my hopes up about this in a decade. It was a couple of months after the Super Bowl, we\u2019re in Kansas City and I get a call from my mom, and she\u2019s like, \u2018You got your music.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Swift albums and associated visuals were\u00a0purchased in May for an undisclosed nine-figure sum.\u00a0At the time, she announced the projects would all be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taylor Swift\u00a0sent a powerhouse crew to negotiate the purchase of her master recordings: Her mom and brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":89805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"yoast_head":"\n