Surprise: Taylor Swift Has Announced A Re-Recorded version of ‘Fearless’ and ‘Love Story’

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Taylor Swift has announced that a full version of her album ‘Fearless’ will be released soon. There’s been a lot of teasing of plans to release rerecorded versions of the six albums she released first, However, much to her fans delight, Taylor is set to release 'Love Story (Taylor’s Version)' on 12 February.

Following an interview with Good Morning America, Taylor announced that the new album will contain 26 songs which will include six songs that were previously unreleased that the artist wrote from the age she turned 16 until she turned 18.

Speaking at Good Morning America, Swift said: “I’ve decided to add songs from the vault, which are songs that almost made the original Fearless album, but I’ve now gone back and recorded those so that everyone will be able to hear not only the songs that made the album but the songs that almost made it – the full picture.”

The reasoning behind the release of the re-recordings of the first six albums is that the master recordings of them were sold by her former record label, Big Machine. Big Machine was the record label in which she started her career, but in 2018 Taylor announced that she had left her label to start her career with Universal Music Group after a deal was made with the new label which would give her ownership of any of her recorded music.

Included within her social media announcement, Taylor said: “I’ve spoken a lot about why I’m remaking my first six albums, but the way I’ve chosen to do this will hopefully help illuminate where I’m coming from.

“Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really *knows* that body of work.

“For example, only I know which songs I wrote that almost made the fearless album. Songs I absolutely adored but were held back for different reasons.”

Taylor explained that some of the reasons that the six unreleased songs were never released was that the label didn’t want to many breakup songs or down tempo songs and that they wouldn’t be able fit that many songs on a physical CD.

Taylor Swift is her own writer and co-writer and she owns the publishing rights to her music which gives her the power to block any attempts to exploit her recordings.

Although Taylor hasn’t released a date for when the album will be released, she did hint that it would be released in April. Included within her written statement on social media, all words were written in lower case apart from the letters that spell out APRIL NINTH.

The original Fearless album was released in 2008 and has had its fair share of success. Taylor won awards for album of the year at the Grammys, the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association as well as claiming her first certified diamond record in the US.

Rerecording Fearless isn’t the only announcement that Taylor has dropped in the past year. Let’s just say she has had a busy one and made the most of being in lockdown. The artist has created and released two albums, Folklore and Evermore as well as releasing a self-directed Concert film, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on Disney+.

April may seem like a long time to wait until you’re able to hear the full recorded version of the album, but the release of Love Story (Taylor’s Version) is more than enough to get Swifties excited for the release.

Taylor said: “This process has been more fulfilling and emotional than I could’ve imagined and has made me even more determined to re-record all of my music.

“I hope you’ll like this first outing as much as I liked traveling back in time to recreate it.”