Taylor Swift has successfully acquired the masters to her first six albums, a goal she has pursued since her teenage years. After leaving Big Machine Records in 2018 and facing challenges with Scooter Braun's acquisition of the label, she took matters into her own hands by re-recording her music as "Taylor's Version." In a recent podcast episode, she recounted the emotional journey of striving for ownership of her music, affirming her desire to own it outright without any partnerships, leading to her eventual purchase from Shamrock Holdings.
"Since I was a teenager, I've been actively saving up money to buy my music back to ever own it in the first place, because it's usually the label that owns it."
"I told everybody exactly how that felt for me and what I was going through, and I started basically defiantly re-recording my music because I wanted to own it, and this was the only way I thought it was ever gonna happen."
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