Swift rerecords breakout album

NEW YORK: Taylor Swift has announced she will release a rerecording of her 2008 breakout album Fearless, the first step in a plan to wrest back control of all her early music.

Fearless (Taylor’s Version), is expected to be released in April while the first track,

Love Story, is available now.

‘‘I’m so excited to share with you that tonight, at midnight, I’ll be putting out my version of my song Love Story, which was originally on my album Fearless,’’ Swift announced yesterday. The rerecorded album would include teenage hits such as You Belong to Me and Fifteen, as well as six previously unreleased tracks that did not make it on to the 2008 album, Swift, now 31, said.

The rerecordings will give the 10time Grammy winner control over licensing her music for commercials, movies, and other ventures, and potentially diminish the value of her original master tapes.

Swift lost control of the masters of her first six albums when she left the Big Machine record label in 2019.