Taylor Swift sent a power package team to negotiate the purchase of their master recordings: her mother and brother.
During her Wednesday on the “New heights“Podcast, Swift, recalled how she recaptured the master shots of her first six albums from Shamrock Capitol. She explained that the purchase was a long time and added:” Since I was a teenager, I have been actively saving money to buy my music back. ”
In the 2020s, the albums on which she lost the right were re -recorded and thought that it was “the closest, I would have my music”. After the success of her “Eras Tour” and her team, she and her team decided the perfect time to fully own their masters.
Swift said the reasons why she wanted to buy her music back are deeply personal.
“For me this is not” Oh, I want to own this asset because of its returns because I will receive dividends over the years, “said Swift.” I want it because this [are] My handwritten diary entries from my whole life. These are the songs that I wrote about every phase of my life. This is my photography, my music videos, from which I financed most. My work of art, everything I've ever done is in this catalog. “
Instead of sending “lawyers or management” to the negotiations, Swift sent her “mother and her brother”, who was her business partners throughout her career. Swift said the advantage of sending your family [the masters]In all the times it failed, all the times when we get plans together and found that something we thought it would work, and it wasn't at the last minute. ”
After a few months of waiting, Swift's mother provided good news.
“My mother calls me afterwards and she likes: 'Look, you know, they were wonderful, they heard us, we have no idea how they will happen,” recalled Swift. “And so I thought, I understand, I understand. I haven't hoped for my hopes for a decade. It took a few months after the Super Bowl, we are in Kansas City and I get a call from my mother, and she says: 'You have your music.'”
Swift albums and associated graphics were bought for an unknown nine-digit sum in May. At that time, she announced that the projects would all be published.