Taylor To Re-Record Her Catalog?
• While many industry experts are divided on the feasibility of such a plan, Taylor Swift says she intends to re-record her old songs to creatively circumvent Scooter Braun‘s purchase of her former label, Big Machine. That’s word from Deadline, citing an excerpt from an interview on CBS Sunday Morning, which airs this weekend. CBS correspondent Tracy Smith asked Swift about re-recording her songs as a way to regain control of master recordings. “Might you do that?” Smith asks. “Oh yeah,” Swift says. “That’s a plan?” Smith asks. “Yeah, absolutely,” Swift replied.
In case you’ve forgotten, Taylor’s plan was launched earlier this summer when she learned that the original masters to her old recordings had been acquired by Scooter Braun, after his Ithaca Holdings acquired Scott Borchetta‘s Big Machine Label Group in a deal reportedly worth $300 million. Shortly thereafter, in that now-infamous Tumblr post, Swift described the deal — which gives Braun control over her first six albums — as her “worst-case scenario.”
CBS Sunday Morning says the Grammy-winning singer will address that controversy and other topics — “her songwriting process, growing up in the business, addressing her haters in music, her insecurities, her life today” — during an in-depth interview at her home and in the studio. The segment also goes behind the scenes as Swift works on a music video for a new song. CBS Sunday Morning airs Sunday from 9-10:30am ET, on CBS. [Photo: CBS News]
