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'Taylor Is Free': Taylor Swift Can Officially Re-Record Her First Five Albums & Fans Are
Celebrating

11/2/2020 by Glenn Rowley

It's the month Swifties have been waiting for. With the arrival of November 2020, Taylor Swift is
now free to re-record her back catalog of albums, and her fans took to social media to celebrate
the moment with the hashtag #TaylorIsFree.

"NOVEMBER IS HERE! This is the month I’ve been most looking forward to since like
July/August last year and I’m so excited!!! Taylor can re-record #TaylorIsFree TAYLOR IS
FREE," one fan wrote, showing off the day marked on her Reputation-inspired calendar.

"The whole year felt like a whirlwind and now finally TAYLOR IS FREE. We all will be deleting
all of her old music from our playlists and apps and will only be streaming Taylor's art owned by
Taylor. That's it," another tweeted, while a third referenced the lyrics of 1989 single "New
Romantics" with a tweet that simply read, "THE BEST PEOPLE IN LIFE ARE FREE
#TaylorIsFree."

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Swift herself first revealed the new recording deadline for her first five LPS -- 2006's Taylor Swift
through 2014's 1989 -- back in August 2019 following her highly public feud with Scooter Braun
and Scott Borchetta over control of her masters. (In July 2019, Braun bought Swift's former
label, Big Machine Records, in a landmark $300 million deal through his company Ithaca
Holdings, effectively giving him ownership of the star's entire pre-Lover catalog of work. At the
time, Swift called the move her "worst case scenario.")

"Yeah, that’s true and it’s something that I’m very excited about doing because my contract says
that starting November 2020, so next year, I can record albums one through five all over again,"
she told Good Morning America's Robin Roberts at the time. "I’m very excited about it. I just
think that artists deserve to own their own work. I just feel very passionately about that."

Meanwhile, Swift's latest album -- 2020's Folklore -- has spent a record eight nonconsecutive
weeks atop the Billboard 200 this year, becoming the only album to sell more than one million
copies in 2020. (For those keeping score at home, the last major release to achieve the
million-unit mark also happens to be her 2019 LP, Lover.)
Check out some of the best #TaylorIsFree fan reactions below.

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