Is Taylor Swift ready to announce a new album?
Last Friday 30 May, with a long letter published on his official website, Taylor Swift announced that he has purchased the Masters of his first records, after six years of war. In communication, the most attentive fans have noticed a clue that according to some would suggest that the pop star could be about to present a new album soon.
The voice of “Blank Space”, who in 2019 saw his music be purchased for 300 million dollars from the Ithaca Holdings LLC led by the manager Scooter Braun, communicated Friday that he had “regained his masters”, together with videos, concert films, album covers, photographs and unpublished songs, directly from Shamrock. “By now I had stopped believing that it could really happen,” Swift wrote in the letter to the fans: “But all this is now part of the past. All the music I have ever made … now it belongs … to me”.
The attention of the Swifties immediately focused on another passage of the letter, noting the phrase: “All the Times I was Thiiiiiiiiiiiis Close, Reaching Out for it, Only for it to Fall Through”, “Whenever I went there VIIIIIIIIIICINO, I was about to grab it, but then everything was faded”. The fans pointed out the curious use of 12 “I”, interpreting it as a possible reference to a twelfth album coming, successor of the siner’s eleventh album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, published last year.
Others, moreover, have pointed out that the header of the letter “no longer has the graphic style” of “The tortured poets department”, but rather recalls an aesthetic art of style “The Great Gatsby”.
To resume control of his music and devalue Braun’s investment, Taylor Swift started to reincide the albums published for the big machine, publishing them as “Taylor’s Version” and including songs recovered from the archives and written at the time but never published. Between 2021 and 2023, the pop star then presented its versions of “Fearless” (2008), “Red” (2012), “Speak Now” (2010) and “1989” (2014), obtaining billions of streams and beating records on Spotify. Recently, Swift has also anticipated the “Taylor’s Version” of “Reputation”, the re-edition of the 2017 album which represents the fifth chapter of the re-incisions and re-publishing saga, with a new version of the “Look What Made Me Do” Hit included in an episode of the series “The Handmaid’s Tale”. “Reputation” and his eponymous debut album of 2006 are the only two records not yet re-regricted, and for six years the fans have been mirrored on when they could go out. However, as the NME points out, now that Taylor Swift has reached the original masters, there is no longer a real reason to release the “Taylor’s Version” of those albums.
