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In typical Taylor Swift fashion, the global country-turned-pop-star made a surprise announcement on Thursday that she is releasing new versions of her old music very soon.
A clip of the 31-year-old singer appeared on "Good Morning America" on Thursday which showed the "Evermore" singer announce she's officially finished re-recording her "Fearless" album from November 2008.
Swift also excitedly announced a new version of "Love Story" will be released tonight at midnight.
"Good morning America, it's Taylor. 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,'" she said.
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A new version of Taylor Swift's 'Love Story' will be released on Friday at midnight with a newly-recorded 'Fearless' album on the way. (AP)
"I've now finished re-recording all of 'Fearless' which will be coming out soon. My version of 'Fearless' will have 26 songs on it because I've decided to add songs from the vault which are songs that almost made the 'Fearless' album but I've now gone back and recorded those so that everyone will be able to hear not only the songs that made the album but the songs that almost made it. The full picture!"
The Grammy-winning artist confirmed back in November that she can re-record her first five albums -- "Taylor Swift," "Fearless," "Speak Now," "Red" and "1989" -- and take ownership of her original songs as her contract with Big Machine Records is finally over.
She left the label in 2018, but in July 2019 it was announced that producer/manager Scooter Braun bought the rights to Swift's records she made with Big Machine when he acquired the company for $300 million.
Swift signed with Big Machine in 2005 when she was 15 years old. The terms of her deal gave the label the rights to her recordings – a common practice in the music industry. But Swift claims she has tried to buy them back in the years since.
Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta claimed there were terms negotiated for her to purchase her masters that she declined. Sources with knowledge of the deal also told Variety there were at least two offers to sell Swift her masters and that she declined both.
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She spoke out against the business move in an open letter, denied the opportunity to buy back her masters, and claimed Braun partook in "incessant, manipulative bullying" over the course of years. Swift promised fans one day soon she would be able to re-record her albums despite not owning the original masters.
Taylor Swift announced she was given the green light to re-record her albums last November. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
In November, fans rejoiced as the hashtag #TaylorIsFree was trending. In an interview with Robin Roberts back in August 2019, Swift confirmed that she would re-record starting in November 2020.
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"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," Swift said. "I’m very excited about it. I just think that artists deserve to own their own work. I just feel very passionately about that."
In 2018, Swift signed with Universal Music Group and Republic (as her U.S. partner). "I'm ecstatic to announce that my musical home will be Republic Records and Universal Music Group," Swift wrote on social media at the time.
"Over the years, Sir Lucian Grainge and Monte Lipman have been such incredible partners. It's so thrilling to me that they, and the UMG team, will be my label family moving forward. It's also incredibly exciting to know that I'll own all of my master recordings that I make from now on."
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According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Swift has sold more than 45 million certified albums to date in the United States.
Fox News' Jessica Napoli contributed to this report.
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