The Ladies In Music Are Stepping Up — Taylor Swift Just Took Her Power Back
The ladies in the entertainment industry are not playing! This Friday, mega star Taylor Swift announced some huge news: she now controls her entire music catalogue after she bought back the master recordings of her first six albums!
This right here is a full-circle moment for Taylor. As many of y’all remember, she lost the rights to her own music back in 2019 after her original record label, Big Machine, sold her masters to record exec Scooter Braun — a move that left fans furious and Taylor feeling betrayed.
But sis didn’t sit around and cry about it — she moved. In an effort to get back control, she started re-recording her albums under the label “Taylor’s Version” — which was her way of taking her power back little by little.
And now? She got the whole thing back. The full catalog. Her work. Her art. Her legacy.
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Taylor Drops Emotional Letter: “All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs to me”
Taylor didn’t just announce it and move on. She let her fans in on how much this moment means to her. In a letter posted to her website — and shared via a heartfelt IG photo of her sitting next to her album covers — she got vulnerable:
“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. As a flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news,” she said in the letter posted Friday.
“I almost stopped thinking it could happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now.”
And then came the part that hit everybody in the chest…
“I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,” she continued. “I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.”
Whew. For real, for real… that’s healing. That’s power. That’s freedom.
This Is Bigger Than Taylor — It’s About Owning What’s Yours
Let’s be clear — this ain’t just about Taylor Swift. This is about every artist who’s ever had their work snatched from them. Every young girl who signed a contract she didn’t fully understand. Every creative who felt powerless after someone else profited off their genius.
Taylor buying back her first six albums sends a message loud and clear: own your stuff.
It’s the same energy we saw from Beyoncé, Rihanna, and even indie artists who refuse to give up their publishing. Ownership is the real flex — not the fame, not the charts, but the power to control what you created.
And the fact that she stood her ground for years — rerecording, standing firm in interviews, dodging lawsuits and shade — makes this win even more iconic.
Congrats!
