Yahoo News The signs Taylor Swift is ready to release Reputation (Taylor's Version)
Scooter Braun has retired from music management
As Scooter Braun retires from the music industry, here are the signs Taylor Swift is set to drop Reputation (Taylor's Version). Are you Ready for It?
Swift and Scooter Braun have been feuding since his controversial acquisition to the rights of her first six albums through Big Machine Record Group. Fearlessly, the singer-songwriter began re-releasing her albums (Taylor's Version) in a bid to reclaim her own work.
So far, Swift has re-released Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April 2021 which she followed with Red (Taylor's Version) in November 2021. Then she re-released Speak Now (Taylor's Version) in July 2023 and 1989 (Taylor's Version) in October 2023.
Ever since the Grammys this year, fans have been eagerly waiting for Reputation (Taylor's Version). At the Grammys though, Swift announced the release of The Tortured Poets Department. "This is my 13th Grammy, which is my lucky number," she told the audience. "I don't know if I've ever told you that."
When Reputation (Taylor's Version) didn't come then, fans had huge hopes Swift would make the announcement in Liverpool, which she didn't. Now they think it could be coming in London after Travis Kelce had teased her upcoming appearance in the UK capital as "exciting".
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Scooter Braun retires
With Braun's resignation from music management, could the time be any better?
Braun said in a statement: "After 23 years this chapter as a music manager has come to an end. It’s a strange feeling because I think I have wanted this for a while, but I was truly afraid to answer the question “who would I be without them?” I was really just 19 years old when I started. So for my entire adult life I played the role of an artist manager on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
This is likely to be music to Swift's ears as she prepares to take to the stage to perform The Eras tour in Cardiff on Tuesday and then a series of shows in London. In wake of the retirement news, fans were sure the time for Reputation (Taylor's Version) was coming. Among the fans, one person wrote: "Time for Reputation (Taylor’s Version) PLEASE."
Another wrote: "Oh he made the first move before rep TV release."
Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor's Version)
We think Swift has already re-recorded Reputation. Her re-recorded song Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor's Version) was released last year as the opening title sequence of thriller Wilderness.
Wilderness' creator Marnie Dickens lifted the lid on how they secured Swift's track for the series, which stars Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. It took an incredibly special love letter to the star.
He told Radio Times: "Prime Video, who've been so supportive of the whole endeavour, said, 'Look, we will back you guys to get a major female artists to do the title track, think about who you'd like that to be'. And I was like, 'Well, Taylor Swift obviously, let's dream big'.
"Then we had our amazing music supervisors, Pete [Saville] and Zoë [Ellen Bryant], who did the kind of official pursuit, and then I wrote, essentially, a love letter explaining why it had to be her. Because it's just so rich, that song, and it's so perfect for us - the fun of it, but also the emotion behind it."
Swift on revisiting Reputation
Named TIME person of the year 2023, Swift gave a big tell-all interview and conversation of course turned to revisiting Reputation. The singer promised the re-recorded album will be "fire", again teasing fans it was coming.
Her rerecording projects are incredibly important to her. She told TIME: "I’m collecting horcruxes... I’m collecting infinity stones. Gandalf’s voice is in my head every time I put out a new one. For me, it is a movie now."
Of Reputation, she said: "It’s a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure. I think a lot of people see it and they’re just like, Sick snakes and strobe lights."
