LONDON — American music star Taylor Swift released a
re-recording of her 2008 hit album "Fearless" on Friday, as the
Grammy Award winner seeks to take back control of her early catalogue.
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"Fearless (Taylor's Version)" features 26 tracks,
including six previously unreleased songs from the vault. It has all of the
original album's 13 songs and six more from the record's platinum version.
It also features single "Today Was a Fairytale"
and a remix bonus track of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" by Swedish
producer Elvira.
"It was the night things changed," Swift wrote to
her 153 million Instagram followers announcing the album's release.
The 31-year-old, who has won 11 Grammy Awards, said in
February she would release a re-recording of "Fearless" following a
long-running dispute with her former record company Big Machine and music
executive Scooter Braun over the rights to some of her biggest hits.
Braun bought Big Machine in 2019 after Swift left the label
in 2018 for a new deal with Universal Music Group. Last year, he sold Swift’s
master recordings to a private equity company in a deal reported to be worth
more than $300 million.
Swift released "Fearless" as an 18-year-old and
the album, her second, catapulted her to global stardom as well as winning her
the coveted album of the year award at the Grammys.
Critics said her fans would be pleased with the
re-recording, with the singer staying loyal to the original version 13 years
on.
"It would take a deeply devoted Swiftologist — of which
there are millions, each eagerly armed with a fine-toothed comb — to suss out
the minute differences, so thoroughly has the singer re-created her original
arrangements," the Los Angeles Times said.
Music website NME said the re-recording "celebrates and
stays true to Swift’s ‘Fearless’-era".
"Production here is crisper and warmer than that of the
original, and Swift’s vocals are, understandably, more mature," it wrote.
"Listening back to the whole album has a similar effect
to reading back an old diary – especially as these songs are steeped in
nostalgia given the prominence on first release."
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