Ｔ・スウィフト「フィアレス」再録版を発表　原盤権闘争受け制作

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】米人気ポップ歌手のテイラー・スウィフトは11日、2008年に発表し大ヒットを記録した自身2作目のアルバム「フィアレス」の再収録版を4月9日に発売すると発表した。スウィフトは自身の作品の原盤（マスター音源）権を取り戻すために6作目までのアルバムを再録すると宣言しており、これを実行した形だ。（写真は米人気ポップ歌手のテイラー・スウィフト）
　アルバムからはシングルとして、「Ｌｏｖｅ　Ｓｔｏｒｙ （Ｔａｙｌｏｒ’ｓ　Ｖｅｒｓｉｏｎ）」が１２日にリリースされる。再録版アルバムには、ヒット曲「Ｙｏｕ　Ｂｅｌｏｎｇ　Ｗｉｔｈ　Ｍｅ」「Ｆｉｆｔｅｅｎ」などオリジナル版と同じ２０曲に加え、未発表曲６曲も含まれる。
　スウィフトは２０１９年から、大物音楽マネジャーのスクーター・ブラウン氏との間で、楽曲の権利をめぐる争いを繰り広げてきた。ブラウン氏の企業は、スウィフトが以前所属していたレーベルを買収し、アルバム６枚の原盤権を獲得。スウィフトはこれに反発し、同６作の再収録を宣言していた。
　スウィフトは交流サイト（ＳＮＳ）への投稿で、再収録のプロセスは「想像していたよりもずっと充実感があり、感情を揺さぶられるもので、自分の全楽曲の再収録をする決心がさらに強まった」とつづった。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/02/12-12:48）

Taylor Swift, making good on her vow to re-record her first six albums so she can control their rights, on Thursday announced plans to release the new version of her second record Fearless in April.
The 31-year-old also said that extremely successful album's lead single Love Story (Taylor's Version) would come out at midnight.
The way I've chosen to do this will hopefully help illuminate where I'm coming from, Swift said in a statement posted on social media.
This process has been more fulfilling and emotional than I could've imagined and has made me even more determined to re-record all of my music.
In addition to the 20 tracks originally on the 2008 album Fearless -- which includes the hits You Belong With Me and Fifteen -- Swift said she was including six more never before released songs from the vault, a fresh take on the album set for release April 9.
In the summer of 2019 Swift began publicly sparring with industry mogul Scooter Braun over his company's purchase of her previous label, which gave him a majority stake in the master recordings of her first six albums.
The heated feud and her bold promise to re-record those works ignited discussion over who keeps the keys to an artist's work, and the conditions under which young musicians sign contracts.
The owner of lucrative masters -- one-of-a-kind source material used to create vinyls, CDs and digital copies -- is able to dictate how songs are reproduced and sold.
Record companies have almost always kept those rights, justifying the arrangements by the financial risks labels take in supporting performers throughout their contracts.
Swift said she had been actively trying to regain control of her masters, but in November 2020 said she learned the rights to her first six albums were sold to the private equity company Shamrock Holdings, reportedly for more than $300 million.
That same month was the moment she was allowed to contractually begin re-recording her albums -- which she had promised to do in a bid to devalue the original recordings.
The Nashville label Big Machine released Fearless in 2008, a country-pop mainstream breakthrough that saw Swift score four Grammys, including the top Album of the Year award, and sell more than 10 million copies stateside.
Not long before the disagreements between Swift and Braun went public, the popstar had signed a new blockbuster deal with Universal Music Group that gave her ownership of her masters going forward.
Her first album released under those terms was Lover, which she followed with the twin pandemic records folklore and evermore this past summer.