Will Taylor Swift Still Release Reputation (Taylor’s Version) Now That She Owns All Her Music?

It’s official: Taylor Swift now owns all of her music. And that’s great. Really, we’re so happy for her. But…will Taylor Swift still release Reputation (Taylor’s Version)?

In a letter to fans shared on May 30, the pop star revealed that she finally owns all of her music—including the six albums that she’d been rerecording in order to stick it to Scooter Braun, who bought and sold her masters back in 2019 without first giving her the opportunity to buy them first.

“All of the music I’ve ever made…now belongs…to me,” Swift wrote in a message to fans shared on her website. That includes, she added: her music videos; concert films; album art and photography; and unreleased songs.

The 35-year-old also addressed the elephant in the room: Will Taylor Swift release Reputation (Taylor’s Version)?

“I know, I know. What about Rep TV?” she wrote, referring to her 2017 album, which included hits like “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Bad Blood,” and “Delicate.” Fans have been eagerly awaiting the album since the re-release of 1989 in October 2023—and not very patiently, I might add.

“Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” she continued. “The Reputation album was specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood, while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for the unreleased Vault tracks from that album to hatch.”

As for her self-titled 2006 album, which has also yet to be re-released, Swift said that she’s “already completely re-recorded my debut album, and I really love how it sounds now.” But fans shouldn’t expect Taylor’s Version anytime soon.

“Those two albums can still have their moment to re-emerge when the time is right if that would be something you guys would be excited about,” she wrote. “But if it happens, it won’t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”

At least now fans can listen to both albums with zero guilt, as Swift—rather than some random music exec—will be the one who profits from those streams. However, it’s understandable that some Swifties are upset, as Taylor’s Versions typically include new songs “From the Vault,” new music videos, and major rollout campaigns.

But let’s not dwell on the negative. A win is a win.

“Artists should own their own work for so many reasons,” Swift wrote on Instagram in 2021. “But the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work.”