Why Taylor Swift ‘Fearless’ re-recording was worth it for her — but is it for us?

nypost.com:

Taylor Swift feels about the songs that she wrote and recorded for Big Machine Label Group over six studio albums — from her 2006 self-titled debut to 2017’s “Reputation.” But after Swift failed to negotiate a deal to buy her masters (the original recordings) from high-profile music manager Scooter Braun, who purchased Big Machine and its assets in 2019, she decided to embark on a journey to reclaim her music.“Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,” Swift wrote in a 2019 Tumblr post. “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.” (The masters are no longer in Braun’s hands, either, after he reportedly sold them to an investment fund for.