Taylor Swift announces her rerecord of her album Fearless is coming soon

Taylor Swift fans have known for a while that the artist would be re-recording much of her older music, due to her original masters being owned by Scooter Braun after his purchase of Big Machine Records.

While the situation is incredibly unfortunate, fans are looking forward to hearing her new takes on her early songs, especially those from her first few albums which were originally released over a decade ago.

This morning, Swift announced on Good Morning America that she would be releasing the rerecorded Fearless soon.

Tonight at midnight, Swift will drop her new version of “Love Story,” just in time for Valentine’s Day weekend. Fans got a preview of what it will sound like a few months ago when she allowed her friend Ryan Reynolds to use a snippet in a commercial he wrote for dating site Match.

In her tweet announcing the news, Swift shared that, “Fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, the bliss and devastation of youth.”  It’s an album that some fans likely associate not just with Swift’s teen years, but also with their own.

Rather than sharing the date of the album’s release, Swift included it as a secret message in her social media posts. In the same way that she hid messages in the lyric booklets for her early albums, the capitalization in her message spells out the words “APRIL NINTH”.

Swift shared that not only will Fearless (Taylor’s Version) contain all of the original songs from Fearless and its deluxe version, this new album will also contain six songs that have never been released.

These songs were “written when [Swift] was between the ages of 16 and 18” and “were the ones it killed [her] to leave behind” when making the album. In her post, she stresses that allowing those songs back onto the album will make it exactly the Fearless album she had planned, just another reason why it’s important for artists to control their own music.

Swift also debuted the cover of the upcoming album. Fans were quick to point out that it seems to be a more mature recreation of her original Fearless album cover, particularly matching the colors used in the original.

Swift has certainly proven herself to be one of the hardest working artists during quarantine, having released two new albums and now beginning to rerecord her old ones. At the pace she’s going, it seems likely we’ll see another one of her rerecorded albums by the end of 2021 as well.

Which song on Fearless (Taylor’s Version) are you most excited to hear? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.