Last year Taylor Swift revealed that she was going to be re-recording her old music. It was an unprecedented step in Swift’s ongoing battle to regain ownership of her music, after the artist claimed that her master recordings had been sold off without her knowledge. The plan was to create new versions of her first six albums, which Swift would retain ownership of and would replace the old versions of her work.
Now, then, we’ve had the first taste of what these new recordings will be like. Fresh from announcing that the first album she would be re-recording and releasing would be ‘Fearless’ – her smash-hit second record that catapulted Swift to stratospheric levels of success – she’s shared her new version of ‘Love Story’, this time going until the name of ‘Love Story (Taylor’s Version)’.
This new version a charming blast of nostalgia – fusing Swift’s iconic lyrics and melodies with subtly updated production – yet, at the core, Swift has managed to…