How Streaming Services Are Telling a Different 'Love Story' With Taylor Swift's Re-Recorded Version Jem Aswad, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Taylor Swift’s campaign to re-record her first six albums — the rights to which she feels were unfairly sold to a group of investors led by Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun in 2019 — bore its first fruit on Thursday night as she dropped a new version of “Love Story,” the song that was in many ways her introduction to the world. Swift’s motivation in re-recording her first six albums is about ownership of her creative work, a crusade that she has said she hopes will inspire other artists to rail against a music industry that in many ways has been anything but artist-friendly. Re-recordings are hardly a new phenomenon: many artists, from multiplatinum pop-metal quintet Def Leppard to ‘80s alt-rockers the Chameleons, have re-recorded songs from their catalogs in order to create a new master recording that they (or another entity) own and receive income from, rather than the company that originally released those recordings. But Swift’s situation is intended also to shine a brighter light on music industry contracts in general, which traditionally place the artist at a substantial disadvantage regarding ownership of their work.