#Listen to Taylor Swift’s New Recording of “Love Story”

Taylor Swift has shared her new recording of “Love Story,” the first of her efforts to re-record her first six albums following the controversial 2019 sale of her early master recordings. Listen to the song, which first appeared on Swift’s 2008 album Fearless, below.

Swift announced the fully updated Fearless on Thursday, though she had previewed the re-recorded “Love Story” in early December. Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which is out April 9 and is up for pre-order in several editions, includes new recordings of six tracks Swift wrote for the album as a teenager that were never released. In a statement, Swift called Fearless (Taylor’s Version) “the whole story, the entire vivid picture… the entire dreamscape that is my fearless album.”

After Scooter Braun bought and later re-sold the master recordings of Swift’s first six albums, Swift said she would re-record them as a way to regain control of her work. Swift released her newest record evermore on a day’s notice in December, less than six months after releasing folklore in the same fashion.

Read Pitchfork’s explainer “Taylor Swift’s Music Ownership Controversy With Scooter Braun: What It Means and Why It Matters.”