1989 (Taylor's Version) (Jonahri's Rework)

## Singles

1. "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" (promotional single)
Released: September 17, 2021
2. "This Love (Taylor's Version)" (promotional single)
Released: May 6, 2022
3. "Vault Track (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)"
Released: July 10, 2024
4. "Vault Track (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)"
Released: September 17, 2024
5. "Vault Track (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)"
Released: November 25, 2024

***1989 (Taylor's Version)*** is the fourth re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 28, 2024, via Republic Records. It is a re-recording of Swift's fifth studio album, *1989* (2014), and follows her 2021 and 2023 re-recorded albums *Fearless (Taylor's Version)*, *Red (Taylor's Version)* and *Speak Now (Taylor's Version)*. The re-recording is a part of Swift's counteraction to her 2019 masters dispute.

Containing 25 tracks, the album features re-recorded versions of the original sixteen songs from the original *1989* album, the remix of "Bad Blood" featuring Kendrick Lamar, "Sweeter Than Fiction" from the *One Chance* soundtrack, and seven new "From the Vault" songs that didn't appear on the original album. Besides Kendrick Lamar on "Bad Blood (Remix)", Pop acts TBA and TBA contributed guest vocals on the tracks "Vault Track" and "Vault Track" respectively.

## Background

*1989* represented a departure from the country music of Taylor's previous albums. When she first announced the album on August 18, 2014, she described it as her "first documented, official pop album", stating that she was inspired by late 1980s pop during the recording period.

Taylor described *1989* as the most "sonically cohesive" studio album she ever made. In an interview with *Kiss FM* (UK), she confirmed that the title was inspired by the music developed in her birth year, 1989, which she had re-discovered during the making of this album. In September 2014, Taylor told *Rolling Stone* that Martin, New York City, her journal, Fine Young Cannibals and a sense of experimentation were the key influences underpinning the album. In relation to experimentation, Taylor elaborated on the music of the 1980s:

> *"It [the 1980s] was a very experimental time in pop music...People realized songs didn't have to be this standard drums-guitar-bass-whatever. We can make a song with synths and a drum pad. We can do group vocals the entire song. We can do so many different things. And I think what you saw happening with music was also happening in our culture, where people were just wearing whatever crazy colors they wanted to, because why not? There just seemed to be this energy about endless opportunities, endless possibilities, endless ways you could live your life. And so with this record, I thought, 'There are no rules to this. I don't need to use the same musicians I've used, or the same band, or the same producers, or the same formula. I can make whatever record I want.'"*
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As per her contract with her former label Big Machine Records, Taylor released six studio albums between 2006 and 2017. In November 2018, her contract with the label expired; she hence withdrew from Big Machine and signed a new recording deal with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, which secured her the rights to own the masters of the new music she would release going forward.

In 2019, American businessman Scooter Braun and his company Ithaca Holdings acquired the Big Machine Label Group. As part of the acquisition, ownership of the master recordings to Taylor's first six studio albums, including *1989*, transferred to Braun. Taylor immediately denounced Braun's purchase of the label and announced that she would re-record her first six studio albums, to own the masters to her life's work herself. In November 2020, Braun sold the masters to Shamrock Holdings, an American private equity firm owned by the Disney estate, under the conditions that Braun and Ithaca Holdings would continue to financially profit from the albums. Taylor began re-recording her first six studio albums in November 2020.