Taylor Swift has debuted her rerecorded version of “Love Story.”
Thirteen years after its original release, the pop star unveiled a brand-new version of her 2008 smash hit single last night (February 11) to signal the arrival of her rerecorded Fearless album. Titled “Love Story (Taylor’s Version),” the track is the first we’re hearing of Swift’s remastered material, which also includes 26 new recordings set to appear on her reissued album, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), due out on April 9.
After her masters were acquired by Shamrock Holdings last year, Swift returned to the studio to rerecord her first six LPs, with Fearless being the first to release and “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” serving as its lead single.
As an additional surprise for Swifties, Swift's reissued edition of Fearless will also include six never-before-heard tracks that didn’t make the cut on the album’s original 2008 release.
“When I think back on the Fearless album and all that [the audience] turned it into, a completely involuntary smile creeps across my face,” the 31-year-old recalled in a statement of her new LP. “This was the musical era in which so many inside jokes were created between us, so many hugs exchanged and hands touched, so many unbreakable bonds formed [...] Fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, and the bliss and devastation of youth. It was the diary of the adventures and explorations of a teenage girl who was learning tiny lessons with every new crack in the facade of the fairytale ending she'd been shown in the movies.”
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