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image captionThe star hinted the new version of her album will come out in April

When Taylor Swift's back catalogue was bought in June 2019 by Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings, the superstar almost immediately announced she would re-record her first five albums in an attempt to regain control of her music.

"I think that artists deserve to own their work," she said. "I feel very passionate about that."