New York (AFP)

The American singer Taylor Swift could quickly return to the studio, not to rework his new album "Lover", in the bins Friday, but to win the battle over the rights surrounding his music.

This news comes to revive the quarrel between the pop princess and music mogul Scooter Braun. Having acquired the label Big Machine Label Group for $ 300 million last June, according to the press, he obtained the majority of Taylor Swift's tube recordings.

The owner of the "masters", original recordings used to make vinyls, CDs and other digital copies, decides how the songs are reproduced or sold. These coveted recordings are one of the main sources of income for artists who own the rights.

The news of the deal, released in June, deeply affected Taylor Swift, the 29-year-old singer who said he had "robbed her of life's work".

So she decided to move up a gear. Asked by the channel CBS about the possibility of re-recording her first six albums, in order to create new versions of her tracks which she would have the right, the singer from the world of the country has acquiesced.

"Would you do that," asks the CBS reporter. "Oh yes," she answers in an excerpt broadcast before the interview scheduled Sunday morning.

This strategy could however be compromised by restrictions contained in its first contracts. The young Tennessee girl, then a teenager, signed in 2005 with Big Machine Label Group. A contract that stretched until last year, when the superstar signed with Republic Records and Universal.

Taylor Swift wrote or co-wrote most of her music catalog, which would allow her to re-record her songs without owning the recordings.

His contracts are not public but artists can usually re-record their hits between three and five years after their release. Taylor Swift's debut album was released in 2006 and the last with Big Machine Label Group in 2017.

His astronomical fortune and his connections in the music industry will not be too much to make his new recordings as famous as the originals.

She can already count on the support of singer Kelly Clarkson, who advised her earlier this summer to re-record songs she did not have masters.

"I would buy all the new versions just to mark it," she said.

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