Taylor Swift has revealed she "hit the floor" and wept after finding out that she had gained ownership of her music.
During her debut podcast interview on New Heights on Wednesday, the Shake It Off singer opened up about reclaiming the master recordings of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital earlier this year.
She revealed that she had been "actively saving up money to buy (her) music back" since she was a teenager, and "thought about owning (her) music every day". However, she thought re-recording those six albums would be the "closest" she'd ever get to doing so.
"For me, this is not, 'Oh, I want to own this asset because of its returns, because of the dividends that I will receive over the years,'" Swift explained. "I want it because these (are) my handwritten diary entries from my whole life. These are the songs I wrote about every phase of my life. This is my photography, my music videos, most of which I funded. My artwork, everything that I've ever done, is in this catalogue."
Following the success of The Eras Tour, which ended in December, Swift decided to try again, sending her mother Andrea and brother Austin to meet with Shamrock Capital in Los Angeles to hammer home what the ownership meant to her.
Tearing up, the 35-year-old continued, "They told them the whole story of all the times we've tried to buy it, all the times it's fallen through, all the times we had gotten plans together and figured out something we thought was going to work and it didn't at the last minute."
The Blank Space singer revealed that she heard the good news from her mum a couple of months later.
"I get a call from my mom, and she's like, 'You got your music,'" she recalled. "I just very dramatically hit the floor, bawling my eyes out, just weeping."
Swift added that she started "absolutely heaving" when she went to tell her boyfriend Travis Kelce, and had "no control" over her legs, becoming a dead weight in his arms.
The pop superstar announced that she had reclaimed her masters in May. By that point, she had re-released four albums: Red, 1989, Fearless and Speak Now.
Swift is gearing up to release her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on 3 October.
