Taylor Swift became tearful whilst reflecting on a momentous occasion - as she described the moment she had regained ownership of her master recordings.

The pop sensation featured on boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason's podcast New Heights to share details with her admirers about her forthcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl. Prior to discussing the track listing and the album's origins, Taylor revealed intimate details about the day she regained control of her master recordings.

Taylor confessed that she began putting money aside from a young age with the goal of owning her musical catalogue. She elaborated on how re-recording her tracks represented the nearest she believed she could get to true ownership.

Following the Eras Tour, Taylor convened with her team to contact Shamrock Holdings, who possessed her masters. For Taylor, controlling her catalogue signified far more than financial gain; it represented her artistic creations, personal diary entries spanning her entire existence, and compositions from different periods of her life, many of which she had personally financed.

Instead of involving legal representatives, she arranged for her mother and brother to negotiate with Shamrock Holdings. After explaining to the firm the profound significance this would hold for Taylor and attempting to devise a strategy, her mother, Andrea Swift, telephoned to inform Taylor that the outcome remained uncertain, reports The Mirror US. 

A visibly moved Taylor continued, saying: "A couple of months after the Super Bowl in Kansas City, I get a call from my mom. She's like, 'You got your music.' I very dramatically hit the floor for real. Bawling my eyes out, weeping, like 'Really! ?'" She continued, "I said to myself, 'Go tell Travis in a normal way,' he was playing video games, and he put his headset down. I was like 'I got my music back!' And I was in heaven crying. This changed my life."

Back in 2019, Scooter Braun's firm, Ithaca Holdings, purchased Big Machine Records, which owned the rights to the pop star's initial six albums.

The following year, he flogged the masters to Shamrock Capital for £240 million.

The Grammy-winning artist revealed the news through a statement on her website and Instagram on 30th May.

Taylor shared a photograph of herself against a white backdrop, wearing a relaxed blue polo shirt and jeans, surrounded by her first six records, captioned "You belong with me" alongside different-coloured heart emojis representing each album.