Taylor Swift is not any stranger to headlines – even when not actively courting them.
Such was the case this week when the Pop titan was thrust into hypothesis about who might be headlining the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present 2023 in Pheonix, Arizona.
With Apple Music introduced as the brand new Halftime Present sponsor changing Pepsi, social media and the newswire went wild with buzz about Swift being the highest decide. For, the contractual battle introduced by her long-running Cola-Cola deal is now not an element.
Now, although, one other hurdle has been cited by sources because the trigger for the singer lacking out on festivities.
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In line with TMZ, Swift was certainly requested to carry out as subsequent 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present headliner. Nonetheless, she is claimed to have declined on account of her want to complete releasing the re-recordings of her catalog.
Certainly, as extensively lined right here on That Grape Juice, Swift locked horns with Scooter Braun after the mega-manager was a part of a consortium that snapped up the rights to the performer’s first six studio albums from her earlier label. The controversy was immense provided that Swift burdened that she was successfully shut out of negotiations to buy the rights herself.
Consequently, she launched into the tall job of re-recording and re-releasing all six LPs. A transfer that has up to now confirmed all types of fruitful.
For, with a mess of launch codecs and artistic advertising (that has seen the singer embody demos, uncommon cuts, and new collaborations alongside the re-sung tracks), her ‘Taylor’s Model’ incarnations of ‘Fearless’ and ‘Pink’ have been large sellers.
The snag? She nonetheless has 4 extra re-releases to go.
Till then, it’s claimed that Swift – in recognizing the large gross sales increase Halftime headliners historically entice – will maintain off acting on the seismic stage till the method is full.
Good, in a method, provided that she’d in any other case be in a predicament the place she’d be performing some songs that she would immediately obtain the business profit from (see: something from the brand new ‘Fearless’ and ‘Pink’ variations) and within the awkward spot the place she’d truly be searching for permission to carry out tracks.
Swift is reportedly open to a top-lining the Halftime Present sooner or later and 2024 could possibly be a risk if she’s rolled out all of the re-records by then.
Pending then, her model new album ‘Midnights’ arrives on October 21.
