Taylor Swift didn't want to do her 'Taylor's Version' albums at first: 'Nobody wants to redo their homework'

• It's hard to imagine a world now without the "Taylor's Version" albums.
• But the singer wasn't sold on the idea at first.

Taylor Swift may have broken history with the chart-topping success of her rerecorded albums.

But it turns out Swift herself wasn't sold on the concept at first.

The songstress told TIME's Sam Lansky that she had initially brushed aside suggestions to rerecord her music. The magazine named her its 2023 Person of the Year on Wednesday.

"I'd run into Kelly Clarkson and she would go, 'Just redo it.' My dad kept saying it to me too," Swift told Lansky.

"I'd look at them and go, 'How can I possibly do that?' Nobody wants to redo their homework if on the way to school, the wind blows your book report away,'" she continued.

Fortunately for the fans, Swift eventually changed her mind. She has since released re-dos of four albums — "Fearless", "Red", "Speak Now", and "1989." Fans are still anxiously anticipating the re-release of her self-titled debut album and 2017's "Reputation."

Swift announced her plan to rerecord her music back in August 2019, after Scooter Braun bought her first record label, Big Machine. Braun's acquisition meant he'd become the owner of the master copies of Swift's first six albums.

"I learned about Scooter Braun's purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at his hands for years," Swift said in a Tumblr blog post in June 2019, adding that she was "sad and grossed" out by the turn of events.

Braun eventually sold the rights to Swift's masters to an investment fund in November 2020.

That, however, hasn't altered Swift's decision to reclaim her music catalog. If anything, Swift seems to have come to enjoy the process of recording her work.

"I'm collecting horcruxes. I'm collecting infinity stones. Gandalf's voice is in my head every time I put out a new one. For me, it is a movie now," Swift told TIME.

Representatives for Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.