Now that Taylor Swift has the rights to her music back, she’s celebrating in the best way possible — by recreating her viral moment with Jack Antonoff.
In the wake of the news that Swift bought her music catalog masters after they were controversially sold by Scooter Braun in 2019, Antonoff shared a new clip via his X account on Friday, May 30.
The video featured Swift, 35 and Antonoff, 41 recreating their viral “Getaway Car” moment as they sang the lyrics and celebrated with Swift’s cat Meredith.
“Rep forever guilt free listening!” Antonoff captioned the post.
The “Bad Blood” singer and Antonoff teamed up for the song “Getaway Car” which was featured on Swift’s 2017 album, Reputation. Swift’s 2020 documentary, Miss Americana, showed the exact moment the pair came up with the bridge for the track in just seconds, which was all captured on Swift’s iPhone — a clip that subsequently went viral on TikTok.
Antonoff later spoke about the viral experience in an interview with NBC News’ Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist in October 2023.
“That was the only time in my life — million hours I’ve spent in studios — that a camera was ever on when magic actually happened. She just had her iPhone on for whatever reason,” he told the outlet at the time, “I think that’s why that video became so popular, because it was real.”
He added: “That was the only time in my life when I’ve had all these experiences where this crazy kinetic energy is happening, you’re writing on the fly, and you’re getting it — it was just a real moment. And I don’t know why her phone was on, but thank God it was. I’ve never had anything like that.”
Earlier on Friday, May 30, Swift revealed that she purchased the rights to her music from Shamrock Capital. (Braun had previously sold the catalog to the venture capital firm after he bought it from Big Machine Records.)
“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” the Grammy winner wrote in a lengthy letter. “But, that’s all in the past now. … I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”
She added, “To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it,” she said. “To my fans, you know how important this has been to me — so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released four of my albums, calling them ‘Taylor’s Version.’ The passionate support you showed these albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music. I can’t thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now.”
In her statement, Swift noted that she has full ownership “with no strings attached” of her songs, music videos, concert films, album photography and unreleased tracks, in addition to “the memories, the magic [and] the madness.”
Big Machine sold the rights to Swift’s first six albums to Braun in 2019, much to the pop star’s dismay. Swift claimed at the time that she was never given the option to own her work and thus planned to rerecord the LPs. To date, Swift has released the “Taylor’s Version” of Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989, with Reputation and her self-titled debut left in the vault.
