Selena Gomez Cheers On Taylor Swift As She Reclaims Her Music Catalog

After years of waiting, Taylor Swift finally has the rights to her music catalog again.

A few hours after the “Anti-Hero” singer revealed that she was once again owned the rights to her old songs, music videos, and photography, her close friend Selena Gomez stepped up to show her support.

“YES YOU DID THAT TAY!!!” she wrote on her Instagram Stories, adding, “SO proud!”

The close friends have often shared their support with one another on social media, with Swift recently cheering on Gomez’s latest album with her fiancé, Benny Blanco.

The news proved to be so popular that Swift’s Instagram post received over five million likes within only three hours of publication. “taylor” started trending in the top spot on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, along with the title of one of her songs, “Better Than Revenge.”

Although comments on her Instagram post were disabled, her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce, dropped a subtle sign of support by “liking” her post, since he was unable to leave a comment. The post received many celebrities likes from her famous friends, many of whom have supported her throughout her journey to reclaim her music.

The “Look What You Made Me Do” singer announced the good news in a long letter that she published on her website on the morning of Friday, May 30. In the letter, she thanked her fans for supporting her music and her wildly successful Eras Tour, which helped make the purchase possible.

“To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it,” she told her followers. “To my fans, you know how important this has been to me – so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released 4 of my albums, calling them Taylor’s Version.”

Since Scooter Braun’s acquisition in 2019, Swift has released “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” “Red (Taylor’s Version),” “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” and “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”

“The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music,” she continued. “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.”

Now that she has the rights to her music back, many fans are wondering what will happen to the last two albums that she has yet to re-record: “Reputation” and her debut album. In her letter, she revealed that while she has completed re-recording her debut album, she has been struggling with “Reputation” and the memories that she associates with that era of her life.

“Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it,” she explained. “All that defiance, that longing, to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”