What We Know About Channel 4's Taylor Swift 2-Part ‘Taylor' Docuseries

Cosmopolitan

3 days ago

We're finally getting more Taylor Swift content. Over the past two decades, the singer-songwriter cemented herself as a pop culture icon and made history as the first artist to become a billionaire solely from her musical projects. Now, we get a closer look at her journey with a new 2-part docuseries coming to the U.K.'s Channel 4.
Unlike her wildly successful Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film, Deadline reports that the Guy King-directed project will draw footage from a 'rare archive' and feature commentary from experts and Swifties alike.
'Taylor Swift is an unprecedentedly powerful 21st-century voice for women and young people,' the director wrote in a statement published by Deadline. 'Under the microscope of social media since the earliest days of MySpace and Tumblr, she came of age during a new feminist wave. With her fame came controversy, which she so skillfully wrestled to the floor. We're excited to tell her story.'
The series will be produced by Sandpaper Films, which also released Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate and the Dark Side of the Internet, A Deadly American Marriage, and Investigating Diana. Just last year, Channel 4 released another Tay-inspired documentary, The Rise and Rise of Taylor Swift: Untold, which showed how her 'incredibly loyal fanbase helped carry her to the top.'
While there's no release date tied to the new project just yet, it comes hot on the heels of Taylor acquiring the masters of her first six albums, which were purchased by Scooter Braun in 2019 and later sold to Shamrock Holdings in 2020. After re-recording four of her first six albums and embarking on the Eras Tour, the 14-time Grammy winner shared that she now owns her entire musical catalog in an emotional letter she penned to her fans on May 30.
'I really get to say these words: All of the music I've ever made… now belongs to me,' she wrote, in part, adding that she also owns all her music videos, concert films, album art and photography, and unreleased songs.
She continued, 'To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty casual about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me—so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released four albums, calling them Taylor's Versions. The passionate support you showed those albums and the success you found giving The Eras Tour into 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 never owned until now. All I've ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright.'
All that to say... we can't wait to see the story of Taylor unfold in the new docuseries.