Will BLACKPINK be on Taylor Swift’s new album? Understand the rumor!

Last Monday, the 19th, rumors spread across the internet that the girl group BLACKPINK will be present in the re-recording of the album “Reputation”, by the North American singer. Taylor Swiftoriginally released in November 2017. But how did this story begin? RECREIO explains it to you!

Possible collaboration

Since 2019, after the businessman and music industry magnate, Scooter Braunbuy the rights to the first six albums of Swift — “Taylor Swift” (2006), “Fearless” (2008), “Speak Now” (2010), “Red” (2012), “1989″ (2014) and “Reputation” (2017) —, the singer has re-recorded albums to become the owner of her own work again.

With this, interspersed with new releases, she has been working to re-record all the tracks from the six albums in which she lost the rights to the complete versions of the songs, known as “masters”, and release them with the original title, accompanied by the complement “Taylor’s Version”, that is, “Taylor’s Version”.

The project has been strongly supported by fans since the beginning, with each re-release being eagerly awaited. As a way of “rewarding” their support, the new versions also feature some new tracks that were never originally released, such as the album “Red”, which featured a 10-minute version of the track “All Too Well”, complete with a short film in the form of a music video to illustrate the story presented in the song, which reflects the artist’s former relationship with the actor. Jake Gyllenhaaland stars Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien.

Since then, one of the re-releases that has been most anticipated by fans is “Reputation”, one of the most talked about albums of Taylorfor presenting a different side of the star, and containing songs with responses to the controversies in which she was involved throughout her career.

The rumor about the possible collaboration between Swift and BLACKPINK emerged after the insider ABTLABfamous for always leaking future releases first hand, shared through his profile on X (formerly Twitter) that “Reputation (Taylor’s Version)” should arrive in November of this year, and will feature a special appearance by Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa.

For months now, fans of Taylor There have been speculations that the next re-recording should be of “Reputation”, with many even expecting the announcement of the release to have taken place at the last show of “The Eras Tour” in 2024, which took place in São Paulo on November 26th. However, the confirmation did not happen, and it remains a mystery to this day.

The relationship between Taylor Swift and BLACKPINK have also been getting closer in recent times. In 2022, during the MTV Video Music Awards, the VMAs, the voice of “Look What You Made Me Do” was seen singing and dancing throughout the South Korean girl group’s performance of “Pink Venom” alongside her friends, in addition to also sharing a video on social media with the same song.

On the same day, during the after party, Taylor also posed alongside Rosé for some photos. In 2024, the “On The Ground” singer also attended the “The Eras Tour” show in Tokyo, Japan, in addition to being gifted by Swift with a version of his most recent album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, accompanied by a letter that said:

“To my fellow Tortured Poets Club member, here are some tokens of my gratitude—to you, for your support, and from me, frankly. I hope you welcome this album into your life (and your vinyl collection!)

With all my love and tortured poetry… your friend, Taylor.”

In March of this year, Lisa also attended “The Eras Tour”, at the presentation held in Singapore, where he had the chance to meet the singer backstage, and share a photo on social media.

Despite the artists’ rapprochement, so far, both Taylor as for the BLACKPINK members, they have not yet confirmed whether the collaboration will actually happen.