Taylor Swift celebrated her massive occupation milestone on a women’ night time out with BFF Selena Gomez in New York City.
The longtime pals dined in combination on the swanky Monkey Bar in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, May 31, whilst Taylor’s boyfriend Travis Kelce used to be in Kansas City for the yearly Big Slick charity are living display reaping benefits pediatric most cancers analysis, in step with photos got by way of Deuxmoi.
The Monkey Bar is attached to the ancient Hotel Elysée, and at first opened within the 1930s as a piano bar for ritzy visitors. The eatery were given its identify from a hand-painted wraparound mural of monkeys by way of caricaturist Charlie Vella within the 1950s.
Swift, 35, had so much to have fun with Gomez, 32, since she introduced on Friday, May 30, that she’d bought the rights to her grasp recordings. For the previous a number of years, Swift has spent substantial effort re-recording her first six albums as a result of she didn’t personal the unique recorded variations.
Swift’s masters turned into some extent of competition when tune impresario Scooter Braun bought her former file label Big Machine Records in 2019, thus giving him regulate of the six albums she recorded for the label. A highly-publicized feud between Swift and Braun evolved sooner than Braun ultimately offered off her grasp recordings to Shamrock Capital for a reported $300 million in 2020.
On Friday, Swift shocked lovers by way of pronouncing in an open letter that she’d reached an sudden settlement with Shamrock to realize regulate of her masters.
“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. As a flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news,” she wrote.

Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Brittany Mahomes in November 2023. Gotham/GC Images
“I almost stopped thinking it could happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now.”
Swift thanked her unswerving Swifties for supporting her via her Eras Tour, which she mentioned helped her make a deal for her masters.
“I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,” Swift published. “I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.”
Swift used to be supported by way of a lot of her well-known pals and lovers following the announcement, together with her boyfriend Kelce and shut friend Gomez.
“Yes you did that Tay! So proud,” Gomez responded by the use of Instagram.
Perhaps no person used to be extra excited than Swift super-fan Flavor Flav, who has even dubbed himself the “King Swiftie.”
“Congratulations to Taylor Swift @taylorswift13,” Flavor Flav wrote by the use of X. “May you have peace and happiness and continue to gain more of that. This community is so happy for you,!!! 🙏🏾🔥👍🏾✨💛🫶🏾.”
Even Swift’s one-time nemesis Braun presented her congratulations in a commentary to Us Weekly on Friday, pronouncing, “I am happy for her.”
In addition to the momentous information about her masters, Swift additionally presented a candid replace at the standing of the rerecorded model of 2017’s Grammy Award-nominated album Reputation.
“Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” Swift wrote in her letter to lovers. “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. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”
Swift persevered, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music or photos or videos. So, I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch.”