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Taylor Swift's 1st rerecorded album drops April 9, and it has 6 unreleased songs from the vault. Here's what those tracks might be.

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Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 2019 American Music Awards. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for dcp
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Taylor Swift revealed on Thursday that she has rerecorded her sophomore album, "Fearless," and promised it would "be with you soon."

Swift made the long-awaited announcement on ABC's Good Morning America. She also said the new version of her hit song "Love Story" would be released at midnight. 

"My version of 'Fearless' will have 26 songs on it," she said. "I've decided to add songs from the vault, which are songs that almost made the original 'Fearless' album."

"I've now gone back and recorded those," she continued, "so that everyone will be able to hear, not only the songs that made the album, but the songs that almost made it. The full picture."

"Fearless," originally released in 2008 via Big Machine Records, is the most-awarded country album of all time. It also made Swift the youngest person ever to win album of the year at the Grammys.

Swift followed her GMA announcement with a note to fans on social media.

"I've spoken a lot about why I'm remaking my first six albums, but the way I've chosen to do this will hopefully help illuminate where I'm coming from," she wrote. "Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really *knows* that body of work."

"For example, only I know which songs I wrote that almost made the 'Fearless' album," she continued. "Songs I absolutely adored, but were held back for different reasons."

"Those reasons seem unnecessary now. I've decided I want you to have the whole story, see the entire vivid picture, and let you into the entire dreamscape that is my 'Fearless' album. That's why I've chosen to include 6 never before released songs on my version of this album. Written when I was between the ages of 16 and 18, these were the ones it killed me to leave behind."

Swift has a habit of hiding codes in the lyric booklets of her albums, using random capitalizations to spell out secret messages

The capitalized letters in her new message spell out "April ninth," which fans took to be the release date of "Fearless (Taylor's Version)." 

Fans are theorizing which bonus tracks will be included on 'Taylor's Version'

In a 2008 interview with Billboard, Swift acknowledged that she "cut a bunch of stuff " from "Fearless," in an attempt to "put whatever is best on the album."

"There's so much stuff that I'm gonna to pull from the back drawer and then there's some stuff that I will write today and cut tomorrow," she said.

Indeed, fans are already aware of several unreleased tracks that never made it onto the tracklist, nor the extended tracklist for the "Fearless Platinum Edition" rerelease.

Swift performed a song called "Permanent Marker" multiple times before the release of "Fearless," even telling the crowd at Ohio's Jamboree in the Hills in 2007 that it would be included on her forthcoming album.

The unreleased songs listed are "Permanent Marker," "Tell Me Why," "I'd Lie," "Dark Blue Tennessee," and "The One Thing."

"I'd Lie" has gotten some special attention from fans online. Swift wrote the song when she was just 16, and performed an acoustic version at "Billboard Live" in 2006.

Fans have speculated about more long-rumored song titles, including "Nevermind," "We Were Happy," "Your Anything," and "Your Face."

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Callie Ahlgrim
Callie Ahlgrim is a senior reporter at Business Insider who writes about pop culture, with a special focus on the music industry.As a cofounding member of BI's music vertical, Callie has covered a range of hot topics at the intersection of art, celebrity culture, and show business: the political implications of Bad Bunny's success; the fan feedback loop in Taylor Swift's creative process; the symbolism of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show; the commercial impact of Beyoncé's country album; the brand identities of stars like Harry StylesMorgan WallenAddison RaeKaty Perry, and Frank Ocean; the modern challenges of making money as a musician; and more.She also covers celebrity PR strategies, blockbuster movies, prestige TV shows, and internet trends.Callie graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism, a Bachelor of Arts in English, and a minor in Spanish. She previously wrote columns for Man Repeller and ELLE.