How Taylor Swift Inspired Comedian Chris Distefano’s Bold Career Move

Taylor Swift’s influence is stretching far beyond the music industry.

Comedian Chris Distefano recently opened up about the way the “So High School” songstress inspired him to make a bold career move—and some might find it surprising.

During a recent comedy show, the 40-year-old comedian revealed that he is “taking a page” out of Swift’s book to “regain ownership” of his past material that is technically owned by Comedy Central and Netflix.

“I wanna re-record some of my old bits and if I just do a different rendition of it, then I own it,” he said during his stand-up routine earlier this week, while announcing that he will be calling it “Chrissy’s Version.”

Swift has famously re-recorded several of her early albums, after the master rights to her music catalog were sold to Scooter Braun by her former record label without her knowledge.

In order to gain the rights back to her older music, Swift, 34, has re-recorded, updated the vocals, and even released some never-before-heard songs (said to be “From the Vault”) on four of her first six albums, which she has aptly renamed “Taylor’s Version

Yeah, Taylor Swift rerecorded her stuff to regain ownership of her songs, and I did it with my comedy that night,” Distefano explained during a recent interview with Billboard on Friday, Nov. 15. “We’re going to take a mashup of the three shows that I did—three hours of material—take the old bits, call it Chrissy’s Version and upload them on Sirius XM and wherever.”

Now I’ll own them outright,” he declared.

As Swifties already know “All Too Well,” the music superstar has already released the “Taylor’s Version” of Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012) and 1989 (2014), while fans are still awaiting the re-recorded versions of her debut self titled album (2006) and 2017’s