1989
On *1989*, Ryan Adams offers a track-by-track reinterpretation of Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 2014 album. The result is as intimate as it is disarming. Adams presents Tay-Tay’s explosive pop hooks with an air of graceful melancholy, using acoustic guitars and reverb-soaked vocals to add heartbroken emotion to familiar hits like “Shake It Off,” “Bad Blood,” and \"Blank Space.” Still, the most satisfying moments on Adams’ version of *1989* are the deep cuts from Swift’s original release, including the dusky glow of “Out of the Woods” and chiming guitars of “Wildest Dreams.”
Ryan Adams' cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 is a lot of fun to think about and talk about, but not much fun to listen to. It is, in other words, a pure product of the Internet. At its best, Swift's 1989 crackles with life, while Adams has transformed it into... a run-of-the-mill Ryan Adams album.
Ryan Adams goes wherever his muse directs him, which explains why he’s just as likely to release a hardcore EP as he is an alt-country masterpiece. But when news broke that he had decided to put his own spin on Taylor Swift’s 1989 (and was interpreting it in the style of the Smiths, no less), it was one of his more…
Sometime in August 2015, Ryan Adams let everybody in on a secret: he'd decided to cover Taylor Swift's 1989 in total.
A present to poptimists everywhere, Ryan Adams' full album cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 hears the oft-acclaimed alt-country rock'n'roller re...
Ryan Adams’s covers of Taylor Swift’s songs leave you wanting to listen to the originals
Whatever the end results, Adams at least deserves credit for putting so much effort into 1989’s arrangements.
Ryan Adams’s covers of Taylor Swift’s songs leave you wanting to listen to the originals
What is the gap between punchy radio friendly mass market global pop and introspective critically credible adult oriented alternative rock?
Work of art or fan-service curiosity? A little of both, actually... Album review by Lisa-Marie Ferla