Ryan Adams was a Taylor Swift megafan long before the release of her super-chart topping album 1989, and today he’s shared extended versions of his previously-anounced Swift covers.
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While the news that Ryan was recording his own version of the album could initially seem like a kitschy lark, or a “lemme show you how the big boys do it”, he’s seemingly treated the source material with reverence the whole way through.
“Ryan Adams is one of the artists who shaped my songwriting”, wrote Swift tells the magazine. My favorite part of his style of creating music is his ability to bleed aching vulnerability into it, and that’s what he’s done with his cover project of my album 1989. Adams is known for his quirky sense of humor and divergent genre tastes (In 2010 he released a metal album, Orion, through his website).
Adams shared an acoustic, bare-bones rendition of Swift’s bombastic anthem “Blank Space” and a cover of “Style” that’s more MBV than TS.
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Adams hasn’t been shy about showing his progress on social media, and even tags Taylor in most of his tweets and previews.
