Adams’ 1989 will be released digitally for now, though he has indicated that CD and vinyl versions will also be released. Adams’ take turned the more aggressive, drum-heavy track into a guitar-driven alt-country ballad. Still, Adams doesn’t soften the girl-fight track too much, retaining its catchiness and bouncy, upbeat sound. “Ryan’s music helped shape my songwriting,” Swift wrote of the tribute. “This is surreal and dreamlike.”
Adams first announced his Swiftian endeavor last month. On Instagram, he previewed his annotated copy of the “Welcome to New York” lyrics and revealed that he would record the synth-y pop songs in the style of the Smiths. Swift has been on board ever since the announcement, tweeting that she would “pass out” if it were true.
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Adams was equally complimentary in his confirmation tweet to Swift. “Badass tunes, Taylor. We’re sandblasting them, and they’re holding steady.” Since then, Adams has been previewing snippets of his covers on Twitter and Instagram, showing him and his band in the studio working on the album.
When Ryan Adams began re-recording Taylor Swift’s 1989 album, the pop star was quite vocal on social media about her support for the project. Now, she tells Entertainment Weekly that she’s “honoured” to have Adams cover her album and admitted that Adams helped inspire her songwriting technique. “Ryan Adams is one of the artists who shaped my songwriting,” explained Swift. “My favourite 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. When I first heard that Ryan was going to be covering my entire album, I couldn’t believe it. It’s such an honour that he would want to take my stories and lyrics and give them a new life. He’s gotten some of the best musicians together to record this album and if the clips he’s released are any indication, this is going to be something really special.”