Thank you, Taylor. That's all Ryan Adams has to say in the 1989 booklet. There's no need to, because a lot has been said and written about his 1989, an 'integral reinterpretation' of Taylor Swifts , one of the best-selling pop albums of 2014 -2015 (nearly 9 million copies worldwide). Initially it was not believed - not even by herself - that Adams was in the process of recording all of the songs
… from 1989, in the style of says. But Adams was very serious, and there was no irony whatsoever, it turned out. He admires Swift as a songwriter, and his covers are a tribute to the hugely successful singer. Ryan Adams does indeed put his own spin on Swift's hits on 1989, with reverberant vocals and guitars that seem to come from the 80s, and occasionally remind you of . Some of the covers have worked well, others a little less, but it is especially great how Adams made Swift's often exuberant 1989 a melancholic record full of heartache. (IV)more
