LISTEN: Ryan Adams’ Entire Cover Album Of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’

Something about his face irks me. Too smug.

Is this anywhere else besides Towleroad, since I refuse to click on any links from that site

horrible.

I would like this if Anne Heche was somehow involved.

You can stream it on Apple music, if you have it. I don't know if it's on Spotify. I listened to it, and was terribly unimpressed. He said it was in the style of the Smiths, but, other than drowning his voice in reverb and having a few Johnny Marr-like licks, it doesn't sound anything like them. And, worse, the songs are just badly performed and produced. It's almost like he listened to the original just once, and sang the melody sort of like the original, as much as he could remember. The arrangements are bland and not flushed out. And the mixing it atrocious, with guitar licks way too hot. I don't think he has great respect for Swift, which I thought he did when I heard about the project, but it seems like it's just a ploy for attention, which is par for the course with Adams. What could have been a great cd turns out to be completely dismissible. I don't understand why it's been getting such great reviews. Are people afraid to say anything he does isn't great?

Taylor is retweeting a bunch of people praising it/her. Imma unfollow dat heffa.

I think if it were Bryan Adams , it'd be the shit. But not this douchebag.

Lame idea, lame execution. A waste of time.

Ryan Adams comparing himself to The Smiths? No...just...no.

Remember when Camper Van Beethoven did this with Fleetwood Mac's Tusk?

His fans are nearly as tiresome as him. It's what shallow people consider deep and his voice isn't even interesting. It's painful after a few bars. Glad to see he's seen through on DL. I'm surrounded by fans in real life.

I'm r5. Even though I think his version of 1989 is entirely a ploy for media attention -- and I think the cd is terrible -- I still count myself as a fan. Although he's a total ass, when he's good, he's very very good. Check out this song from his penultimate cd. I could listen to it on repeat a hundred times. It's a stunner.

What's the fucking point of this??

Of what, r13? Of the cd? I think the general consensus is to get publicity. Of this post? I don't know? We just want to express opinions?

R12, thanks for making my point for me. He's just struggling to do something interesting with his voice.

He ran out of ideas and knows that the only way he can get attention is by glomming on to the current hot thing. Sad, I like some of his songs.

Yeah, I'm so glad he didn't make something original.

R13 Same as anything nowadays. Ploy for attention.

R5 I agree with what you said. I'm a fan of his as well. He has written some great songs, is a very good musician and singer when he wants to be. It seems now the thing to do more than ever is to do covers to try to get an audience. Even bigger names like Bon Iver and Jame Blake cover Billy Eilish and the like. I get when a smaller artists do it to try to get some attention, but I'm really not a fan in general. Also, you see all the nobody's on youtube having hundreds of thousands of views on their mediocre covers. But no one will take an interest in anything they have to offer in terms of original music because it's usually shit. There is such an over saturation of this kind of thing going on. I think it really has screwed up the way music gets exposed.