Ryan Adams is a man of his word and when he tells you he’s started covering every song on Taylor Swift’s smash hit album 1989, you better believe him. Then again, if it’s concrete proof you’re after, he’s got that too.
After announcing his project on social media this week and effectively making Taylor Swift‘s head explode in the process, Adams has now begun sharing snippets of the covers and they’re just as heartfelt and moody as you might expect.
Adams has previewed snippets (below) of his takes on Swift’s tracks Out of the Woods and All You Had to Do Was Stay, after already sharing a clip of a “Guaranteed saddest version of ‘Welcome to New York’ ever — or your tears back.”
Adams has also shed a bit more light on the sonic direction on some of the other covers. His “spooky” version of Shake It Off, is apparently arranged like Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire and “sounds like it could have been in True Detective in a driving scene or smthng.”
He’s also likened his version of Out of the Woods to the Smiths’ That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, and says it’s “maybe the best sad song I ever did.”
No word on when the project will be available in full but Adams has also posted art to go with the covers project that, as reported by Pitchfork, riffs off Sonic Youth’s legendary Goo cover. I need it on a t-shirt stat.
Out of the Woods. Done. Epic Coda has 4 guitars!!
Now on to "All You Had To Do Is Stay"
#1989 @taylorswift13
SO FUN pic.twitter.com/E5hNaXmSF7— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
Hey @taylorswift13
What a song. Wow. pic.twitter.com/MRVhhGTdKl— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
Out of the woods…. Omg this is pretty and like – maybe the best sad song I ever did.
In the best way.
#1989 pic.twitter.com/kP15jGP3fG— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
Out of the Woods
Piano / Estes Pump Organ / 12 string acoustic
Big coda- like "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"
#1989 pic.twitter.com/TGN5DG7EXc— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
"All You Had To Do Was Stay"
as heard on the Eddie & the Cruisers Part 3: Reverb Police soundtrack
#1989 pic.twitter.com/TTYOnC9qT1— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
Shake It Off arranged like I'm on Fire
#1989 pic.twitter.com/VL1qdnjcrB— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
Shake it off. Just finished.
Spooky
It sounds like it could have been in True Detective in a driving scene or smthng. pic.twitter.com/VwsrrZttQm— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheRyanAdams/status/629220154811924481
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