You can play the songs with a simple acoustic treatment, and they're absolutely beautiful, but they're overdone to the point where most of the true emotion is lost, and EMOTION IS WHAT DRIVES TAYLOR'S MUSIC.
Omg I thought of The Breakfast Club too!! he took a song that didn't really have the 80s vibe imo and gave it what it was missing. I feel like he did that to a lot of the songs on her album. it's awesome.
@@alastairbrewster4274 she did write the songs. She writes most of her lyrics most of the writers she works with usually modify the lyrics to either make the songs shorter/Longer/ or to just delete filler on the occasion that they do write lyrics it’s usually 2-7 lines Max. And Ryan’s version is meh he takes away all the fun out of the originals and makes them these average indie shit trying to capture and 80s sound that doesn’t fit his voice. The production overpowers his voice and tbh his versions make the songs so underwhelming and too ambitious especially considering Ryan’s voice isn’t anything special it’s just the average indie boy in high school who thought they could have a career despite millions sounding exactly like him. His versions have no charm, fun basically takes out everything that makes the originals good and makes them mid not bad not incredible just average
@@alastairbrewster4274 oh, she writes all her songs, entire “Speak now “ and rest usually alone. So don’t disrespect her. Ryan’s work is beautiful btw.
+KRISTINA BARRIOS Except that this isn't the Cure and this isn't 1984. It's 2015 and Ryan Adams covered a Taylor Swift album. This, Kristina Barrios, is a very dumb thing you are witnessing before your very eyes.
Because, Scott...it's ass-kissing at its finest. People want to hear original songs. Sure, covering another artist's work is not a crime. What IS a crime is ass-kissing. The album is a waste of time. He is a talented musician who invested too much time doing someone else's music. Neither of them need the help of eachother unless they are looking to hook up. Uh-oh! Maybe?
when i saw this album i was sceptical. i thought 'why would you?' then i listened to it. this is genius, gosh i love it. i grew up in the 80s and thought it had a very 80s vibe. best era for music. thrilled i found this album!
This is probably my least favorite Taylor’s track 5 which has a reputation of being sad songs with amazing lyrics. The overkill production of the original sounds off and Ryan does a much better job. I still love the og it’s just not one of my favorite songs on the og 1989.
People are comenting 'this is my favorite song from 1989 and i like it even more now!' And here I am thinking this song and I Wish You Would are my least favorites from 1989 and now they're my favorites...
People like you always want back the love they gave away And people like me wanna believe you when you say you've changed The more I think about it now the less I know All I know is that you drove us off the road Hey, all you had to do was stay Had me in the palm of your hand Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in Hey, now you say you want it Back now that it's just too late Well, it could've been easy All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to say I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made People like you always want back the love they pushed aside But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye Stay, hey, all you had to do was stay Had me in the palm of your hand Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in Stay, hey, now you say you want it Back now that it's just too late Well could've been easy All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay (Stay, stay, stay) Let me remind you this was what you wanted (Oh oh oh) You ended it You were all I wanted (Oh oh oh) But not like this Not like this Not like this Oh, all you had to do was stay Hey, all you had to do was stay Had me in the palm of your hand Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in Stay, hey, now you say you want it Back now that it's just too late Well could've been easy All you had to do was stay Hey, all you had to do was stay Had me in the palm of your hand Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in Stay, hey, now you say you want it Back now that it's just too late Well could've been easy (All you had to do was stay) All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay (Oh) All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay All you had to do was stay (Ooh) Songwriters: Taylor Swift
It's funny because it's all related to the music. so many people are here saying this is so much better than the original,same people who hate on taylor swift. but she did wrote this. Ryan was amazing in re-arranging the music,but the words,he didn't change them. It's so funny how you so many people hate on taylor just for the pop/catchy songs without even try to read her songs. judging a book by its cover much?
Brian Fallon is what wld happen if Springsteen and Ryan Adams cld make a baby! He’s the best songwriter since Springsteen and brings emotion to the song like Ryan Adams I’ve been a ryan Adams fan since I bought the first whiskeytown album when it came out! The big 3 Springsteen Ryan Adams and Brian fallon
How the hell does this have 300+ dislikes. Unbelievable Ryan could throw together a cover of the biggest pop stars biggest album and make it so good and so Ryan Adams
Yeah, yeah, I'm digging this... Road trippin', summer vacationing, John Hughes montage-ing, singing along out loud in Cameron's dads Vette... awesome cover - go Ryan go!
for any of the negative nancy's out there RA sang his heart out on this cover album venture. this song is a perfect example of him showing off his pipes and my fav of these songs...I can't stop blaring it in my car....I think people are starting to look at me like i'm a weirdo
I have been following the Brilliant Ryan Adams since the early Whiskytown days. How cool to co-opt Swift's embracing of Pop Producer driven drivel and RA comes along and make a hell of a better record in his tiny home studio and two ears.
+1stSaintsFan "A hell of a better album" Too bad it is only on the internet and can't sell over a million copies in one week like her absolutely magnificent album did huh?
***** I know what went down you little shit head. I follow Ryan Adams and we have seen the process of Ryan in his studio making completely different sounding songs than was on Taylor's 1989 record. You obviously like to call people names or you would have gotten my meaning in my post. DUH!!! You obviously don't know much about music or Ryan Adams. Taylor Swift's lyrics are very poppy and not much else. It took a true artists to take her songs and make something salvageable. I admire Taylor Swift for being a great songwriter for her age, but she is way out of her league when it comes to Ryan. Ryan made her record into a statement of Pop Schlock or turned up masterpiece my little Nipper I know more about the music business than you little Swifties put together so keep the FuckTard stuff to somebody who deserves it Reboota.
+1stSaintsFan u Are dumb! Taylor's version is much better! this is Boring a little bit and Taylor wrote album and sold It over 1.3M COPIES IN THE FIRST WEEK and over 9M worldwide. It was the best selling album of 2014 and 2015 with the biggest first week sales since 2002
Swiftie4ever U Are Right!!! Taylor Swift can still sell records/CDs/Down Loads/ Etc...She is the master..She knows what little shits like you would buy. Enjoy it because after Calvin Harris gets through with her, there will be no musicians left on her tracks and you can bob your little brainy head against some scummy dance floor while you drool to the new TSwift EDM Masterpiece.
What a song! It reminds me when I first met my husband, still in love after so many years. Who would have thought, I would be so much in love with him until now.
I would like to thank 91.1 The globe for playing this. Really a great tune, swift at her best writing and a REAL musician to play it. Great collaboration!!!!!!!!!Best song ever, period.
God this is so good. Taylor’s version just always fell flat for me. THIS.. is an amazing spin on it. All the credit goes to Taylor for writing this song, and it’s beautiful. But Ryan brought this to life and I was able to really feel the song, like really feel it
*Watching the interview with Adams & Swift...you just know Taylor plays this cover over and over driving down the Pac 1 highway, singing along out loud...
I just recently stumbled across this Ryan Adam's cover and my god it's so beautiful, can't believe even though the lyrics is exactly same it sounds like a different song with a little bit of tweaking there and here, I love it very much!!!!
For anyone that is looking at this from a Team Ryan / Team Taylor standpoint, I invite you to look at what the artists themselves have said about the cover, and to each other. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/see-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-discuss-1989-songwriting-187058/ There was no animosity between them. Taylor is pretty flattered by it. [ “You know when actors say a line, they say a sentence, but they say it with different emphasis on different words and they completely change it? That’s what you did with my album,” Swift tells Adams of his 1989. “When you take a song like ‘All You Had to Do Was Stay,’ my version of it is [hair flip] ‘All you had to do was stay. Sorry about it. I don’t miss you, but now you’re back.’ Yours is like, ‘All you had to do was stay. You broke my heart. That’s all you had to do.'” Pretty cool dynamic going on. TBH the RA version of this song is amazing - and it captures a totally different vibe from Taylor's.