Ryan Adams - Bad Blood (from '1989') (Official Audio) 

+FrancoAndTheWomb Don't give him any ideas.... :)

+FrancoAndTheWomb lol

+liljgoneman lol

Karan Gajjar The worst part of that idea? Yeah, I'd buy a copy. :)

A+

+Joe Gauder She has... check out her twitter.

I like that. That's third level humor.

+Joe Gauder I hope she covers strawberry wine!!

+Joe Gauder like noel gallagher

maybe one day 😁

That's heartwarming to read, being a TS fan and, especially being a daughter of an absent father. A simple gesture like this would have made my world; your daughter is lucky to have you.

Thank you and I hope you are thriving! @@2Orangess

Yes, and conversely I have been playing this for my summer camp kids who are team Taylor and they are discovering Ryan! 💕

❤

Cuuuuuute!!!!!

I wish Ryan would have done Carrie Underwood's " smoke break " and he could have changed the words to " Don't smoke " as Carrie is a Moron for trying to get people to start smoking :)

+willisben32 .... Why would Ryan do a cover of a FLOP song { smoke break }... #43 on the hot 100 and from a B rated music act Carrie Underwood? .... Taylor Swift is the only artist worthy of his covers as Taylor is the worlds biggest music star !!!!

+willisben32 I wish Ryan would have done Carrie Underwood's "Smoke Break " and he could have changed the words to "Smoke More" cos Ryan smokes and loves it.

+willisben32 That's not what the song is about...

+baconsmith1 --- I hate that Carrie Underwood is promoting smoking as my father died of Cancer --- But then again -- who cares what a fake reality TV karaoke singer does !!!!

+Nathan Walker I'm trying to catch up!

+Nathan Walker i think I am responsible for about 50,000 of the 71,000 views

+Nathan Walker 67 days of listening, in case you wondered

+Joshua Houston hahahaha that's awesome, solid math brother!

+Brad Schneider Yeah. With very solid assumptions. xD

Bogdan M. Check out his former band, Whiskeytown.

Would be fascinated to find out if you did the Ryan Adams deep dive and if you enjoyed his material.

Good decision...pay no ATTN to the current media witchhunt just the music

3 yrs ago huh.....bet you're a fan now huh lol

@Bogdan M. He’s so underrated. I first heard “everybody knows” and fell in love.

+Emily May (The Book Geek) omg preach

+Emily May (The Book Geek) The problem is that it's comparing apples to apples. Because it is a cover of a song by another artist, you *can* compare the two versions directly. And just because someone did a song first, doesn't mean it's the definitive version. My favorite example is Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. He owns the song, from beginning to finish, with a certain kind of honesty shinning through the whole thing. Much like this cover. Taylor's performance is so slick, that any kind of tone like that is completely lost. Also, the guitar that is played throughout the whole track makes the song more musically interesting, rather than relying completely on the strength of the vocals. Which are seriously hampered by the fact that the radio edit cuts out all of the rap lyrics for some reason, at least in my area.

You are so right Also, unrelated but I think I see on goodreads all the time...

+Emily May (The Book Geek) hey its you! I've read a lot of your reviews on goodreads lol its a small internet world haha =)

+prettyreckless2700 Haha, it sure is XD

I don't think he's misunderstood at all...his songs are out there and loved by many

Amen

I mean Taylor was the writer on all these songs…

+frankguevara Exactly!

Different people have different tastes in music. Some like Taylor, some do not

I've always quite liked Taylor Swift. After listening to Ryan Adams cover versions it's pretty clear she can write many quality tunes. There's nothing to dislike unless you're a bitter soul.

yes! she needs to do a ryan adams cover album!

+Andy Seife That would be so stellar! Would love to hear Taylor cover Come Pick Me Up

Yes!!!

+Andy Seife She needs to cover his best song. "Oh My Sweet Carolina"

+Andy Seife She never asked him to cover her album and either way and she promoted his album on all her social media and probably made him 90% of the money he got from this album so she already returned his "favor." And you know she did write the album too so I think she gave him all she had to.

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 have you listen to Folklore and Evermore? curious what's your favorite tracks! hahaha

She has multiple co writers got to give them credit too

@@curragh4635she does have co-writers sometimes, but a lot of times she is the solo writer of her songs. She wrote her album Speak now entirely by herself

You were right, because SHE DIDNT WRITE IT, I DID and got it from Ryan Adams who got it from my portfolio and arranged it for her before selling it to Swift so she could shake her ass to it and pretend she did anything more

Steve Ball jj

He’s the real deal. Always was. She sings like a teenager… Unfortunately he acts like one… He’s the better artist though. Go enjoy his catalog it’s pretty well dynamite. He’s doing a solo tour now. After taking some heavy criticism and canceling over some personal stuff. Perhaps he’s maturing a bit now, always delivers in concert though. Not quite sure how that behavior concerns people or effects their opinion of a song or music.. Don’t spend money on things you don’t seriously believe in. If I made my decisions based on every musicians juvenile politics, I’ll probably have a bout three albums in my collection. I’ve got thousands… It’s the music.

yeah

+Bryn McDougal I can hear a lot of Wonderwall/Oasis/DRA in this song

It's nothing like those things

+xninjagrrl Exactly what I was thinking lol.

+Bryn McDougal ...Keane??

The production might be "overblown" but at least the songs on her album don't use the exact same bland arrangement

+Dee Joy they already did sound good.

+Dee Joy BambooBambi: Perhaps, but he took something packaged and engineered and gave it some musical depth. Real instruments can do amazing things for a piece of music.

+Jennifer Avery I agree. I don't want to be a T Swift hater, but Bad Blood in its original TS form just isn't a good song. This version is excellent.

I agree that this song is excellent, but the original (and I'm talking about the album version) has lyrical depth and does sound good. You can say you don't like it, but not that it's not a good song. It has great lyrics, it has an aggressive beat and it's catchy. Just because it's not made by "real instruments" it doesn't mean it's a bad song. Come on

+Jennifer Avery But what are real instruments? Is a organ a real instrument? If so a synthesiser is a real instrument, they both have oscillators and filters.

+R. J. Reda She has, she's been a fan of his for years.

I think he has received plenty of recognition in the industry. How would you have found his TS covers otherwise?

I'm sorry, your previous comment said you hoped Taylor would sink her teeth into his back catalog....I was just saying that she has, and they been admirers of each others music for quite a while now. they even wrote an unreleased song together a while ago. (Sidenote: Also, didn't your previous comment imply that he HASN'T received enough recognition?) Anyway, as a huge fan of both artists, I'm so glad that this happened. :)

OMG!!!!! I totally agree!!!

He nails it and did it quickly…

+Rob Graff If anything it should prove to people that Taylor Swift wrote a really good song even if her style of music is not to their tastes.. There's room at the music table for everyone.

+Balooba Well, he co-wrote it with Taylor Swift. Point being, it's the same song.

+Rob Graff lol I agree but thats peoples perception of music in general. If its not written and sung by someone indie-ish or someone with a hip-hop background then its not "real" music.

+Rob Graff I always think the test of a song is in its ability to be re-arranged and re-presented. I'm not a fan of the original arrangement, but critically I still think its a solid song, not amazing, but solid. My taste is more to the Indie side and so I do prefer Ryan's interpretation. I'm not a snob about it though - I haven't heard it yet but Shake it Off was in my mind the perfect pop song and changed my mind about Taylor, so I'm keen to see how that has worked out. But you're right it's the same song and therefore it remains solidly written - lyrically and musically. Side note, I've always found BBC's Live Lounge is always great for getting you to hear a song in another light.

***** He did it in a style you prefer. I just don't understand how a song that's about the exact same thing, written by the exact same person is automatically better just because it's acoustic. If they turned "Anaconda" into a candle-lit piano ballad, would it not be about butts anymore?

+Amina Harris Me too. The lyrics seem more meaningful and heartfelt in this version, and really convey the pain of a relationship gone bad.

+Jeff Archuleta Taylor's wasn't supposed to show pain. It was supposed to make her "friend" that she lost feel bad for betraying her.

+Minxy Moo She didnt betray her. its not her fault if Taylor is fucking sensitive and writes a song 'bout everyone who dont praise her. and the dancers were on Katy's tour first. she took a break and when she called them up, they decided to come back with her for some reasons

Amina Harris I was just thinking the same thing. Heard this version on the radio and thought that this must be the original

Me too

+Steven Chabot so you know how Jenny Lewis made her album at paxam and that Ryan Adams produced and played lead guitar on most tracks? He told Jenny: write your wonderwall and she came up with the voyager. Great song but yeah he is obsessed with wonderwall after covering it himself and telling Jenny to write her own. Anyways interesting

+Steven Chabot i THOUGHT THE SAME THING WHEN IT STARTED OFF.

+Steven Chabot The beginning right? I thought he was gonna go "today was gonna be the day..."

+Steven Chabot Your face is a wonderwall!

i was thinking that too

facts. so nice someone realizes this

+MJKmedia My thoughts exactly.

You just nailed it.

+MJKmedia have you heard of PostModern Jukebox? They're also a good bet.

+MJKmedia Or maybe people just like different things? "Good" is subjective. Both versions are good, some people prefer the sound of pop, others prefer the sound of rock. Neither is better or worse.

+MJKmedia how??????? it's only an acoustic cover

thats a no. she still sold millions of copies of fearless and speak now, had sold out tours, billboard hits, and won grammys for them despite singing her songs like this lmao. sis is amazing/talented/popular regardless of how she sings her songs.

@@winifredburkled no, she has never arranged her songs like this. Her country albums sound nothing like this.

... obviously it isnt 100% the same but never and nothing are very strong and inaccurate words to use in this case. she was acoustic/country so she absolutely has sounded like this in the past, especially in live performances which she sold out. I would argue that many songs on speak now were similarly arranged and that the instrumentals of innocent sound pretty similar to this. and my girl still outsold most artists. also as someone who has been a part of 4 music departments over the past 12 years pretty sure I know what I'm saying

@@winifredburkled country and acoustic is not the same genre. This genre is certainly not country. What the commenter meant to say I think is that this pop album if arranged the way Ryan Adams has done it instead of being pop would not have been as successful because pop is what sells. That's all. I don't think he was trying to put down your Taylor. Most of these comments on here are about people enjoying this reimagining of her album even if they didn't like her music before hearing this. But it shows us what great writing she actually did.

You're completely misinterpreting what I said. I said she was country/acoustic meaning she was literally both not that they're the same thing. SN Tour Album is LITERALLY THIS but even more raw and acoustic than Ryan's work. Her earlier work was predominantly acoustic but it was still "as successful". Most of Taylor's acoustic music especially on SN has still surpassed most pop music on the charts. I'm not saying Ryan "put down my Taylor." I'm not even referring to Ryan. I'm responding to the comment about her earlier work which was absolutely produced the same way Ryan Adams did and was STILL outselling pop despite being mainly acoustic. It's a response to this person's comment that Taylor's music wouldn't sell if it was produced like this. It has, and it did.

They make the song. ❤

Good ear, I love how they mimic the synth sounds in TS version in a manner that's a little bit different sonically [not too much, the tempo is the same but I doubt they match note for note] but still on beat and with proper direction, and most of all equally *OR MORE* (hush!) pleasing to the ear. As a former resident of NC I know all about the musical virtuosity and talent of Ryan Adams As a member of the Swift generation I watched her crossover and meteoric rise to that of a superstar, while putting out music that managed to be continually relevant without preaching or over-sexualising, complex and challenging without being cold or disengaged, mass appeal-ready without being soulless or spiritually narrow-minded... shes become a #1 artist without losing her core self and I think someone like Ryan can appreciate the music that tells that story of threading the needle of fame,success, and subsequent consequences and pressures on a person, especially someone who is truly gifted and (musically) talented, and how their art becomes reactionary and their lives become a more complicated animal that can sometimes drive them to both that great artistic moment as well as periods of isolation and sadness, confusion in the navigation of the 'game' (as it were) and overall battles to not lose themselves and the world they love to the fame and fortune. It's a commonly told tale but very special when a great songwriter can speak it into life in a new and exciting fashion.... Ryan, during a tumultuous period in his own life, found meaning and camaraderie in a place most wouldn't have expected him to; but like TS, he is always subverting and hurdling over expectations in his career. There is no finer example of it than this album. I love and revere it, and it definitely turned me on to Taylors music that was likely impossible without him. Praise to both artists for a work that is going to go down as a classic

+Anny Lane Styles Because Ryan is brilliant and will do it great justice, he's allowed to do weird stuff like this. Why not? I'm sure he got the appropriate permission, so again; Why not?

Jennifer Avery it just strange, he can make his own music.. taylor is amazing artist and I just dont see the point thats all

+Anny Lane Styles Ryan always does goofy stuff. He has been making amazing music since the 90's, and his original songs and albums are brilliant. But why not remake Taylor when he can do it better?

+Anny Lane Styles I think it's part cross-marketing for both of them- the association with her will put him in front of new eyes that never looked past mainstream pop, and it might make some people that have only see her as a pop-star puppet respect her as a song-writer. .. and also the fact that it doesn't really make sense is just perfectly Ryan.

Jenna Fournier good point. now it makes more sense, thanks x

lol... nahh.. but i LOVE drivin round there

North Sea Brent sounds like a taste of heaven

He can write, sing, play and produce far better than most… Ignore the cancel creeps…

+Bill Homan HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, whew that was a good one man.

Jack Panzarella I know what you're sayin, Jack. It's kind of like having our own little musical secret but still, the kid DESERVES to be world famous. I dunno 'bout you but I really dig turnin people on to him if they've never heard of him. :)

Good news: it is on the playlist on Radio X on UK national digital radio!

daveb barber that’s subjective, understand you though.

+Toma “HeavyCake” Hawk you're a closeminded moron

+Toma “HeavyCake” Hawk So simply changing the tempo and the style of music gave it meaning? Mmkay.

+Toma “HeavyCake” Hawk wrong.

***** singing the words with some meaning had a little to do with it.

mysecretworld my music tastes go from metal, rock, psychedelic, indie, blues, folk, country, pop, electronic, r&b, hip-hop, rap... if anything the only thing i don't like is jazz so if not liking Taylor fuckin' Swift makes me "closed minded" i think you need to find a different way to insult me lol.

+Krlosx13 he isn't doing the deluxe version

+imran sheikh ooowwww :(

Krlosx13 I know :(, wonderland and new romantics are some of my favourites

new romantics is realeased 2 days ago 👍

DATS DA JOKE

+havocpuma99 Hahaha. Too easy.

+havocpuma99 Wonder if Ryan would cover it ??? Lol

+havocpuma99 He actually sung that at one of his shows.

My cousin was at one of his shows and somebody asked Adams to play Summer of '69. My cousin said that Adams made the guy leave, but gave him a refund.

haha imagine

Tay's never sung other ppl stuffs

+Lay Hongly Taylor Swift didn't write 1989.

+Garrett1240 I think Lay means she doesn't do covers. She was involved in writing all of the songs on 1989 and helped produced half of them.

Sorry I had a couple of new year drinks tonight Ryan Adams I've listened to the song More Than 5 years Taylor Swift is a genius songwriter but the way you sing the song hurts like the way she wrote it to hurt