Ryan Adams - New York, New York (Official Music Video) 

this song/video should be an anthem for New York..it was shot on the last weekend the world seemed "normal"..after that fateful Tuesday which started out so mundane, everything changed and it will NEVER be the same. God Bless Ryan Adams for this nugget of joy right before a nightmare began and unfortunately we're still experiencing. WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

It is 20 years today since this recording session. Shocking memories of that September 2001. 9/11 heroes never forgotten.

"Filmed just four days before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York. This song brought alt-country performer Ryan Adams into the top 20 of adult top 40 radio and earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal." Miss you, twins. I would have rebuit you both, as you were.

As a New Yorker who was 11 when the towers fell, this makes me miss the city I was born in, but never got the chance to know.

He performed this on SNL not long after 9/11 and I straight ugly cried.

I was 15 in the fall of 2001. Back then, I was big on watching MTV and VH1 before leaving for school and I remember this video being played often in the weeks following 9/11. Unreal how it was filmed four days before that tragedy.

The last music video with the World trade center.. and the real New York ☹️❤️🇺🇲

The Saxophone solo at the end really nods to the whole New York Jazz scene in an otherwise rock/pop song, love its deliberate inclusion.

4 days later, our life as we knew, changed.

As a native New Yorker, this video breaks my heart. May this new year bring peace to all those suffering around the world, and may it bring tolerance to those who have so much hatred in their hearts here in the U.S.

To us Irish,America is still the land of hopes and dreams,we will always love our American cousins

I’ve watched this every year since 9/11, and it’s still one of the most heartbreaking and eerie videos ever. I lived in NYC in 98-99, then again from 2008-2013. I was back in NJ , commuting to NYC to attend SVA, and will never forget waking up the morning of 9/11. My friends in school were all still in downtown NYC, and I remember my friend calling me from NYC , telling me class was evacuated, and he was in the middle of 23rd st, directing traffic, as all cops were down by the Towers. My ex gf’s dad worked in the Towers, but didn’t go in that day. I was working in film as a set dresser, when I wasnt in class, and the film industry sent all the lights down to look through the rubble at night. My 2 uncles were down there for 2 nights digging through, looking for survivors. Almost 20 years later, and that fear and heartbreak feel like it was only yesterday.

crazy how a song made before a city got its heart ripped out became a song representing its spirit and back when it was normal

Just happened to have a meeting on 9/6, and walked through the lobby between the towers, of course thinking nothing of it at the time. Flying in that morning, and flying home that night, the towers were the first and last things you saw. Eerily, our meeting almost got moved 9/10, and one of my colleagues from the bay area, would have been on flt 93 on 9/11 to return home. There but by the grace of God any of us go.

"Love won't play any games with you, anymore if you don't want 'em to"... wise words

Back in pre everything available online at a click / tap days, this video was the first footage I saw of pre 9/11 WTC (and knew what I was seeing). Iirc the video was witheld for a while. The dedication at the end still gets me.

I come back to this every year 😢

every time Sep 11th rolls around, I have to listen to this track at least once... It feels more and more poignant with every passing year.

Video still gives me chills in both a beautiful and eerie way, something about the screen mentioning this was filmed the weekend before 9/11 and then cutting to this tribute song with the towers front and center is just very kinetically powerful

Remembering 9/11/2001 20 years later,We Will Never Forget.

As a boy who sat in Elementary school, every anniversary, I describe that day. Absolutely beautiful. A monument of New York in my eyes.

Please take time to remember all of the people who lost their lives on 9-11-01. God bless them all.

I always revisit this song/video. Despite what flaws you may see in our country, you have sit back and watch a brief clip of how free we once were. Over two thousand people got up two days after this was shot, some planning birthday parties, others getting excited for a first date or celebrating milestone anniversaries….all wiped out by 19 evil people who took a perverse interpretation of a religion to kill innocent people. Here we are 20 years later and unfortunately our world has yet to recover…I’m not optimistic that it ever will.

I'm so glad that I accidentally found this not so well known but sooo talented guy... hard to believe that this song is 10 years old, a great, timeless indie piece!

I post this video on my FB page every Sept 11.....reminds me what a wonderful place NYC is and will always be....and how strong the human spirit is there!!

I'll never forget when I heard this for the first time. I told my gf at the time that I really liked it but had no idea who sang it. She sent me a link to Ryan and I bought the CD. Still enjoy it to this day.

The first Ryan Adams song that I ever heard. And now 15+ albums later, it’s still my favourite.

I listen to this song every anniversary.

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I remember this song very well. Here was this young guy out of nowhere named Ryan Adams (not to be confused with the Canadian singer Bryan Adams) who did this song about NYC and shot his music video there just four days before the world changed forever. I remember Ryan Adams performed this song on late night shows like Conan and Letterman in the aftermath of the attacks, with both of those shows being based in New York. The attacks brought much attention to this song, but most certainly in not the way he would have wanted. 9/11 hits me on a personal level, having a connection to the tragic events of that horrible day. I live and grew up in Atlanta, but my dad traveled for work in the IT business. He lived in an apartment in New Jersey and worked in an office in Downtown Manhattan on that terrible day. He had just commuted through the World Trade Center a mere two hours before the towers were hit. In fact, my mother and I just had went up to NYC with him the 4th of July holiday and went to the top of the WTC just two months prior to that tragic day. Hell, for all we knew, something could have happened then. I just remember being a kid in the eighth grade and watching the horrors of what happened in New York that day on the TV, but even a phone call to the school to let me know that my dad was OK, the images of the towers falling nonetheless still made me sick as it would anyone. Just like Ryan Adams said in this song, "Hell, I still love you New York." While NYC may not be the capital of the United States, us Americans see it as the "first city" of the United States, being the largest city and a primary source of our collective culture and identity. It's where many of us Americans had great-great-grandparents who passed through Ellis island as immigrants. It's where George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States just blocks away from the future location of the World Trade Center in New York City in Trinity Church. While I'm still on the subject, I remember purchasing a pennant of the World Trade Center at the gift shop at the observation deck of the old Twin Towers that I still have on my wall 24 years later. It still kind of spooks me how many of those same identical pennants were probably still at the gift shop's top floor when the towers fell, being just two months later. But, I still have it up on my wall as a point of reverence. Never forget.

love this song as it always brings me back to 2001......god bless everyone who died on that dark day..

I am Argentine and my only time in New York was between September 9 and 15, 2001. I had just started to know the city (and love it) when it was the fatal day. I was never able to return there, but I hope to do so sometime. This video is so sad, but Ryan Adams is really great

One of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time right here. So prolific, so brilliant and his voice can go any and everywhere 🔥 💯

All the families to the lost I wish you a blessed day and love

I used to live in New York, and I was happy (I left it almost 6 months ago) 😄, but the destiny decided that I needed to move to Paris, I arrived 1 week ago, and when I was walking with the Eiffel Tower behind me, this song came, and I realized how much I miss NYC :( !!! 🥹

Life is short! Live and give.

2020 and I still listen this song every anniversary 😞

It's lovely to have a song associated with that time and place that is upbeat and reflective instead of being bombastic and mournful.

I'm so glad he decided to keep this video instead of changing it to something else.

This was filmed just 4 days before 9/11. Absolutely chilling.

4 days before the first chaos of 21st century, [ tears streaming ]

We're still here Ryan and we still love you......

And then the whole world would change forever.

It’s that time of year again 😥

10 years ago today. 4 days later, the world as we knew it would never be the same. And this song, instead of being about a girl, takes on a whole different meaning...

This song and video gives me chills still. Thinking of you today America on the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks. (2021, 11 September) . David, Brisbane, Australia.

Just last week I attended my best friend's wedding at City Hall in Manhattan. After a lovely dinner in Midtown we went to a Koreatown karaoke place. I could think of nothing better to sing than this song for a beautiful New York City wedding--and everyone else agreed. Just a lovely tribute to the capital of the world.

This song really makes me feel great. Reminds me of home, my love, and times when things were simpler...

Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July I had a firecracker waiting to blow Breakin' like a robber who was makin' his way To the cities of Mexico Lived in an apartment out on Avenue A I had a tar-hut on the corner of 10th Had myself a lover who was finer than gold But I've been broken up and busted up since And love don't play any games with me Anymore like she did before The world won't wait, so I better shake That thing right out there through the door Hell, I still love you, New York Found myself a picture that would fit in the folds Of my wallet and it stayed pretty good Still amazed I didn't lose it on the roof of the place When I was drunk and I was thinking of you Every day the children they were singing their tune Out on the streets and you could hear from inside Used to take the subway up to Houston and 3rd I would wait for you and I'd try to hide And love won't play any games with you Anymore if you don't want 'em to The world won't wait and I watched you shake But honey, I don't blame you Hell, I still love you, New York Hell, I still love you, New York New York I remember Christmas in the blistering cold In a church on the upper west side Babe, I stood their singing, I was holding your arm You were holding my trust like a child Found a lot of trouble out on Avenue B But I tried to keep the overhead low Farewell to the city and the love of my life At least we left before we had to go And love won't play any games with you Anymore if you want 'em to So we better shake this old thing out the door I'll always be thinkin' of you I'll always love you though New York I'll always love you though New York, New York, New York

Love this. There is such a melancholy-ness about it, and the hauntingly beautiful video.

It's so eerie seeing those towers and knowing what happens only 4 days later...

Watching this video right now is my introduction to Ryan Adams. Never been later.

This was the song I heard on the radio back in 2002 that introduced me to Ryan Adams and his awesome music. He is still to this day my all time favorite music artist and his music has been my main go-to playlist for most of my adult life. This song will always be one of my favorites of his!

I've never heard of Ryan Adams, or this song. But it was a Spotify suggestion and I sure like it!

I'm listening to this on my headphones as I stand gazing over NYC from the One World Observatory.

In 4 days, New York will never be the same

Thank you, New York, Guilty x 34!

Fucking really awesome track, Ryan Adams is bloody great.

on a sunny day on 9/11 in the UK in the county of Sussex, I was walking around my lounge with the tv on, not paying much attention. Then I was drawn to it by the images of those two buildings under attack. I have never been to NY , but I stood there and cried, for the people and its city. We all still love you NY............. from every where.

I remember first hearing this in about March 2002, and all I could remember first hand was the guitar riffs/instrumental. Now I know it means so much more

Ryan Adams is amazing. I heard about him a little over a year ago from a family friend, and haven't been able to get over him since. I love him so much!

RIP to the innocent lives lost on this tragic day 11 years ago. Never forget

20 years later. Never Forget

20 yrs ago today 🙏🙏🙏 never forget

god bless New York 🗽

I feel both sad and nostalgic when I see the twins. R.i.p Twin Towers and all victims. Never forget.

So eerie, that this song was recorded shortly before 9/11. So haunting

thats just what americans do, and being from right outside of new york the whole event really hit hard, so thats why i still bring it up

The towers are still a mighty symbol of NYC. Tough to watch the vid but also it’s good to see the video and NYC with the WTC. Never forget

Beautiful song for a beautiful city.

10 years ago this was one of my favorite songs....and i just found it again...awesome!!

Every generation has a singer/ songwriter that stands out. Bob Dylan, Jackson brown, Ryan adams.

Such a great song.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Sept 2018. Will always visit on this day. I still love you NY

i bought this album like 3 or 4 days before september 11th, i was cranking this song on my car radio,when i got home i turned on the tv, and saw the attacks on the world trade center, later on that night i put this cd on, had a drink, and said a prayer for all those who were lost!! god bless those people and the healing power of music to bring peace to us all!!! AND EVEN THOUGH IM FROM BOSTON AND A DIE HARD SOX FAN, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE NEW YORK!!! GOD BLESS AND PEACE!!!

Spending Summer 2011 in NEW YORK CITY...I'll be a long way from home (Dublin, Ireland)....Going to be the best summer ever.

R.I.P. Twin Towers

Tragic day May God bless and be with all the victims and there families and all the first responders I pray this in the name of his son Jesus Christ Amen 🙏

Such a horrible day it was (9/11) i was in the classroom when it happened and teachers were going from room to room about the news. Eventually some rooms with tv tuned in to the news and I saw it...I was around 2nd grade i think...it was horrible. What I had in mind then was that the world was goin on a war and my classmates and I went to the ground to look at the sky while takling about what we'd do while in war ;/

The last morning of the 90's 6:00AM - 8:46 AM September 11, 2001

I still cry every time I hear this song.

Thanks Ryan. You nailed it.

The greatest of the XXIst century.

I’m getting really strong “Tangled in Blue” vibes. Anybody else seeing the Dylan influence?

2001 wouldn't be complete without the Gold album!

I'm so sorry, for all the people. For the towers. For Ryan.

I miss my City, brother Firefighters, police, EMS workers.............all of them. RIP

I miss the Towers so much. I also miss the way life was before the Towers went down and what was taken from us when they collapsed, especially my friend, Michael Lyons FDNY. God Bless America, God Bless NYC.

Filmed 09/07/2001. Days before. And the Twin Towers loom large.

Seeing this - I wish we rebuilt the towers from the original blueprints.

I'm born and raised in New York and I can tell you, those towers were New York. Big, bold and in your face. They represented us to a tee.

Bronx boy, born and raised! I was two months away from my 20th birthday when those bastards ripped my heart and forever altered the skyline I grew up with. Jodi Mitchell was right, you don't know what you got till it's gone. God bless you, Ryan Adams for your love letter to my city. Hell, you did it pre-9/11, before bandwagon hippocrates latched on to videos like yours. We New Yorkers always took shit from outsiders for years. Just like you did for your relationship with Mandy Moore. But those were jealous folks on the outside looking in. You set her on the path to THIS IS US. Just like your song and video set us on the path to reimbracing our beloved city. You'll always be a New Yorker to us.🇵🇷🇺🇸😎

This song celebrates what is great about life and what is great about a great city. Love it. Thanks.

Love this song, but Summer of 69 is his masterpiece!!!

This is so deep. I'm a native New Yorker that still lives here.

With all of the emotion that followed 9/11 and peoples fascination with this song, Ryan Adams made one amazing album.

Always ion my mind, especially on this day......

Can you imagine what would have happened if the towers were hit while they were filming this? So eerie. I remember this video coming out right at the time of 9/11. This song used to make me cry my eyes out, for that reason. Still is a bittersweet song.

A really good song by Ryan Adams,,four minutes and twenty seconds of vintage Ryan Adams,we are fortunate that this slice of history exists,,, unfortunately the truth, of events that took place a mere four days later still remain buried...I commend Mr. Adams for dedicating this song to those who lost their lives,,the pursuit of the truth would be a dedication to the lives lost,to the brave and heroic actions of the first responders. To seek the truth,and to reveal the truth,,,would be an act of courage that would truly honor the courage on display that fateful day of Sept.11 To the families that tragically lost loved ones,,my heart grieves for you,and surely my grief pales in comparison to yours

I love this song so much, and I can't believe it's almost 10 years old, or that the image of the WTC is 10 years old, too. Stunning.