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I'm glad Ryan covered this album cause it shows older generations who might be quick to judge her music with out even giving it a chance how incredibly talented she is. My dad finally understands why I love Taylor.
It's not like Ryan is old, he is 46,he is super young, not a teen, but young indeed, I'm 22, and i sometimes prefer the Ryan covers than the original songs, also my mom is 47 and she knows nothing about Ryan's existance, but she loves Taylor swift, so i don't think the age or the generation matter that much. 🤷🏻♀️ P. S. I love them both Taylor and Ryan, great and amazing singers, talented AF. ✨
Truth. I agree with coolbae1998. ALSO- As a long lifetime Ryan Adams fan, after him covering 1989, I also became a Taylor Swift fan…not as much as RA, though enough to respect her music and listen to what she releases. 😊😊😊
I've always known this song was meant for a sad interpretation, like it was supposed to be a very sad song if only not for the fast tempo. This cover does the justice, seriously.
+Michelle Liem If you think so you do really need to go listen to the acoustic version Taylor Swift performed at Grammy Museum You'll know it's her song for sure
Ryan evokes that drama and release by using a technique the Italians developed called increasing. The song gradually gets louder providing tension in the listeners mind. First the writer has to set you up for the crescendo, which she or he did perfectly. That's the songs first half. Then a pause then the crecsendo to provide drama and finally, as if your sighing in relief a dininuendo. Its an Opera technique, but Tchaikovsky being such a bad ass for his days used it a lot. Well done Taylor or Ryan.
???? This is just the same notes played over and over again and his voice could not be blander. I respect your opinion, but it baffles me how anybody could possibly think this is better than the original
It's so interesting how these different takes on the song completely change the feeling they bring. Taylor wanted her song to bring a hectic and chaotic feel, while Ryan gives this sings this song filled with desperation. It's different but both are great.
+Mike Echlin The song is well written, but as in the case of pop music, the delivery is shit. Ryan Adams is singing Taylor Swft's songs how they should have been sung to begin with.
R A shows the world the depth of T's songs. this is the deepest layer oF T's mind: some kind of awful despair, an abyss of longing that will never be filled TS is a genius and R A is her prophet!!!!!! love u both....
Ellipsis come in three, just so you know next time. And T.S.'s lyrics are pretty much as deep as a puddle of mud can be, when it hasn't been raining for a month. I suppose she just taps into that shallow and semplicistic emotional architecture that ordinary people can easily relate to (probably because she is one of them) ; it just bothers the f*ck out of me that people like you refer to this load of nonsense as an "abyss of longing and awful despair" and to her as a "genius" or like elsewhere stated "the greatest songwriter of our generation". When I read such things I struggle to keep my head from falling off my neck from laughing. Go listen to some Tom Waits or PJ Harvey or Radiohead and see how insignificant and absolutely uncomplicated her lyrics are.
Without any doubt, I love this cover, the whole different vibe to it but what the song misses is the sense of urgency and the anxiety that swift brings in with the vocals and the rage at the towards the bridge n the end. My opinion. Have a good day:D
+Royston Aranha Thank you! I feel the same way. I was actually feeling a little bad about the dislike the original is getting on this page. I absolutely love the original's sense of urgency. This version is definitely wonderful, and one of my favourites from this cover album, but it's more like he's so deep in the woods and completely lost and desperate. Tay's is more urgent and fits in with the whole 'I REMEMBER thinking', whilst this isn't remembrance. Anyway, both are fantastic.
ibliveinme Thank you. If you have already taken a shot at RAs 1989 the difference you'll see is in the production.. I really loved the bad blood cover he did which I felt TS could have adopted his production n arrangements but agn felt RA couldn't add the hatred while singing the words bad blood. I like his style of Shake it off n the original one too. Both r the winners for me.
+Royston Aranha Same with Blank space. When Taylor sang 'got a long- list of ex lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane' she sounds so bitingly sarcastic and mocking. I loved it. Adams makes it sound sad, as if he's genuinely apologetic about hid insanity. I love both though. :)
There is an importance to this album being produced by a woman and a man, that is to express from seemingly differing perspectives, yet such similar hearts, connected as humans. Taylor and Ryan express what is shared between two lovers, both with perhaps different appearances based on societal standards, and all so similar based on standard-less nature of being ❤❤❤ and the album artwork itself captures the complexities and simplicities of being human within nature that is beyond the abilities of human comprehension.
When I saw Taylor at the Graham Norton Show I fell in love with her attidude and humour. I started to listen her songs and bumped into Out of the woods. I loved it! Right away and now my all time music hero covers her bigass song. This is my happy moment. I'd like to invite all of you to take a few minutes and listen to this beautiful great version of another awesome artist. Thanks for the music Taylor & Ryan!
I love his rendition of 1989. It really allows the listener to hear the emotion behind the lyrics because it's not the sparkly pop version that Taylor Swift released it in. Sure, her version is fun and I do love a good Taylor album. But hearing songs in an unplugged or different light always changes the feel for me. It makes you think about what Taylor is trying to say and it's not covered up by an upbeat dance track. It's raw and emotional and meaningful.
The more I listen to this track the more I love it. Ryan's really exploring his voice in different ways here, flirting with a Jeff Buckley sort of tremor at times which makes his tone sound even more vulnerable. Just gorgeous.
This record has ruined me. I no longer like anything else Ryan Adams has put out. Sad but true. This record is all I need. It's just so far and away better than anything else he's put out, vocally and production-wise. The lyrics (thank you TS - and I cannot listen to her record) work so well with RA's arrangements and performance. Every song on the record....every song.
Fan since 2001 Gold here 🙋🏻 As strange as it feels to say, this TS cover album is still one of my favorites of his. Every song is perfectly done. But one of his more recent albums, Romeo & Juliet, is really climbing the ranks. "At Home With the Animals" may be my favorite song he's ever written. Just thought I'd throw that out there! Check it out if ya haven't already.
I love both covers. They're both so different to even compare. Taylor wanted the song to portray exactly how she felt during a relationship where there was no assurance. Which is excitement, anxiety and adrenaline. Her sound was frantic and pumping. While Ryan focused more on the pain of not knowing what happens next. He used a more melancholic haunting approach. So really both are amazing and very very different as well.
As a Ryan fan forever, I was touched and moved by his reinterpreting her work out of love of music and I was as pleased by her affectionate receptive affection. The opposite of what spawned the Me Too Movement and the Taylor’s Versions’ vengeance. Just musicians waltzing together to the same strains of distinctive tunes.
I like the orginal version's being a big song and how intense i gets when it goes into the briggde and comes soft with the "lion king" sound but I hear this its like a camp fire song and your just there feeling the woods.
just like what taylor says. its surreal and haunting... my favorites are this love,all you have to do was stay,how you get the girl and i havent listen to clean yet.its also one of my favorite. cheers to adam and tay!!!!!
Ha, ha...Ryan didn't write a Heartbreaker type Album to his break up with Mandy, he just took Taylor Swift's album and rearranged it to mend his broken heart. Nobody arranges music like this guy, that's what makes him so damned good.
I feel like this whole album is going to be a sort of sleeper album...Not drawing a lot of mainstream attention, but just slowly continuing to generate a moderate amount of interest over the course of the next few years.
i am so floored by this song. and i constantly come back to put it on repeat. and it makes me sad and so misty in eyes and go get lost in the morning woods, without any disturbance. great work Ryan. and love you forever Taylor.
There are many great songwriters, a fair amount arguably better than Taylor Swift. However, I have yet to find a better story tell than her. The way her songs flow through the subject matter is done like no other. It's like a movie in song form. You can picture everything so clearly.
I'm back in 2020! I just realized I dropped off a lot of the hopeless dreamer in me on these listlessly strummed guitars. I'm still hung up on how painfully beautiful this rendition is, after Taylor's newer releases. Hashtag playlists that make you feel hopeful, anyone?
from the comments it seems like (some) men can only admit to appreciating taylor through the lens of ryan. i was dating a guy when 1989 came out who made fun of me for loving it. when it won the grammy for best album i felt vindicated. he's long gone but i hope he hears now what i heard then
