While it may scream vanity project, the pair do have history, with Swift revealing in an interview with Beats 1 on Monday that they’ve previously written together. What started out as an experiment in the studio has led to him covering Taylor Swift’s 8m-selling pop opus 1989 from start to finish (minus the bonus tracks).
Ryan Adams, with his “lived in” vocals and authentic troubadour status, has taken the whole thing a step further. “We listened to the song and actually, surprisingly, it does have depth to it,” they’ll say before adding, “so we’ve stripped out all the fun stuff so you can hear the words.” The patronising assumption is that the pop listener can’t feel an emotional connection to a song if it doesn’t have guitars on it that a pop song’s brilliant longing can’t be communicated unless the voice delivering it is grizzled and has been recorded using two tin cans and a bit of string. That’s fine, each to their own etc, but it’s usually the reason behind the cover version that can be galling. Baby One More Time on Radio 1 in 1999, it’s become more and more commonplace for indie artists to “put their own spin” on a pop song.
E ver since late 90s UK sap-rock afterthoughts Travis covered Britney’s.
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