1989 (Ryan Adams album)

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1989
Ryan Adams studio album

Publication
(s)

September 21, 2015

admission

2015

Label (s) PAX AM

Format (s)

Download

Genre (s)

Pop , alternative rock , alternative country

Title (number)

13

running time

54 min 18 s

production

Ryan Adams, Charlie Stavish

Studio (s)

PAX AM, Los Angeles

chronology
Ryan Adams 1989 -

1989 is the fifteenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams , which was released on September 21, 2015 on his label PAX AM . The album is a full cover of Taylor Swift 's album of the same name , released a year earlier. 1989 debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 , one position ahead of Swift's 1989 , which by then had been in the charts for 48 weeks.

background

Adams met Taylor Swift's album while coming to terms with the failure of his marriage to Mandy Moore . When asked what attracted him to Swift's album, Adams said it just exuded a joy and described the album as an alternate universe of its own. Adams initially described his album as being similar to The Smiths' music . During the recording, he said he found a mix between Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town and Meat Is Murder from The Smiths.

Reception by Taylor Swift

On the day Adams announced his project, Swift said enthusiastically on Twitter : "Cool, I won't be able to sleep again today or ever and I will celebrate this day as a holiday every year."

Two weeks later, an official announcement appeared in Entertainment Weekly , whereupon Swift again expressed enthusiasm and anticipation.

One day after the album was released, Swift praised Adams' work in a joint interview. She pointed out that his interpretations were very different from their own and were not cover versions in the traditional sense.

Track list

The title list corresponds exactly to that of the original:

  1. Welcome to New York ( Ryan Tedder / Noel Zancanella / Taylor Swift) - 3:18
  2. Blank Space (Swift / Max Martin / Shellback ) - 3:21
  3. Style (Swift / Martin / Shellback / Payami) - 2:44
  4. Out of the Woods ( Jack Antonoff / Martin / Swift) - 6:07
  5. All You Had to Do Was Stay (Swift / Martin / Shellback / Mattmann & Robin ) - 3:30
  6. Shake It Off (Swift / Martin / Shellback) - 4:06
  7. I Wish You Would (Antonoff / Swift / Greg Kurstin / Martin) - 3:44
  8. Bad Blood (Swift / Martin / Shellback) - 3:55
  9. Wildest Dreams (Swift / Martin / Shellback) - 5:21
  10. How You Get the Girl (Swift / Martin / Shellback) - 3:50
  11. This Love ( Nathan Chapman / Swift) - 4:45
  12. I Know Places (Tedder / Zancanella / Swift) - 5:14
  13. Clean ( Imogen Heap / Swift) - 4:23

literature

  • Hannes Roß: Taylor Swift and the album cover. In: Stern September 24, 2015 ( online ).
  • Ian Crouch: Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989". In: The New Yorker September 22, 2015, ISSN  0028-792X ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ryan Adams Says Taylor Swift's '1989' cover album Will Be Finished This Week . Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Keith Caulfield: Both Taylor Swift and Ryan Adams, '1989' Albums Are in Top 10 of Billboard 200 Chart . In: Billboard . September 27, 2015. Accessed September 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Kevin O'Donnell: Ryan Adams opens up about his Taylor Swift 1989 cover album . September 21, 2015. Accessed September 23, 2015.
  4. ^ The Complete History (So Far) of Ryan Adams' Taylor Swift Cover Project . Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  5. ^ The Story Behind Ryan Adams's '1989' Homage to Taylor Swift . September 21, 2015. Accessed September 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Cool I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight or ever again and I'm going to celebrate today every year as a holiday." @TheRyanAdams Cool I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight or ever again and I ' m going to celebrate today every year as a holiday. I'M CALM . August 6, 2015. Accessed February 26, 2016.