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Ryan Adams obviously holds Taylor Swift in extremely high regard, high enough to cover, record and release her 1989 album in its entirety. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he doubled down on his praise by comparing the pop singer to one of the most important writers in recorded history, saying working on his 1989 covers album was like “being in Ghostbusters or something, and then all of a sudden I have to go do Shakespeare.”
The interviewer then seemed to express skepticism, so Adams added, “Well, look, those songs are popular for a reason. She’s a popular artist for a reason.”
The two recently interviewed each other for GQ and Swift offered Adams compliments of her own, saying of his interpretation of 1989, “You know when actors say a line, they say a sentence, but they say it with different emphasis on different words and they completely change it? That’s what you did with my album. If you take a song like ‘All You Had To Do Was Stay,’ my version of it was like, ‘All you had to do was stay, sorry about it, I don’t miss you, and now you’re back.’ Yours is like, ‘All you had to do was stay. You broke my heart. That’s all you had to do.'”
Read the entire Guardian interview here.
