“One year after releasing 1984, his love-letter EP to mid-Eighties punk, Ryan Adams is back with an album-length cover of Taylor Swift's 1989. It plays like the latest chapter in his ongoing recent Tom-Petty-meets-the-Smiths re-imagining of the Reagan years. "You've got that Daydream Nation look in your eye," he sings, turning "Style" into a Sonic Youth flirtfest. Part playful genre experiment, par”
“Ryan Adams' cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 is a lot of fun to think about and talk about, but not much fun to listen to. It is, in other words, a pure product of the Internet. At its best, Swift's 1989 crackles with life, while Adams has transformed it into... a run-of-the-mill Ryan Adams album.”
