Ryan Adams covers Taylor Swift's 1989

September 21, 2015 5:09 PM

1989 as covered by Ryan Adams (except "Clean", for some reason). Blank Space is my favorite. It's available on iTunes (including "Clean"). You can read an interview with him or read about the backstory in USA Today.
posted by Kattullus (84 comments total)

I really enjoyed Shake It Off as a Bruce Springteen song. It sounds like a montage of attractive farm equipment.

Style sounded even weirder on guitar but it worked? Like from the soundtrack for an arty thriller about cocaine bankers? Possibly in 1989?


I cannot jive to that Coffeeshop AU of Blank Space however
posted by The Whelk at 5:11 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

This is so good. What a time to be alive.

(absolutely not sarcasm)
posted by Kitteh at 5:11 PM on September 21, 2015 [8 favorites]

and Bad Blood sounds like someone making fun of country music
posted by The Whelk at 5:14 PM on September 21, 2015

This sounds exactly like Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift. Which is what it is. I am enjoying this.
posted by threeants at 5:16 PM on September 21, 2015 [8 favorites]

Wait no I got it Adam's version of Style sounds like it belongs on The Americans.
posted by The Whelk at 5:17 PM on September 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

There's something great about unintentionally (?) dropping Future and Drake's mixtape (What a Time To Be Alive) when talking about Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift.

But for what it's worth, this is horrible and you're all horrible people for liking it.
posted by yeahwhatever at 5:19 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Not a huge fan of the twinkly guitar in Out Of The Woods but it fits the song and feels like the best merger of their respective deals. Like I could see an earlier Swift playing this.
posted by The Whelk at 5:19 PM on September 21, 2015

I really enjoyed Shake It Off as a Bruce Springteen song.

yeah, this was like some sort of couvert à trois.

Ryan Adams playing Taylor Swift -- I'm On Fire (cover)
posted by threeants at 5:20 PM on September 21, 2015 [3 favorites]

Although this is really just making me realize how much more I would actually be into an album of Taylor Swift playing Ryan Adams.
posted by threeants at 5:22 PM on September 21, 2015 [8 favorites]

Yesss this is finally out.
posted by limeonaire at 5:23 PM on September 21, 2015

although, really with all the gender-swapped lyrics? it's 2015, not 1989. OH SNAP
posted by threeants at 5:27 PM on September 21, 2015 [15 favorites]

Liking "Bad Blood," though had to stop "Blank Space" after Adams crooned,"Look at that face." It sounded so very creepy to me.

The over the top way Swift sings Blank Space is reminiscent of Stacey/Wayne's ex gf (Lara Flynn Boyle) from Wayne's World. But Ryan Adams sounds like he's about to do something horrible to some woman he's fixated on (so far---I have to muster up the courage to listen to it all the way through).
posted by discopolo at 5:29 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

re Style: cute, I didn't know The Killers were still recording stuff
posted by threeants at 5:29 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Max Martin does write some good songs, it's no wonder that they work well as Taylor Swift and Ryan Adams songs.

I bet he wasn't able to get Imogene Heap to sign off on Clean
posted by vuron at 5:31 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

ok so actually I liked the idea of this a lot better than the it of it. this has been a true ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS
posted by threeants at 5:32 PM on September 21, 2015

I love Ryan Adams very much and I love Taylor Swift's 1989 so I'm very happy about this! All You Had To Do Was Stay is my favorite as of today.
posted by SarahElizaP at 5:33 PM on September 21, 2015

I'm just going to say it: that song is catchy as hell.
posted by Cyrano at 5:34 PM on September 21, 2015

Ryan Adams also covering Swedish pop songs popularized by Taylor Swift.
posted by nanojath at 5:35 PM on September 21, 2015

This is the audio version of a Michael Mann film.
posted by shakespeherian at 5:41 PM on September 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

I like the bits of this I've heard very much. I've got a long drive ahead of me this week so I'm planning to block off some of that time for a good full-on listen.

On Spotify. It shouldn't delight me as much as it does that this is streaming on Spotify but here we are.
posted by angeline at 5:42 PM on September 21, 2015

Mod note: One comment deleted. Maybe let's take further stuff about Max Martin or Swift's songwriting or whatever over to the thread about that and keep this one just for the cover version?
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 5:45 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Not digging this cover of Style at all. The echo chamber sound doesn't work for me.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 5:53 PM on September 21, 2015

Also I feel about this the same way I do Lady Gaga's acoustic versions of her own stuff: I love pop songs but I can only handle so much pop arrangement.
posted by shakespeherian at 5:53 PM on September 21, 2015

I really enjoyed Style (I think it's my favorite) but I wish he could hit the high notes. Not being able to takes away from it a bit. Is it just me, or does it sound a tiiiiiny but like Bryan Adams? Maybe it's just that 1980s AM rock vibe?

I think "Out of the Woods" is the star of the album. The original was a bit boring to me, but it really works here.
posted by lunasol at 6:05 PM on September 21, 2015

It's available on iTunes (including "Clean")

The hell with this, I want to hear The Clean covering 1989.
posted by escabeche at 6:07 PM on September 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

Summer of '89
posted by cazoo at 6:16 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Blank Space: Father John Misty's 'reinterpretation of the classic Ryan Adams album "1989"'
posted by dw at 6:18 PM on September 21, 2015 [11 favorites]

This is neat and all, but I just had a good chuckle from what Ryan Adams said in USAToday article:

"It felt like I had given this person this cool gift: "Hey, here's your songs from this different perspective.'

I guess it's fine that she likes and supports that he did the cover album, but...really? I guess she has to send over a 1989 cookie cake to him to...thank him for letting him do her this favor. (I do hope she's getting a big old cut of the profits.)
posted by discopolo at 6:18 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Ryan Adams is my favorite artist of all time and 1989 is a desert island disc for me so I was expecting To love it and did when I listened this morning. I need to give it a few more days while I chill the f out.
posted by zutalors! at 6:21 PM on September 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

dw, that sounds like Father John Misty covering Lou Reed covering 1989 (aaand I just saw his cover image, and it makes total sense). That being said, I would pay good yankee dollars to hear a full-album version of this. I would also pay solid greenbacks to hear St. Vincent cover Lou Reed's Transformer.


Robin Thicke's proposal to cover Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes in its entirety seems poorly thought out, though.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:23 PM on September 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

The hell with this, I want to hear The Clean covering 1989.

Or Taylor Swift doing Point That Thing Somewhere Else?
posted by Pink Frost at 6:26 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

although, really with all the gender-swapped lyrics? it's 2015, not 1989. OH SNAP

It gets really clumsy in "Wildest Dreams" with "Say you'll remember me / standing in your nice dress, staring at the sunset." And I don't just mean hurf durf it sounds like he's in a dress, but that this songwriter looked at the chorus of this song, thought about switching the who, when, and where of it, and concluded that it wouldn't make too much of a difference. So it changes from the already tepid lyric about hoping your lover will remember you and the way you look tonight in that moment to hoping that your lover will remember you at some point in the future, possibly because her nice dress will remind her of that one time she wore a nice dress while she was with you. Hey, remember when you wore a dress? No, because that's something that happens all the time and is completely unmemorable? Welp, never mind.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 6:28 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Robin Thicke's proposal to cover Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes in its entirety seems poorly thought out, though.

This could be the NyQuil, but I feel like I've just read every crazy ass thing there is to read on the Internet.

(He's going to wear those godawful Beetlejuice pants while recording it, isn't he? Excuse me, I need to go throw up.)
posted by discopolo at 6:40 PM on September 21, 2015

I think (pray) that was a joke.
posted by tonycpsu at 6:42 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Don't worry, discopolo- I made that up.


Pharrell Williams' cover of Enya's Shepherd Moons was legit terrible, tho.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:44 PM on September 21, 2015 [3 favorites]

It gets really clumsy in "Wildest Dreams"

That said, it would make no sense to leave "Style" as same-sex: "And I got that red lip, classic thing that you like" would turn it from a straight cover into straight parody.
posted by dw at 6:45 PM on September 21, 2015

dw, that sounds like Father John Misty covering Lou Reed covering 1989 (aaand I just saw his cover image, and it makes total sense). That being said, I would pay good yankee dollars to hear a full-album version of this.

I think he might be doing it. Here's Welcome To New York.
posted by dw at 6:46 PM on September 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

The real problem is Adams looks terrible in a red lip, he needs a more sheer nude, something respectable for the office.
posted by The Whelk at 6:55 PM on September 21, 2015 [13 favorites]

I always mistake Father John Misty for Papa Joe Mama. And Atlantic Starr for Mazzy Star.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 6:56 PM on September 21, 2015

Listen Ryan, I know what's up. I know it's not really about Taylor. I know it's not Really Ms Swift who has burrowed her earworm Wrath-Of-Chaka-Khan-style into your brain. She only serves as your personal Cloak Of Distraction (+6 sneak bonus) allowing you a little ironic detachment served with your hyper-sincere public adoration of her. But I know with whom your adoration truly lies, and it isn't Taylor. This is about a talented songwriter recognizing when they are beat by an even greater talent. This is about you being Salieri, and your Mozart is Max Martin.

And there is nothing wrong with that. You should have just gone for it, called him up, watched some Backstreet Boys over some Kroppkakor, and planned the collaboration that I know is what you truly want. I understand that for someone who's identity is dependant upon being a songwriter, collaboration is a scary thing. So instead you get close but not touching, by covering an album of his music filtered through someone else. There's safety in that. I get it. But you're better than playing it safe at this point.

You should just give in. Give Max Martin a call. Work with a stronger talent for a while, pick up a lot along the way, and better yourself. It's OK. I won't think any less of you.

[phone]
posted by sourwookie at 7:21 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

I always mistake Father John Misty for Papa Joe Mama. And Atlantic Starr for Mazzy Star.

Don't feel bad -- this might well be Brian Adams doing a cover of Taylor Dayne's "Tell It To My Heart".
posted by Celsius1414 at 7:25 PM on September 21, 2015

twinkly guitar in Out Of The Woods

bite your tongue that is a mandolin!
posted by clavicle at 7:26 PM on September 21, 2015

While I prefer singing the song as written, Swift herself does tend to change pronouns. I mean, she totally butchered Train's "Drops of Jupiter".
posted by Lorin at 7:31 PM on September 21, 2015

He doesn't fully swap the pronouns everywhere. He dips in and out. In Blank Space he refers to his romantic rival as "she" - which could be not worrying about gender or not worrying about sexual identities or whatever.

Also there's something interesting about "Into the Woods" - Taylor has the lyric "Your neck was hanging from my neck" which didn't make sense to me until I thought that it was probably written by a man, or from a man's perspective, as that's usually how men and women dance. I know Taylor's tall, and is supposed to have written the lyrics to "Into The Woods" and Jack Antonoff only wrote the music, but I can't help seeing a man's perspective in that lyric. It kind of fulfilled that thought for me to hear Ryan Adams sing that part.
posted by zutalors! at 7:37 PM on September 21, 2015

Sweet! Ryan Adams is the king of cover versions. I'm still not sick of his version of Oasis - Wonderwall and it's pretty easy to get sick of Wonderwall.
posted by capricorn at 7:42 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

I hate to mess up your whole comment but I think it's "your necklace hanging from my neck," zutalors. (Out of the Woods is my favorite.)
posted by clavicle at 7:45 PM on September 21, 2015

I really dislike Swift and I really really like Adams... smells like a gateway album to me. Hopefully.
posted by Cosine at 7:45 PM on September 21, 2015

I'm pretty grossed out by the comments that he's trying to hook up with her by making this cover album. (Not here, elsewhere, but lots of idiots online seem to think this must be the ONLY explanation. But yea he must have wanted to hook up with the Gallaghers covering Wonderwall, and Bon Iver wanted to hook up with Bonnie Raitt when they covered "I can't make you love me")
posted by zutalors! at 7:46 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

she totally butchered Train's "Drops of Jupiter".

pretty sure that cut comes pre-ground
posted by threeants at 7:47 PM on September 21, 2015 [15 favorites]

Bon Iver wanted to hook up with Bonnie Raitt

please tell me there is fanfic of this

haha jk guys

haha..
posted by threeants at 7:47 PM on September 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

He doesn't fully swap the pronouns everywhere. He dips in and out.

Yeah, I put it on again at the top of the thread because my first impression was that he wasn't. Or those were the lines I happened to notice. I was going for loud, not close listening! Anyways, good stuff. I stopped using last.fm because it was just telling me how many times a week I was listening to 1989 ... this is going to get some play.
posted by Lorin at 7:57 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

There is no denying that Ryan Adams is now ensconced comfortably in the caped white jumpsuit portion of his career.
posted by entropicamericana at 8:06 PM on September 21, 2015 [9 favorites]

this is so good i love everyone tangentially related to bringing it to me including you Katullus.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:07 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Blank Space did NOT work for me at all, but Shake it Off isn't bad. One thing I'm noticing is how much muddier his singing in - both in terms of lyrical clarity and emphasis (Swift tends to be very crisp); this seems to be his style? (After seeing them cover other things, I really want They Might Be Giants to cover Swift.)

That said, it would make no sense to leave "Style" as same-sex: "And I got that red lip, classic thing that you like" would turn it from a straight cover into straight parody.

I've known guys who can rock a styling lip; were I him I'd be tempted to make it "black lip, gothic thing that you like", but then I was/kinda am a (perky)Goth, so....
posted by Deoridhe at 8:12 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Wait no I got it Adam's version of Style sounds like it belongs on The Americans.

It's even more 80s than the original, which I didn't think was possible. So good.

This is the audio version of a Michael Mann film.

This. This is the elevator music for a stomping Ryan Gosling.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:28 PM on September 21, 2015

I thought swifts video for style should have had an 80s cop theme.

She's a lady cop. He's a handsome james dean type on the run.
posted by zutalors! at 8:43 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

I've seen comments about the pronouns in a bunch of places apart from here and I actually think changing them is better. I don't mind cover versions that don't change the boyfriends to girlfriends, if the performer has a sincere interest in exploring those aspects of the song, but the seemingly widespread conviction that it's a superior way to do things feels kind of othering? appropriative? of minority sexuality and/or gender identities to me. As if those identities were just colourful costumes for straight, cis artists to play around with, to make their covers more interesting, rather than ways that many people actually, boringly, are. To me, Adams' approach seems like a more obviously respectful choice wrt to the original music, reflecting a desire to really bring his own perspective to the songs and put effort into reinterpreting them, instead of maintaining that patronizing mid-2000s ironic distance.

Anyway, I've been so excited for this album that, now that it's out, I can't bring myself to actually listen to it except in little snippets. That always happens to me. Are other people just as sick? I just want to save it and save it and save it for later, especially since it seems to be getting a good reception. I will have to force myself to sit down and enjoy it at some point.
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 8:54 PM on September 21, 2015 [7 favorites]

Blank Space is my favorite.

oh my

yes

yes this is very yes
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:03 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Father John Misty's Lou Reedy cover of Ryan Adams' cover of Blank Spaces.

Who knows where it will end?!

edit: Noticed someone else mentioned it!
posted by auggy at 9:27 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'm just glad to see this guy alive. I had doubts about that after seeing Whiskeytown a few times before they cut an album. Told their manager I thought he was going to do a Hendrix and to sit with him. It is nice when people with painful talent break through and don't die.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 9:28 PM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

would also pay solid greenbacks to hear St. Vincent cover Lou Reed's Transformer.

Can we just say the obvious and also want St. Vincent to cover 1989? Because, St. Vincent. I'd listen to her play polka covers.
posted by jimmythefish at 9:52 PM on September 21, 2015 [5 favorites]

this might well be Brian Adams doing a cover of Taylor Dayne's "Tell It To My Heart"

Derail/ woah, Taylor Dayne's sporting some genuinely bad hair extension. How come I didn't notice when I was 12? /derail

Now I want to hear someone covering Tell It to my Heart 21st C style. Why don't we have a slew of modern-day musicians doing covers of stellar late-80s pop songs?
posted by kariebookish at 1:16 AM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

I am very excited about this! I have been for a whole month, since my singer-songwriter friend, who went with me to see Ryan Adams in 2003, told me about it. (He also told me about Taylor Swift trademarking some of the lines from 1989, weirdly including a line my friend wrote in a song way before that album was released.)

Now I really, really, really want Swift to cover '1974'. Can we make that happen, somehow? (Could this be what Adams was angling for when he started this project? I like to think so.)
posted by daisyk at 2:57 AM on September 22, 2015

"There's that special, very interesting ingredient where you hear a skeleton of the song, just the bones, and her voice, and you go, 'Well, of course, this person plays to 60,000 people.' It's like at the end of Dune, with Paul Atreides riding the Sandworm, and his eyes are all blue from the spice mélange. That's totally how I see Taylor."

Aww.
posted by daisyk at 3:13 AM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

He doesn't fully swap the pronouns everywhere. He dips in and out.

I guess that shows how little I ever actually hear lyrics to songs, I did't notice at all.
posted by octothorpe at 4:50 AM on September 22, 2015

nthing the love for the springsteenian cover of "Shake It Off". Of course, now I want to hear Bruce do it.
posted by chavenet at 5:07 AM on September 22, 2015

gorgeous.
posted by spbmp at 6:52 AM on September 22, 2015

Now I want to hear someone covering Tell It to my Heart 21st C style.

There are hordes of covers on SoundCloud, but they are mostly either soundalikes or meh acoustic versions.
posted by grumpybear69 at 7:13 AM on September 22, 2015

This is neat and all, but I just had a good chuckle from what Ryan Adams said in USAToday article:

"It felt like I had given this person this cool gift: "Hey, here's your songs from this different perspective.'

I guess it's fine that she likes and supports that he did the cover album, but...really? I guess she has to send over a 1989 cookie cake to him to...thank him for letting him do her this favor. (I do hope she's getting a big old cut of the profits.)

Listen to their interview on Beats1 - they seem to have an ongoing respect for each other as musicians and have known each other for years. i think it was a gift to her and also one for him. It was his breakup from Mandy Moore distraction project.
posted by zutalors! at 7:31 AM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

I guess she has to send over a 1989 cookie cake to him to...thank him for letting him do her this favor. (I do hope she's getting a big old cut of the profits.)

The compulsory mechanical licensing laws mean that:

1. He didn't need Taylor's (or Max's) permission to record and release this album and
2. All of the credited songwriters will get paid per copy sold, along will all PRO-related income generated by the cover versions.

So, given the publicity this record is getting, it is kind of a gift, since Taylor et al will make a nice chunk of change from it.
posted by grumpybear69 at 7:48 AM on September 22, 2015 [3 favorites]

(He also told me about Taylor Swift trademarking some of the lines from 1989, weirdly including a line my friend wrote in a song way before that album was released.)

Any chance you're willing to provide some details here? I've heard about Tay-tay "borrowing" from Matt Nathanson for Red, but I hadn't heard anything similar for 1989 -- not that it would surprise me.
posted by crazy with stars at 8:06 AM on September 22, 2015

It's pretty good, but again with the lack of 'My ex-man brought his new girlfriend / She's like "Oh, my god!" but I'm just gonna shake. / And to the fella over there with the hella good hair / Won't you come on over, baby? We can shake, shake, shake'?
posted by signal at 9:01 AM on September 22, 2015

So, given the publicity this record is getting, it is kind of a gift, since Taylor et al will make a nice chunk of change from it.

There's a Forbes article online that alluded to her being able to possibly command a higher than typical royalty from this. That figure, I'm curious to know more about.

As for publicity or extra money, Swift doesn't need Ryan Adams (he is worth a fraction of her net worth and no longer a wunderkind) to boost 1989 sales or her profile. Sure this cover album might convert the "too cool for Taylor Swift" crowd (unlikely, since these folks like to ask who Taylor Swift is or pin their whole personality on never having listened to her or condemning everyone who enjoys her music), but I think Swift is better off just making money off of them than expecting them to turn into fans or buying her 1989.

Adams is really the one getting the gift of publicity, to be perfectly honest, by associating himself with Swift. He's going to be benefitting from the crowd who only vaguely recall his albums.

I'm glad she can make extra money from this. That's always good, especially for a female pop star, so good for her for letting him do this before she's done with her 1989 tour.
posted by discopolo at 11:53 AM on September 22, 2015

I don't know, does it need to be Adams v Swift?

Adams is really the one getting the gift of publicity, to be perfectly honest, by associating himself with Swift.

That's not really his game or what I think he's doing here. If he were some obscure artist this wouldn't be the sensation it is. He's had a long career and a lot of people are interested in his work and were eagerly anticipating what he was going to do here.

It's not always about who "needs" whoever else.
posted by zutalors! at 12:30 PM on September 22, 2015 [5 favorites]

good for her for letting him do this before she's done with her 1989 tour

Maybe you missed it in my first response, but there is no "letting him do this" in the equation. There is no way to prevent anyone from covering songs that have already been published. So there was no benevolent "OK Ryan, go for it" from Swift in any legal sense.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:24 PM on September 22, 2015 [5 favorites]

All I can say is that I am a huge fan of the original 1989 and I am also a huge fan of this cover version. I'm actually not crazy about Adams generally, but this is fantastic. Been listening on repeat since it came out almost.
posted by Lutoslawski at 3:57 PM on September 22, 2015

In case you were wondering why Father John Misty took down his covers, it was because Lou Reed appeared to him in a dream and told him so.
posted by Kattullus at 11:10 AM on September 23, 2015

It's even more 80s than the original, which I didn't think was possible. So good.

I like it, but I still miss the Don-Henley-"Boys-of-Summer" quality to the backing track of the original.

on the flip, his treatment redeems the lack of luster I felt about the original "Bad Blood"
posted by psoas at 3:08 PM on September 23, 2015

Ryan Adams’s 1989 and the mansplaining of Taylor Swift
posted by kmz at 10:37 AM on September 24, 2015 [3 favorites]

Fair. But this too.
posted by clavicle at 12:33 PM on September 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

From the article that kmz linked:

"Adams's achievement is that he didn't sympathetically engage with Swift's lyrics at all, but simply appropriated her words by applying them to his own, more complex, man emotions."

I get that there is significant gender bias in the way music is deemed serious and not serious, but "appropriating" lyrics and applying your own emotional spin to them is the essence of a great cover. It is not "simple." If you don't do that, it is at best homage and at worst karaoke.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:23 PM on September 24, 2015 [4 favorites]

Yeah, word. I disagree with the line about how the melancholy in the covers "flattens the landscape" exactly; it makes the landscape recognizably Ryan Adams, is the thing.
posted by clavicle at 2:30 PM on September 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

I really like the way Father John Misty delivered the "You're the king, baby, and I'm you're queen whooOOoo!" line. Not only was it perfectly Lou Reed, it also neatly sidesteps the "changing gender signifiers" issue.
posted by Ian A.T. at 2:54 PM on September 25, 2015

I can't believe I forgot this, but in his Heartbreaker days, Ryan Adams used to do live covers of whatever lines he could half-remember of I Want It That Way-- the Max Martinest of Max Martin songs. I used to always listen to one bootleg recording in particular (track 12) where some Y2K-era rockist in the audience keeps screaming STOP, STOP!!, and then Ryan Adams repeatedly interrupts the start of Hey There Mrs Lovely to argue about it:

You're not seriously mad that I played that, are you? Who are you? What, are you Pete fuckin' Townshend, who is this? I actually LIKE that song, that's a good fuckin' song. No, it really is, man. If you fuckin' played that song in drop d with Marshall stacks and the pedals and went [guitar] at the "I want it", man it would be so Melvins, it would be amazing. You can't tell me it's not good! I'm not kidding. I mean they suck but that's a good song. Cause they didn't write the-- You think the guys are going like, after I do my dance lessons I'm gonna go write this song? They didn't fuckin' write that song! Some ASSHOLE* wrote that song!

* Max Martin
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 11:45 PM on September 26, 2015 [5 favorites]