Trailing Ryan Adams' 1989 cover album, Fleet Foxes drummer, Father John Misty, decided to get in on the Taylor Swift cover action by adding a Lou Reed-esque rendition of "Blank Space" to his SoundCloud, which has since been removed. However, the cover is still available on Youtube and we have it here.
"My reinterpretation of the classic Ryan Adams album 1989," Josh Tillman (Misty's other name) originally captioned the song, Pitchfork notes. The audio clip was complemented with an edit of The Velvet Underground & Nico's unmistakable album cover that incorporated text 1989 next to the famed Andy Warhol banana.
Tillman channeled his inner Velvet Underground frontman for his Swift cover, showcasing Reed's deep pronunciations over the strikes of an acoustic guitar. "Blank Space" received the Lou Reed royal treatment, complete with folk-like sounds and ramblings found on tracks like "I'm Waiting For The Man" and "Heroin."
Ryan Adams unveiled his raw take on Swift's record breaking album, originally announcing his project last month and one by one, teasing fans with one rendition at a time via social media. "Ryan's music helped shape my songwriting," Swift tweeted in response to the musicians endeavor. "This is surreal and dreamlike."
Ryan's music helped shape my songwriting. This is surreal and dreamlike. Countdown to #RyanAdams1989 @TheRyanAdams pic.twitter.com/pGZB0uUqiB
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) September 17, 2015
The duo previously worked with one another on an unreleased demo when Swift dropped by Adam's Pax-Am studio a few years back and recently, Adams reveled to Rolling Stone that he's a huge Swiftie. Following the release of 1989, Adams was immediately hooked. "I was listening to that record and thinking, 'I Hear more,'" he told Rolling Stone. "Not that there was anything missing. I would just think about the sentiments in the songs and the configurations. It wasn't like I changed them because they needed changing, but I knew that if I sang them from my perspective and in my voice, they would transform. I thought, 'Let me record 1989 like it was Bruce Springsteens's Nebraska.'"
Covers in different styles seem to be all the rage right now, and have even launched new celebrities. Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs is probably the most notable of the new "song style" celebrities. Check out his treatment of Swift's "Bad Blood" below.
