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Ryan Adams Covers Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” From Her Album 1989

Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift Bad Blood cover
Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams covered Taylor Swift's entire 1989 album and will release his cover album on Monday, Sept. 21.

Unlikely or inevitable? Ryan Adams released the first single off his upcoming cover album of Taylor Swift’s 1989 on Thursday, Sept. 17 — and the mellow singer-songwriter has undeniably made the pop princess’ summer hit “Bad Blood” his own. 

Adams, 40, premiered his acoustic interpretation of Swift’s song on DJ Zane Lowe’s Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio, and all of a sudden lines such as “Band-aids don’t fix bulletholes” seemed to take on a deeper meaning.

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The seasoned musician has been teasing the album on social media for weeks, leading the 25-year-old “Blank Space” singer to tweet her excitement.

“is this true??????? I WILL PASS OUT,” Swift tweeted on Aug. 6 after a music journalist dropped the news. 

Ryan Adams 1989 album

Adams also announced that he will be releasing the full album online on Monday, Sept. 21, after previously tweeting that he and his team were “sandblasting” the songs and “they’re holding steady.”

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“Ryan’s music helped shape my songwriting,” Swift tweeted Thursday shortly after the first cover dropped. “This is surreal and dreamlike.”

This isn’t the first time Adams has completed such a project, however. In 2002, the “Gimme Something Good” singer covered the whole Strokes album Is This It, but never released it to the public.

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