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Ryan Adams has made some brilliantly ludicrous claims in a new interview - arguing that he feels like he's in Ghostbusters and that Taylor Swift is the new Shakespeare.
Speaking to The Guardian, Adams went into depth on a myriad of Swifty topics like how affecting her lyrics have been for almost a decade now and what it was like getting up close and personal with Swift's 1989 album.
"The first time I heard 'White Horse' I got chills head to toe,” the singer says. “I remember feeling shocked by her voice, shocked at how clean that song was. I like stuff that sort of penetrates through my regular consciousness and hits me where I’m not looking. That’s usually stuff that’s a little darker."
"You know, that song is really about disillusionment on such a grand scale. I just thought about how this is hitting me like a tidal wave, it’s so romantic and so beautiful, and yet so sad and so disillusioned — it’s all the stuff I love about the Smiths. That song fucked me up and I couldn’t believe it. Her voice does this thing. It just goes through all my bullshit detectors and right into my heart and soul."
Listen to Ryan Adams' 'Blank Space' below
An extraction from the full feature sees Ryan explain what it felt like making the transition from a 'goofy' songwriter to working with one of his heroes: "He compares the exercise of working through 1989’s songs to “being in Ghostbusters or something, and then all of a sudden I have to go do Shakespeare.” As in, his material is the goofy franchise, hers is the oeuvre of the greatest writer that ever lived. It’s possibly an overgenerous analogy."
The 1989 covers album shook up the internet for a minute inspiring mocking tributes and hardcore think-pieces in their droves. A particular favourite was Father John Misty's Lou Reed cover of Ryan Adams covering Swift.
