Blank Space, by Taylor Swift.
…but obviously I’m covering the Ryan Adams cover.
Why? Because it’s in a key I can deal with, and an expectation I can deal with, and instrumentation I can deal with, including this guitar that’s still missing a high E string, because tonight I decided to just replace the one string real quick and looked for strings and realize all I have are electric strings, which probably also need changing, so it’s time to get some acoustic strings.
Stay tuned. (ha)
When Ryan Adams put out his album that was a cover of the Taylor Swift album, this song was my favorite, but I liked the whole thing a ton, and said so, and said something about how it took Ryan Adams to get me into Taylor Swift, and I got absolutely roasted on Twitter because I shouldn’t need a dude to get me into songs that Taylor Swift wrote, and it’s true, and I feel like I’ve done my penance by singing backup on Shake It Off at karaoke a lot in the past few years?
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I have a Ryan Adams story, but it’s confusing and hard to track down evidence online that this happened.
But, briefly: One of the last music videos I worked on in New York City in the summer of 2001 was a Ryan Adams video. I don’t really remember the song, but we filmed him riding around in a limo all over town and sorta partying. I don’t remember shooting him playing the song.
And then Sept. 11 happened, and instead of that limo video, the “I’ll always love you New York” video with the city in the background came out.
So that was a weird experience.