"It really got in my head, and upon the first listen I knew it was a great album. But those melodies reinstating themselves in my brain, replacing the originals, I was like, 'All right, this is a really great album."'
Adams said he came up with the idea to cover the album last November when he was going through a difficult time, and then, by the time Christmas came along, he found himself on his own during the holiday season. So he decided to record four of the album's tracks to tape, but the machine ate the recordings, so he went back and recorded the full album with a full band.
Swift said she could hear that Adams had put his own stamp on it.
"What struck me immediately when I listened to it is that they're not cover songs. They're reimaginings of my songs, and you can tell that he was in a different place emotionally than I was," she said.
"There's this beautiful aching sadness and longing in this album that doesn't exist in the original. So that's my favourite part."
She also said Adams' re-recording of 1989 was well thought out and conceptualised.
"It was not thrown together," she said.
- AAP
