3:30
1989, 2015
Written by Taylor Swift and Max Martin, 2014
It's pretty audacious to cover an entire album, and extremely daring to do it only a year after the original was released. Adams strips away some of the high-production gloss of Swift's song, but somehow fails to make it raw, warm, or intimate. The music might be handmade, but Adams' voice sounds echoey and distant, with the grandiose emotion of an arena belter, not, for example, a broken-hearted singer in a nightclub. The monotonous percussion doesn't help much.
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