Adams first became interested in Taylor Swift's album while coping with the collapse of his marriage to
Mandy Moore. On what attracted him about Swift's album, Adams stated "There's just a joy to
1989," When recording the album, Adams said he found a sound somewhere between
Bruce Springsteen's
Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and the Smiths'
Meat Is Murder (1985).
Taylor Swift's response On the day that Adams announced the project, Swift responded enthusiastically from her
Twitter account, writing, "Cool I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight or ever again and I'm going to celebrate today every year as a holiday". Two weeks later, an official statement was released via
Entertainment Weekly, whereupon Swift expressed further excitement and anticipation: On September 21, a day after the album's release, Adams was on
Zane Lowe's
Beats 1 radio show when Swift made a surprise appearance. Swift praised Adams' work, and described the ways in which his interpretation of the songs differed from her own. She stated that they were "not cover songs" but rather "reimaginings of my songs, and you can tell that he was in a very different place emotionally when he put his spin on them than I was when I wrote them. There's this beautiful aching sadness and longing in this album that doesn't exist in the original". In the same interview, Swift also admitted that, after spending time listening to an advance copy of Adams' album, she had picked up some of Adams' melodies when performing her songs on tour. ==Critical reception==