{"id":25716,"date":"2015-09-25T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/the-unexpected-queer-pleasures-of-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-cover-album\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:20:26","slug":"the-unexpected-queer-pleasures-of-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-cover-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/the-unexpected-queer-pleasures-of-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-cover-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected Queer Pleasures of Ryan Adams' Taylor Swift Cover Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Unexpected Queer Pleasures of Ryan Adams' Taylor Swift Cover Album<\/b>
\nBY NICO LANG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryan Adams<\/a> and Taylor Swift<\/a> might make for a seemingly unexpected mashup, but the pairing isn’t all that unusual. Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals<\/em> and Night Ripper<\/em> brought together acts as seemingly incongruous as Notorious B.I.G., Aphex Twin, and Elton John to form something totally new and totally transcendent. Who knew that Dolla would bring out the best in Avril Lavigne<\/a>? <\/p>\n

Danger Mouse, the prolific producer and musician, likewise paired the Beatles’ self-titled LP (popularly known as the “White Album”) and Jay-Z’s The Black Album<\/em> for the appropriately titled The Grey Album<\/em>. You haven’t heard “99 Problems” until you’ve heard it mashed up with “Helter Skelter.”<\/p>\n

While Adams’ version of 1989<\/em>, released to iTunes<\/a> on Tuesday, isn’t a mashup in the Greg Gillis model, it carries the same raison d’etre — creating something that’s not greater than the sum of its parts but worthy to them.<\/p>\n

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