Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Ryan Adams. Tonight's panelists on The Nightly Show Lisa Ling, Eddie Huang, and Jordan Carlos will be discussing Russia and Syria.
is an American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, poet and painter. He is best known for his prolific solo career, and as a former member of alternative country band Whiskeytown, with whom he recorded three studio albums.He is on tonight to promote his new album 1989. This is not an album that happens to have the same name as taylor Swift's, it is a cover of her album!In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released his first solo album, Heartbreaker, to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize. In 2001, Adams released the UK certified-gold Gold, which included the hit single, "New York, New York".
Produced by Adams, the first news of this reinterpretation of 1989 was revealed last month on the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter's Instagram (misterryanadams) with the post ''Taylor Swift 1989 full album cover night 1. As played by the Smiths.'' Several subsequent posts of song snippets revealed much more range than that including a take on ''Bad Blood'' that VANITY FAIR called ''a lovely Heartbreaker-era style version'' referencing Adams' classic debut, a string quartet-enhanced version of ''Blank Space,'' what Adams promised to be the ''guaranteed saddest version of 'Welcome to New York' ever - or your tears back,'' and more.
Ryan Adams 1989Ryan Adams' cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 is a lot of fun to think about and talk about, but not much fun to listen to. It is, in other words, a pure product of the Internet—a robust, cross-platform, thinkpiece-generating app that testifies mostly to Adams' ability to get attention. You have to hand it to him for knowing what he's doing: His album choice churns up some nice, irony-rich soil for culture and music critics to wriggle around in. Even though Taylor Swift has been a songwriter first and foremost throughout her career, 1989 was where she collaborated more intensely with superstar producers like Max Martin and Shellback to help her cross over from Queen of Pop Country to the center of the pop world proper. The move worked spectacularly: 1989 is among the best-selling albums of the post-Napster era. And now Ryan Adams has transformed it again, into... a run-of-the-mill Ryan Adams album.
He wants "Blank Space" to be a Big Star-style heartfelt ballad, but the melody feels thin, rushed, and monochrome in this setting. He delivers "Shake It Off" in a grim and determined tone that would be appropriate if he were singing about how conservative politics have decimated rural families at the inaugural Farm Aid—but when paired with a repeated refrain of “haters gonna hate," it sounds ridiculous. And Adams'"Style" is downright garish, coming off like Bono fronting Survivor, the dark side of the album's titular year.
Adams' 1989, for all its sincerity and technical execution, is ultimately hollow because it's nothing but context. There's everything surrounding it (the unexpected match of singer and song, the details of the release) and there's what you bring to it (your relationship to the music of Swift and Adams, your demographic profile, your feelings on rock and pop and covers in general) but there's no essential reason for it to exist.
I have to agree with the reviews, these covers sound so hollow and empty. I do enjoy some alt country music, but this is not even close to the beauty of Iron & Wine.
From last night's show
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— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) October 2, 2015Lisa Lingis an American journalist, television presenter, and author. She is currently the host of This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN. She is the former host of Our America with Lisa Ling on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, former co-host of ABC's The View (from 1999–2002), host of National Geographic Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. She was the host of reality television show, The Job. Ling is the older sister of journalist Laura Ling.
Eddie Huangis an American restaurateur, chef, food personality, writer, and attorney. He owns BaoHaus, a sandwich shop in the East Village of Manhattan.
Jordan Carlosis an American stand-up comedian who played a recurring character on The Colbert Report and is a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids' show Me TV. He currently appears as a panelist and reporter on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
This Week's Guest List
THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, Comedy Central
Th 10/1: Ryan AdamsTHE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, CBS
Th 10/1: Claire Danes, Secretary of State John Kerry, PewDiePie
Fr 10/2: Morgan Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Sean MurrayCONAN, TBS
Th 10/1: Starlee Kine, Watkins Family HourJIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC
Th 10/1: LL Cool J, Kate Mara, Andra DayTHE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, NBC
Th 10/1: Miley Cyrus, Sam Rockwell, Disclosure
Fr 10/2: Seth Rogen, Victor Cruz, Chvrches