Taylor Swift’s Next Single Is ‘Wildest Dreams’ – Read the Lyrics

And in his words, he’s doing it “as played by the Smiths”. “Welcome to New York” mars an otherwise fantastic album, somehow managing to incorporate every exhausted cliche about a typical outsider’s perspective of New York into three minutes of “80s synth disaster”.

Swift is apparently a huge Adams fan.

Andy Grammer and Taylor Swift perform during The 1989 Tour at Soldier Field on July 18, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. She was certainly overjoyed with Adams’ plans, as she revealed whilst responding to Adams’ announcement on Twitter.

Of course it’s far from the first time the recent Splendour attendee has taken on unlikely covers.

Ryan Adams is probably a genius, and gave us Heartbreaker, which is just about as good an acoustic alt country album that’s ever been recorded. He later clarified for Rolling Stone that it was a little more casual than NME made it out to be.

So T-Swizzle decided to hit up Ryan on Twitter and ask him herself if his not-so-secret project was the real deal! Listen to that (and see his other photos from the recording session) below.