1989Tributee: Taylor Swift. Sometime in August 2015, Ryan Adams let everybody in on a secret: he'd decided to cover Taylor Swift's 1989 in total. This was not the first album length cover of Adams' career (he never released his version of the Strokes' Is This It), nor was this his first attempt at 1989. He initially attempted a stark, four track rendition of the record naturally dubbed his Nebraska but he wound up settling on "in the style of 'As played