Taylor Swift has been given the stamp of approval from rock music legend, Bryan Adams.
The Canadian musician, 65, sang Swift’s praises in a recent interview, where he looked back on a live duet the pair performed together back in 2018.
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Bryan Adams Says Taylor Swift Did ‘Justice’ to ‘Summer of 69’
During her 2018 tour, the Reputation Stadium tour, Swift brought out Adams as a special at her concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where they joined forced for a duet of the rocker’s hit song, “Summer of ’69.”
While reminiscing on the experience in a new interview with Guitar World, Adams said Swift, 35, is one of the only other musicians who has done “justice” to the 1985 hit single.
“There’s been all kinds of people who have taken the songs and remixed, rearranged, re-recorded, and done their versions, but very seldom has anyone beaten the original,” Adams told the outlet. “The only person I can think of who did a version of ‘Summer of ’69’, and did such justice was Taylor Swift.”
@bryanadams Flashback to belting “Summer of ’69” with the incredible @Taylor Swift on her 2018 Reputation tour in Toronto! Good times. 🎤 🎶 Loving the new edition of 1989! #TaylorSwift #BryanAdams #Reputation #SummerOf69
♬ Summer Of ’69 – Bryan Adams
“Well, I think Taylor’s version—no pun intended—was when she invited me to sing with her,” Adams recalled, before going on to explain why Swift’s cover stands out among all the artists who have performed different renditions of “Summer of ’69.”
“She sang the lead vocal, I sang the harmony, and that was really fun for me because I’ve always thought that the harmony in that song is very subliminal on the record—but it’s there,” he said. “That harmony is one of the key things that most people don’t get when they hear the song, they don’t realize how important it is. But when I sang it with her, we nailed it.”
“And then, we only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he continued to gush over the “Anti-Hero” songstress, while remembering their duet as purely “fantastic.”
Swift surprised the crowd at her Reputation Stadium Tour by bringing Adams on stage for the August 2018 concert, which took place at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. She had a number of special guests during the 53-show international tour, including the likes of Selena Gomez, Shawn Mendes, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Maren Morris, Niall Horan and more.
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