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It was one of those things that sort of came together. I’d put down a drum track, I’d put down a bass track and then and I was so happy. And what I would do is, I’d sit down and I do a rough structure with acoustic guitar and vocal, and then I would sort of build it a song up from there. The difficulty I initially had was that I couldn’t put my band together, so I had to do it.

And then when the lockdown happened, I went back into the studio and basically set up a chalkboard with all the ideas that I had and just sort of scratched everything out so that I could see what I had. What did you set out to achieve with So Happy It Hurts and its title track?īRYAN ADAMS: The idea of the song had been kicking around for a couple of years, and I tried doing a version of it just before the lockdown. In the run-up to his latest release, Adams opened up about writing So Happy It Hurts and revisits some career-spanning moments, such as 1985’s “Reggae Christmas” with Pee Wee Herman (IYKYK) and singing backup next to Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on Mötley Crüe’s “Sticky Sweet.” So Happy It Hurts (2022) When I inquire how he’s feeling these days - Adams contracted COVID-19 twice - he brushes me off. It follows 2019’s Shine A Light, which featured collabs with Ed Sheeran and Jennifer Lopez.Īt the moment, Adams is in Portugal preparing for a show, and he sounds pretty rushed as he scrambles to prepare for the call after mine. And he’s just released his 15th studio album, So Happy It Hurts, which features 12 new songs co-written by Adams. Adams has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Canada’s Walk of Fame, the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. The recognition is just another feather in Adams’ already stuffed cap: To date, Adams ranks 38 on Billboard’s list of all-time Hot 100 top artists, he’s won 20 Juno Awards, and he’s been nominated for 15 Grammys, winning Best Song Written For A Motion Picture Or Television for “ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.” He’s also been nominated for five Golden Globes and for three Oscars. In fact, just the other day, Adams was named one of the first 2022 inductees to the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside longtime collaborator Jim Vallance. There’s hardly anything he hasn’t done, hardly an award he hasn’t won, and he’s collaborated with an enormous range of artists, from Tina Turner to Taylor Swift to Melanie C to Mötley Crüe. Over four decades and 15 studio albums, Bryan Adams is a rare entity in pop music. We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.