--- title: Video: Taylor Swift Covers Riptide by Vance Joy on BBC Radio 1 description: Watch Taylor Swift do an amazing rendition of Ripetide by Vance Joy on BBC Radio 1 canonical: https://time.com/3490503/taylor-swift-vance-joy-riptide/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-10T16:49:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:43.739Z og:title: Watch Taylor Swift's Amazing Cover of Vance Joy's "Riptide" og:description: Watch Taylor Swift do an amazing rendition of Ripetide by Vance Joy on BBC Radio 1 og:url: https://time.com/3490503/taylor-swift-vance-joy-riptide/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Taylor Swift's Amazing Cover of Vance Joy's "Riptide" twitter:description: Watch Taylor Swift do an amazing rendition of Ripetide by Vance Joy on BBC Radio 1 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Taylor Swift's Amazing Cover of Vance Joy's 'Riptide' by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 10, 2014 4:49 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 10, 2014 4:49 PM UTC There’s no doubt that “Riptide” was a break-out hit for Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. Now that Taylor Swift has covered the heart-tugging track, it could be even bigger. Vance Joy (real name James Keogh) released his debut album, _Dream Your Life Away_, last month on Atlantic Records. He spent the summer making the rounds of the festival circuit, performing well-received sets at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. But despite the success of “Riptide,” Keogh has been operating just outside the spotlight, still an up-and-comer. No more. It’s hard to stay under the radar when one of the biggest pop stars in the world covers your song. “I had a special feeling about \[the song\],” [Keogh told TIME](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/08/29/artist-to-watch-vance-joy/) last year. “I didn’t know if it was going to necessarily be a really popular song, but I knew that it was catchy and it had a definite spark to it.” Swift covered “Riptide” for BBC1’s “Live Lounge” singing while accompanying herself at the piano and losing herself in the song’s emotions. It is a beautiful version of the song and should be enough to tide fans over until Swift releases her fifth album, _1989_, on Oct. 27. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3490503/taylor-swift-vance-joy-riptide/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3490503/taylor-swift-vance-joy-riptide/"},"headline":"Watch Taylor Swift's Amazing Cover of Vance Joy's 'Riptide'","datePublished":"2014-10-10T16:49:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:43.739Z","description":"Get caught in the \"Riptide\"","url":"https://time.com/3490503/taylor-swift-vance-joy-riptide/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Taylor Swift","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3490503/taylor-swift-vance-joy-riptide/","name":"Watch Taylor Swift's Amazing Cover of Vance Joy's 'Riptide'"}}]}] ```