Ryan Adams is an incredibly talented artist who has made at least three CDs worth every penny we paid for them. Unfortunately, despite this immense talent, he has very little concept of what makes a cohesive, flowing, tightly-packed album. Even those three great records (Gold, Cold Roses discs one and two, and even Heartbreaker) have so much filler that they are 45 minute masterpieces turned 75-minute wobbling opuses.
This inability to see his own limitations has carried over into Adams' personal life, giving Gawker and gossip rags a million stories to goof on him with. Someone this good looking, grungy, and totally "rock star" (often in the worst sense of the term) would attract this unwanted attention even if he wasn't accused of:
Ryan Adams... who has an aversion to bathing, is a jerk. "He was really nasty to (ex-girlfriend) Mandy Moore. He would always pick on her and say the meanest things. Like he had to tear her down to make himself feel better. And he's so narcissistic it's unreal. He constantly Googles himself and is obsessed with what people say about him online." A rep for Adams said, "I don't think any of that stuff is true. He was really super-good to [Moore], and he just felt it didn't work out. That's a bunch of nonsense." [Page Six]
Courtney Love isn't helping things either. From a blog post, apparently accusing Adams of abuse of her credit card:
Ryan Adams you fucking weasel. deal with it.858,00$
Current mood: determined
Adams then made his breakup with Mandy Moore more public than anyone ever wanted it to be with this post, which everyone (i.e. Gawker) believes is about her:
Ryan, if you're reading this: fuck what anybody says about you, including us. But please try to keep things in perspective (stopping a show to throw out a fan who called for "Summer of '69," the Bryan Adams song, is not helping our enjoyment of said show), don't get high and drunk dial reporters, and if someone says, "Hey, there are 24 songs here and 12 of them are worth putting out," maybe you should put out a record with those 12 songs on them and leave the rest for Ryan Adams - The Bootleg Series.
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