Ryan Adams

he's in the Grateful Dead

"This is my Green Velvet song!" OK, I am actually curious to hear what the hell this sounds like

Making your romantic partner feel bad about themselves and their abilities is evil, insidious behavior, but it’s harder for outsiders—or the state—to weigh in there, even if adams in the end did more harm in this instance

― Trϵϵship, 14. februar 2019 20:21 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Psychological abuse is criminalized in many countries, and is in the process of being so in Denmark. While the age of consent is 15. So.

wonder how many teenage girls the Dead fucked while on the road. probably all of them!

Adams is obv a piece of shit. The whole spectrum of things he's accused of doing are bad. I do think he's written some great songs but they make up about 1/16th of his output from what I've listened to; and we've already established pieces of shit can make good art. doesn't mean you have to give him money or listen to him anymore though.

(xp) It's a criminal act in the UK. Or, it's a criminal act under English (& Welsh) Law and under Scottish Law but imagine it isn't in N. Ireland, judging by their past record.

john mayer also has a reputation

― theorizing your yells (katherine), Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:30 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He claimed his primary sex organ was a "white supremacist"

excuse me what

wrt prince

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/how-princes-charisma-helped-him-7814476

When Prince spotted 18-year-old Tara Leigh Patrick in the early 1990s at a nightclub, he asked her to audition for him.

Prince signed her to his record label and came up with her new name: Carmen Electra.

After their romance the model went on to marry basketball player Dennis Rodman and singer Dave Navarro, but Carmen said of Prince: “I will always love him.”

English actress Anna Garcia met Prince at a London gig when she was 16 and lived with him in his Minneapolis home at the age of 17.

Prince gave her the name Anna Fantastic and she inspired his songs Pink Cashmere and Lemon Crush.

Marvin Gaye’s daughter Nona fell in love with Prince but their relationship ended when he met Mayte Garcia , who would become his first wife.

The relationship with Nona came to a screeching halt when Prince invited her to a show and she saw Mayte wearing an engagement ring.

Mayte had sent Prince a video of her bellydancing in 1990 when she was 16, and she was soon hired to be part of his Diamonds and Pearls tour.

On Valentine’s Day 1996, Mayte, then 22, married 37-year-old Prince. White doves were released when they said their vows. Prince wrote his 1995 hit song The Most Beautiful Girl In The World about her.

Mayte told the Mirror: “All the songs he wrote for me, that’s a pretty hard act to follow.

'I’ve dated a couple of guys, musicians, who have written me poems or songs and I’m like, ‘Seriously, don’t even go there. You can’t compete!’”

MAYER: Someone asked me the other day, “What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?” And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n****r pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, “I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.'”

PLAYBOY: It is true; a lot of rappers love you. You recorded with Common and Kanye West, played live with Jay-Z.

MAYER: What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.

PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at you?

MAYER: I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.

Inspiring.

"What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s."

my fucking god

my struggle, by john mayer

https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.378578184.6509/throwpillow,small,750x1000-bg,f8f8f8.u11.jpg

Laura Snapes straight up mowing pricks down here:

Anyway here’s what I think about male “genius” and the pathetic lengths the music industry will go to in order to cover for awful men https://t.co/mVx3lqCwkU

— Laura Snapes (@laurasnapes) February 14, 2019

wonder how many teenage girls the Dead f****d while on the road. probably all of them!

I’m open to being schooled by someone with more knowledge on the subject, but I’ve never had the impression that the Dead were known for this.

I specifically meant a reputation with women but shit like that interview tends to be comorbid with that

also I can't believe there exist people in the world who don't know about that interview

I would pay $1500 right now to not have the mental image of a 4-inch-tall engorged Klan leader standing proud in the pubic forest of a multiplatinum blues-pop singer-songwriter

Mein Cock

I sort of regret mentioning the Mayer tweet

You can drop 'the' and 'tweet,' really.

My Body Is A Dixieland

Making your romantic partner feel bad about themselves and their abilities is evil, insidious behavior, but it’s harder for outsiders—or the state—to weigh in there, even if adams in the end did more harm in this instance

― Trϵϵship, 14. februar 2019 20:21 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Psychological abuse is criminalized in many countries, and is in the process of being so in Denmark. While the age of consent is 15. So.

― Frederik B, Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:51 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is interesting-- i looked it up and it seems ireland is the first country to specifically criminalize emotional abuse and they did so this year. from what i read of the legislation, i support it, but it will be interesting to see how this legislation ends up being enacted

sorry -- forgot how to read -- france did this in 2010.

How is it defined under the law?

many xps, but I know blessedly little about most of these people! I'm too busy in my own community of musical interest and only perked up last year to figure out whether I wanted to go to a local music festival a couple years back where Adams was a headliner and opted not to go.

It's appropriate that Mayer comes up here, since he kind of had the career Adams was set up/setting himself up for, down to the gig w/the Dead.

From the Istanbul convention:

Article 33 – Psychological violence
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the intentional conduct of seriously impairing a person’s psychological integrity through coercion or threats is criminalised.

The FBI is now involved. That was quick!

yeah, was just reading that. it's a serious crime.

14!

"What is being black?"

I'm gonna be stuck on that at least through the weekend, folks

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/arts/music/ryan-adams-fbi-explicit-communications-underage.html

patchy fucker

I...I don't think this year will see three Ryan Adams LPs.

In related news:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/prosecutors-are-moving-to-indict-r-kelly-after-the-discovery-of-another-videotape

I...I don't think this year will see three Ryan Adams LPs.

Apparently the pre-orders have been pulled from his website...

https://shop.paxamrecords.com/collections/big-colors

This made me think of Conor Oberst, who was cleared of a rape charge years ago. If that accusation had happened today, the conversation would have been entirely different. I wonder if we need to look at those past accusations in a different light. Perhaps he didn't rape someone, but did he exercise some sort of power or do anything that, today, would be considered sexual misconduct? I'm not trying to distract the conversation, but it does make me think some people have gotten off easy in the past, when really shitty behavior was passable as long as it didn't involve a crime.

the conor oberst thing turned out to be made up and was retracted by the accuser

and it only was resolved like 4 years ago and lots of people assumed his guilt

one of the things that burns me up the most about this is the way he insidiously poisoned his victims' relationship with music. not only is he a lying, promise-breaking, misleading, objectifying POS, he made it difficult for women to find peace and emotional security in music, which i believe is precious. his lying and manipulation took something else away from people that is more precious than a hundred thousand virginities if they were countable. i was not a fan but i am disgusted on behalf of the people who did like his music and trusted him. ugh fuck this guy.

i just read laura snapes' thing and she really gets to the heart of it

It is, in the words of the New Statesman critic Anna Leszkiewicz, women doing “the boring work of killing our idols” – the male artists who let us down time after time – while male predators kill the dreams of the young women who admire them. Two women in the NYT’s report about Adams say that their interactions with him extinguished their desire to ever make music again. If the allegations are true, these women – and probably thousands more with similar stories about other men – are the collateral damage of a protectionist industry whose power brokers operate out of fear of their own irrelevance. It is pathetic.

For an example of an interviewer abetting this letting off the hook dynamic

http://clrvynt.com/michael-gira-interview/

man hearing these fucks "extinguished their desire to ever make music again" really stings as someone who loves to make music and understands how fulfilling it can be

/wonder how many teenage girls the Dead f****d while on the road. probably all of them!/

I’m open to being schooled by someone with more knowledge on the subject, but I’ve never had the impression that the Dead were known for this.

Broad agree with lalecera apart from..

something else away from people that is more precious than a hundred thousand virginities if they were countable.

.... Whoa horsey!

His whole insta is positive comments. Are the management team keeping clean?!?

ll otm. Without meaning to downplay the sexism suffered by women in other professions, music means more to me that movies, etc. It's primal and spritual at the deepest level. Ever since I was a child, I have woken up looking forward to the music that I'm going to experience throughout my day and how fucked would it be to take that away from someone else?

A few years back, Jessica Hopper started something on twitter, where a ton of women spoke up about the abuse and indignities that had been piled on them by men in the music industry. It was eye-opening and disheartening for me. But I don't think many names were named, if at all. And a lot of the abuse came from audiences and fairly anonymous types like security guards and recording studio staff.

There have obviously been other accusations against more high-profile artists and producers, but for some reason it doesn't feel like it's taken on the snowball effect of the Hollywood Me-Too movement.

xpost - Instagram has an options where only accounts you are following can comment. So he either has that activated or has turned off new comments altogether.

The Adams story, Snapes article plus the Hopper thread does make you wonder whether there will be an avalanche of stories about musicians on the horizon similar to what we saw with Weinstein. Lord knows there’s more than enough material – but I suspect the question will be whether there are enough resources in the music press or clicks to be had in the MSM to drive the investigative reporting necessary to unearth them.