Ryan Adams

[McParadigm]

What did he do?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-adam ... -in-expose

[McParadigm]

Somewhere, Conor Oberst is really fucking annoyed

[McParadigm]

The accounts have been corroborated by family members or friends who were present at the time, as well as by correspondence from Adams reviewed by The New York Times.

When Adams began corresponding online with a fan, Ava, in 2013, she was a 14-year-old bass player already forging a career.

But their correspondence about music turned into graphic texting. Eventually, Ava said, they conducted video calls on Skype, where Adams exposed himself during phone sex.

The Times has reviewed extensive communication between the two, including 3,217 text messages they exchanged over a nine-month period when Ava was 15 and 16.

She had been a gifted bassist since the age of 9. By 12, she was road-tripping with her family to Manhattan for gigs with established musicians. At home, however, Ava was isolated, home-schooled because of bullying. At 13, her father died.

“I never see pics of you anymore,” Adams wrote in November 2014, when he had just turned 40 and Ava was newly 16. “You were blowing my mind.” He had pet names for her body parts.

Days later, Adams expressed anxiety: “If people knew they would say I was like R Kelley lol,” he wrote.

Yet within 10 minutes, the conversation again turned explicit. “I just want you to touch your nipple,” he texted, before again asking about her age. “And tell me that your mom is not gonna kill me if she finds out we even text.”

In response to Adams’s repeated pleas that she tell him she was 18 — “You have to convince me,” he wrote — Ava at times said she was. Sometimes he asked to see identification — “in the hottest way that has ever been done Lol.” She never showed him any ID.

Adams, through his lawyer, said that while he “has communications online with various fans and aspiring musicians,” he “does not recall having online communications with anyone related to anything outside of music.” The lawyer added that “if, in fact, this woman was underage, Mr. Adams was unaware.” He pointed to her performances in clubs and provided photos of Ava from that time, saying she looked “approximately 20.”

[verb_to_trust]

Geez I just read the article. That stuff with the underage girl is disturbing.

[verb_to_trust]

I always felt 1989 was just a shameless attempt at wooing Taylor Swift.

[Blaine Ryan]

Yeah. Like...I'm just speechless. This is hugely fucking disappointing.

[evenslow]

welp

[Rangi Guy]

I couldn't name you one Ryan Adams song....I'm not even sure if I've heard his music before, but if someone were to have asked me if he was kind of a creep and into underage girls, I would have said 'Totally!' - I'm surprised people are shocked by this

[given2trade]

Am I still allowed to listen to Cold Roses? I can give up the rest.

[verb_to_trust]

This really puts into context the time Ryan blocked me for calling "cherry pie" by Warrant misogynistic cock rock.

[verb_to_trust]

Am I still allowed to listen to Cold Roses? I can give up the rest.

I'm going to. Maybe he will have to release Blackhole now to make money.

[bodysnatcher]

I couldn't name you one Ryan Adams song....I'm not even sure if I've heard his music before, but if someone were to have asked me if he was kind of a creep and into underage girls, I would have said 'Totally!' - I'm surprised people are shocked by this

same, not surprised whatsoever

[epilogue]

Am I still allowed to listen to Cold Roses? I can give up the rest.

I'm going to. Maybe he will have to release Blackhole now to make money.

The stuff I already paid for I'm going to listen to. Because I already have that shit and he has my goddamn money. But I'm not sure that I'll pay for anything new at this point.

[epilogue]

To be clear, I don't think people are surprised. Just disappointed.

[verb_to_trust]

To be clear, I don't think people are surprised. Just disappointed.

Yeah the only thing that surprised me was the underage sexting.

[Blaine Ryan]

To be clear, I don't think people are surprised. Just disappointed.

[Strat]

My best friends girlfriend is close friends with that butterswoeth girl. She said the article barely even touches on how sick he is.

Ugh. I knew he was a bipolar manipulative asshole. That’s clear just by his constant public meltdowns. The underage girl thing is a surprise.

This sucks.

[bodysnatcher]

i got nothing invested in Ryan Adams, never really liked his music. but sucks for his fans (aside from parties involved, obviously)

[McParadigm]

It’s always been clear that he’s an asshole. But if “playfully sexually pursuing a child” was defaulted into your list of ‘Things Ryan Adams Probably Does’ and also you have been happily following his career, then I’m speechless.

[epilogue]

Am I still allowed to listen to Cold Roses? I can give up the rest.

I'm going to. Maybe he will have to release Blackhole now to make money.

The stuff I already paid for I'm going to listen to. Because I already have that shit and he has my goddamn money. But I'm not sure that I'll pay for anything new at this point.

Never mind.

The more I read and the more stuff comes out the more disgusting this becomes. I don't know how much of his stuff I'm going to listen to moving forward.