Published: February 16, 2019
My music journalism past suggests that a #MeToo moment in rock is long overdue
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2SWfcBD
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The allegations against the US singer-songwriter Ryan Adams are complex and gruesome. Sexually Skyping with someone who turned out to be a minor. Blocking his then-wife’s career. Offering creepy-sounding “help” to young female artists. Threatening suicide when women didn’t respond quickly enough…
Away from Adams, who has denied the allegations, a good name for this might be “needy predator”, a toxic masculinity honed to such a degree that it can mute itself to evade detection. For such types, where better to hide and flourish than in the role of liberal/sensitive/navel-gazing/feminist-simpatico/outsider singer-songwriter?
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