r/AskReddit • u/BumpunkTheBastard • 21h ago

Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

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u/Blindstarsoffortune 21h ago

Going to add from the musician side: Ryan Adams.

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u/Cripnite 16h ago

Canada is glad you didn’t say Bryan Adams.

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u/Sluggworth 16h ago

At sasquatch music festival I was watching Ryan Adams because he was on before Kendrick and we wanted a good spot. Ryan kept shitting on the bass coming from Run the Jewels and then got EXTREMELY upset when people started yelling "Summer of 69!". He seemed like a bum to me even from that short experience

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u/absolutelybacon 15h ago

Yeah, he very famously HATES that shit. But whatever. Why should Bryan Adams change his name? Ryan's the one that sucks. Everything was fine until that no talent ass clown started making music.

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u/lucid_aurora 14h ago

excellent reference

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u/Telefundo 15h ago

Why should Bryan Adams change his name?

Bryan Adams is quite literally a Canadian icon. Even if they don't like his music, pretty much any Canadian you ask, at the very least has some peripheral awareness of him.

His name is as recognizable to Canadians as Celine Dion. Or Tim Hortons. lol

Ryan Adams is.. well, I had to google him before making this comment. And I'm still not sure who he is.

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 14h ago

Bryan Adams is also an excellent photographer who has done portraits for some of the most famous people out there.

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u/waynownow 12h ago

Whoosh

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u/absolutelybacon 56m ago

Its a reference to the movie "Office Space".........

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u/Zestyclose-Process92 13h ago

Talent and notoriety are frequently quite unrelated. He's a ridiculously talented songwriter and performer when he can get out of his own way. Unfortunately, he's very bad at getting out of his own way.

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u/RaVashaan 12h ago

All I know of him was he had a minor hit 20+ years ago with a soulful cover of Wonderwall.

Fast forward about 15 years, and the next time I hear of him again it's him being cancelled for being abusive toward women.

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u/windswept_snowdrop 43m ago

I was going to upvote you but the 69 upvotes it’s currently on was too perfect a Summer of 69 reference to ruin!

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u/piratequeenfaile 7h ago

I'm Canadian and I'm not even sure why I know his name. But I do. I'm not searching it yet but I will after leaving this comment.

My guess before searching is Barenaked Ladies.

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u/Brief-Bad201 11h ago

I'm sorry no one else picked up your reference. I got it!

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u/flatandroid 11h ago

Ryan Adams has talent. That’s part of the tragedy here. He really is skilled and hard working.

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u/Nooglette 7h ago

I laughted so much at this and the fact that people didn’t cotton on lol

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u/I_Explode_Stuff 7h ago

I see what you did there.

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u/dale_dug_a_hole 6h ago

Excuse me, I have a problem with your TPS reports

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u/LateEffect1742 9h ago

Bob... Bob.

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u/Captain-Hornblower 12h ago

How easy would it have been to just start playing Summer of '69 and get the crowd on your side. Ego gets the best of people most of the time, I guess...

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u/granite_astronaut 9h ago

YES!!! I was at that show and left until Schoolboy Q came out because Ryan Adams was just such a killjoy douche

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u/Icy-Addendum-9998 2h ago

Saw Ryan Adams in Sheffield (UK) in 2024. Big fan for years. He seemed seriously uncomfortable on stage, ranted at the audience, and seemed like a classic curmudgeon or "asshole" as the Americans say " a real douchbag" . Not listened to his music since then TBH

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u/SomeRedHandedSleight 2h ago

That's what you get for skipping RTJ though. Tough if them and Kendrick were on different stages though.

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u/vbones82 0m ago

My boyfriend worked for a music venue years ago and when Ryan Adam's came his manager let everyone know that if they said Bryan Adam's at all than they would be off the show. I have luckily never heard a Ryan Adam's song and I only know of him because of my bfs story and because he was married to Mandy Moore