Seems he’s very controlling, and both Mandy Moore, his ex-wife, and Phoebe Bridgers, who he was introduced to and whose album he was involved with, as well as her for a time have told of his needy and controlling behaviour – demanding to know where Phoebe was, what she was doing, threatening suicide when she didn’t reply to texts, then refusing to release music.
I love Phoebe’s album, and one track in particular, ‘Motion Sickness’, which turns out to be about Adams.
That sort of behaviour on its own isn’t enough to condemn someone, many people are like that, of both sexes, but reports of his behaviour with a girl younger than 16 via text is well out of order.
Here’s the lyrics to Motion Sickness…
“Motion Sickness”
I hate you for what you did
And I miss you like a little kid
I faked it every time but that’s alright
I can hardly feel anything
I hardly feel anything at all
You gave me fifteen hundred
To see your hypnotherapist
I only went one time, you let it slide
Fell on hard times a year ago
Was hoping you would let it go and you did
I have emotional motion sickness
Somebody roll the windows down
There are no words in the English language
I could scream to drown you out
I’m on the outside looking through
You’re throwing rocks around your room
And while you’re bleeding on your back in the glass
I’ll be glad that I made it out
And sorry that it all went down like it did
I have emotional motion sickness
Somebody roll the windows down
There are no words in the English language
I could scream to drown you out
And why do you sing with an English accent
I guess it’s too late to change it now
You know I’m never gonna let you have it
But I will try to drown you out
You said when you met me you were bored
You said when you met me you were bored
And you you were in a band when I was born
I have emotional motion sickness
I try to stay clean and live without
And I want to know what would happen
If I surrender to the sound
Surrender to the sound