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* OvershadowedByControversy: While his music has been critically-acclaimed, Adams has become better known for his erratic {{Jerkass}} behaviour, his [[TheAlcoholic hard drinking]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and allegedly having]] NoSenseOfHumor[[note]]Stemming from an incident when he ordered security to remove a fan from a concert after the latter jokingly requested him to play a song by the similarly-named Music/BryanAdams.[[/note]]. This reached a peak in 2019 when he was publicly accused by several women, including his ex-wife Music/MandyMoore and folk singer Music/PhoebeBridgers, of abusive behaviour and sexual misconduct. [[RoleEndingMisdemeanour In response]], several radio stations immediately started dropping his work, a scheduled tour was cancelled, and plans to release four albums over the course of 2019 were shelved. While Adams would later resurface with a public apology (thus admitting the abuse and harassment allegations were true) and surprise released two of those planned albums from December 2020 onwards, nearly all major media outlets refused to touch them, indicating that the damage to his reputation still hadn't been undone.
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** Don't say that Tim [=McGraw=] or Bono wrote "When the Stars Go Blue".
* NeverLiveItDown: The "Summer of '69" incident, where Ryan had the most infamous of his many on-stage meltdowns and threw out a heckler requesting the titular song. This incident only helped cement his reputation as an erratic {{Jerkass}} until he eventually developed more of a sense of humor because of it.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Inverted|Trope}}. "How Do You Keep Love Alive" (off ''Cold Roses'') was, by [[WordOfGod Adams' own account]], made while completely insensible on opium. As he tells it, [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup he never wrote the song down]] and years later was ''still'' "trying to understand the chord pattern" for the piano part, because "[he] can't fucking play it." The song itself has a somewhat sad and ethereal quality one might suppose is related to opium, but frankly if you played a bunch of Adams' sadder songs in a row and asked someone to pick out which was written on opium, they most likely wouldn't do much better than chance.

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** Don't say that Tim [=McGraw=] or Bono wrote "When the Stars Go Blue".
* NeverLiveItDown: The "Summer of '69" incident, where Ryan had the most infamous of his many on-stage meltdowns and threw out a heckler requesting the titular song. This incident only helped cement his reputation as an erratic {{Jerkass}} until he eventually developed more of a sense of humor because of it.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Inverted|Trope}}. "How Do You Keep Love Alive" (off ''Cold Roses'') was, by [[WordOfGod Adams' own account]], made while completely insensible on opium. As he tells it, [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup he never wrote the song down]] and years later was ''still'' "trying to understand the chord pattern" for the piano part, because "[he] can't fucking play it." The song itself has a somewhat sad and ethereal quality one might suppose is related to opium, but frankly if you played a bunch of Adams' sadder songs in a row and asked someone to pick out which was written on opium, they most likely wouldn't do much better than chance.
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** Do not confuse him with Music/BryanAdams. This has especially become a problem since Bryan Adams' reputation has only gotten worse over the past few years.

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** Do not confuse him with Music/BryanAdams. This has especially become a problem since Bryan Adams' reputation has only gotten worse over the past few years.years before reversing in 2019 in light of the [=MeToo=] allegations.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Inverted|Trope}}. "How Do You Keep Love Alive" (off ''Cold Roses'') was, by [[WordOfGod Adams' own account]], made while completely insensible on opium. As he tells it, he never wrote the song down and years later was ''still'' "trying to understand the chord pattern" for the piano part, because "[he] can't fucking play it." The song itself has a somewhat sad and ethereal quality one might suppose is related to opium, but frankly if you played a bunch of Adams' sadder songs in a row and asked someone to pick out which was written on opium, they most likely wouldn't do much better than chance.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Inverted|Trope}}. "How Do You Keep Love Alive" (off ''Cold Roses'') was, by [[WordOfGod Adams' own account]], made while completely insensible on opium. As he tells it, [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup he never wrote the song down down]] and years later was ''still'' "trying to understand the chord pattern" for the piano part, because "[he] can't fucking play it." The song itself has a somewhat sad and ethereal quality one might suppose is related to opium, but frankly if you played a bunch of Adams' sadder songs in a row and asked someone to pick out which was written on opium, they most likely wouldn't do much better than chance.

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* FandomBerserkButton: Do not confuse him with Music/BryanAdams. This has especially become a problem since Bryan Adams' reputation has only gotten worse over the past few years.

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* CoveredUp: TimMcGraw covered "When the Stars Go Blue" and released it as a single. Ironically, many people are unaware that Adams had written the song first, but since McGraw made it famous (it was a chart-topper), many think that McGraw is the song's original writer.

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* CoveredUp: TimMcGraw Music/TimMcGraw covered "When the Stars Go Blue" and released it as a single. Ironically, many people are unaware that Adams had written the song first, but since McGraw [=McGraw=] made it famous (it was a chart-topper), many think that McGraw [=McGraw=] is the song's original writer.



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* NeverLiveItDown: The "Summer of '69" incident, where Ryan had the most infamous of his many on-stage meltdowns and threw out a heckler requesting the titular song. This incident only helped cement his reputation as an erratic {{Jerkass}} until he eventually developed more of a sense of humor because of it.
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** Don't say that Tim McGraw or Bono wrote "When the Stars Go Blue".

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** Don't say that Tim McGraw or Bono wrote "When the Stars Go Blue".Blue".
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Inverted|Trope}}. "How Do You Keep Love Alive" (off ''Cold Roses'') was, by [[WordOfGod Adams' own account]], made while completely insensible on opium. As he tells it, he never wrote the song down and years later was ''still'' "trying to understand the chord pattern" for the piano part, because "[he] can't fucking play it." The song itself has a somewhat sad and ethereal quality one might suppose is related to opium, but frankly if you played a bunch of Adams' sadder songs in a row and asked someone to pick out which was written on opium, they most likely wouldn't do much better than chance.

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* CoveredUp: TimMcGraw covered "When the Stars Go Blue" and released it as a single.
* FandomBerserkButton: Do not confuse him with Music/BryanAdams

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* CoveredUp: TimMcGraw covered "When the Stars Go Blue" and released it as a single.
single. Ironically, many people are unaware that Adams had written the song first, but since McGraw made it famous (it was a chart-topper), many think that McGraw is the song's original writer.
* FandomBerserkButton: Do not confuse him with Music/BryanAdamsMusic/BryanAdams. This has especially become a problem since Bryan Adams' reputation has only gotten worse over the past few years.
** Don't say that Tim McGraw or Bono wrote "When the Stars Go Blue".
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* FandomBerserkButton: Do not confuse him with BryanAdams

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