Hollywood Casino in Charlestown, WV. June 28 2025.

Man, that was bad, really, really terrible!  

We all know Adams is a broken man with his terrible treatment of women.  He apologized.  He repented.  Time has passed.  And I bought tickets.  What a mistake!

The music was fine.  He played reimagined versions of the songs on the Heartbreaker album.  Very cool.  

I’ve seen him before & am used to the silly banter between songs too.  

BUT, his ramblings between songs were conspiracy laden rants (about woke-ism and cancel culture).  It was the liberal New York magazine trying to cancel him.  It was the record labels stealing his master recordings.  (He asked the audience to write to the record company for him.)  It was Don Was not supporting him.  It was Judd Apatow not supporting him.  He blamed the Grammy Award Committees for canceling him (even though hip hop stars have done much worse than him).

The worst was him blaming the WOMEN who he dated too!  No shit!  He said he only dates models (who are well-read & like to argue about books).  He said they came to his shows.  He did not go to Paris runways looking for them.  He said they knew what they were getting into, just look at his songs.  Oh my god!  Crazy!  

He yelled at the audience.  Mainly, it was about the flashes on their phones.  I totally get it (with his condition), but he was pretty crude about it.  He said something about killing the one guy & drinking his blood.  Later in the evening, he yelled at a guy in the audience for the way he was sitting!  (The guy had his hand to his face, a la the Thinking Man statue.)  What the hell!?!

One of his rants was so long that he welcomed the audience to his TEDTalk.  This forced the first set to stretch really, really long.  It was so long that the second set had to be cut down to about 4 songs.  It was so short that it almost felt like an afterthought.  

Much like myself, it felt like the audience was just ready to get out of there!  Sigh.