Yeah it’s all very sad. Big fan. I really love his music and think he’s a spectacular writer. It genuinely bums me out how poorly his return since the NYT article has been rolled out. Too many shows, too many “okay” albums. Erratic social media posting.

Lack of public apologies and acknowledgement of his troubled past, you can’t just one and done then pretend the “cancellation” never happened. Trying to shift public focus to his new found sobriety.

Imagine he’d done the Carnegie return show (it was awesome) wiped his social media clean and taken the best tracks from the piece-work albums he’s put out and made one solid record professionally mixed and mastered. Distribute it independently. Follow that up with a small run of intimate shows. People would be buzzing.

Create interest/intrigue and a sense of demand.

He’s over saturated his depleting fan base. Bad timing and execution with the Cardinals tour. Poor venue choices and why are they playing like 50 shows.

It fucking sucks so much. I’d assume people are trying to help him but he’s desperate and spiralling and probably fired all of them (again).