Video: STYLED-UP with "The Cardinals"

Just as a quick follow up to the below album review, Ryan Adams recently released a "viral video" on Youtube. Though it's a well-known fact that he has sobered up in the last year, he's still acting pretty strange in this video. I really can't even finds words that accurately describe this thing...

Supposedly, Ryan's sober these days, so consider this evidence that he puts the "I" in Insane...

It's comforting to know, and I mean this in the most patronizing, slightly fascinated, 2:32-of-precious-life-gone-by way possible, that Ryan Adams' idea of "viral video" is to take the worst cliches of every Sesame Street episode ever made (bad acting; fortune cookie lyrics; mumbling; pubescent monsters that I sooo can tell are not real; absence of female characters; white people; stoner-growling; refusal to end; et cetera) and combine them. Dudes sober now, if you havent heard. As for his day job, (more...)

Since we have no idea what's going on here, let's just dive into the vid's description: new frontiers are created as out hero's, "The Cardinals" forge on into the sunset of new dimensions of sound and sight. Here we see them in their natural habitat, "the electric egg" their trusty home away from home. Feel the vibrations. Ry's new song. It's called "Styled Up." And it involves a paper mask and just a little growling. Can't quite explain that rubbernecking need to see more, right? Don't. Just click . [...]