Adam Green
by Grant Moser
December 2006
Adam Green is a darling of the hipster post-art scene and is the man behind the cult hit “Jessica”—a tongue-in-cheek ballad to Jessica Simpson. Somewhere along the way he decided that the public wanted a whole album of music like that. Bad idea. He is a gentle parody of a lounge singer, sort of Tom Jones and Elvis Presley and a cheeseball all together. Obviously, he’s having some fun on this record, but that doesn’t mean the listener is. His shtick of being overly clever and too cool for school wears thin. Quickly. Sometimes I even think his lyrics have come together by accident—sort of like when you’re in the shower singing and ending each line with any word that happens to rhyme with the line before. And just like a piece of art where no one knows whether it was painted by a talented master or a four-year-old in fingerpainting class, everyone takes the high road for fear of being wrong. Well, I’m calling out the emperor on his lack of clothes. This is simply an unnecessary album. Kids, don’t get caught up in the hype.