I’ve also not listened to Ryan Adams, despite him probably being my most listened to artist before all that. What he’s done is abhorrent and in a different place…
With Steph Carpenter I feel it’s a little different - I mean he’s clearly very, very misinformed - dangerously so when it comes to infectious disease stuff, just WTF so with the flat earth stuff, but he’s not really out there spreading his misinformation that I’ve seen? The press that came out recently was from a conspiracy theory podcast or something? So you’d have to be actively seeking that out (or reading music press) to have come across it in which case you’re likely misinformed already…
He’s also apologised for the way he spoke, and clarified he was just speaking his own views (I mean, if he wants to have them… then fine , I guess? Doesn’t make his riffs shit)
Even someone like Ian Brown is worse - spreading it publicly on an open platform like twitter