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Ted Nugent. He is just a complete scumbag and without his shitty music career he never would have impacted so many people with his gross bullshit. The world would be better off if his music never existed.
That would likely have the benefit of saving us from Kid Rock too.
I was about to give the example of Ted Nugent in the body of the post because he's just such a douche. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the same.
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I won't say his name but I stopped someone's musical career once. He was an up and coming young guitarist, getting performing gigs here and there, and teaching guitar students to help pay his bills while waiting for a break. I took some lessons from him and as part of general chatting it came out that I worked with computers. He thought that was interesting and asked good questions, so I brought him some programming books. He became a full time programmer a couple months later and a very good one too. I'm glad it worked out for him, but I always wonder what we lost.
My coach used to tell the story of a really promising track and field athlete who might have had a serious shot on the world scene, but quit to play in his band called The Barenaked Ladies. I never fact checked that, so I have no idea if it was true or not. But it stuck with me because it made me think of all the people who might have been incredible in one field or another who just never gave it a shot.
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Simon Cowell
The cunt worked out how to make millions from gouging money from kids with cheaply produced pop, and caused a massive collapse in the quality of the British music scene, from which it's never really recovered
It was the only good thing left Simon 🤨
Michael Jackson. Having his career fail during the childhood "Jackson 5" phase. Better for him and a lotta other people.
Last i remember he would play with kids but didn't sexually abuse them. Was there any more infor came out?
I'm on the fence about him, as I haven't really dug into it, but i get the impression that it's mostly allegations without proof. His sister made some outlandish claims, but her credibility has been called intoquestion.
There were some settlements/payoffs, but I'm not going to speculate whether that was for covering something up, or if it was an attempt at appeasing people who just wanted a quick buck.
It can be said with certainty that he liked being around kids, possibly in a purely innocent manner. Anything beyond that is hard to say for certain. And the stories about kids sharing bedroom with him often fail to take into account that his bedroom was larger than most houses.
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Yoko Ono
Eeeeeeee oooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeee oooooooooo eeeeee - oko nono
Outside the box: Robert Elliot, a charter pilot who flew and killed Jim Croce by crashing into a tree on takeoff. Pilot error was found to be the cause as the overweight 57 year old pilot was unable to drive to the airport so ran for 3 miles, from his motel to the hangar, to be on time for the flight. The run exacerbated his coronary artery disease, causing him to tunnel vision and not see the tree.
Wasn't sure if I should believe you or not, so I looked it up
...I'm still not sure if I can believe this
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Chris Brown because fuck that guy.
It would be super simple too, just obtain footage of him beating the shit out of Rihanna and make it public, his music career would surely be destroyed in seconds.
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I think it would have been better for Brittany if she hadn't been famous.
I'd do the inverse of this and see what might have happened if Charles Manson had had a successful music career. I heard an album of his songs and they were actually pretty good, kind of a mix of The Beach Boys and The Doors. Maybe if he'd sold some more songs then he wouldn't have gone into the whole murder cult thing.
But then again maybe it would have positioned him to be way worse and we're actually living in the universe where somebody stopped Manson from achieving true wealth and power and like leading a nationwide death cult or something.
Black Eyed Peas, I feel like that band was forced on me for like a decade.
Amy Winehouse. If she stayed a blues singer in London she might not have had so many drug issues made worse by fame.
Drake.
Wanker.
Elvis. Just to see what happens.
Nothing.
Elvis didn't invent anything musically, he was just the first white guy to do what Black guys had been doing.
If it wasn't Elvis, it would have been someone else a couple months later.
Actually, that was one thing I considered. If he hadn't become a superstar by never writing a single song, would it have changed the industry's thoughts on using pretty faces to sell other people's songs?
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A lot more piano probably.
Jerry Lee Lewis was poised to be one of the first white rock and roll superstars until his career was rocked with scandal. Had that happened it is very possible that the piano would become the predominant instrument in white rock.
The genre already has its roots in jump blues and boogie woogie, both piano driven styles. Little Richard and Fats Domino were at the top of the charts.
Had a piano player been the king of white rock then you would have likely seen a lot more artists picking up that instrument rather than the guitar.
Jerry Lee Lewis became fairly successful in Country after his Rock career faltered. Most country musicians still play the guitar rather than the piano though.
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The singer of 30 Seconds to Mars
Probably a very unpopular opinion but…
Taylor Swift. I am so sick of seeing her name mentioned all the time.
Courtney Love already did this
Phil Spector. His wall of sound bullshit caused decades of potentially amazing albums to sound like shit, and he's a terrible person who has brought nothing on the world that's worth keeping.
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Tool.
The band itself is fine. Their fans however...
This one hurt me as a Tool fan
Went to a Tool concert ahout six months ago. It was pretty clear that they were not fans of their fans.
Corey Feldman
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