Music
20 Eyebrow-Arching Authors Of Famous Songs
We all kind of expect nowadays that the person singing a tune we're into likely didn't write it. What's shocking, though, is that sometimes the song was written by someone who likely could've performed it better as well.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Celebrities You Didn't Know Had Ridiculous Music Careers
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- By Chris Berglund, Sam Jackson, JM McNab
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7 Promotional Stunts by Musicians That Backfired Hilariously
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- By Matt Farmer, Blair Dodge, A.C. Grimes
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5 Unknown People Who Secretly Made All Your Favorite Music
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- By Sam Jackson
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
22 Shockingly Dark Lyrics in Otherwise Happy Songs
Be honest, how hard are you listening to the lyrics of any given song?
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Half-Assed Accidents Behind the Most Famous Songs Ever
Some of the most iconic musical moments of all time have just been farted out on accident.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge, Ed Stevens, Ryan Menezes, John Martin, Alexander Pan
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5 Classic Songs That Were Originally Creepy as Hell
Turns out that the words these forgotten originals were routinely bizarre, racist, and/or totally insane.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Shocking Early Versions of Famous Musicians
If you dig into the past of almost any famous artist, you'll find something radically, hilariously different from what they became famous for.
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- By Michael Hossey
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The 6 Most Disturbing Song Choices by Huge Ad Campaigns
Some marketers are content to slap any old catchy riff into their ads, regardless of the incredibly awkward context that the lyrics might create.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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6 Classic Album Covers That Were Originally Horrifying
If cooler heads hadn't prevailed, history might remember all of these differently.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge
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20 Backstories To Lyrics In Famous Songs
It turns out that if a tune is catchy enough you won't even put a second thought into the vile and disturbing things you're singing about.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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35 Songs That Everybody Gets Wrong
Naturally, we've ended up with a lot of different lyrical interpretations to history's most popular songs. And pretty much all of them are B.S.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Famous Musicians Who Swiped Their Biggest Hits from Others
Many times 'what it takes' has less to do with talent and more to do with the capacity to take songs someone else rejected or flat-out steal them from another artist.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Famous Musicians Who Correctly Predicted Their Own Death
Who knows when and how death's grim hand will come to us? Musicians, apparently.
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- By Sam Jackson, Ryan Menezes
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20 Spirited Easter Eggs Hiding On Famous Albums
A good easter egg makes things infinitely more awesome.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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