Music
6 Famous Songs Written by the Last Person You'd Expect
It's never widely publicized who did the actual writing, and sometimes it's for good reason.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
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- By Aaron Short, Sam Jackson
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23 Backstories About Famous Songs
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Famous Online Copyright Crusaders Who Are Total Hypocrites
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- By Ross Jones-Morris
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 5 Most Embarrassing Past Lives of Famous Musicians
It turns out the package that some of history's most beloved artists were wrapped in when they first entered our collective consciousness is often the product of several aborted attempts to get their shtick down perfect.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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5 Things Record Labels Don't Want You to Know They Do
Here are a few things record labels don't want you to know that they still do in an effort to separate you -- and the artists -- from your hard-earned cash.
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- By Rani Baker, Dwayne Hoover
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5 Iconic Songs Despised by the People Who Created Them
Sometimes musicians slap together what they think is their worst song, only to see it become the hit that makes them famous.
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- By Mark Leonardson, J. Wisniewski, Rich Solomon, Chris Snipes
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6 Alternate Album Covers You Won't Believe Almost Happened
Many of these bands almost made history for a different reason -- by producing albums with covers that would have traumatized (or at least confused) a generation.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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The 6 Least Hip Internet References in Song Lyric History
There's a fine line between 'artful inclusion' and 'unskilled name-dropping,' and the following songs dove headfirst into the latter, awkwardly revealing that on the whole, pop stars simply do not use computers.
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- By Jason Iannone
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The 6 Most Hilarious Failures in Music Censorship History
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 percent of the people reading this think music censorship is stupid.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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6 Screw-Ups by Famous Bands That Make Spinal Tap Look Smooth
Live music is a fickle beast. Any number of things can go wrong at any given moment, in completely hilarious ways no less.
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- By Adam Wears, M.W.
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6 Popular Songs You Didn't Know Have Dark Hidden Messages
The drawback of making a subtle point in song about the human condition is that nobody pays attention to subtle points in songs.
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- By Andy Kneis
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5 Terrifying Origin Stories Behind Popular Children's Songs
As nauseatingly wholesome as children's songs may seem, sometimes there are corpses buried under those mountains of spaghetti.
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- By John Kroes
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The 10 Most Ridiculous Album Cover Trends of All Time
With an industry full of people getting paid loads of money to make decisions that don't matter, people are going to play it safe. Which is where you get trends like these.
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- By C. Coville, Chris Holmes
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6 Mind-Blowing Early Music Careers of Famous Musicians
Even if you love their music, often musicians are doing what they're doing only because they realized at some point in the past that making any money was going to require them to radically shift gears.
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- By Daniel Crow
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