Music
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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7 Famous Musicians Who Stole Some of Their Biggest Hits
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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The 6 Most Elaborate F-Yous From Musicians to the Industry
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- By Kevin Forde, Alex Strine
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6 Hit Songs Written By the Last Person You'd Expect
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- By Adam Tod Brown, Chris Dennison
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 Classic Songs That Were Supposed to Be Jokes
Every so often a song explodes into the mainstream completely by accident, tearing up the charts to the surprise (and sometimes chagrin) of the musicians responsible.
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- By Colin Murdock
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5 Famous Hidden Song Meanings (That Are Total B.S.)
Many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true. They're almost always wrong.
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- By Chris S.
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5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras
What do has-been rockers and orchestra players have in common? Drugs, horrific injuries and low pay, of course.
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- By Lillian Marx
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Rock Timeline: From Classic Rock to Modern Crap [COMIC]
Pay special attention to the thievery panel. You might learn something.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music
The only thing that can explain songs like these? Time travel.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Musicians Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces
The music industry spends millions trying to chart trends, isolate demographics and generally predict the necessary ingredients for a No. 1 single. But every now and then a song comes along that makes it all the way to the top end of the charts by sheer fluke.
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- By Johnny Lepper
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Gangstas vs. Rednecks: Weirdly Similar Subcultures [CHART]
Not as different as they think.
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- By Bacter
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5 Artistic Geniuses Who Only Became Great After Selling Out
The truth is that some of the greatest works of music, film and art have happened only because the artist agreed to compromise in the name of success.
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- By Jason Iannone
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How Jay-Z's Face Determines His Album's Success
There's a few things we've noticed about Jay-Z: he likes doing weird stuff with his hands, he's probably addicted to cigars, and people don't like his face.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Caleb Wrobel
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The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain
The more science studies music's effect on the human brain, the more bizarre things we discover.
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- By C. Coville, Kathy Benjamin
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The Hard Hitting Questions Asked by Club DJs [CHART]
In the 80s, we had Def Leppard asking us if we looked in the mirror when we made love. In the 90s we had C&C Music Factory telling us they were going to make us sweat. And somehow, we've gotten worse from there ...
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- By John Ray
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