Music

8 Acts Of Rock Star Debauchery That Would Destroy You
If you're a rock star whose defining work came out somewhere between the years of 1969 and 1994, chances are your body and soul have atrophied into tiny prunes thanks to a decades-long carousel of hedonism.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Ways Music Controls Your Life (That You Never Knew About)
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- By Jim Avery
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17 Famous Love Songs Written By Sociopaths
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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27 Real (Surprising) Stories Behind Huge Songs
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
7 Musicians Whose Trademark Looks Were Hiding Something
Sometimes an iconic trademark came about less by design and more by necessity.
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- By Paul Blank
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6 Musicians Who Made Entire Albums Just To Say F#@k You
It turns out some petty squabbles live on forever in album form.
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- By Cedric Voets
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29 Bizarre True Stories Behind the Most Popular Music Ever
Hmm, gross. That's not what we thought that song meant.
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- By AM Smiley
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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
Sometimes, an entertainer's musical side job reveals a whole other side of their personality.
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- By Chris Berglund, Sam Jackson, JM McNab
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7 Promotional Stunts by Musicians That Backfired Hilariously
Judging by how often their spectacularly bad ideas make the wrong kind of headlines, it clear musicians need to get better PR teams.
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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
What sucks about the entertainment industry is that usually a very small group of very pretty people get all of the credit for work done by an army of talented folks behind the scenes.
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- By Sam Jackson
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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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