Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a musician is making a big commercial hit. Nothing is the same afterwards.
Thom Yorke (Radiohead) - Creep
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To Tomás Yorke, it seems, his soul is twisted every time someone asks him in one of his multitudinous concerts, his most famous anthem: '' Creep ''.
Reasons '' logical '' there may be many. Overexposure of the subject, dissatisfaction of the author with the final result, feel that it is not a song for which you wanted the world to know you and label you for life, or something like that.
Another common place in which many artists fall is to look with suspicion and contempt on their previous works, as if the person who wrote them was not them and they affirm that today (that is, at the moment they declared what they declared). ), with more experience and talent, they would never have written it.
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Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) - "Stairway To Heaven"
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In 2002, Robert Plant said he was going to make a donation to a radio station in Portland that refused to place '' Stairway To Heaven ''. For Plant, that universal song that all our uncles talk about - with their Led Zep t-shirt on - is a '' fucking wedding song ''.
Robert even put as a condition for the last meeting of the band in London, not to touch it to close the set and, that did not even occur to Jimmy Page to close the track with a single "even more epic". In this regard he said: "I would go crazy if I had to sing that song in all my shows."
He even thinks that Led Zeppellin did not innovate musically in anything, only that there was a very good chemistry between the members and that they benefited from a formula that already existed.
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James Blunt - "You Are Beautiful"
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James has said many things about this song in several interviews:
Since the world began to know "You're Beautiful" I began to feel affected as an artist, whenever someone on the street said these two words to anyone on the subway, they associated it with me.
The record company wanted to sell me as an artist for women over fifty who are stuck with the TV watching Desperate Housewives.
I know I have a couple of miserable and emotional topics for which they know me, but I hope people see that I'm not really that way.
I apologize to the world for composing this song.
Michael Stipe
Madonna - "Like A Virgin"
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Madonna hates '' Like a Virgin ''; He even said that the only way to get him to sing this song again is to offer him the small sum of thirty million greenbacks.
Maybe hatred comes in part that every time you go to a restaurant, people come to you, and you sing the song. That is pretty weird
I quote my favorite part '' I would do it if some Russian comes and calls me to sing at the wedding he's going to have with his seventeen-year-old girlfriend, something like that. ''
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Liam Gallagher (Oasis) - "Wonderwall"
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There are few things that Liam Gallagher loves. Few. Maybe The Beatles and that's it.
Although, getting to the level of promoting your album - by then Dig Out Your Soul - saying it was very, very good, because it was not "Wonderwall" - is something that only he could have said.
"I hate her, I hate that damn song, every time I have to sing it makes me want to throw up. The problem with this damn song is that it was giant for us. You go to the United States and they stop you on the street and they ask you, Are you Mr. Wonderwall? It makes you want to hit the guy ''.
Artists who hate their hits to death
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Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) - "Shinny Happy People"
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To the good of Michael Stipe it hurts him to speak in public about his songs that he hates most, since, he says that probably for some fan that song is very important.
Maybe he only opens his feelings with a ghost. It is probable.
nirvana
Lorde - "Royals"
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Here we are talking about a girl who at the time of writing '' Royals '' was 16 years old and lived in New Zealand. Jason Flom (CEO of Lava Records) flew to the other side of the world to sign it because of this song. She had a hit, a great hit.
However, to her it seems a ringtone of a 2006 Nokia - good joke, I must admit -. Another thing that he thinks is that, '' seeing all the versions that flooded Youtube, he tells me that the melody of the song was a disaster but, for some reason, in the context that I did the song, everything worked
Not. ''
Michael StipeJohn Crawford (Berlin) - "Take My Breath Away" link:
Hit. Giant. Huge. Top Gun soundtrack, gives melodies to a young and tender Tom Cruise. For John Crawford, this song generated a tremendous headache, since he defended the theory of '' if the song is not written by us, we should not record it. '' It was composed by Giorgio Moroder, a hit maker. The label pressured to be recorded, with the premise that it would not "damage" them. The success of the theme and the pressure of this on the band, was so great, that just a year after the premiere of the song, Berlin split.hits 90sBob Geldof (Band Aid) - "Do They Know It's Christmas" link: In the UK, only '' Candle In The Wind '' by Elton John has sold more copies than this song. A giant song composed by charity after Bob Geldof was watching on the BBC a documentary about the famine in Ethiopia. The song brought together a massive amount of money but, for its author Bob Geldof is a nightmare. '' I'm responsible for one of the worst issues in the history of mankind, every time I go to a super market for Christmas and go where they sell meat ... always, the damn song is always playing. John Lennon / The Beatles) - "When I'm Sixty Four" link:
The beetles had a lot of hits, so it was not that hard for them to hate one. But, in this particular case, it was good John who said pests of this song, even going so far as to say '' This song is from Paul, I would never dream of writing something like that. It's a song for grandmothers. '' The song for grandmothers, well, is in the title of it. I think that knowing this should not surprise you very much that you have hated and separated.
Artists who hate their hits to death Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" link:
Smells Like Teen Spirit was the starting point for Seattle to change the world. For a lot of people,
it's also the most iconic song of the band but, if you had the chance to speak at some Burguer King with Kurt while they ate a double Whopper, he would tell you this. 'It's almost a shame that song, I hate that everything the world is concentrating on it and nothing else. I think it's the fault of MTV, because of all the times they put the video, it's as if they injected it into your brain. I can not stand''. That's how your evening with Cobain would end.
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a musician is making a big commercial hit. Nothing is the same afterwards.
Thom Yorke (Radiohead) - Creep
link:
To Tomás Yorke, it seems, his soul is twisted every time someone asks him in one of his multitudinous concerts, his most famous anthem: '' Creep ''.
Reasons '' logical '' there may be many. Overexposure of the subject, dissatisfaction of the author with the final result, feel that it is not a song for which you wanted the world to know you and label you for life, or something like that.
Another common place in which many artists fall is to look with suspicion and contempt on their previous works, as if the person who wrote them was not them and they affirm that today (that is, at the moment they declared what they declared). ), with more experience and talent, they would never have written it.
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Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) - "Stairway To Heaven"
link:
In 2002, Robert Plant said he was going to make a donation to a radio station in Portland that refused to place '' Stairway To Heaven ''. For Plant, that universal song that all our uncles talk about - with their Led Zep t-shirt on - is a '' fucking wedding song ''.
Robert even put as a condition for the last meeting of the band in London, not to touch it to close the set and, that did not even occur to Jimmy Page to close the track with a single "even more epic". In this regard he said: "I would go crazy if I had to sing that song in all my shows."
He even thinks that Led Zeppellin did not innovate musically in anything, only that there was a very good chemistry between the members and that they benefited from a formula that already existed.
nirvana
James Blunt - "You Are Beautiful"
link:
James has said many things about this song in several interviews:
Since the world began to know "You're Beautiful" I began to feel affected as an artist, whenever someone on the street said these two words to anyone on the subway, they associated it with me.
The record company wanted to sell me as an artist for women over fifty who are stuck with the TV watching Desperate Housewives.
I know I have a couple of miserable and emotional topics for which they know me, but I hope people see that I'm not really that way.
I apologize to the world for composing this song.
Michael Stipe
Madonna - "Like A Virgin"
link:
Madonna hates '' Like a Virgin ''; He even said that the only way to get him to sing this song again is to offer him the small sum of thirty million greenbacks.
Maybe hatred comes in part that every time you go to a restaurant, people come to you, and you sing the song. That is pretty weird
I quote my favorite part '' I would do it if some Russian comes and calls me to sing at the wedding he's going to have with his seventeen-year-old girlfriend, something like that. ''
hits 90s
Liam Gallagher (Oasis) - "Wonderwall"
link:
There are few things that Liam Gallagher loves. Few. Maybe The Beatles and that's it.
Although, getting to the level of promoting your album - by then Dig Out Your Soul - saying it was very, very good, because it was not "Wonderwall" - is something that only he could have said.
"I hate her, I hate that damn song, every time I have to sing it makes me want to throw up. The problem with this damn song is that it was giant for us. You go to the United States and they stop you on the street and they ask you, Are you Mr. Wonderwall? It makes you want to hit the guy ''.
Artists who hate their hits to death
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Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) - "Shinny Happy People"
link:
To the good of Michael Stipe it hurts him to speak in public about his songs that he hates most, since, he says that probably for some fan that song is very important.
Maybe he only opens his feelings with a ghost. It is probable.
nirvana
Lorde - "Royals"
link:
Here we are talking about a girl who at the time of writing '' Royals '' was 16 years old and lived in New Zealand. Jason Flom (CEO of Lava Records) flew to the other side of the world to sign it because of this song. She had a hit, a great hit.
However, to her it seems a ringtone of a 2006 Nokia - good joke, I must admit -. Another thing that he thinks is that, '' seeing all the versions that flooded Youtube, he tells me that the melody of the song was a disaster but, for some reason, in the context that I did the song, everything worked
Not. ''
Michael StipeJohn Crawford (Berlin) - "Take My Breath Away" link:
Hit. Giant. Huge. Top Gun soundtrack, gives melodies to a young and tender Tom Cruise. For John Crawford, this song generated a tremendous headache, since he defended the theory of '' if the song is not written by us, we should not record it. '' It was composed by Giorgio Moroder, a hit maker. The label pressured to be recorded, with the premise that it would not "damage" them. The success of the theme and the pressure of this on the band, was so great, that just a year after the premiere of the song, Berlin split.hits 90sBob Geldof (Band Aid) - "Do They Know It's Christmas" link: In the UK, only '' Candle In The Wind '' by Elton John has sold more copies than this song. A giant song composed by charity after Bob Geldof was watching on the BBC a documentary about the famine in Ethiopia. The song brought together a massive amount of money but, for its author Bob Geldof is a nightmare. '' I'm responsible for one of the worst issues in the history of mankind, every time I go to a super market for Christmas and go where they sell meat ... always, the damn song is always playing. John Lennon / The Beatles) - "When I'm Sixty Four" link:
The beetles had a lot of hits, so it was not that hard for them to hate one. But, in this particular case, it was good John who said pests of this song, even going so far as to say '' This song is from Paul, I would never dream of writing something like that. It's a song for grandmothers. '' The song for grandmothers, well, is in the title of it. I think that knowing this should not surprise you very much that you have hated and separated.
Artists who hate their hits to death Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" link:
Smells Like Teen Spirit was the starting point for Seattle to change the world. For a lot of people, it's also the most iconic song of the band but, if you had the chance to speak at some Burguer King with Kurt while they ate a double Whopper, he would tell you this. 'It's almost a shame that song, I hate that everything the world is concentrating on it and nothing else. I think it's the fault of MTV, because of all the times they put the video, it's as if they injected it into your brain. I can not stand''. That's how your evening with Cobain would end.
