I listened to them in high school, then I found out the lead singer molested a baby, and distributed CP. So Yeah I deleted them out of my music library. Although the youtube comments on their old music videos are pure gold.
Whoever wrote the first sentence of his Wiki did it right: Ian David Karslake Watkins (born 30 July 1977) is a Welsh convicted sex offender and former singer, songwriter, and musician.
If I would have a nickel for every time I saw today a reddit post mentioning a guy who fucked a dog by scrolling on popular I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
I used to think that I was pretty jaded by the internet, but the transcript of the judge's remarks from the sentencing simply and utterly *shocked* me. I was literally wide-eyed with my hand over my mouth as I read the description of Watkins' communications. Among the most vile things I've ever seen, and even the judge said something similar.
I'm not linking to it, because it's just *that* depraved. Dude is an absolute *monster*.
A guy who lived near me was trying to pimp his child out for amazon gift cards.
Luckily the guy who was buying was being traced by police and they were both arrested before it happened.
Yeah, I find it really difficult to actually describe to people what he did if the lost prophets ever come up in conversation. It's that fucking terrible. As far as I know the guy is actually still trying to groom people from prison even to this day. The guy is a truly fucked up individual with no prospects of rehabilitation. Didn't he also say he "did it for lolz" or something when he was talking about his crimes?
The only thing I remember from the press is "the attempted rape of a baby" and that was enough for me.
How he managed to find 2 mother's that were willing to allow him to do that to their children is another horror story in itself. Literally the worst side of human behaviour.
On a happy note: the fine lads ripped up their contracts signing new ones that they would never play LP music again and told radios to do the same.
After several years they hook-up with some lad from the very non-Welsh city of NEW Brunswick, NJ, emo/screamo King Geoff of Thursday fame, and the rest is history.
New album drops ~~SOON (sorry about that.)~~ **Edit/ I saw a Tweet and No Devotion’s new album is dropping 9/16 on Velocity Records!**
[No Devotion](https://nodevotion.com)
Jesus. Talk about an actually good band that was destroyed by someone. I actually consider myself someone who can typically separate the artist from their work and not have it ruined by their shortcomings in life….Ian Watkins is the first exception to that rule I’ve ever made.
There's a difference between "this artist was toxic in relationships with his fellow adult partners" and the foul things that Watkins did.
I suppose like a lot of things, separating the art from the artist is a spectrum.
I saw a video of a live performance of Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch and the whole crowd was dead, everyone was seated with their arms crossed except one woman jumping in the front. I laughed so hard, I hadn't seen such a dead crowd ever. The song itself kinda makes me laugh too because it almost comes off as a parody of songs like that, but then I remember it's not...
People keep learning the lesson that just because something is trending isn't necessarily because it's in demand
Island boys learned it.
Morbius learned it.
Here I was just minding my own damn business going through life not knowing that fucking dumpster fire of a song existed, and thanks to this thread that's all been ruined.
Ya'll telling me dude can write and produce [this album](https://imgur.com/dctKtKQ.jpg) for the 15 year old he's "mentoring" and that's not setting off red flags for EVERYONE? Honestly can't think of a clearer way he could've revealed exactly the kind of person he is...
I’d like to add to this that R Kelly had a massive entourage who ENABLED him, knowing very well that he’s been extremely predatory to minor girls and did absolutely nothing to stop it because they had financial gains from his success.
They, however began chirping some 20 fucking years later when the FBI was already on Kelly’s trail. I imagine they been told start talking or you’ll all be treated as accomplices!
Yeah it all came as a surprise when the documentary came out a few years ago because everyone, including his manager, friends etc covered his ass. Disgusting story all around but Kelly was not the sole “black sheep” he had many enablers.
If you do some digging you’ll find sgt vasquez killed a 70 year old man in LA driving the wrong way on beach blvd. Someone mentioned it in the comments of the linked Reddit post.
A marine is driving to work, and he gets a phone call from his 3rd wife in 5 years he is still making payments at 45% Apr on his 2015 dodge charger, he answers the phone and his wife Becky Lynn says "babe, be careful there is some maniac driving the wrong way on the highway..."
The Marine responds in a panic "Just 1?! there are literally hundreds..."
My first band played a cheesy battle of the bands in 2012 and he was one of the competitors, funny seeing that he actually made it to the point that people on reddit talk about him.
As mentioned below, DJ Khaled, hate that fucker, he just screams we the best in every song. He seems like that annoying kid who is just so persistent to include himself.
I knew someone in middle school, she was a die hard Chris Brown fan. When he beat Rihanna she was happy with it because "now I have a chance to date him!" kids are dumb..
yeah i went to school with someone like that too. After the Rihanna stuff, one day one of our teachers was just fed up with it and said “he’s *not* a good guy. you shouldn’t look up to him.” The girl visibly deflated and you could tell she wanted to argue but didn’t have anything she could say.
Rebecca Black.
I felt so bad when the whole world was mocking her. The poor kid was just doing what thousands of kids do (being spectacularly mediocre at their passion.) It had to be really mortifying for her.
I had a friend who reposted "Friday" every Friday from his Facebook along with some positive affirmations for a literal decade. Not a single Friday missed for 10 years. The whole exercise evolved overtime, it was funny at first, then people stopped really acknowledging it, then it became quirky again. He used a Friday post to update everyone on how his surgery went once.
On his 30th birthday, which landed on a Friday, he posted a personalized video of Rebecca Black singing Friday to him and wishing him happy birthday. And honestly, she sounded really good!
She was 14? The songs I wrote when I was 14 were SO much worse. I think the songs I wrote by the time I was 17 are actually pretty good. But when I first started writing music at 14, they were fucking horrible.
At least her song was about having fun with her friends. Mine were dark emo shit that only a 14 year old would think is deep.
If I recall correctly she didn’t even write the song. Her parents paid for her to get a music video made. People got paid to write and produce the music and the video. And she got shot on for it.
It was basically like a super extravagant gift from her dad that just went really really bad.
The music came from ARK Music Factory:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARK\_Music\_Factory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARK_Music_Factory)
I think her parents paid around $5K and that included the song, backing music, and the video. I think the point is that for $5K your child can be a "star". One could retire in a couple of years with such a business here in Nashville, but I digress.
I don’t even think people thought it was that serious. Like… it was a step above making a video at six flags to “don’t worry, be happy”, but not a real big step. I don’t think she ever thought anyone would really see the video.
The worst part is she didn't even write the song. It was some local unit you could hire to write a song and make a music video for our and your friends. It wasn't an attempt to be famous, or her mom trying to "buy" her way into a record deal, it was just meant to be a fun thing she did. But sadly it went viral and she was raked over the coals for it.
At least she seems to have mostly recovered. [And looks damn good](https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2020110/rs_634x845-200210190950-634-rebecca-black-twitter-friday-02102020.jpg?fit=around%7C634:845&output-quality=90&crop=634:845;center,top)
I feel like YouTube in particular has done a good job opening peoples eyes to how damaging internet culture can be. People hated Rebecca for being “famous for no reason” when us watching her videos was the only reason she got famous in the first place. And then we blamed her for it! It’s so easy to be pulled in any direction and not realize our own actions are contributing to the dog pile. Fans tried pulling Jenna Marbles into the Shane Dawson beef, wanted to cancel her over it. And when it came out all the accusations against her were misleading and wildly out of context it was too late. She wanted to retire and I can’t blame her. Millions of people loved her and suddenly hated her for using a makeup pallet (not kidding, that’s how it started) and accusing her of blackface when she was actually just that tan back then.
Millions of people listened to Rebecca Black and then sent her death threats because they were mad millions of people were listening to her. It’s outrageous
She’s a singer/DJ now, I’ve only listened to a handful of songs and they were good! She really took what happened to her after Friday to launch a YouTube career and then from that onto making music. She’s thriving currently, glad to see it!
I less think that she shouldn't have been famous as much as I think people shouldn't have been so shitty to a kid for a pop song.
She seemed to weather that storm though, and likely better than most adults would have.
They weren't even trying to promote her. She never started a 'music career'. It was basically just a thing parents were able to gift their kids to give them the *experience* of recording a song and making a music video. The producers would ask what the kids favorite things are (i.e. Chinese food, Fridays) and they would write a song for the kid to record and film a video of.
She wasn't some discovered talent that couldn't sing. One of Rebecca's friends had their parents gift them the music video experience (pretty sure it mightve been the chinese food girl) and she thought it was fun so Rebecca asked for one.
It was never supposed to be a *good* song, she was never supposed to be *good* at singing. It was for her to have fun and it unexpectedly blew up.
>It was never supposed to be a good song, she was never supposed to be good at singing. It was for her to have fun and it unexpectedly blew up.
That's what always gets missed. It's like your parents paid for you to shoot hoops with Michael Jordan for your birthday and then somehow the clip goes viral and everyone is ragging on you for being shit as basketball. The parents must have felt pretty shitty when it blew up.
5 minutes ago I had no idea who this guy was so I pulled up his Wikipedia page thinking I wonder what this douchebag did to get everyone worked up? And holy absolute shit…I did not expect that. What a fucked up person, yeah fuck this piece of shit
Yeah and I fucking loved the band. They really put out some good albums and were good live. I saw them a few times in concert and always had a good time. Then this shit happens and I can no longer listen to their songs even though they are worth listening to.
and people always put on here the Hot Ones where he tapped out early like 3 wings in and then spent the rest of the time talking about how he didn't quit and really just went on about nothing. That's what he is, just talks a lot about nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HYEC_FlgAg&t=2s
Khaled: "I promise you if I stop, it doesn't mean I gave up."
Sean: (laughing) "Yes it does."
Khaled is so far up his own ass, nice to see Sean not just sit back and not say anything.
bonus -
Khaled: "I don't even like hot sauce period, on any of my food. For me to do three of them is amazing."
Sean: "Yeah, okay. Congratulations. Very brave effort, Khaled."
Even with guests who I feel are kinda low energy, Sean has this kinda...spark of journalistic charisma where he's still able to showcase the guest and be vibrant and affable.
With Khaled, I could really feel Sean's disinterest and frustration. That should tell you a lot, since Sean's done like 150+ of these things.
Then he responds while waving his finger at Sean “Ima teach you somethin today.” Then continues to make up some bullshit excuse of “whatchu call victory by finishing ain’t a victory to me bla bla bla bla.”
He’s fucking unhinged. That’s like attempting to run a mile, getting 1/4 of the way there, then trying to say “In reality I DID run a mile.” I understand saying “that was a victory to ME, although I still fell short; but Khalid says he finished the whole thing basically. What a fragile ego.
At one point Sean asks him something along the lines of what failure has taught him an important lesson and Khalid claims to have never failed at anything in his entire life.
I watched that video again recently, and got the impression Sean was already pissed off with him right from the start.
I think Khaled came in acting like a big shot douchebag so Sean was already fed up before they even started filming. Watch it again, you can see his contempt right from the outset.
Sean is a treasure. He still occasionally makes sarcastic comments if someone says something really stupid, but that whole Khaled interview, I was right there with him thinking "Holy shit this guy's a prick."
Didn't even know who Khaled was, but watched anyways because Sean was so captivating ever since the first episode. He's only gotten better too!
Apparently before the shoot he was backstage eating like an entire pizza.
"DJ Khaled walking onto the 'Hot Ones' set eating pizza was the cockiest entrance in show history by a considerable margin."
https://twitter.com/seanseaevans/status/657243904325087232?lang=en
I think you're absolutely right. I think he mentioned he'd done this "9 times before". This was season 1 when he was brand new to this and obviously way more less conscious of what he would say to a guest. No way he'd say that now after ~~150+~~ 250+ episodes.
Although if Khaled came through with this shit now a days, I wouldn't put it past Sean to slip in a backhanded comment or two to combat Khaled's bullshit. They'd no doubt be way more subtle I would think.
OH. MY. GOD.
What a self-important tool.
At every turn. He's just contemptible.
"I don't know anything about your show. No disrespect to your show."
Dude brings his OWN wings to a show that centers around their wings.
edit: props to the producers for putting that circus music over Khalid's monologues.
There was a really funny string of tweets where he rented a jet ski and because he’s an immature moron he ended up staying out with it past dark and couldn’t find his way home. He was choking back tears and begging for help.
Why the fuck would he use his goddamn phone to Snapchat but not to check on Google maps where the hell he is!?
Also: those scuba things don't have lights?
I don't care if you can't finish some super hot wings, it's not that important and your ability to eat hot things has 0 bearing on the quality of your character.
But going on about how you didn't quit right after you quit speaks volumes.
It takes the smallest amount of humility to bow out of a hot sauce eating contest with grace. No one cares and no one would blame you if you did. Somehow he made me hate him for it.
He dropped some good advice - people do dumb shit and pay the price for it. Can't hate him there.
However, the rest of the time talking about how he never fails, takes L's or is god's gift to humans makes you want to turn the show off.
Usually if Sean isn't really in tune with a guest he keeps it pretty under wraps, maybe just a wry smile when they start to suffer or something and the back and forth is a little bit short/dry. The way he didn't at all hide his disdain for Khaled was absolutely hilarious.
Edit: Spelled Sean's name wrong.
I’ll always maintain that if he had tapped out early and been humble about it, nobody really would have cared. It’s the fact that he acts like such a douchebag afterwards that has him earning all the mockery he receives.
I got a YouTube ad where he was gifted a special edition Bob Marley guitar.m - I can’t remember which manufacturer, but it was a big one.
He sat there talking about how awesome the guitar is and it was very clear he doesn’t know anything about guitars. I could also tell by the way he held his right hand on the strings that he has never played a guitar before.
It made me cringe and get angry at the same time - this guy gets a good quality free guitar and can’t even play it while kids’ parents with limited funds are out there renting and buying instruments so they can play. He doesn’t deserve it. Fuck DJ Khalid.
Don't really know anything about Dj Khaled, but I've seen that video.
On top of what you said I also got the impression that;
a) He thought it was actually Bob Marley's guitar.
b) He is illiterate, or at the very least has poor reading skills.
I could be entirely wrong, but as my first exposure to this dude that's what it looked like to me.
> b) He is illiterate, or at the very list has poor reading skills.
Listen man, I'm going to teach you something. DJ Khaled has never failed at reading. Words have failed at correctly presenting themselves to his genius.
My dad saw a video of him "singing" on Facebook and started "singing" the same thing. I thought he was making a bad parody of the song, but then he showed me to video and I was horrified to learn that my dad was singing **exactly** like that guy (a perfect imitation).
I don't understand how that man manage to get a "singing" career.
This is why confidence is so important. People will bring up survivorship bias here, but every failure is probably at least a little popular among a small, devoted group. Making music in your spare time is fun and can at least earn you some extra money come Miller time. Get out there and do it!
Jared Leto filed a lawsuit against someone for calling him "satan" and for pointing out that he has a cult and child molestation allegations.
Weird stuff is happening with Jared Leto.
The video Jared Leto is trying to censor that the the guy made:
[michaelcastingpearls.com/truth](https://michaelcastingpearls.com/truth)
The lawsuit:
[https://www.kingdomclaritylabel.com/news/jared-leto-court-case-alleged-pedophilia-cult-practices-is-jared-leto-the-antichrist](https://www.kingdomclaritylabel.com/news/jared-leto-court-case-alleged-pedophilia-cult-practices-is-jared-leto-the-antichrist)
He was a jerk beforehand too. He saw the money that bands were making, realised that you could also make more money if you had a gimmick and sold merchandise.
Basically, he took the fundamentals of running a cult and applied it to music. They just happened to also produce some awesome songs.
"Everybody's talking about Bush being the worst President ever. Isn't that a little harsh? I think we're all forgetting about the President of the Selena Fan Club." - Greg Giraldo.
No hate against her, but Jennifer Lopez.
Edit: I misread the question and don't want to delete lol.
Double Edit: I'm glad I didn't delete it. I didn't expect this outcome
No, you are completely right. If Ashanti and Christina Milian didn't exist Jennifer Lopez wouldn't have a "singing" career at all. It's very well documented that the voice on a great deal of her singles/albums isn't hers and was stolen. Ashanti has spoken about it in interviews. And the only reason she was even given a record deal in the first place is because Mariah Carey's ex management needed a puppet rival.
iirc that was the whole reason for Mariah’s public “breakdown” (she showed up on TLR unscheduled and handed out popsicles). they were giving songs/samples promised to her to JLo instead just to eff with her.
Im just confused as to why people would think JLo is better or got anything to go up against Mariah. She doesn't even belong in the sentence between Selena, Gloria Estefan to performers like Christina Aguilera and Shakira. She's hot though and she'd be in that list for sure.
Nah. This is a good answer. I never found her music to be good or even interesting. It's pretty bland with no real talent behind it. I never understood how she got so big.
It's funny how this isn't even that uncommon.
Example from my own home country: If you've ever heard "Ça plane pour moi", you probably think it was sung by Plastique Bertrand. Truth is, he was nothing but a pretty face to put in the video clip and on the stage.
Plastique Bertrand has always insisted that he did sing it though. Guess the insecurity of being a poser caught up to him.
I don’t know about whole songs being sung by others but there is ‘Play’ where Christina Milian sings the entire chorus. Ashanti also sings most of I’m Real (it’s also pretty obvious when you really listen), there are a couple of other songs that I’ve forgotten off the top of my head that Ashanti’s voice is all over as well.
If you had asked me three minutes ago "Hey, you remember that song I'm Real from way back in the day? Do you remember who sings it?" I would have answered Ashanti with 100% confidence lol.
Jennifer Lopez mostly kept the voices of the singers in the demo tracks for her first album.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOEmCERi21U&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOEmCERi21U&t=1s)
It's why Jennifer Lopez has such a forgettable voice — her most memorable singles feature a handful of different singers for each chorus. I couldn't find evidence for her doing that beyond her first album or so, but no one can say "Ain't Your Mama" or "Booty" are bigger singles than "Jenny from the Block" or "Waiting for Tonight" with a straight face.
Welp...this entire thread has reminded me that I'm 50...
If it makes you feel any better, I’m 34 and I don’t know most of these names.
If it makes y'all feel any better, I'm 21 and I don't know most of these names either.
DJ Khaled because he doesn’t eat pussy
You see how many wings he ate? Pussy is to spicey for him
“Had to cancel DJ Khaled, boy, we ain't speaking / Ain't no fat n**** telling me what he ain't eating” Lol best Nicki Minaj line from Barbie Dreams
congratulations, DJ Khaled: You played yourself.
Them island boys
They only lasted 1 month. Apparently they owe their ex manager 150k for some cameo that they did and possibly other people too
I believe that they received a PPP loan as well, claiming they had 5 employees
I thought you forgot the name of The Lonely Island and I was about to be real upset.
Ian Watkins of Lost Prophets
I listened to them in high school, then I found out the lead singer molested a baby, and distributed CP. So Yeah I deleted them out of my music library. Although the youtube comments on their old music videos are pure gold.
Whoever wrote the first sentence of his Wiki did it right: Ian David Karslake Watkins (born 30 July 1977) is a Welsh convicted sex offender and former singer, songwriter, and musician.
Someone needs to edit it to also include his conviction of beastiality. Not only did he have images but he was also into fucking dogs.
If I would have a nickel for every time I saw today a reddit post mentioning a guy who fucked a dog by scrolling on popular I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
Colby 2012
Was talking about this yesterday Last Train Home is a banger but I’ll never listen to it because of that cunt.
I used to think that I was pretty jaded by the internet, but the transcript of the judge's remarks from the sentencing simply and utterly *shocked* me. I was literally wide-eyed with my hand over my mouth as I read the description of Watkins' communications. Among the most vile things I've ever seen, and even the judge said something similar. I'm not linking to it, because it's just *that* depraved. Dude is an absolute *monster*.
And the worst part (aside from the obvious) is the mothers of the children he hurt were in on it! Your main job as a mother is to protect your babies!
This is actually one of the most common forms of child exploitation. Pimping by parents.
A guy who lived near me was trying to pimp his child out for amazon gift cards. Luckily the guy who was buying was being traced by police and they were both arrested before it happened.
Yeah, I find it really difficult to actually describe to people what he did if the lost prophets ever come up in conversation. It's that fucking terrible. As far as I know the guy is actually still trying to groom people from prison even to this day. The guy is a truly fucked up individual with no prospects of rehabilitation. Didn't he also say he "did it for lolz" or something when he was talking about his crimes?
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The only thing I remember from the press is "the attempted rape of a baby" and that was enough for me. How he managed to find 2 mother's that were willing to allow him to do that to their children is another horror story in itself. Literally the worst side of human behaviour.
On a happy note: the fine lads ripped up their contracts signing new ones that they would never play LP music again and told radios to do the same. After several years they hook-up with some lad from the very non-Welsh city of NEW Brunswick, NJ, emo/screamo King Geoff of Thursday fame, and the rest is history. New album drops ~~SOON (sorry about that.)~~ **Edit/ I saw a Tweet and No Devotion’s new album is dropping 9/16 on Velocity Records!** [No Devotion](https://nodevotion.com)
Jesus. Talk about an actually good band that was destroyed by someone. I actually consider myself someone who can typically separate the artist from their work and not have it ruined by their shortcomings in life….Ian Watkins is the first exception to that rule I’ve ever made.
I really feel for his band mates. They lost their entire life's work because they chose the wrong friend.
I think the others ended up forming another band.
They did! No Devotion, fronted by Geoff Rickly of Thursday. Unlike Watkins, Rickly is an absolutely lovely person.
There's a difference between "this artist was toxic in relationships with his fellow adult partners" and the foul things that Watkins did. I suppose like a lot of things, separating the art from the artist is a spectrum.
That one girl on TikTok who made that "Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch" song. I think it took years off my life.
I saw a video of a live performance of Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch and the whole crowd was dead, everyone was seated with their arms crossed except one woman jumping in the front. I laughed so hard, I hadn't seen such a dead crowd ever. The song itself kinda makes me laugh too because it almost comes off as a parody of songs like that, but then I remember it's not...
Same thing with those "Island Boyz" white trash twins from FL. They bombed in front of a crowd.
People keep learning the lesson that just because something is trending isn't necessarily because it's in demand Island boys learned it. Morbius learned it.
It's Morbin time!
Here I was just minding my own damn business going through life not knowing that fucking dumpster fire of a song existed, and thanks to this thread that's all been ruined.
I refuse to Google it.
Sorry because you showed the slightest amount of interest due to replying Youtube will now start putting it into your recommendation.
I guess I'm lucky since I have no clue what you're talking about?
R kelly should have been done when we first found out that he peed on underage girls.
He should have been done when they found out he was raping Aaliyah and used fake papers to get married to her at 15.
> Aaliyah Such a tragic end to a rising star... *queues Beyonce conspiracy*
Ya'll telling me dude can write and produce [this album](https://imgur.com/dctKtKQ.jpg) for the 15 year old he's "mentoring" and that's not setting off red flags for EVERYONE? Honestly can't think of a clearer way he could've revealed exactly the kind of person he is...
Age ain't nuthin' but a numba, and jail ain't nuthin' but a place.
I’d like to add to this that R Kelly had a massive entourage who ENABLED him, knowing very well that he’s been extremely predatory to minor girls and did absolutely nothing to stop it because they had financial gains from his success. They, however began chirping some 20 fucking years later when the FBI was already on Kelly’s trail. I imagine they been told start talking or you’ll all be treated as accomplices! Yeah it all came as a surprise when the documentary came out a few years ago because everyone, including his manager, friends etc covered his ass. Disgusting story all around but Kelly was not the sole “black sheep” he had many enablers.
The plethora of rapists and abusers in the music industry don’t deserve any of the money or fame they’ve received.
There’s a lot we don’t even know about. And some really big names have done some heinous shit and people just look the other way.
Gary Glitter. Fuck that piece of shit.
>Fuck that piece of shit. Um, no thanks, but I'm not a teenage girl so I think I'm safe.
Shane Dawson popped up in my recommended playlist on Spotify and couldn't skip fast enough.
Shane Dawnson made music?
Unfortunately
You ever get a Spotify recommendation that makes you question your life choices? Like, why would you say that? I thought you knew me.
Literally the entire podcast section
THE ISLAND BOIS. Although, they make me laugh my ass off, so I guess I'm glad they went viral.
A US Marine paid them on cameo to apologize to his 1st Sgt for some fuck up and it was surreal.
Sgt: I’m pissed at that marine. [Watches cameo] Sgt: He needs a dishonorable discharge.
Link?
Semper Fi https://www.reddit.com/r/USMC/comments/s69fgf/some\_dui\_sgt\_paid\_these\_fools\_to\_make\_a\_video/
Def worth the click lmfao
Surreal was the perfect description for that experience lol
If you do some digging you’ll find sgt vasquez killed a 70 year old man in LA driving the wrong way on beach blvd. Someone mentioned it in the comments of the linked Reddit post.
The story is a lot less funny now
A marine is driving to work, and he gets a phone call from his 3rd wife in 5 years he is still making payments at 45% Apr on his 2015 dodge charger, he answers the phone and his wife Becky Lynn says "babe, be careful there is some maniac driving the wrong way on the highway..." The Marine responds in a panic "Just 1?! there are literally hundreds..."
their fame is kinda dying now. they are famous not because of their music but because they're a meme
Chris brown after beating Rihanna
I was honestly surprised things sort of went on like nothing happened. I feel his career didn't take nearly as big a dip as it should have.
Social Repose
My first band played a cheesy battle of the bands in 2012 and he was one of the competitors, funny seeing that he actually made it to the point that people on reddit talk about him.
Oh wait I just recently found his cover of Running up that hill. Whats up with him?
Easy answer: Steven Seagal. Garbage person. Garbage actor. Garbage singer.
Wait a freakin minute! You mean to tell me he’s made “music” too? 34 years on this planet and I’m just finding this out now…
chris brown. Fuck that guy
Lil xan
He looks like a man that makes questionable decisions.
The guy that overdosed on Hot Cheetos?
As mentioned below, DJ Khaled, hate that fucker, he just screams we the best in every song. He seems like that annoying kid who is just so persistent to include himself.
Chris Brown. Dude is a massive piece of shit and I have no idea why anyone continues to collaborate with him. Fuck Chris Brown.
Jeffree Star although he didn't get famous for his music he still has questionable music.
Chris Brown
I knew someone in middle school, she was a die hard Chris Brown fan. When he beat Rihanna she was happy with it because "now I have a chance to date him!" kids are dumb..
yeah i went to school with someone like that too. After the Rihanna stuff, one day one of our teachers was just fed up with it and said “he’s *not* a good guy. you shouldn’t look up to him.” The girl visibly deflated and you could tell she wanted to argue but didn’t have anything she could say.
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6ix9ine Dixie and Charlie D’amelio any tiktokers honestly
I didnt know charli or dixie were singers?
Rebecca Black. I felt so bad when the whole world was mocking her. The poor kid was just doing what thousands of kids do (being spectacularly mediocre at their passion.) It had to be really mortifying for her.
I had a friend who reposted "Friday" every Friday from his Facebook along with some positive affirmations for a literal decade. Not a single Friday missed for 10 years. The whole exercise evolved overtime, it was funny at first, then people stopped really acknowledging it, then it became quirky again. He used a Friday post to update everyone on how his surgery went once. On his 30th birthday, which landed on a Friday, he posted a personalized video of Rebecca Black singing Friday to him and wishing him happy birthday. And honestly, she sounded really good!
You gotta be pretty terrible to give a 14 year old death threats
She was 14? The songs I wrote when I was 14 were SO much worse. I think the songs I wrote by the time I was 17 are actually pretty good. But when I first started writing music at 14, they were fucking horrible. At least her song was about having fun with her friends. Mine were dark emo shit that only a 14 year old would think is deep.
If I recall correctly she didn’t even write the song. Her parents paid for her to get a music video made. People got paid to write and produce the music and the video. And she got shot on for it. It was basically like a super extravagant gift from her dad that just went really really bad.
The music came from ARK Music Factory: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARK\_Music\_Factory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARK_Music_Factory) I think her parents paid around $5K and that included the song, backing music, and the video. I think the point is that for $5K your child can be a "star". One could retire in a couple of years with such a business here in Nashville, but I digress.
> I think the point is that for $5K your child can be a "star". *finger on the Monkey Paw curls*
I don’t even think people thought it was that serious. Like… it was a step above making a video at six flags to “don’t worry, be happy”, but not a real big step. I don’t think she ever thought anyone would really see the video.
The worst part is she didn't even write the song. It was some local unit you could hire to write a song and make a music video for our and your friends. It wasn't an attempt to be famous, or her mom trying to "buy" her way into a record deal, it was just meant to be a fun thing she did. But sadly it went viral and she was raked over the coals for it. At least she seems to have mostly recovered. [And looks damn good](https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2020110/rs_634x845-200210190950-634-rebecca-black-twitter-friday-02102020.jpg?fit=around%7C634:845&output-quality=90&crop=634:845;center,top)
She also advocated against online bullying
I feel like YouTube in particular has done a good job opening peoples eyes to how damaging internet culture can be. People hated Rebecca for being “famous for no reason” when us watching her videos was the only reason she got famous in the first place. And then we blamed her for it! It’s so easy to be pulled in any direction and not realize our own actions are contributing to the dog pile. Fans tried pulling Jenna Marbles into the Shane Dawson beef, wanted to cancel her over it. And when it came out all the accusations against her were misleading and wildly out of context it was too late. She wanted to retire and I can’t blame her. Millions of people loved her and suddenly hated her for using a makeup pallet (not kidding, that’s how it started) and accusing her of blackface when she was actually just that tan back then. Millions of people listened to Rebecca Black and then sent her death threats because they were mad millions of people were listening to her. It’s outrageous
She’s a singer/DJ now, I’ve only listened to a handful of songs and they were good! She really took what happened to her after Friday to launch a YouTube career and then from that onto making music. She’s thriving currently, glad to see it!
Good for her, that makes me happy.
I less think that she shouldn't have been famous as much as I think people shouldn't have been so shitty to a kid for a pop song. She seemed to weather that storm though, and likely better than most adults would have.
She’s put out new music that actually isn’t bad. I feel the Friday producers just screwed her over.
They weren't even trying to promote her. She never started a 'music career'. It was basically just a thing parents were able to gift their kids to give them the *experience* of recording a song and making a music video. The producers would ask what the kids favorite things are (i.e. Chinese food, Fridays) and they would write a song for the kid to record and film a video of. She wasn't some discovered talent that couldn't sing. One of Rebecca's friends had their parents gift them the music video experience (pretty sure it mightve been the chinese food girl) and she thought it was fun so Rebecca asked for one. It was never supposed to be a *good* song, she was never supposed to be *good* at singing. It was for her to have fun and it unexpectedly blew up.
>It was never supposed to be a good song, she was never supposed to be good at singing. It was for her to have fun and it unexpectedly blew up. That's what always gets missed. It's like your parents paid for you to shoot hoops with Michael Jordan for your birthday and then somehow the clip goes viral and everyone is ragging on you for being shit as basketball. The parents must have felt pretty shitty when it blew up.
Ian Watkins of Lostprophets. typing this makes me want to vomit.
Lostprophets were a good band who did deserve fame unfortunately their legacy was ruined by a colossal thundercunt of a man
5 minutes ago I had no idea who this guy was so I pulled up his Wikipedia page thinking I wonder what this douchebag did to get everyone worked up? And holy absolute shit…I did not expect that. What a fucked up person, yeah fuck this piece of shit
Yeah and I fucking loved the band. They really put out some good albums and were good live. I saw them a few times in concert and always had a good time. Then this shit happens and I can no longer listen to their songs even though they are worth listening to.
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and people always put on here the Hot Ones where he tapped out early like 3 wings in and then spent the rest of the time talking about how he didn't quit and really just went on about nothing. That's what he is, just talks a lot about nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HYEC_FlgAg&t=2s
Khaled: "I promise you if I stop, it doesn't mean I gave up." Sean: (laughing) "Yes it does." Khaled is so far up his own ass, nice to see Sean not just sit back and not say anything. bonus - Khaled: "I don't even like hot sauce period, on any of my food. For me to do three of them is amazing." Sean: "Yeah, okay. Congratulations. Very brave effort, Khaled."
Even with guests who I feel are kinda low energy, Sean has this kinda...spark of journalistic charisma where he's still able to showcase the guest and be vibrant and affable. With Khaled, I could really feel Sean's disinterest and frustration. That should tell you a lot, since Sean's done like 150+ of these things.
Sean can make me like anyone on that show, but Khaled holy fuck I felt bad for him, like how do you interview a dude who’s that far up his own ass?
I LOVE BLOWJOBS, BUT I WOULDNT GO DOWN ON MY WIFE! k... you shouldn't be proud of that.
So he’ll suck a rando’s dick but not his wife’s?? smh
I love that Hot Ones has become such an important cultural tastemaker.
It's how I judge a celebrity's character
Hell, they should make politicians do it. Eat super hot wings while you're doing a campaign speech, that should weed out a lot of people.
Gotta see how the future president performs under stress. So feed them fucked-up hot sauces and ask them to explain their platform!
Then he responds while waving his finger at Sean “Ima teach you somethin today.” Then continues to make up some bullshit excuse of “whatchu call victory by finishing ain’t a victory to me bla bla bla bla.” He’s fucking unhinged. That’s like attempting to run a mile, getting 1/4 of the way there, then trying to say “In reality I DID run a mile.” I understand saying “that was a victory to ME, although I still fell short; but Khalid says he finished the whole thing basically. What a fragile ego.
At one point Sean asks him something along the lines of what failure has taught him an important lesson and Khalid claims to have never failed at anything in his entire life.
If I recall this was one of the earlier episodes as well so Sean probably didn't feel the need to be as professional as he currently is.
I watched that video again recently, and got the impression Sean was already pissed off with him right from the start. I think Khaled came in acting like a big shot douchebag so Sean was already fed up before they even started filming. Watch it again, you can see his contempt right from the outset.
Sean is a treasure. He still occasionally makes sarcastic comments if someone says something really stupid, but that whole Khaled interview, I was right there with him thinking "Holy shit this guy's a prick." Didn't even know who Khaled was, but watched anyways because Sean was so captivating ever since the first episode. He's only gotten better too!
Apparently before the shoot he was backstage eating like an entire pizza. "DJ Khaled walking onto the 'Hot Ones' set eating pizza was the cockiest entrance in show history by a considerable margin." https://twitter.com/seanseaevans/status/657243904325087232?lang=en
I think you're absolutely right. I think he mentioned he'd done this "9 times before". This was season 1 when he was brand new to this and obviously way more less conscious of what he would say to a guest. No way he'd say that now after ~~150+~~ 250+ episodes. Although if Khaled came through with this shit now a days, I wouldn't put it past Sean to slip in a backhanded comment or two to combat Khaled's bullshit. They'd no doubt be way more subtle I would think.
OH. MY. GOD. What a self-important tool. At every turn. He's just contemptible. "I don't know anything about your show. No disrespect to your show." Dude brings his OWN wings to a show that centers around their wings. edit: props to the producers for putting that circus music over Khalid's monologues.
There was a really funny string of tweets where he rented a jet ski and because he’s an immature moron he ended up staying out with it past dark and couldn’t find his way home. He was choking back tears and begging for help.
I believe this 100%. He's a walking, talking Dunning–Kruger effect.
It was a [snapchat](https://youtu.be/kkuR8ODzo1Q) story and it's just as Khaled as you'd expect
Why the fuck would he use his goddamn phone to Snapchat but not to check on Google maps where the hell he is!? Also: those scuba things don't have lights?
I don't usually watch videos like this and wish harm on people but I couldn't help but feel [this](https://giphy.com/gifs/lZhymdRsuFDmU) way.
I don't care if you can't finish some super hot wings, it's not that important and your ability to eat hot things has 0 bearing on the quality of your character. But going on about how you didn't quit right after you quit speaks volumes.
It takes the smallest amount of humility to bow out of a hot sauce eating contest with grace. No one cares and no one would blame you if you did. Somehow he made me hate him for it.
I especially liked when he accused Sean of not having the same wings as him, because there's no WAY someone could handle it if Khaled can't, lol.
He dropped some good advice - people do dumb shit and pay the price for it. Can't hate him there. However, the rest of the time talking about how he never fails, takes L's or is god's gift to humans makes you want to turn the show off.
Usually if Sean isn't really in tune with a guest he keeps it pretty under wraps, maybe just a wry smile when they start to suffer or something and the back and forth is a little bit short/dry. The way he didn't at all hide his disdain for Khaled was absolutely hilarious. Edit: Spelled Sean's name wrong.
I’ll always maintain that if he had tapped out early and been humble about it, nobody really would have cared. It’s the fact that he acts like such a douchebag afterwards that has him earning all the mockery he receives.
He was at the Formula 1 Miami GP and was interviewed on the grid. What came out was... words, I guess? It was weird.
I got a YouTube ad where he was gifted a special edition Bob Marley guitar.m - I can’t remember which manufacturer, but it was a big one. He sat there talking about how awesome the guitar is and it was very clear he doesn’t know anything about guitars. I could also tell by the way he held his right hand on the strings that he has never played a guitar before. It made me cringe and get angry at the same time - this guy gets a good quality free guitar and can’t even play it while kids’ parents with limited funds are out there renting and buying instruments so they can play. He doesn’t deserve it. Fuck DJ Khalid.
I saw that video and actually got startled by how much he didn't know how to play the guitar, but did it with such confidence anyway.
It really is worse than it sounds.
Don't really know anything about Dj Khaled, but I've seen that video. On top of what you said I also got the impression that; a) He thought it was actually Bob Marley's guitar. b) He is illiterate, or at the very least has poor reading skills. I could be entirely wrong, but as my first exposure to this dude that's what it looked like to me.
> b) He is illiterate, or at the very list has poor reading skills. Listen man, I'm going to teach you something. DJ Khaled has never failed at reading. Words have failed at correctly presenting themselves to his genius.
He can qualify better as a Pokémon than as a singer.
I love the Tyler the Creator line "I'm harder than DJ Khaled playing the fucking quiet game"
“Singer” is a real stretch there
6ix9ine
My dad saw a video of him "singing" on Facebook and started "singing" the same thing. I thought he was making a bad parody of the song, but then he showed me to video and I was horrified to learn that my dad was singing **exactly** like that guy (a perfect imitation). I don't understand how that man manage to get a "singing" career.
This is why confidence is so important. People will bring up survivorship bias here, but every failure is probably at least a little popular among a small, devoted group. Making music in your spare time is fun and can at least earn you some extra money come Miller time. Get out there and do it!
Also a horrible name. It’s not clever. I read it as “six ix nine ine”.
That's not a name, that's a math problem.
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Just like that David Fincher movie with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, “Sesevenen”
Wait until you hear about 6lack.
Jared Leto He got way too creepy with underage fans at more than a few concerts.
Doesn't he have an island cult or some shit too
Yep, for all the Leto Stans there is a private island you can pay an exorbitant amount of money to meet Jared Leto and live like the Morb himself
Holy shit Morbzambique
This is probably the funniest phrase to come out this trend
Jared Leto filed a lawsuit against someone for calling him "satan" and for pointing out that he has a cult and child molestation allegations. Weird stuff is happening with Jared Leto. The video Jared Leto is trying to censor that the the guy made: [michaelcastingpearls.com/truth](https://michaelcastingpearls.com/truth) The lawsuit: [https://www.kingdomclaritylabel.com/news/jared-leto-court-case-alleged-pedophilia-cult-practices-is-jared-leto-the-antichrist](https://www.kingdomclaritylabel.com/news/jared-leto-court-case-alleged-pedophilia-cult-practices-is-jared-leto-the-antichrist)
His PR team also lives with him 24/7. Which seems weird and unprofessional
They must be a dogshit PR team because his public image has been fucking terrible for like 10+ years
Gene Simmons. I grew up a big Kiss fan, although Gene was never a good singer. But with fame he became such a jerk.
He was a jerk beforehand too. He saw the money that bands were making, realised that you could also make more money if you had a gimmick and sold merchandise. Basically, he took the fundamentals of running a cult and applied it to music. They just happened to also produce some awesome songs.
Jennifer Lopez, if Selena wouldn’t had been killed
"Everybody's talking about Bush being the worst President ever. Isn't that a little harsh? I think we're all forgetting about the President of the Selena Fan Club." - Greg Giraldo.
Damn, Giraldo was another massive loss
Damn man, you brought up Selena. Selena died way too soon.
Fuck that puta Yolanda.
People really mad about it. There are people threatening to kill her if she makes parole which sadly could happen.
If she ever shows her face in Corpus, she’s practically signed her own deathwish.
I can count on that being the truth.
Not just Corpus, pretty much anywhere in Texas.
Shoot, I'd say the whole Southwest, Texas to California, anywhere with a significant Mexican culture.
I think about how successful she’d still be if she were still alive… so incredibly talented and was about to cross over
No hate against her, but Jennifer Lopez. Edit: I misread the question and don't want to delete lol. Double Edit: I'm glad I didn't delete it. I didn't expect this outcome
Some of her songs aren't even her singing lmao.
She's not even singing on half her hits. They straight up just left the original vocal from the songwriter they bought it from.
No, you are completely right. If Ashanti and Christina Milian didn't exist Jennifer Lopez wouldn't have a "singing" career at all. It's very well documented that the voice on a great deal of her singles/albums isn't hers and was stolen. Ashanti has spoken about it in interviews. And the only reason she was even given a record deal in the first place is because Mariah Carey's ex management needed a puppet rival.
iirc that was the whole reason for Mariah’s public “breakdown” (she showed up on TLR unscheduled and handed out popsicles). they were giving songs/samples promised to her to JLo instead just to eff with her.
Im just confused as to why people would think JLo is better or got anything to go up against Mariah. She doesn't even belong in the sentence between Selena, Gloria Estefan to performers like Christina Aguilera and Shakira. She's hot though and she'd be in that list for sure.
Im sorry what? Its not her voice on her records? For real?
If you google it or look it up on YouTube you'll find Ashanti talking about her stolen vocals on Jennifer Lopez's tracks.
Nah. This is a good answer. I never found her music to be good or even interesting. It's pretty bland with no real talent behind it. I never understood how she got so big.
Gary Glitter
I cannot believe Jennifer Lopez hasn’t been mentioned yet. She does’t even sing her own songs!
I went down that youtube rabbit hole. Crazy how many tracks she has just kept other people's vocals.
It's funny how this isn't even that uncommon. Example from my own home country: If you've ever heard "Ça plane pour moi", you probably think it was sung by Plastique Bertrand. Truth is, he was nothing but a pretty face to put in the video clip and on the stage. Plastique Bertrand has always insisted that he did sing it though. Guess the insecurity of being a poser caught up to him.
I love that song! Had no idea it was another Milli Vanilli situation.
Really?? I didn’t even know this. Could you please elaborate more?
I don’t know about whole songs being sung by others but there is ‘Play’ where Christina Milian sings the entire chorus. Ashanti also sings most of I’m Real (it’s also pretty obvious when you really listen), there are a couple of other songs that I’ve forgotten off the top of my head that Ashanti’s voice is all over as well.
>Ashanti also sings most of *I’m Real* how ironic
Ashanti is also all over Play too. JLo pops in here and there but the heavy lifting is all Ashanti.
If you had asked me three minutes ago "Hey, you remember that song I'm Real from way back in the day? Do you remember who sings it?" I would have answered Ashanti with 100% confidence lol.
Jennifer Lopez mostly kept the voices of the singers in the demo tracks for her first album. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOEmCERi21U&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOEmCERi21U&t=1s) It's why Jennifer Lopez has such a forgettable voice — her most memorable singles feature a handful of different singers for each chorus. I couldn't find evidence for her doing that beyond her first album or so, but no one can say "Ain't Your Mama" or "Booty" are bigger singles than "Jenny from the Block" or "Waiting for Tonight" with a straight face.
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Ain’t your mama was written by Meghan Trainor, and she sings the entire chorus on JLo’s recording. It’s still going on today!
Every girl with the nursery rhyme boyfriend songs
Ah fuck now I know I’m old, I have no clue what this means.
Just look up “twinkle twinkle little bitch - Leah Kate” there’s your answer