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Michelle Branch is PSYCHO
Member Since: 10/14/2004
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 11/16/2004
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Member Since: 8/9/2005
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Michelle has always been my favorite.. and will always be my favorite
I really hope her Wreckers Album does well.. she cant quit music
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 1/5/2002
Posts: 11,088
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Dude, some artist/bands would kill to be on a tour she was on last year. And bashing the Santana song? That's ******** she's acting like an ungrateful person. She needs to go back to being a mother and stop yelling at people on her message board.
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Member Since: 2/14/2002
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GOSH that is so rude to her fans! That is truly ungrateful, and to say that about I'm Feeling You. It is such an incredible and to work with Santana is an opportunity. Bitch.
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Member Since: 8/9/2004
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I hope she didn't poison owen after that post .
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Member Since: 10/21/2005
Posts: 19,258
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I thought better of her. I really did like her music. She shouldn't be so mean to her fans, only the ones who are being mean to her. I'm a fan, and I never once talked bad about her. She should respect her other fans has a normal artist. Otherwise, she shouldn't be an artist if she can't stand her fans. She is the first artist to do this, but it's very mean and maybe she should just quit...
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Member Since: 9/18/2005
Posts: 6,209
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I love her even more now!!!!! Her music is good AND she speaks her mind. Let there be more artists like her
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Member Since: 6/29/2002
Posts: 6,045
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I love her I love her I love her. <33333333333333333333333
Y'all know she's right. And duh, of course she should've kept her mouth shut, but she didn't. She said it. She's gonna make a mark in history. A good one.
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Member Since: 7/18/2003
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aww...now the public is going to downgrade her. She is one of my favorite artists, though, and I hope she doesn't stop making music.
She should have kept that to herself though...everyone gets pissed once in awhile, but she should have just kept it to herself...or even better: put it in her music!
I know it must be hard being a celebrity, but people talk bad about people all the time. If I was a celebrity, I don't even think it would be a good idea to look on the internet to see what others say about me because it could really hurt your self-esteem and it would be hard to tell yourself the real truth about yourself.
and people who have no lives go to message boards and post such awful things. It's better not to look for what could potentially cause trouble. don't go where danger lurks...
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Member Since: 7/28/2004
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You think that's psycho?
Wow, some of you really are the dumbest people on the planet.
That's not psycho, that's being human you retards. That's LIFE. She's be honest about the music industry, something that no-talent hacks like Britney Spears and Hilary Duff would never do.
And she's 100% right. She didn't want to do a song with Santana because, duh, she was forced into it. Why? To try and duplicate the previous success of something. Why would she want to be part of something so manufactured? She should be greatful to be part of a tour with "such good people"? Why? She HAD to and she ws pregnant, you idiot. That's the LAST thing she would want to do.
It's time immature morons like Froggert, Sizzle, and tONYBROWNEYEs to shut up and get a clue about life.
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Member Since: 9/4/2005
Posts: 644
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Originally posted by Zeo
You think that's psycho?
Wow, some of you really are the dumbest people on the planet.
That's not psycho, that's being human you retards. That's LIFE. She's be honest about the music industry, something that no-talent hacks like Britney Spears and Hilary Duff would never do.
And she's 100% right. She didn't want to do a song with Santana because, duh, she was forced into it. Why? To try and duplicate the previous success of something. Why would she want to be part of something so manufactured? She should be greatful to be part of a tour with "such good people"? Why? She HAD to and she ws pregnant, you idiot. That's the LAST thing she would want to do.
It's time immature morons like Froggert, Sizzle, and tONYBROWNEYEs to shut up and get a clue about life.
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Have you forgotten that Hilary Duff had supposedly "bashed" Britney & Jessica?
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Member Since: 8/24/2003
Posts: 4,785
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Psycho? For legitimately complaining about things? Too many people think people should be on the knees in thanks for 'opportunities' from industries like this and that lack of support gives the industries the excuse and they think, justification, to make unacceptable demands and act like the product is more important then the people in it. Yes, they are opportunities and can end very well and you should be grateful but it's so overbalanced, the way people an the industries act is as if you're nothing without them and there's 'a dime a dozen' where you came from', people shouldn't have to be pushed past their comfort zones and limits against their will and should have a choice or some say in what they do; just because you're thankful doesn't mean you should submit or agree with everything, and industries initially seems to give you a lot but it makes a hell of a lot more at everyone's expense.
Not everyone who enters wants the same kind of fame and there should be an extent to which you can compromise fairly. People need to think past the take it or leave it attitutude the plenty would kill for the opportunity line, it's that attitude that allows plenty of artists to work without decent rights and get walked all over, for the sake of the few who get propelled to major stardom; just because those few are all we generally see and hence many think that's all there is, doesn't mean that's true and doesn't mean that others don't suffer for it, including those stars themselves to an extent. Not everyone wants to be a puppet and they shouldn't have to give up what they love or face degredation for not agreeing with all the terms.
she obviously is grateful for much of it but the cost has effected it and fair enough, she wants to get her passion back but doesn't agree with the way things have gone, what's wrong with wanting to change things abit and get abit more control over your career in ways that you can approve of? She's not demanding excessive fame, money and glory like a spoiled brat, she just wants better working conditions and to be able to believe in her music again.
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Member Since: 12/29/2002
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Jeff
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Member Since: 8/24/2003
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IS THIS REAL?
If so, ROFL. I knew she was a crazy bitch.
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 9/26/2001
Posts: 22,475
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A lot of you are overreacting.
Let me ask you guys something: Would YOU like being forced into something you don't want to do? It doesn't matter if you're being forced to sing with Santana or being made to take out the trash or being made to do the dishes or your homework or anything like that, it's the same feeling, ESPECIALLY if you don't want to do it. You feel frustrated, annoyed. Michelle Branch is not being psycho..as Jeff pointed out, she is being *human* and it's rare that people are human in the music industry these days. Everyone is too "nice" and it's really refreshing to see someone as supposedly "nice" as Michelle Branch speaking her mind. Michelle does not have to do anything that she doesn't want to do. She's a popular musician, and doesn't have to fall like a chess piece and cave in to demands. She's finally growing a backbone and people should be admiring that, not slandering it.
That's what I love about music fans: They adore an artist, love their music, but when they actually say something negative and honest, they turn their back on that artist and call them "psycho". That's pathetic.
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Member Since: 7/2/2004
Posts: 5,939
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Originally posted by World Police Actor
That's what I love about music fans: They adore an artist, love their music, but when they actually say something negative and honest, they turn their back on that artist and call them "psycho". That's pathetic.
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That's because a lot of people want celebs to follow a preset script and act like a product. People say they want authenticity but what they really want is to be fooled and live in lala land 24/7.
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Member Since: 2/7/2002
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Originally posted by Randy
wow she IS psycho but she does have a point, why pay to get insulted?
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If you had a friend who wore an ugly outfit or did their hair bad, would you tell them so they'd stop doing it, or would you be too worried about insulting your friend to set them straight?
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Originally posted by ShadowShy
If I was a celebrity, I don't even think it would be a good idea to look on the internet to see what others say about me because it could really hurt your self-esteem
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That's true. Michelle seemed addicted to her messageboard, and maybe shutting it down was her way of dealing with her addiction. :-/
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Originally posted by ~A*D*O*R*A~
She's not demanding excessive fame, money and glory like a spoiled brat, she just wants better working conditions and to be able to believe in her music again.
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Apparently she demanded (got) writing credits (and hence undeserved royalties) on a song she didn't write, and her confessional makes it seem like maybe she's been feeling guilty about that. This thing goes a lot deeper than not being able to take criticism from long-time fans.
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