Bruce is probably the tamest artist out of all the old legends His most scandalous moment is leaving his wife for his back up singer whom he is still married to almost 30 years later. No drugs, abuse or underage sex.
Tbh, many great artists of the last century were quite messy, even horrible, people.
Artists nowadays are so much nicer, probably due to public pressure.
It's also because 1) there is much much more scrutiny due to the internet and social media, 2) thanks to the collapse of traditional profit models like actually selling music, the music industry is much more connected to international conglomerates and huge companies, and no corporation wants to align itself with a crazy/abusive/etc artist. Even indie bands routinely have their songs in ads nowadays whereas 15 years ago that would have been unthinkable and would have destroyed a band's reputation. No one can afford to be a mess nowadays or they won't have a career.
Cackling at some of these, but some are also really sad. The Janet one
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Forgot about how Donna Summer turned down "Raining Men" by sending the demo tape back to the producer/writer with a copy of the Bible and a note saying to find Jesus
I read this as "fix it Jesus" at first and it was even more hilarious
According to Tupac, Janet gave him her phone number but apparently she changed her phone number like weeks after Mariahs sister is/was a prostitue/drug addict and Mariah won't help her and pays her dust.
I don't blame her tbh
I think she has AIDS too? Someone posted an article a while ago about her.
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Stars use to be so much messier, it was always 2007 back in the old days
I've heard that Aretha's first two sons were fathered by Aretha's dad.
LMAO that's just a rumor. Aretha's father did have a kid with a 12 year old girl back when Aretha was little too so people though there could be something. They still think he pimped Aretha out.
Aretha is one of the messiest. Apparently one of her husband raped her son and he has severe mental damage. He also burned down his house one
New tea: John Lennon told his first wife Linda that he would be leaving her when she came home to find Yoko one wearing a dress he had bought her. He also told her he would be taking their son
Allegedly Diana Ross tried to run over a female employee of Motown with her car many years ago
Tina Turner used to perform without underwear on to give Ike easy access once the performances were over
Matthew and Tina got the other girls in Destiny's child to tan so that Beyoncé was the light girl.
Tommy Mottola paid loads of people to spread false rumours about Mariah and tried to sabotage her career. He tried to Pay Wendy Williams thousands but the Queen of all Media stuck to her guns and said no. That is why Wendy is a Queen.
UH. I doubt that.
Is that why they got two light-skinned girls to replace LeToya and LaTavia?
Janet did change her number immediately after Poetic Justice but I think that was because of Rene. John Singleton said that even though she was with Rene, nobody knew they were married, so everyone on set (including Pac and himself) was trying to get with her.
Janet had a one night stand (actually I think it was a few nights) with Matthew McConaughey
Janet and Tina Landon are no longer friends because Tina was engaged to another one of Janet's dancers, a guy named Rob. Rob was cheating on Tina, Janet found out and instead of telling Tina she told Rob he needed to tell the truth. He didn't, Tina soon found out everything (including that Janet knew) and kaboom went their friendship/working relationship.