This isn’t a “go back in time and assassinate” someone question. It’s just their musical career never takes off and thus any music they ever would have made is no longer in this timeline.
Ted Nugent. He is just a complete scumbag and without his shitty music career he never would have impacted so many people with his gross bullshit. The world would be better off if his music never existed.
That would likely have the benefit of saving us from Kid Rock too.
I was about to give the example of Ted Nugent in the body of the post because he’s just such a douche. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the same.
Nugent is a truly despisable creature, but his playing in Amboy Dukes’ “Journey to the Center of the Mind” album is very good.
Ted Nugent deserves to have more than just his career erased. Fucking admitted pedophile piece of shit.
Mariah Carey. I work retail. If you know, you know.
I worked retail for exactly one Christmas. The day I worked the toy department they had one album on repeat for eight hours. I hated Christmas music for years, and now it just annoys me.
Simon Cowell
The cunt worked out how to make millions from gouging money from kids with cheaply produced pop, and caused a massive collapse in the quality of the British music scene, from which it’s never really recovered
It was the only good thing left Simon 🤨
Chris Brown because fuck that guy.
It would be super simple too, just obtain footage of him beating the shit out of Rihanna and make it public, his music career would surely be destroyed in seconds.
The brutal details of Rihanna’s domestic violence report against Chris Brown and the photo of her injuries are so common as to have been a copypasta for over a decade, and his fans still worship him.
Exactly, I don’t know how he has fans at this point. The celebrity worship is crazy.
Cause half of them think its okay to beat women, and half of them want to be the women he beats.
Cause the weird cults of personality that form around fame and fortune are beyond rational comprehension.
Better to do it early so he never beats rihanna in the first place.
I think it would have been better for Brittany if she hadn’t been famous.
Michael Jackson. Having his career fail during the childhood “Jackson 5” phase. Better for him and a lotta other people.
Yoko Ono
Eeeeeeee oooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeee oooooooooo eeeeee - oko nono
Amy Winehouse. If she stayed a blues singer in London she might not have had so many drug issues made worse by fame.
Outside the box: Robert Elliot, a charter pilot who flew and killed Jim Croce by crashing into a tree on takeoff. Pilot error was found to be the cause as the overweight 57 year old pilot was unable to drive to the airport so ran for 3 miles, from his motel to the hangar, to be on time for the flight. The run exacerbated his coronary artery disease, causing him to tunnel vision and not see the tree.
Similar story, when I was 12 I was late for the school bus and ran about 2 blocks with a full backpack and a snare drum. Ended up puking in the bus aisle about halfway through the hour long ride. Basically the same thing.
Ooh. If we didn’t have the big bopper we’d still have Richie Valenz
Drake.
Wanker.
The singer of 30 Seconds to Mars
Elvis. Just to see what happens.
Nothing.
Elvis didn’t invent anything musically, he was just the first white guy to do what Black guys had been doing.
If it wasn’t Elvis, it would have been someone else a couple months later.
“Though I’m not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
To do Black music so selfishly
And use it to get myself wealthy (Hey!)
There’s a concept that works
Twenty million other white rappers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
It’d be so empty without me” - EminemActually, that was one thing I considered. If he hadn’t become a superstar by never writing a single song, would it have changed the industry’s thoughts on using pretty faces to sell other people’s songs?
Well maybe he was the one with the charisma to do what black guys were doing.
A lot more piano probably.
Jerry Lee Lewis was poised to be one of the first white rock and roll superstars until his career was rocked with scandal. Had that happened it is very possible that the piano would become the predominant instrument in white rock.
The genre already has its roots in jump blues and boogie woogie, both piano driven styles. Little Richard and Fats Domino were at the top of the charts.
Had a piano player been the king of white rock then you would have likely seen a lot more artists picking up that instrument rather than the guitar.
Nah, guitar is the musical equivalent to football (soccer). It’s cheap, easy to learn, you can take it with you, and you can play with your friends.
The trope of a kid turning up with their guitar couldn’t happen with a piano.
You’re right. I shouldn’t have suggested that the piano would be more popular than guitar, only that you might have heard a lot more piano if Jerry Lee had been the face of white rock instead of Elvis.
People are going to play whatever they can get their hands on. I remember reading in a Muddy Waters biography about someone who started off writing songs using an old piano wire attached to a shack because that’s all he had available.
Nothing wrong with suggesting a different idea :)
It would have been cool to watch 90’s kids humping pianos to band practice with their friends though :D
So you’re saying we could have had the keytar decades earlier?
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We’ve had that movie. Now let’s see the Elvis one.
Tbh the movie really didn’t push the idea very far.
Yeah, I actually really like that movie, because it pulls all the right heart strings for me, but overall they didn’t really explore all the impacts of the Beatles being gone on the actual music industry, besides a runaway joke about Oasis. It mostly focuses on how the protagonist makes a career out of his special knowledge.
Probably a very unpopular opinion but…
Taylor Swift. I am so sick of seeing her name mentioned all the time.
Courtney Love already did this
Phil Spector. His wall of sound bullshit caused decades of potentially amazing albums to sound like shit, and he’s a terrible person who has brought nothing on the world that’s worth keeping.
What about his Christmas album
