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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.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

That would likely have the benefit of saving us from Kid Rock too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mariah Carey. I work retail. If you know, you know.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I won't say his name but I stopped someone's musical career once. He was an up and coming young guitarist, getting performing gigs here and there, and teaching guitar students to help pay his bills while waiting for a break. I took some lessons from him and as part of general chatting it came out that I worked with computers. He thought that was interesting and asked good questions, so I brought him some programming books. He became a full time programmer a couple months later and a very good one too. I'm glad it worked out for him, but I always wonder what we lost.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My coach used to tell the story of a really promising track and field athlete who might have had a serious shot on the world scene, but quit to play in his band called The Barenaked Ladies. I never fact checked that, so I have no idea if it was true or not. But it stuck with me because it made me think of all the people who might have been incredible in one field or another who just never gave it a shot.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

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 🤨

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Michael Jackson. Having his career fail during the childhood "Jackson 5" phase. Better for him and a lotta other people.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Last i remember he would play with kids but didn't sexually abuse them. Was there any more infor came out?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm on the fence about him, as I haven't really dug into it, but i get the impression that it's mostly allegations without proof. His sister made some outlandish claims, but her credibility has been called intoquestion.

There were some settlements/payoffs, but I'm not going to speculate whether that was for covering something up, or if it was an attempt at appeasing people who just wanted a quick buck.

It can be said with certainty that he liked being around kids, possibly in a purely innocent manner. Anything beyond that is hard to say for certain. And the stories about kids sharing bedroom with him often fail to take into account that his bedroom was larger than most houses.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Eeeeeeee oooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeee oooooooooo eeeeee - oko nono

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Wasn't sure if I should believe you or not, so I looked it up

...I'm still not sure if I can believe this

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chris Brown because fuck that guy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

I think it would have been better for Brittany if she hadn't been famous.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

I'd do the inverse of this and see what might have happened if Charles Manson had had a successful music career. I heard an album of his songs and they were actually pretty good, kind of a mix of The Beach Boys and The Doors. Maybe if he'd sold some more songs then he wouldn't have gone into the whole murder cult thing.

But then again maybe it would have positioned him to be way worse and we're actually living in the universe where somebody stopped Manson from achieving true wealth and power and like leading a nationwide death cult or something.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Black Eyed Peas, I feel like that band was forced on me for like a decade.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Amy Winehouse. If she stayed a blues singer in London she might not have had so many drug issues made worse by fame.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Elvis. Just to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Actually, 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?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Jerry Lee Lewis became fairly successful in Country after his Rock career faltered. Most country musicians still play the guitar rather than the piano though.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Drake.

Wanker.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Linkin park. Cuz in the end, they didn't even matter.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

The singer of 30 Seconds to Mars

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Probably a very unpopular opinion but…

Taylor Swift. I am so sick of seeing her name mentioned all the time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Courtney Love already did this

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rick Astley - I can give him up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bono. He's the biggest piece of shit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Tool.

The band itself is fine. Their fans however...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

This one hurt me as a Tool fan

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Went to a Tool concert ahout six months ago. It was pretty clear that they were not fans of their fans.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because he was so influential it would have untold interesting ripple effects.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

MFs out here speedrunning any% no music runs

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