If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?
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.
I think it would have been better for Brittany if she hadn't been famous.
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.
Drake.
Wanker.
Probably a very unpopular opinion but…
Taylor Swift. I am so sick of seeing her name mentioned all the time.
Michael Jackson. Having his career fail during the childhood "Jackson 5" phase. Better for him and a lotta other people.
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
Linkin park. Cuz in the end, they didn't even matter.
I hate how people on Reddit have a fucking bizarre fascination with this band. Yeah, I was 13 once, too, and also thought it was deep then. Then I grew up.
I enjoy some of their latest stuff. Rip Chester. That last album especially I thought was great.
Mariah Carey, for that obvious one song that returns every fucking Christmas.
i think theres plenty of reasons to erase mariah carey's career.
the christmas song is the least of them.
Ted Bundy. Charlie Manson
(Oops, swaped serial killer names when i typed it out)
Maybe without music and the Beach Boys connection he never gets his cult off the ground.
woah the Beach boys had connections with Charles Manson too. what's going on with the Beach boys?
Yeah i swaped my serial killers, oops.
I knew what i meant but typed the other one.
Would it be cheating if I chose Nero Caesar since he technically was a musician and would perform in the colosseums under threat of death?
Damn this had me thinking to stop the musician that proposed the winter dance party tour, but it seems buddy Holly originated it so no facing him.
It would have been cool to see where he went musically.
All excellent suggestions here. I’m adding Lost Prophets to the list. Maybe don’t look them up if you don’t already know.
The Beatles.
Rick Astley - I can give him up
Never
He might let you down though
Dave Mustaine is a particularly irritating fascist, would be nice id he didn't get royalties
Johann Sebastian Bach
Why Bach?
Can I pick a midpoint in his career? If so I would pick Coldplay after Viva la Vida. Otherwise, The B-52s
Nirvana
Journey
Justin
Timberlake, Bieber, or the Canadian PM who kept the country from bankruptcy despite the blinkered conservatives and their expendable constituents trying to kill the country and all its inhabitants on the daily?
On what fucking planet.....That PM has been the ruination of this country.
Bon Jovi. Nobody needed that.
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.
Which books? Also, how long ago was this?
Yours.
Dave Matthews
Phil Collins. Genesis could do without him and the world without his solo career
in the air tonight Oh lord
Hey, A Trick of the Tail slaps, Phil had a whole phase before he became generic Phil Collins
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.
Better to do it early so he never beats rihanna in the first place.