"Madonna rapping" - two words that should never go together. No matter what era of her career we're talking about, that's just immediate cringe.

It was not Milli Vanilli‘s idea to fool the Public. It was their sleazy managers idea. It is my understanding that they were going to expose the lie, but the manager beat them to it to make it seem like it was them. These two unknown people had no clout in the music industry. They could have never pulled this off on their own.

You should watch the documentary on Milli Vanilli , it was really good and showed how they were created as a duo. Rob and Fab were struggling and needed the $$. The real singers were shown actually in the studio recording the songs and Milli Vanilli really wanted out as they started receiving a lot of success but were stuck and prayed they didn't win the Grammy, but did. It was a HUGH controversy all over the music industry. The media crucified them relentlessly . Rob wound up on drugs and never recovered from the humiliation and disgrace which claimed his life.😟😟

The Milli Vanilli story is even sadder because both of those guys actually COULD sing, but because of the controversy were never able to really build a career afterwards.

Other people have already said it, but I will reiterate.... GET ON THAT MILLI VANILLI ..... They weren't the only one's lip syncing during that time. Their discovery became a reckoning for the whole music industry at that time. You said it best, "it couldn't happen today", and Milli Vanilli's scandal is a major reason why. You should do a video about those two.

Thicke got in trouble because Blurred Lines sounded too much like Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up."

Lars hated the fact that "I disappear" was available for free. Moreover, what Napster was doing was illegal. Even today it is illegal if the artist doesn't get paid. That's why there are copyright claims on KZfaq.

Napster knew people were primarily sharing copyrighted music on there, not just files they owned. The logo had headphones.

Billy Squier was supposed to be mirroring a high school girl getting ready to go see him live. The video was then supposed to switch back between him and the girl so if you watch the video with that in mind it makes sense. Without the other part it was pretty bad. He was utterly mocked for the video but the song is awesome (Edit: After rewatching the video I would need to see the intended version before saying it wouldn't have also been bad)

Intuition by Jewel isn’t the same song as Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.

Regarding Blurred Lines: “The song became the subject of a legal dispute with the family of American singer Marvin Gaye and Bridgeport Music, who argued the song infringed on copyrights to Gaye's 1977 single "Got to Give It Up".

I remember Metallica going hard against music sharing. Even then, I knew they were making a huge PR mistake.

One of the guys from Millie Vanille coud sing very well but wasn't allowed to. It was really sad what happened to thier lives after they were caught and the one guy couldn't take the pressure and died.

I am watching for that 100,000 moment. Blessings to you, Kabir. ~ karen

3:55 Exactly! When his popularity passed social media was going to dump on him no matter what.

The heat from Blurred Lines was over the fact that it sounded like Marvin Gaye’s Got To Give It Up. Marvin’s family won their lawsuit against him and Pharrell over it.

The Controversy With Blurred Lines Was Copyright Infringement With Marvin Gaye's Song "Got To Give It Up" & He Settled It With a 5 Million Dollar Payout, But All The Other Songs On This Video Simply Wasn't Good Songs Except For Maybe "Jewels" But I Think You Should React To Some Old School R&B/Soul Songs, There's Sooooo Much Talent In It, That You Have Never Heard & It Would Do Well For UK Listeners To Be Introduced To, It Also Contains The Blues Called "The Hole In The Wall" Songs/Music, That Tells a Story In A Old School Genre, For Starters "Leave Well Enough Alone" By Dee Harvey & "I Need You" By Lakeside & "Super Woman" By Karen White & "Love Should've Brought You Home Last Night" By Toni Braxton 👌 There's Many, Many More I'll Send You, Thanks

Jewel had a very interesting upbringing. She was raised in Homer, Alaska and her parents have a TV show about their family called, "Alaska, the Last Frontier". It follows her dad, mom, uncle, and siblings lives on their original family homestead.

I seriously thought the Madonna song was going to be American Pie. A lot of people hated that one too!

Lol the song you quoted as being Jewel was actually called “Unwritten“ and it was by Natasha Bedingfield

Madonna's career was far from ruined by that song. Her recently ended Celebration tour completed 91 concerts to sold out audiences in Europe, North America, and Brazil. 2 million people attended the Brazil concert.

11:00 Yes, 'Blurred Lines' was picked at far too much as being about rxxx. It's clearly talking about getting mixed signals from women. The people it truly upset were Marvin Gaye's family as it's a copy of 'Give It Up' which is why Thicke lost the lawsuit!

Milli Vanilli wasn't the only group that had fake lead singers. C+C Music Factory and Black Box both had Martha Wash singing vocals, but she wasn't portrayed in the music videos. Have you heard of Funky Town? The lead singer of Lipps Inc. in one version of the video was a white woman with some really cringe facial expressions. The actual singer was a black lady who went on to perform with Prince. Frank Farian is the actual lead singer of Boney M. The guy in the video is just a dancer. Oh, and Frank Farian also created and produced Milli Vanilli.

The issue with Napster(and others) is that people would load their cds in, and share their songs. That meant that anyone who copied those songs didn't have to spend money to buy the cd themselves. That meant that the entire industry was losing tons of money. It was a copyright loophole that amounted to theft. Distributing copyrighted material is a felony.

Robin Thicke: Has the lyric “I know you want it” Society: *blows rape whistle* Jessie J: Has the lyric “I know you want it” Society:

Check out Todd in the Shadows. He's a KZfaqr who makes mini docs on one hit wonders, pop song reviews and albums that destroyed artists' careers.

I feel almost cheated that they didn't actually include the damning Milli Vanilli clip. I was waiting all video for it! "Girl, you know it's...girl, you know it's...girl you know it's...girl you know it's..."

It's strange milli vanilli had their careers ruined considering everybody fakes it thesedays... they were pioneers actually.

Blurred Lines issue was due to plagiarism. Marvin Gaye's estate sued Thicke & Pharrel and won.

The music industry has and always will be about money. What brings in the most money…right now. New artist or diamond dozen. A new artist could be number one today and at the bottom of the totem pole by tomorrow. That is why these people need to have a Plan B. If we don’t succeed in the entertainment industry, have some job skills that you can rely on. You’re not gonna have the money. You’re not gonna have the luxury. But at least you have an honest living and a steady paycheck.

FL Studio catching strays!

5:35 Intuition is literally the only song by Jewell that I actually don’t mind listening to 😂😂😂

I still love Millie Vanillie. Such bops!

Img when you s5arted singing that song plaine I got excited haven't heard it in a while lol

I can't get over the fact Macklemore has a clothing brand that charges well over 50 bucks for t shirt

13:30 It's unfair to blame this one song for "ruining" Metalica's career. The video doesn't even talk about the song and instead talks about their war against Napster. Napster was the civil disobedience the music industry needed as people were sick of paying $18 for a single song! Eventually the music industry realized they could convince people to pay for services like iTunes instead of just continuing free downloads!

Liz Phair's career wasn't ruined by that song. Her 2010 album Funstyle did that She rapped about her management to a Bollywood beat for god's sake

Kazaa! 😄

5:30 Just like Liz Phair it's impossible to call Jewel's "sell out" albums a failure when they were so popular.

1000% agree about Liz Phair.

15:30 The Milli Vanilli scandal was so big because it brought up the dirty not so secret fact which has existed in the industry for decades. Studio singers are used and matched with models/actors with the right look! No actor has had to ever give back their Oscar for songs they didn't sing in the movie! This still goes on today and is just common knowledge but gets very little media coverage.

I actually loved Jewel’s song, Intuition. So what that it wasn’t the expected sound she usually had in her music? 😂 That said, I haven’t been a fan of Madonna since the late 90s. Nowadays especially, she just seems to be trying too hard. 😖 Yup, the ol’ Napster and Limewire. I always saw it up there with you letting a friend borrow your bought album or making a mix tape. Not like these artists were still earning hand-over-foot in sales and merchandise. The percentage of people using those p2p programs was so minuscule. 🤷‍♀️

Do reactions to Todd in the Shadows Trainwreckords, he goes in depth on Jewel, Madonna, Liz Phair, Robin Thicke and many others.

Lol Madonna is the biggest selling concert tours before and after that video. If anything it like all Her songs only became bigger . Her releases were on the covers of Time Newsweek Forbes

15:15 The album released in 1992 and flopped because... it wasn't actually distributed to retailers. Rob Pilatus died in 1998! Watch Mojo can't even get basic facts straight!

1. They got this one completely wrong. I was young when Liz Phair was getting "popular" (early/mid-90's). She wasn't that popular at all and had pretty much disappeared anyway when the song that "ruined" her came out. 2. Macklemore could have just gone about his normal business. Yes, there's always a super loud but pretty small group of people that raise hell if you don't "speak up" about whatever cause they think you should be pushing. That cancel crowd isn't buying albums though, and I can't think of any musician/band who has truly been "canceled" because they didn't get political.

Milli Vanilli were caught lip syncing and it was revealed that they never actually sang any of their songs.

15:00 So the mega hit 'Girl You Know It's True' killed Milli Vanilli's career and not the time bomb which was destined to be exposed?

I care about this as much as I care about what flavour of crisps are next in my Golden Wonder Fully Flavoured Variety Pack 18.

They should add Kanye West to this list when he did that feature with Lil Pump a few years back.

Every song on this list is A-I and/or Autotuned generated...including Billy Squire!!!

Do I get a prize for not knowing any of these songs 😂

2:25 Everyone says Liz Phair "ruined her career" by selling millions of albums and making tens of millions from other work related to those albums. If they were really so bad why did so many people buy them and why are songs from these albums the only Liz Phair songs still played on the radio? 'Fun Style' was pretty much the nail in her coffin. Now all she has is her legions of fans and her tens of millions in bank.

The thing that turned Billy Squires fans off so much about that video was that the dancing was too much like a Richard Simmons exercise routine.

Out of all of those the only ones I've heard of are Madonna, Robin Thicke (although have never heard any of his music) and Milli Vanilli (again have never heard any of their songs either). None of that was my type of music.

When it comes to the music industry, it's like politics. If you've "made it" to most of us musicians, you've already sold out. As for how Milly Vanilly did not sing anything ... how does everyone use Autotune and call themselves vocalists? Nowadays, music sucks so bad because there are so few actual musicians. When we were kids playing our instruments, writing songs, and singing in our garages in the 70s, I saw more talent in neighborhood garages created by children by far. Now, a record company finds someone who looks attractive, they build an image around them, usually hypersexualize them, hire songwriters, use mostly fake computer-generated instruments, run all instruments through software that perfects timing and filters out human imperfections, run the vocals through autotune, then spits out this boring, soulless crap that doesn't evoke even close to the same emotion that the stuff from before digital enhancements arrived. I used to mourn that music is now stored in the cloud, has no tangible footprint and disappears. Good riddance. I still hang on to albums and cassette tapes from decades ago when rock was dangerous and artists took risks and worked on their craft instead of dance moves. I'll pull out some Rage Against the Machine and compare it to the formulized garbage that's out there now and hold out again on switching out my old car stereo with the CD player because nothing I'm hearing is worth "upgrading" the system when it means downgrading the music. I saw this coming, too.

8:24 capitalism got her there 😂😂😂😂😂

But some of these are bops.

Why Can’t I is a great song.

I liked [and still do like] Milli Vanilli. I saw them at the Awards. I didn’t see them lip syncing, but I heard the accent, and - there’s no way they could have sung those songs. Still, I think it was unfair what happened to them. No one cares, now , and it’s a standard practice to lip sync. A real shame, especially for the real artists. The music was still fantastic. 📻😐

Hi Kabir, it seems like a disproportionately large number of these acts were Rap/black music.

That Squire guy dances like a person who doesn’t know how to dance.

That Billy Squier video was a bit feminine back in the day, but I never really cared. I still like his music and actually back when it came out, I just figured the director was having a real bad day and left it at that. It never made me stop liking Billy's music. Weird how much a video affected him/his music actually.

You didn't actually upload songs into Napster. You searched for a song, the program searched other computers on Napster looking for the best connection to someone that had that song in their hard drive. You downloaded it from there. Now it's in your hard drive and someone can download it from you. Napster didn't make any money at all. They were ust a couple of college kids that couldn't afford to buy entire albums, to get one song. They gave their technology away and were legally and financially destroyed. By big music corporations and millionaire artists. Copyright laws weren't very clear, at the time, and everyone had been making their own audio tapes of their favorite music from the radio, for decades. Shutting down Napster was giving the f You finger to their fans.

Rock Me Tonite is a banger, sorry not sorry. The music video is strange though lol

Macklemore is one of the few musicians in the world with the gonads to produce a song in defense of Gaza. Check out "Hind's Hall." In the verse (below) he calls out Drake for his cowardice. Where's the rest of the rap community (other than Lowkey)? I thought they were tough guys? It turns out they're pro-establishment cowards. What happened to the artist? What d'you got to say? If I was on a label, you could drop me today I'd be fine with it 'cause the heart fed my page I want a ceasefire, fuck a response from Drake (woo) What you willin' to risk? What you willin' to give? What if you were in Gaza? What if those were your kids? If the West was pretendin' that you didn't exist You'd want the world to stand up and the students finally did, let's get it (woo)

Madonna is worth Billions, nothing tuned her career should NOT be on this list

Macklemore decided to get racial in his lyrics he brought it on himself imo.

I see Madonna in the thumbnail. Ummm WatchMojo sucks. They crank out Vids like crazy and they always give misinformation. American Life (The thumbnail pic) did not ruin Madonna's career. In fact, she'll be 66 in August, and still the queen of pop. Her career never died. She just performed for close to 2 million ppl in Brazil FOR FREE! Billy Squire's career did not end because of the song. It was the laughable, idiotic, music video. The song was great. WatchMojo sucks.

Madonna's career wasn't ruined over one song, get real. 🙄

That whole Maclemore thing was foolish, he made a popular song and the foolish part is why cant a white rapper win, which dooesnt happen often but black Ameriicans want inclusion in non black forums, like ballet/even appropriating Egyptian culture and getting sued for it. Karma is that rap/rnb are mostly dead. The Blurred Lines interpretation was insane.

I don't listen to music for their videos

Never heard of B.O.B., but if he went after the insufferable doofus Neil Degrasse Tyson, more power to him.

This mojo guy doesn't explain anything. Robin Thicke blurred lines were sued because it sounds like Marvin Gaye. He didn't go down because of his wife. Same with milli vanilli, it wasn't what he made it look like. You need to start doing your own research before judging.

Milli Vanilli shoulder pads were excessive and foolish looking even by 1990s standards. I have never liked them. It seems like they tried too hard to show what they didn’t have which was soul.

Milli Vanilli lip sync because they sucked at actually singing themselves.

Hey not everybody can sing. You don't wanna 2 hear me sing. NO. You're really don't. I'm. The only 1. They can stand it. I'll sing to my girlfriend. She's like. STOP NO Really. STOP LOL. William s

Madonna is the "queen of pop"??? In her own mind. She is old and out of tune.

Couldn't do that today? Almost all new hits are auto tuned so its not their voice.

See, I connected to the lyrics in Madonna's American life. Feeling trapped in my body, being a tomboy. (Not feeling like a boy or a girl.) Struggling with being forced to follow tradition and fit into the box of what society deemed my role. Wearing a mask by doing what other people do to fit in as an American and be exxepted.

Macklemore was corny and not real Hip Hop anyway.

I suggest doing a little more research before jumping on this kind of bandwagon. Truth isn’t exactly abundant on social media.