10 artists who hate career successes

Ahhh the song! This captivating art form is capable of cradling a person's most varied emotions throughout his or her life. We love music here at Mega Curioso, and if you do a quick search on our search engine, you'll find a lot of publications on this topic.

We already talked about the hit that can be considered the most exciting of all time and also the saddest, which has inspired more than 100 suicides in history. We've also told you why people love to listen to music so much, but just as there is preference, there are also cases where the song itself causes some kind of repulsion. Not only because you do not like the style, the lyrics or the melody, but also because it refers to some unpleasant memory.

What about those cases where music is so successful and plays so many times that people get sick? They can happen. Now what seems unbelievable, but it also happens, is the case of singers and bands who get bored or dislike and, for some other reason, stop playing their own songs. And when are they simply among the biggest hits of their career?

Yeah, one of those cases happened earlier this year, when singer Sinead O'Connor announced that she would stop singing the hit “Nothing compares 2 U” (video below). According to information from Billboard magazine's website, as a justification she stated that "does not identify emotionally with the song."

But since O'Connor wasn't the only one facing this kind of situation, based on a list published by Mental Floss, we present 10 more artists who announced they were tired or sick of their biggest hits. Check out:

1. Radiohead, “Creep”

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke abhors the song “Creep, ” the band's first hit song. He calls it crap and refuses to interpret it in the traditional way in his live performances. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood does not like the song either and confessed it already during the song recordings. Greenwood even tried to sabotage the hit by playing the guitar extremely hard. Yorke, on the other hand, had a sudden reaction at a group performance in Montreal: he was aggressive in refusing a fan's request to play “Creep”. “Go if # & r! We're tired of it, ”he exclaimed.

2. Bob Geldof, “Do They Know It's Christmas?” And “We Are the World”

At this holiday season, how can I not remember Simone's smash hit “So It's Christmas”? If you do not remember yourself, surely someone will do it for you and will probably annoy you. So, it should be something like this that, on the same theme (Christmas), Bob Geldof has come to apologize for helping in the composition of "Do they know it's Christmas?". In an interview with the Daily Mail, he once stated that where he was going, the music was playing and it was the same story all “holy” Christmas. “I'm going to the supermarket, going to the meat cutter and she's playing!” He said.

Along with the Christmas theme, Bob Geldof condemns another blockbuster song in which he participated in the creation: the also always remembered "We are the world". In reference to the hits, he doesn't hesitate to admit, "I'm responsible for two of the worst songs in history."

3. Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to heaven”

Led Plant singer, Robert Zeppelin, endured at least 17 years playing one of his biggest hits: the song “Stairway to heaven”. This period lasted until 1988, when, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, he stated that he would be mad to have to play the music in every concert he did.

Two decades later, at a one-off concert in London, Plant asked that the song not be played as a closing of the show and that guitarist Jimmy Page "hold on not to make it a 'salad' full of soil." Before that, however, the singer even donated to a Portland radio station that announced that he would no longer play the song during the program.

4. Madonna, “Like a Virgin”

Pop star Madonna gave interviews in which she expressed her dissatisfaction with singing the hit song “Like a virgin”. In 2008, for a New York radio station, she said that, along with the song "Holiday", she would not play the song anymore, "unless someone paid a $ 30 million or so." The following year, she even said that she couldn't even hear her own hit. “People, for some reason, think that when you go shopping or to a restaurant, you want to hear one of your songs. Usually this song is 'Like a virgin' and that's exactly what I don't want to hear, ”he explained.

5. Beastie Boys, “(You got) Fight for your right (to party)”

One of the Beastie Boys, Mike D, even stated that the only bad feeling he had about the song is that it may have reinforced values ​​from some fans that do not match the values ​​the band itself had. In fact, indeed many followers of the Beastie Boys took the song seriously. The band, albeit with a touch of irony, described the hit that put them on the track of fame as "crap." The statement is on the back of his most successful album, "The Sounds of Science", 1999.

6. The Pretenders, “Brass in Pocket”

The music was a hit and the band, the businessman, the producer, almost all realized it would be a blast. And indeed it was. The hit “Brass in Pocket” was responsible for bringing the band's album of the same name, “The Pretenders”, to platinum, with over 1 million copies sold.

However, one person did not like the song. Just lead singer Chrissie Hynde, who hated the song strongly. She also saw the possibility of success and considered the hit very "obvious", so she didn't like it. In an interview with the Observer newspaper, she said she even told the producer that he would only throw the song over his dead body.

7. Flock of Seagulls, “I ran (so far away)”

Mike Score, the lead singer of the band Flock of Seagulls, hates the two things he was marked for in the 1980s. One of them was his eccentric hairstyle, which the singer decided to cut to avoid the many reporters' questions about it. The other is the song “I ran”, one of the band's biggest hits. On VH1's “The Best Songs of the 80s”, Score acknowledged that he didn't like the song. “Every time I'm playing live, everyone wants to hear 'I ran'. I'm sick of it, ”he pointed out.

8. John Mellencamp, “Jack and Diane”

"I've been living with my whims for what Jack and Diane gave me, so I can't hate them very much." This is the opinion of singer John Cougar Mellencamp about his # 1 career hit. However, in an interview with The Sun in 2008, he did not hide that he no longer felt the same excitement about writing the famous song about the couple. "I'm a little tired of them already, " he said.

9. Oasis, Wonderwall

Liam, one of the famous Gallagher brothers at the head of the defunct British band Oasis, hates one of, or perhaps his biggest hit: Wonderwall. He stressed this in an interview with MTV, saying that every time he needed to sing it, he wanted to gag. Apparently, his main scolding was, in fact, with fans who knew him only by the authorship of this song and used the example of people across the Atlantic Ocean. “You go to America and they do it: 'Are you Mr. Wonderwall? 'then you want to break someone's face, ' he complained.

10. REM, “Shiny Happy People”

Currently, former REM lead singer Michael Stipe takes a cautious stance toward songs he doesn't like because he believes his opinion could hurt any fans for whom they have special meanings. Therefore, the singer simply says that "Shiny Happy People" has a "lower appeal" to him. However, in an interview with a 1995 humor show, he admitted that he hated the song. Stipe also claims that he and his former REM teammates agree that this is a track that should not have been featured on the band's best songs album.

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