You’d think that being the primary frontman of a boyband would be an excellent platform for solo superstardom. After all, it’s your voice on …
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Career Killers
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With Top Gun: Maverick flying up to the top of the box office charts, I figured it was worth looking at the first movie …
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The Super Bowl Halftime Show is a massive platform. So when things go bad, they can end careers.
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R.E.M.’s “Three-Legged Dog” Era produced some good music. It also gave us this terrible album.
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Pearl Jam was about to be the next U2 or Led Zeppelin. But then they took a page out of Neil Young’s book.
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Sugar Ray was, perhaps, the ultimate party band of the late 90s/early 00s. Then the party ended.
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Katy Perry was one of the most reliable hit machines in music– until “Witness” happened.
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When is a hit album not a hit album? When it is “Adore.”
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Was Billy Idol ahead of his time with “Cyberpunk”? Of course. But that doesn’t mean the album is good or deserved to be successful.
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One of the few times Mike Love and not Brian Wilson helmed a Beach Boys album. Let’s just say it didn’t go well.
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In honor of Genesis’s recently announced reunion tour, let’s look at the album that caused their breakup: 1997’s “Calling All Stations.”
Garth Brooks conquered country. Then he tried to cross over into pop-rock. Kind of. It’s still really confusing — even 22 years later.
The Cars tried to go back-to-basics with “Door to Door.” Instead, they broke up for decades.
Limp Bizkit were everywhere in the late 90s/early 00s. Then they fell off the face of the earth.
When done right, concept albums can be career enhancing. Or they can be disasters.