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<p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Ignorance is bliss. Which is why in many cases it&#39;s a lot better to know less about the artists you love. While there are plenty of musicians who are sweet or well-intentioned in real life, there are still plenty with shady and sometimes downright dangerous off-stage behavior.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">There are times when an artist&#39;s personal life crosses such hard lines it feels unethical to support them financially. While it can a difficult decision to make, many of us have been there with at least one artist.</span></p><h2><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksfwbg/what_have_you_discovered_about_a_musician_that/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared things they discovered about a musician that completely turned them off listening to the music.</span></h2><p><span style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">1. From </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BoredAtWork1287/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">BoredAtWork1287</a><span style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>Remix to Ignition was probably my favorite song ever but then R. Kelly turned out to be a huge piece of sh**.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DontShowMomMemes/">DontShowMomMemes</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Headstrong by Trapt was basically a one hit wonder, and if you say that on Twitter the bands official account will verbally abuse you.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RetroGamer2153/">RetroGamer2153</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Crystal Castles.</p> <p>I learned that Ethan Kath was completely abusive towards Alice Glass, the entire time the duo was together. Sexually, physically, and emotionally, the works.</p> <p>It&#39;s not as depraved as some of the artists in this list, but horrible, nonetheless.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SeaworthinessIcy8070/">SeaworthinessIcy8070</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Ben Moody from Evanescence. The lead singer Amy Lee was stuck in an abusive relationship with him. I still love the band and the music, but it really makes me think about the meaning of the songs, since Amy Lee writes the lyrics herself, especially in their album, Fallen.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/alekivz/">alekivz</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Thirty Seconds to Mars is hard to listen to knowing Jared Leto is a certifiable lunatic (mailing used condoms to costars, etc) and has a literal cult following.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>EDIT: Mailing condoms and dead rats and stuff may have just been PR for suicide squad and unfairly tainted my view of him...but in exchange i&rsquo;ve also learned he&rsquo;s a serial pedo preying on young female fans, so like, I&rsquo;m still not going to be able to listen to the three 30STM I enjoyed as a teenager until he&rsquo;s dead, probably.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Artrery/">Artrery</a>:</h2><p> </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m surprised I haven&#39;t seen Ceelo Green on here. He came out in defense of Bill Cosby and effectively outed himself as a rapist too. He tweeted that it wasn&#39;t rape because there is no victim if the woman doesn&#39;t remember anything. He then defended what he was saying and seemed to detail his own experiences having sex with unconscious women. He asserted that a victim has to remember the act or there is no harm and no crime.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>His Twitter was deleted shortly after with all the tweets. Stopped hearing him on the radio for a very long time until recently his songs have slowly started to trickle back. Last song I heard on the radio is that &quot;maybe I&#39;m crazy&quot; song and I always think &quot;yeah, man, I&#39;m pretty sure you are.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AbbreviationsKey3383/">AbbreviationsKey3383</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>6ix9ine, from the moment I looked at his face.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Substantial-Set-7724/">Substantial-Set-7724</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Deso Dogg, a German rapper became one of the heads of ISIS (he died a few times since then).</p> <p>The German and American government declared him dead about 5 or 6 times. A few weeks later there was always a new video of him alive. Last time he was declared dead was in 2018 and since then there are no new news about him.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He also married a FBI-Agent in Syria.</p> <p>Kinda strange. I listend to his music as a teenager and he was also the supporting act of DMX on his Germany-Tour back in the days.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/swimmerincamo/">swimmerincamo</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Before Billy Joel made a name for himself he was working as a Background Artist on piano for other famous bands and musicians.</p> <p>At this time he constantly complained, very publicly, about his low pay, poor treatment, and lack of credit for his work. Fair enough.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Then when he hit the big time, he paid his background musicians even worse than he was paid, almost refused to talk to them because they were considered to be &ldquo;the help&rdquo;, and when asked to give credit, told them that the fans were only there to see him.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Lost a lot of respect for him after that, and now a lot of Backup Musicians refuse to tour with him and play on his albums.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/beepborpimajorp/">beepborpimajorp</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Gene Simmons being a notorious (and well-documented) dick has turned me off KISS completely. Which is a shame because I am really curious about that Scooby Doo movie that has them in it.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Own_Still_588/">Own_Still_588</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Look up the Orwells. I went through a period where I listened to them a lot. They&#39;re kind of a post punk/indie group. They&#39;re also kind of all accused sexual predators. They denied all claims but the band retired shortly after it all came out. If you put some of their lyrics under a microscope it&#39;s almost a little Freudian slip esque looking back on it. Sad that they&#39;re such degens.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YounomsayinMawfk/">YounomsayinMawfk</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Eminem, I read he didn&#39;t sign an autograph for his biggest fan who waited for him with his little brother for four hours in the blistering cold.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Song_Of_The_Night/">Song_Of_The_Night</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Really any of the rock stars who had a proclivity for &quot;dating&quot; children. Like one of the Rolling Stones &quot;dated&quot; a THIRTEEN year old up until she turned eighteen and he married her. Then divorced her in like two years. No music is good enough to ignore that. Thirteen years old.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Artistepourlavie/">Artistepourlavie</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to love Titanic Sinclair&#39;s music, but then I learned that he verbally abused his ex girlfriend, broke into her house multiple times, made songs about her that were really rude, then he created Poppy, who was made to mock his ex.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Drownedfish28/">Drownedfish28</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I listen to a lot of metal, and one of the craziest is The Dawn of the Black Hearts. It features a man, with brains on the floor, blood splatter, and a shotgun. The craziest part is, it&rsquo;s actually the lead singer.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Apparently he suffered from a condition in which he truly believed he was a corpse. This apparently caused a lot of mental health issues, which caused him to take his own life. It gets weirder.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The guitarist, it&rsquo;s rumored drove him towards this. Once the singer had committed suicide, the guitarist assembled the scene like it is on the cover now, and even took pieces of brain matter and skull fragments and made them into necklaces. This was confirmed by other members of the band. If I knew how to link sources on Mobile, I most definitely would.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mrgreen37/">Mrgreen37</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>The fact that Morrissey is a self righteous arrogant racist prick has killed any interest I might have had in The Smiths.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GreetingsClawrades/">GreetingsClawrades</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>It was obvious from the get go that they were kind of f**ked up but I don&rsquo;t listen to Die Antwoord after hearing about the sexual assault and abuse allegations against Ninja, especially the fact that he specifically went after women that reminded him of his own daughter in appearance.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/littleyellowbike/">littleyellowbike</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to be a big fan of Ryan Adams. I knew he was notoriously difficult to work with, but many artists are. I can excuse someone being a pain in the a**.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I cannot, however, excuse abusive behavior, and he has a history of emotional abuse against the women he has been with. Ever since I learned that, I can&#39;t bring myself to listen to his music anymore.</p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/i_Lost_harold_holt/">i_Lost_harold_holt</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 13-year-old cousin.</p> <p>Can&#39;t remember if its true or not but someone on another thread mentioned that she brought her doll house with her when he went on tour.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>And lastly, Glen Danzig.</p> <p>I&#39;ve heard stories about him being an absolute c**t to people. F**k him.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LTPfiredemon/">LTPfiredemon</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Used to be one of my favourite bands and The Getaway is genuinely one of my favourite albums. Unfortunately though Anthony Kiedas has a big thing for barely legal/ not quite legal girls which includes statutory rape.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share things they discovered about a favorite musician that made them stop listening.

Ignorance is bliss. Which is why in many cases it&#39;s a lot better to know less about the artists you love. While there are plenty of musicians who are sweet or well-intentioned in real life, there are still plenty with shady and sometimes downright dangerous off-stage behavior.There are times when an artist&#39;s personal life crosses such hard lines it feels unethical to support them financially. While it can a difficult decision to make, many of us have been there with at least one artist.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared things they discovered about a musician that completely turned them off listening to the music.1. From BoredAtWork1287: Remix to Ignition was probably my favorite song ever but then R. Kelly turned out to be a huge piece of sh**. 2. From DontShowMomMemes: Headstrong by Trapt was basically a one hit wonder, and if you say that on Twitter the bands official account will verbally abuse you. 3. From RetroGamer2153: Crystal Castles. I learned that Ethan Kath was completely abusive towards Alice Glass, the entire time the duo was together. Sexually, physically, and emotionally, the works. It&#39;s not as depraved as some of the artists in this list, but horrible, nonetheless. 4. From SeaworthinessIcy8070: Ben Moody from Evanescence. The lead singer Amy Lee was stuck in an abusive relationship with him. I still love the band and the music, but it really makes me think about the meaning of the songs, since Amy Lee writes the lyrics herself, especially in their album, Fallen. 5. From alekivz: Thirty Seconds to Mars is hard to listen to knowing Jared Leto is a certifiable lunatic (mailing used condoms to costars, etc) and has a literal cult following.  EDIT: Mailing condoms and dead rats and stuff may have just been PR for suicide squad and unfairly tainted my view of him...but in exchange i&rsquo;ve also learned he&rsquo;s a serial pedo preying on young female fans, so like, I&rsquo;m still not going to be able to listen to the three 30STM I enjoyed as a teenager until he&rsquo;s dead, probably. 6. From Artrery:  I&#39;m surprised I haven&#39;t seen Ceelo Green on here. He came out in defense of Bill Cosby and effectively outed himself as a rapist too. He tweeted that it wasn&#39;t rape because there is no victim if the woman doesn&#39;t remember anything. He then defended what he was saying and seemed to detail his own experiences having sex with unconscious women. He asserted that a victim has to remember the act or there is no harm and no crime.  His Twitter was deleted shortly after with all the tweets. Stopped hearing him on the radio for a very long time until recently his songs have slowly started to trickle back. Last song I heard on the radio is that &quot;maybe I&#39;m crazy&quot; song and I always think &quot;yeah, man, I&#39;m pretty sure you are.&quot; 7. From AbbreviationsKey3383: 6ix9ine, from the moment I looked at his face. 8. From Substantial-Set-7724: Deso Dogg, a German rapper became one of the heads of ISIS (he died a few times since then). The German and American government declared him dead about 5 or 6 times. A few weeks later there was always a new video of him alive. Last time he was declared dead was in 2018 and since then there are no new news about him.  He also married a FBI-Agent in Syria. Kinda strange. I listend to his music as a teenager and he was also the supporting act of DMX on his Germany-Tour back in the days. 9. From swimmerincamo: Before Billy Joel made a name for himself he was working as a Background Artist on piano for other famous bands and musicians. At this time he constantly complained, very publicly, about his low pay, poor treatment, and lack of credit for his work. Fair enough.  Then when he hit the big time, he paid his background musicians even worse than he was paid, almost refused to talk to them because they were considered to be &ldquo;the help&rdquo;, and when asked to give credit, told them that the fans were only there to see him.  Lost a lot of respect for him after that, and now a lot of Backup Musicians refuse to tour with him and play on his albums. 10. From beepborpimajorp: Gene Simmons being a notorious (and well-documented) dick has turned me off KISS completely. Which is a shame because I am really curious about that Scooby Doo movie that has them in it. 11. From Own_Still_588: Look up the Orwells. I went through a period where I listened to them a lot. They&#39;re kind of a post punk/indie group. They&#39;re also kind of all accused sexual predators. They denied all claims but the band retired shortly after it all came out. If you put some of their lyrics under a microscope it&#39;s almost a little Freudian slip esque looking back on it. Sad that they&#39;re such degens. 12. From YounomsayinMawfk: Eminem, I read he didn&#39;t sign an autograph for his biggest fan who waited for him with his little brother for four hours in the blistering cold. 13. From Song_Of_The_Night: Really any of the rock stars who had a proclivity for &quot;dating&quot; children. Like one of the Rolling Stones &quot;dated&quot; a THIRTEEN year old up until she turned eighteen and he married her. Then divorced her in like two years. No music is good enough to ignore that. Thirteen years old. 14. From Artistepourlavie: I used to love Titanic Sinclair&#39;s music, but then I learned that he verbally abused his ex girlfriend, broke into her house multiple times, made songs about her that were really rude, then he created Poppy, who was made to mock his ex. 15. From Drownedfish28: I listen to a lot of metal, and one of the craziest is The Dawn of the Black Hearts. It features a man, with brains on the floor, blood splatter, and a shotgun. The craziest part is, it&rsquo;s actually the lead singer.  Apparently he suffered from a condition in which he truly believed he was a corpse. This apparently caused a lot of mental health issues, which caused him to take his own life. It gets weirder.  The guitarist, it&rsquo;s rumored drove him towards this. Once the singer had committed suicide, the guitarist assembled the scene like it is on the cover now, and even took pieces of brain matter and skull fragments and made them into necklaces. This was confirmed by other members of the band. If I knew how to link sources on Mobile, I most definitely would. 16. From Mrgreen37: The fact that Morrissey is a self righteous arrogant racist prick has killed any interest I might have had in The Smiths. 17. From GreetingsClawrades: It was obvious from the get go that they were kind of f**ked up but I don&rsquo;t listen to Die Antwoord after hearing about the sexual assault and abuse allegations against Ninja, especially the fact that he specifically went after women that reminded him of his own daughter in appearance. 18. From littleyellowbike: I used to be a big fan of Ryan Adams. I knew he was notoriously difficult to work with, but many artists are. I can excuse someone being a pain in the a**.  I cannot, however, excuse abusive behavior, and he has a history of emotional abuse against the women he has been with. Ever since I learned that, I can&#39;t bring myself to listen to his music anymore. 19. From i_Lost_harold_holt: Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 13-year-old cousin. Can&#39;t remember if its true or not but someone on another thread mentioned that she brought her doll house with her when he went on tour.  And lastly, Glen Danzig. I&#39;ve heard stories about him being an absolute c**t to people. F**k him. 20. From LTPfiredemon: Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Used to be one of my favourite bands and The Getaway is genuinely one of my favourite albums. Unfortunately though Anthony Kiedas has a big thing for barely legal/ not quite legal girls which includes statutory rape. 