Songs That Outraged Celebrities

Everyone has that song that they can’t bear. For most of us, it’s the Kars4Kids theme, the seemingly innocent clue that pops up during a routine commercial break only to infect our brains relentlessly for the next week. See also: “Baby Shark”. Urban legend has it that a shark dies if it stops swimming, so “Baby Shark” goes on and on and on. What these songs have in common is that they are very catchy with little substance. They are planted in our brains like termites and chew incessantly. It’s pretty rare for the average person to be passionately upset with a song for some other reason. On the other hand, we are not celebrities. By now, they should have learned that dating a composer is an occupational hazard.

Taylor Swift put it best more than a decade ago when I said (via Us weekly ), “If you don’t want me to write bad songs about you, then don’t do bad things.” Unfortunately, bad. It is a totally subjective concept. Celebrities like Gavin Rossdale, David Coulier, and John Mayer have been stunned by the biting songs about their previous relationships, and were obviously not excited. Although the reasons may differ, these hit songs outraged A-listers. Honestly, we’re happy for such a dramatic playlist that it doesn’t have an aquatic theme.

If Alanis Morissette created the art of humiliating ex-boyfriends through song, Taylor Swift perfected it. Most of us forget that the true queen of traffic jams dated John Mayer sometime between December 2009 and February 2010 when she was 19, according to Billboard . He is over 10 years older than her, so don’t you think he might be too young to mess with him? That’s the question Swift asked on his biting track, “Dear John.” With phrases like “Maybe it’s you and your sick you need to give love and take it away” and “Don’t you think nineteen is too young to be played by your dark and twisted games,” it is clear why Mayer was so livid.

At the time, Mayer had just embarked on a two-year hiatus after two disastrous, and vaguely racist, Playboy and Rolling Stone interviews. In a later interview with Rolling Stone , he claimed he was “really humiliated” by Swift’s song and ” I didn’t deserve it, ”especially at a time when it was already at its lowest point.

“I will say as a composer that I think it is a kind of cheap composition,” Mayer told the magazine. “I know it’s the greatest thing in the world, and I’m not trying to sink anyone’s ship, but I think it’s abusing your talent by rubbing your hands together and saying, ‘Wait until I take care of this!’ That’s bulls ** t «.

John Legend told Shazam that his massive hit “All of Me” literally made his wife Chrissy Teigan cry, but not all of their songs have had the same bittersweet effect. In fact, the model can’t stand her husband’s Grammy-nominated single “Green Light,” and she’s not afraid to speak repeatedly.

In 2019, Teigan and Legend sat down to do a lie detector test with Vanity Fair . Legend asked the model if “Green Light” was the only one of her songs that she didn’t like. You know it’s not such a good song. You even said it’s a little radio-ish and not you, “he admitted, adding,” The worst thing is when you just do it on the piano. I was like, ‘Can this get worse?’ And then I could «.

Legend claimed that his wife did not like the song because of the lyrics, which include the phrase “Do I have a girlfriend? Well, technically not. Legend is not about to lose control over a technicality, although the real reason why Teigan hates “Green Light” may be much deeper. In 2018, the model was revealed to have had a ‘jealousy crisis’ on the set of the music video when Legend was singing around a beautiful woman. “Note that John and I met on video,” she tweeted . It was that girl! I know how this shit works! »

In our transitional lives, the Kanye West-Taylor Swift saga is one of the few constants. Like the sprawling paths through the Hollywood Hills or Apple Snake Emoji, the couple’s quarrel is full of twists and turns. In 2024 Kimye was still quarreling with the ‘Lover’ singer over West’s song ‘Famous’, which contained the controversial lyrics,’ I feel like Taylor and I could still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous. «

As the story goes, West claimed in a now-deleted 2016 tweet (via Cosmopolitan ) that he asked for the singer’s permission to include her in the song and had the video to prove it. Swift’s camp claimed (by The Guardian ) that wasn’t exactly true. Rather, she “warned him about the release of a song with such a strong misogynistic message” and had no idea that he would call her “that bitch.” Kim Kardashian then released portions of the recorded conversation on Snapchat to apparently prove that Swift had lied. Cue: Swift’s infamous line “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative.”

Then the tables did not rotate as quickly. It took about four years, but a transcript of the alleged actual conversation was leaked in 2024. According to BBC news , the leak showed that West omitted the words “that bitch” during their conversation, making it clear why Swift was so angry. Shortly after the leak, the Internet launched a #KanyeWestIsOverParty, and Swift was vindicated!

Madonna is the true patron saint of subtle shadow, eye patches, and singing over fried fish (because apparently some people like to watch the world burn). It is not really surprising that she let him rip when asked about Lady Gaga. Anyone with two eyes can see that Mother Monster has been deeply inspired by the singer of «Vogue». Gaga even admitted to NME that Madonna was a huge inspiration in making her album, Born This Way (along with Prince, German house music, and Whitney Houston). Unfortunately, Madonna never asked to be this inspiration and turned down the title track.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , Gaga claimed that Madonna gave “Born This Way,” which had clear similarities to her 1989 hit, “Express Yourself,” her blessing in an email. “If the queen says it will, then it will be,” she told Jay Leno in an interview. Madonna’s representative later claimed that she was unaware that such an email existed. Trust us: if Madge hits you online, you know that.

Actually, it seems that the Material Girl didn’t give Gaga her blessing at all. She is definitely not a fan. In an interview with ABC News , Madge called the song “reductive.” When asked if that was a “good” thing, he said sarcastically “look it up” before taking a dramatic sip from his cup of tea and transforming into a live-action Kermit the Frog meme.

Gavin Rossdale had already become the villain when he reportedly forgot to unlink the iPad from the family and proceeded to text vulgar things to his lover, according to MI! News . It was supposed to be a great boom time. After ending her 13-year marriage to Gwen Stefani, Rossdale received some negative headlines and divided custody of her three children. Stefani left with (hopefully) a uniform division of assets and some composition material. The latter turned out to be quite painful for the Bush leader.

In an interview with Guardian Rossdale, he admitted that he was unsure what to feel after hearing Stefani’s painful breakup, “I used to love you.” Her emotions fell somewhere “horrible, tragic, or terrible.” Part of that has to do with the fact that he was blind at an airport. “They had one of those little kiosks that played it and I heard the song about how she used to love me,” he said. “So I stood in the store and listened to her from start to finish saying, ‘ Okaaaay ‘”

“If you had to do that, if you needed to do it, that’s your perspective and everyone has it,” Rossdale continued. “It’s just that … look, it’s bad enough getting a divorce, but publicly divorcing her was the next level.” Maybe someone should show him Snapchat, where the messages disappear.

Elton John and Madonna don’t exactly have the warmest relationship. The “Tiny Dancer” singer has been insulting the Material Girl for decades. Per CBS News , these have ranged from calling her a “miserable cow” (although her personal trainer would probably disagree) to labeling her a “fairground stripper.” According to The Hollywood Reporter , who found enough insults to create a literal list of the best of the best, he even called one of his tours a “disaster” that “couldn’t happen to a bigger c ** t.” It goes without saying that John doesn’t believe the Queen of Pop deserves her crown, let alone a highly lucrative soundtrack spot in a James Bond movie.

In a 2012 interview with the UK Sky News (via CBS News ), John admitted that he thought Madonna’s self-titled theme for Die Another Day was “the worst Bond tune of all time,” even about that strange pairing of Jack White and Alicia Keys. “It has no melody,” said John. “James Bond themes are usually very curious and this one is different … Should they have gone for someone like Lulu and Shirley Bassey, or maybe I’m in that league? »

Ok, we got MDNA Madonna might not have been the best if you are the kind of person who expected to be asked to record the song, but there is no doubt that Madame X Madonna, the one with the dazzled eye patch, is practically not a villain waiting for her moment to live and let die.