Today's Blind Items - He Ruined Her
This mogul is A list. It seems like sometimes you can't escape his name in this town. He built his name by destroying others who got in his way and those people he just didn't like. He's still that way but this is about the woman who he destroyed because of his own personal vendetta that was wholly imagined. The problem he has to this day is he never admits when he is wrong. It's pretty tough to have any one like you or be your friend if you are unwilling to admit you are wrong.
This all started a few years ago. At the time this celebrity/singer was A+ list. She was on the top of the charts and the top of the world and was selling millions of records. At her peak she abruptly decided to switch record labels. The label she switched to was owned by our jerk mogul who fired the singer's producer and told her all of her new songs she was recording were awful. They weren't.
Shortly after he signed her to his label the two got into an argument because he didn't believe she was tolerant of other people. Time and again she had proven otherwise but now the mogul had it in his mind that she wasn't and leaked false stories to newspapers and magazines that the singer was using slurs against a group of people. Our singer started to sue the mogul but he paid her off and she went away barely to be heard from ever again. Meanwhile, those songs that were so awful? He gave them to the singer who always covered for him and it relaunched her career and gave her a string of number one songs.
David Geffen and...
ReplyDeleteXtina/Katy Perry?
ReplyDeleteNevermind, XTina is heard from
ReplyDeleteClive Owen?
ReplyDeleteYeah this screams Geffen whose BFF is Cher but not sure how many #1 songs she has
ReplyDeleteProbably way off, but Shakira was #1 for a while. Switched to a big deal (tour and record) with live nation at the height and everything started kinda tanking for her since.
ReplyDeleteAlso, she was getting some flack for some anti-Israeli comments at one point.
John Malone is the CEO of Livenation
Not sure about the other singer mentioned.
I'm thinking Clive Davis.
ReplyDeleteHmmm can this be Donna Summer who became a Geffen act and then the rumors about her stating anti-gay comments came out and destroyed her career?
ReplyDeleteThe blind makes it seem like she was A+ not that long ago. Donna Summers hasn't been A for decades.
DeleteMariah Carey had a career relaunch after leaving Virgin and that glitter mess. Don't know who the artist who was screwed could be.
ReplyDeleteAshanti seemed to follow in her shadow tour-wise for a while there... While Mariah was down, Ashanti was big.
DeleteWith the supposed slurs going against gays. Geffen being gay would make that a very sticky booger to shake free. Any A+ being rumored/accused of anti-gay bias?
ReplyDeleteSounds like Geffen but definitely not Cher
ReplyDeleteI like Kirsten's Shakira guess. She really was huge, and then seemed to vanish from the (musical) Earth, although she did also switch boyfriends and become a mom.
ReplyDeleteClive and Kelly clarkson.
ReplyDeleteTommy Mottola?
ReplyDeleteI was wondering about Nelly Furtado the other day - could it be her?
ReplyDeleteLauryn Hill is often accused of saying she didn't want white people listening to or buying Fugees records and she never said it so that could fit as the false rumor
ReplyDeleteExcept that Lauryn Hill has consistently proven herself to be batshit crazy and not the other way around. Hmmmmmmm..... seems like there ought to be a way to google solve this one.
ReplyDeleteClive Davis told Kelly Clarkson that her songs were awful. They had a public feud. This sounds like him but not sure who the female is. Kelly is still doing well.
ReplyDeleteThis is totally Donna Summer and David Geffen. He shelved an album she had already recorded with Giorgio Moroder and practically forced her to work with Quincy Jones, which didn't turn out to be very succesful and started her career slide. The singer who always "covered" for him is Cher. She was his beard before he came out as gay.
ReplyDeleteOn board with Geffen. The first paragraph makes this sound like someone who's been around for a while, and Geffen is still a very big name.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all the ones mentioning Clive Davis and Kelly Clarkson - big feud.. plenty of articles if you want to google them.
ReplyDeleteas for who is the second singer whose career he re-launched, I found this tidbit on USATODAY:
".. Last year, Clive Davis, the music-biz honcho credited with helping launch and relaunch the careers of such stars as Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys.."
So yeah.. Alicia Keys :)
David Geffen / Donna Summer is a good guess, except that disco faded away naturally, and her career too.
ReplyDeleteOther managers/label owners that are reportedly awful persons: Clive Davis and Irving Azoff, aka the Poison Dwarf, who owned Giant Records in the 90s.
Shakira's career has faded because the real source of her success was her former boyfriend (something de la Rúa, son of former Argentinian president) and manager. He switched her from a random Latin American (really, watch any of her previous videos and try to compare her to the one you know) into the blonde "bombshell" you Americans know. She cheated on him and dates (and gets impregnated by) piqué, who plays football correctly, but he is an asshole with no knowledge of anything but soccer, poker and homosexuality (with Ibrahimovic), so her manager is way worse than it was.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Jimmy Iovine?
ReplyDeleteHe had Lady Gaga for a while, but she writes a lot of her own stuff so I'm not sure she would have to hand that music over for someone else to be successful with.
It's not Mariah. She writes her own music 99% of the time.
ReplyDeleteI think it's Donna Summer and David Geffen. She switched from Casablanca Records to Geffen in the early 80s, but had no hits with Geffen.Geffen hated the record she delivered, then Ploygram (which bought Casablanca, her old label she left for Geffen) called in the one album she owed them, and she delivered She Works Hard for the Money, which was huge. She went back to Geffen and had no hit with the next album, and that's when the anti-gay rumors started. I've heard nothing good about David Geffen. Nothing.
ReplyDeleteWhat about JLo for the artist who's career was relaunched? That happened a few years ago...but I can't think who the mogul or A+ list artist is.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking this too, with Diddy for the mogul... Not sure who the singer is.
DeleteIovine. He's an ass, know this first hand. Not sure who the artist is though...
ReplyDeleteI like the Shakira guess. Plus her ex tried suing her for $100M but lost.
ReplyDelete"Top of the World" makes me think its Brandy....
ReplyDeleteI'm on board with the Donna Summer/David Geffin/Cher guess. Those anti-gay rumours destroyed Donna'a career despite her repeated denials that she said no such thing, and the only witnesses were "friends of friends who had a cousin who was there" sort of thing. The only thing that doesn't fit is the "going away never to be heard from again". Donna had a comeback in the early 90's.
ReplyDeletei was thinking leona lewis and simon cowel.. im not sure if she was a list.
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ReplyDeleteBoring.
ReplyDelete@Kara: I don't think being an outspoken Afrocentric female artist makes you batshit crazy. Please don't marginalize people because they are different from you.
ReplyDeleteThe blind says this started a few years ago. The Donna Summer thing was literally decades ago so thinking that won't be it.
ReplyDeleteNelly Furtado
ReplyDeleteI was gonna say Lil Kim, who disappeared all of a sudden (with jail time and stuff). I would say her replacement is Nicki Minaj, but the timeline doesn;t fit at all.
ReplyDeleteOr Kim replaced Faith Evans, who was with Biggie at the time, until Kim moved in on him. But Faith never relaunched. And Minaj just got famous, so also doesn;t fit, MEH
On what planet was Donna Summer "A+ a few years ago" ???
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