Jun 13, 2021
Teal_everybody did lol
True lol.
I also used to think that Tik Tok was a Lady Gaga song until I found out it was by Kesha a year after it was released.
Jun 13, 2021
v12cliche but thought it was beyonce
!https://youtu.be/bbqVg_23otgSame. Blew my mind when I finally learned it wasn’t
- Jun 13, 2021
I had no idea Kanye was the same artist who did Slow Jamz, Jesus Walks, Heartless, Stronger, Can’t Tell Me Nothing, Through The Wire & every other song he made
I always listened to what was on the radio growing up but never tried to connect with any specific artist & most of the time didn’t know who was rapping or singing except for a few noticeable, well known voices
I got into music late at around the age of 16 due to getting my license & needed something/someone to listen to in my truck so I started looking up the songs that caught my attention at the time & wanted to see what that artist’s discography was like
HAM was on the radio at the time & that was the sound that stood out for me from the rest so I later dove into Kanye’s work bc I only knew him by heartless & I had already knew who Jay Z was. When I found out he made all these other legendary tracks I heard on the radio growing up it completely changed my perception of music. I didn’t know kanye by anything except his music. I didn’t know how the public perceived him or how respected he was in the industry. Nothing. So for me personally I became an organic fan based solely on his work
To this day idk how someone with his level of star power went unnoticed or unheard of in my life. My family were on & off in having cable tv so maybe having that disconnection from tv media is how it slipped me by plus no one in my family was truly into music
It’s been a long & intense journey since then & here I am now on a music forum to keep up with every possible detail in music
Jun 13, 2021
kiddash3rthe story behind this is so nice:
"Kennedy Gordy (son of Berry Gordy, CEO of Motown at the time) had been writing songs as a child he later called ‘mediocre at best’. In his frustration, he prayed ‘to write a song that’ll go to the top of the charts’. Over the next two days, he wrote “Somebody’s Watching Me”.
He played a demo of the song for his father, but he was not impressed. So Kennedy then sang the song for long-time childhood friend Michael Jackson, who liked it so much he asked Kennedy to perform it multiple times, each time adding more of his own family members to the audience. When Jackson then asked who Kennedy planned to have sing backups, he asked Jackson to do it.
- "I performed it about eight or nine times. Michael says, ‘Hey Rebbie! Hey Janet! You gotta hear this song Kennedy did.’ Every time we stopped the song, Michael called three more people down. Afterwards, Michael pulled me to the side and says, ‘Kennedy, I gotta talk to you for a second. Who are you going to get to sing background vocals?’ I said, ‘Why don’t you do it?’ It worked just like that."
Kennedy, wanting to not use his father’s name, secretly submitted the song to Motown under the name Rockwell. When Motown signed Rockwell without his father’s knowledge, Berry Gordy was initially flabbergasted – but later very proud of his son, even referring to him as Rockwell in public."
TIL
- Jun 13, 2021!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFEmTsfFL5Ablacked
Paramore is one of my favorite bands but damn this song annoyed the s*** out of me. Heard it at work at Burger King and all the time in the grocery store before I knew who it was
I'll destroy you
- Jun 13, 2021
I thought this song was by Miley Cyrus until recently, tbh my parents thought the same
Been playing it like the past week, makes me nostalgic
frenchpress ❇️Jun 13, 2021here come the men in black
- frenchpress ❇️Jun 13, 2021
sending u forget me nots
- OPJun 13, 2021·2 replies
Jun 13, 2021Teal_@Aftermath @Goo @MrIndigo96
Tbh I can’t think of any other than flo-rida’s (?) debut song that I was convinced was nelly
Jun 13, 2021·1 replyTeal_@Aftermath @Goo @MrIndigo96
Always thought it was a Beyoncé song as a kid
- Jun 13, 2021
New NIGHTMANBeacuse of the lack of crediting, I always just thought they got a really good MJ impersonator
!https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY bonus trivia about this is that Rockwell (Kennedy Gordy) was going to a super elite LA high school with Lenny Kravitz and originally shopped the demo to him senior year before he played it to Mike and co.
- Jun 13, 2021
THANOSnever knew that song that goes “why’d you have to go and make tings so complicated” was avril lavigne
lol
- Jun 15, 2021·1 reply
Gonna come all the way clean! haha, Always thought this was Beyonce until ~2017 I was shook after going through Aaliyah's discog. Totally get why people said she was "the one"
Jun 15, 2021You know that one tune that goes "I always feels like, somebodys watching meeeee" always thought it was someone doing a real good MJ impression but turns out it was fr Michael Jackson on backing vocals
- Jun 15, 2021New NIGHTMAN
Beacuse of the lack of crediting, I always just thought they got a really good MJ impersonator
!https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY lmao didn't even see this on first page, first song I thought of as well
- OPJun 15, 2021Bestowed
Gonna come all the way clean! haha, Always thought this was Beyonce until ~2017 I was shook after going through Aaliyah's discog. Totally get why people said she was "the one"
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr03OPoXNrwshe was special
Jun 15, 2021!https://youtu.be/bbqVg_23otgMrIndigo96Always thought it was a Beyoncé song as a kid
Same lol
- Jun 15, 2021
Thought Don Toliver was Akon in Astroworld
