History OvershadowedByControversy / Music

* Although Music/AceOfBase is still a respected name in dance music, they received a great deal of unwanted attention in the 90s when it was learned that band member Ulf Ekberg had dabbled in neo-Nazism in his youth. While Ekberg regrets this phase, it was still enough to get the entire band [[HitlerAteSugar labeled as neo-Nazis]] and blacklisted from many radio stations.

* Johnny & Associates, founded by Johnny Kitagawa, was known for famous JPop boy groups such as Music/{{Arashi}}, Music/{{V6}}, Music/HeySayJump, KAT-TUN, Kinki Kids, [=SixTones=] etc. [[NoExportForYou They're also known for being strict in releasing their talents' music outside Japan]]. But they're also well-known for the sexual abuse allegations that Kitagawa did which goes way back in the late 1980's. In 1999, a Japanese magazine ''Shūkan Bunshun'' published an expose regarding Kitagawa's activities; unfortunately, Kitagawa's agency filed a lawsuit against them citing defamation. By then, regardless of the allegations, Kitagawa was a beloved public figure and it was believed that the lack of coverage from the Japanese mass media was due to his influence over them. And it continued after Kitagawa's passing in 2019. However, everything changed in April 2023 when [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]], who themselves have an infamous reputation regarding ignoring similar accusations against Creator/JimmySavile, released a documentary entitled, '' Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop'', which focused on Kitagawa's sexual abuse allegations. Because of this, Kitagawa's scandal is now exposed internationally and a month later after the documentary's release, former Johnny's Jr. member Kauan Okamoto revealed in a press conference that he had been sexually abused by Kitagawa since he was 15 years old. This led to many of Kitagawa's victims speaking out as well. On August 2023, an independent investigation probe revealed their findings that Kitagawa repeatedly committed sexual abuse since the early 1970's. As a result, many companies canceled their sponsorship with Johnny's talents, and Julie Keiko Fujishima, Kitagawa's niece, stepped down as CEO. On October 2023, the agency would also undergo rebranding, removing Kitagawa's name, which led to the creation of Smile-Up (which would handle the compensation for Kitagawa's victims) and Starto Entertainment (which would manage the remaining talents who were under Johhny's). Even though Kitagawa himself never faced justice for his actions until his death, his name, reputation, and legacy have been destroyed.

* Johnny & Associates, founded by Johnny Kitagawa, was known for famous JPop boy groups such as Music/{{Arashi}}, Music/{{V6}}, Music/HeySayJump, KAT-TUN, Kinki Kids, SixTones etc. [[NoExportForYou They're also known for being strict in releasing their talents' music outside Japan]]. But they're also well-known for the sexual abuse allegations that Kitagawa did which goes way back in the late 1980's. In 1999, a Japanese magazine ''Shūkan Bunshun'' published an expose regarding Kitagawa's activities; unfortunately, Kitagawa's agency filed a lawsuit against them citing defamation. By then, regardless of the allegations, Kitagawa was a beloved public figure and it was believed that the lack of coverage from the Japanese mass media was due to his influence over them. And it continued after Kitagawa's passing in 2019. However, everything changed in April 2023 when [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] released a documentary entitled, '' Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop'', which focused on Kitagawa's sexual abuse allegations. Because of this, Kitagawa's scandal is now exposed internationally and a month later after the documentary's release, former Johnny's Jr. member Kauan Okamoto revealed in a press conference that he had been sexually abused by Kitagawa since he was 15 years old. This led to many of Kitagawa's victims speaking out as well. On August 2023, an independent investigation probe revealed their findings that Kitagawa repeatedly committed sexual abuse since the early 1970's. As a result, many companies canceled their sponsorship with Johnny's talents, and Julie Keiko Fujishima, Kitagawa's niece, stepped down as CEO. On October 2023, the agency would also undergo rebranding, removing Kitagawa's name, which led to the creation of Smile-Up (which would handle the compensation for Kitagawa's victims) and Starto Entertainment (which would manage the remaining talents who were under Johhny's). Even though Kitagawa himself never faced justice for his actions until his death, his name, reputation, and legacy have been destroyed.

* Johnny & Associates, founded by Johnny Kitagawa, was known for famous JPop boy groups such as Music/{{Arashi}}, Music/{{V6}}, Music/HeySayJump, KAT-TUN, Kinki Kids, SixTones etc. [[NoExportForYou They're also known for being strict in releasing their talents' music outside Japan]]. But they're also well-known for the sexual abuse allegations that Kitagawa did which goes way back in the late 1980's. In 1999, a Japanese magazine ''Shūkan Bunshun'' published an expose regarding Kitagawa's activities; unfortunately, Kitagawa's agency filed a lawsuit against them citing defamation. By then, regardless of the allegations, Kitagawa was a beloved public figure and it was believed that the lack of coverage from the Japanese mass media was due to his influence over them. And it continued after Kitagawa's passing in 2019. However, everything changed in April 2023 when [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC]] released a documentary entitled, '' Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop'', which focused on Kitagawa's sexual abuse allegations. Because of this, Kitagawa's scandal is now exposed internationally and a month later after the documentary's release, former Johnny's Jr. member Kauan Okamoto revealed in a press conference that he had been sexually abused by Kitagawa since he was 15 years old. This led to many of Kitagawa's victims speaking out as well. On August 2023, an independent investigation probe revealed their findings that Kitagawa repeatedly committed sexual abuse since the early 1970's. As a result, many companies canceled their sponsorship with Johnny's talents, and Julie Keiko Fujishima, Kitagawa's niece, stepped down as CEO. On October 2023, the agency would also undergo rebranding, removing Kitagawa's name, which led to the creation of Smile-Up (which would handle the compensation for Kitagawa's victims) and Starto Entertainment (which would manage the remaining talents who were under Johhny's).

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_music russ song]] "Playboy 2017" by Solguden and Mannen is mostly remembered for getting a lot of backlash when its lyrics were accused of [[MisogynySong promoting misogyny and rape]], with the line "If you're 13, you're in" in particular facing heavy scrutiny. The artists and ''russ'' group who commissioned the song initially tried to defend it by saying the "if you're 13..." line was trying to say "even 13-year-olds can have fun", not to imply sex with 13-year-olds (which was hard to believe when the next line was about the "you" giving the narrator a blowjob), and that the song as a whole was meant to parody the oversexualized ''russ'' culture (which smelled of a ParodyRetcon). Although the artists later changed the offending line to "if you're ''17'', you're in", the ''russ'' group ended up [[BuryYourArt disowning the song]].

* American experimental BlackMetal band Music/{{Liturgy}} are well known for their bizarre and somewhat divisive sound, but probably even more well known for frontwoman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's bizarre manifesto for the band, which basically posits the band as a philosophical opposite to normal black metal and uses a ton of SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to do so, which got the band a ton of backlash from black metal fans as being a bunch of pretentious hipsters. The fact that Hunt-Hendrix has at various points opened live shows with very long and tedious PowerPoint presentations concerning this manifesto did not help.

* Larrikin Records held a pretty clean [[StealthPun record]] from its foundation in 1974 to the end of [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]], but that all changed in 2009 when managing director Norm Lurie decided to sue the Australian rock band Music/MenAtWork for their 1981 hit "Down Under" containing a flute riff that [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sounds suspiciously similar]] to "Kookaburra", written in 1932 by Marion Sinclair and still under copyright [[note]]It has since come to light that Larrikin Records have been settling legal disputes with sheet music publishers who mistakenly believed "Kookaburra" is in the PublicDomain long before the lawsuit against Music/MenAtWork, but they happened behind the scenes and so didn't draw attention from the press[[/note]]. Lurie made the decision to sue after the [[Creator/TheABC ABC]] quiz show ''Series/SpicksAndSpecks'' asked a music trivia question, "Which children's song appeared in the song "Down Under"?" with "Kookaburra" being confirmed as the correct answer. The lawsuit was seen as completely unfair to the public and especially to Australians where "Kookaburra" is an important modern folk song. Much of the general public had believed the song was PublicDomain, and Sinclair had never enforced its copyright, not even while "Down Under" was a hit (she died in 1988). Nevertheless, the court ultimately ruled in Larrikin's favour and ordered the band members pay 5% royalties backdating to 2002 and from all future earnings to them. Greg Ham, who had played the flute riff in "Down Under", felt devastated for getting the band members in financial difficulties and slipped into depression. In 2012, he was found dead, with his close friend Colin Hay confirming he was still suffering from stress from the court case. Larrikin Records is now almost always associated with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive pursuing profits above all else]] at best, and at worst are accused of manslaughter.

* Music/JasonAldean's 2023 single "Try That in a Small Town" is best known for the controversy its music video got for being filmed in the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee, which is infamous for being the location where the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Henry_Choate lynching of Henry Choate]] occurred in 1927, interspersed with footage of rallies, looting and riots featuring police officers, thus leading to many accusations towards Aldean and his management of releasing a pro-racism and pro-lynching song.

* Music/JasonAldean's 2023 single "Try That in a Small Town" is best known for the controversy its music video got for being filmed in the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee, which is infamous for being the location where the lynching of Henry Choate occurred in 1927, interspersed with footage of rallies, looting and riots featuring police officers, thus leading to many accusations towards Aldean and his management of releasing a pro-racism and pro-lynching song.

* Music/JasonAldean's 2023 single "Try That in a Small Town" is best known for the controversy its music video got for being filmed in the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee, which is infamous for being the location where the lynching of Henry Choate in 1927, along with footages of rallies, looting and riots targeting police officers, thus leading to many accusations towards Aldean and his management of releasing a pro-racism and pro-lynching song.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0izW82PbiU Baby Koopa Is Crying]]", a minimal {{Techno}} remix by Diego Quintero based off ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' that mostly consists of fireball and jump sound effects on loop with a beat behind it. The repeated sound effect gets quite annoying after a while, and about halfway through the song, they stop the beat and play a large segment of the "Castle Theme" from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' ''completely untouched'' for about a minute. The only reason most people even found out the remix exists is because it triggered DMCA claims from ''Super Mario'' let's plays due to the usage of its game sound effects, despite the artist obviously not owning those sound effects.