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1.<\/span><\/p>\n In this legendary scene from Stranger Things 4<\/i> (2022), Max escaped villain Vecna through the power of her favorite song: “Running Up That Hill<\/a>” by Kate Bush<\/a>. Due to the scene’s instant popularity and deep connection with its younger fans, the 1985 song skyrocketed<\/a> to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 charts in mid-June.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour<\/i>, Kate Bush described the impact her 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” has had on a younger generation in 2022. “[Stranger Things<\/i>] is such a great series. I thought that the track would get some attention, but I just never imagined that it would be anything like this,” she said<\/a>. “The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is very special. I thought: ‘What a lovely way for the song to be used in such a positive way.’ I think it’s very touching.” And when Stranger Things 4<\/i> hit Netflix, Bush earned<\/a> $2.3 million in royalties.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In an interview with Rolling Stone, Roan revealed<\/a> Mitski<\/a> texted her, “I just wanted to humbly welcome you to the shittiest exclusive club in the world, the club where strangers think you belong to them and they find and harass your family members.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 3.<\/span><\/p>\n When Fleetwood Mac went on their Tusk Tour from 1979\u20131980, there was a horrible incident on stage. According to member Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham threw his electric guitar<\/a> at her during a show. “He threw a guitar at me, and I ducked \u2014 I’m that fast,” Nicks said. “But Christine [McVie’s] vantage point, she’d see it all. So, she took it to heart that night. Lindsey left the stage, I chased him down, but Christine beat me to him.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 4.<\/span><\/p>\n Mel B and Geri Halliwell (aka Scary Spice and Ginger Spice) used to hook up during their days in the Spice Girls. On Piers Morgan’s Life Stories<\/i>, Mel B revealed<\/a>, “It just happened and we just giggled at it and that was it. She is going to hate me for this because she is all posh in her country house and her husband, but it’s a fact.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 5.<\/span><\/p>\n In 1990, Madonna’s music video for “Justify My Love” was banned<\/a> from airing on MTV because it celebrated bisexuality and voyeurism. After the video’s release, Madonna received backlash among music fans and the media, and did an interview on Nightline<\/i> to set the record straight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n When questioned why she submitted the video to MTV knowing it had nudity, she responded<\/a>, “When I did my ‘Vogue’ video, there’s a shot of me where I’m wearing a see-through dress, and you can clearly see my breasts. They told me that they wanted me to take that out, but I said I wouldn’t, and they played it anyway.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Madonna went on to say she thought she could “bend the rules a little bit” with her “Justify My Love” music video, but she still received judgment from her interviewer on Nightline<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You can watch the “Justify My Love” music video here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 6.<\/span><\/p>\n Billie Eilish wrote her 2024 hit “LUNCH” (which is about a woman performing oral sex on another woman) before she had that sexual experience herself. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she said<\/a>, “I wrote some of it before even doing anything with a girl, and then wrote the rest after. I’ve been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn\u2019t understand \u2014 until, last year, I realized I wanted my face in a vagina.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You can listen to “LUNCH” here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 7.<\/span><\/p>\n The classic ’90s rock anthem “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes (you know, from the viral 2025 TikTok trend<\/a>) almost sounded completely different than the version you know and love. When 4 Non Blondes first went into the studio to record it, producer David Tickle had created an arrangement that sounded very different than front-woman Linda Perry’s original demo. In an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music<\/i>, Perry recalled<\/a>: “[I was] just gonna do what [I was told]. I shut up when I heard the marching drum, I shut up when David was trying to get me to rewrite the lyrics, I shut up when the solo showed up over the marching drum. I shut up through the whole fucking thing.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jimmy Iovine, their label’s founder, gave 4 Non Blondes his blessing to rerecord the song because “he liked the demo version better than David’s.” So, the band re-recorded “What’s Up?” in one day, making Perry feel relieved. “Everything went right back to the original way I wrote it, and then we mixed it that night and it got on [Bigger, Better, Faster, More!<\/i>],” she said<\/a>. “That’s the one that sold seven million records, that’s the one that was all over the radio, that’s the one that got successful \u2014 that version.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 8.<\/span><\/p>\n Missy Elliott was drunk<\/a> when she filmed this scene for the “Work It” music video because director Dave Meyers accidentally refilled her glass with wine instead of water.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “We shot that take maybe seven times from different angles, so by the time that was over, [Missy] was trashed,” Dave Meyers recalled<\/a>. “She was so smiley. Then, Janet Jackson came to bless us with her presence, and Missy was talking all kinds of gibberish to her \u2014 it was really a good time.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You can watch the “Work It” music video here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 9.<\/span><\/p>\n TLC had won two Grammys in 1996, and were the biggest-selling female group by that point (10 million albums sold worldwide), but they were actually bankrupt<\/a> and barely received money for their major hits.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In 1996, the LA Times reported<\/a>: “The trio has received less than 1% of the estimated $175 million in revenues that the group’s music has generated around the world. Analysts say that’s about 40 times less than the profit that has been divided among the management, production, and record companies that represent TLC.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 10.<\/span><\/p>\n Tina Turner was the one who taught Mick Jagger how to dance when she toured with the Rolling Stones in the ’60s. “The Rolling Stones requested that Ike [Turner] and Tina do the England tour with them. I didn’t really know Mick, but there was always this guy who stood in the wings,” Turner revealed<\/a>. “He wasn’t dancing on stage [yet]. We were in the dressing rooms together, having a ball, and Mick says to me, ‘Teach me how to do The Popcorn.’ And I said to him, ‘So that’s what you were doing in the wings all this time, learning some of the dances we do?'”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 11.<\/span><\/p>\n During one of Taylor Swift’s concerts in LA for her Eras Tour, she took a break to do something so, so heartwarming. In the middle of her song “22,” Swift went to the front of the stage and gave her iconic black hat<\/a> to Kobe Bryant’s daughter, Bianka.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 12.<\/span><\/p>\n Megan Thee Stallion’s song “Thot Shit” was inspired by the negative reactions she and Cardi B received from their 2020 hit “WAP<\/a>.” In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Megan Thee Stallion said<\/a>, “I know the Republicans have had a bad year, and they probably need to take their frustration out somewhere. But, I want to tell them ‘thank you for the streams,’ because without [them], I don’t know if we would’ve been here. I mean, them people crazy.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n So the following summer, the queen of Hot Girl Summer released “Thot Shit.” The music video dramatized Megan Thee Stallion’s take on the negative reactions from “WAP.” In the beginning of the video, she showed a senator leaving hateful comments on one of her videos. Then in the middle of the song, Stallion rapped, “Watchin’ me go through it, still tryna drag me \/ Actin’ like you winnin’, if you think about it, actually \/ Are they supportin’ you, or really just attackin’ me? I don’t give a fuck ’bout a blog tryna bash me \/ I’m the shit, per the Recording Academy.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You can watch the “Thot Shit” music video here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 13.<\/span><\/p>\n Following her six-decade-long career and pioneering efforts that have shaped the music landscape today, Diana Ross has been shockingly overlooked at the Grammys.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Other notable women in music who’ve never received a competitive Grammy are Nina Simone, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, and Bj\u00f6rk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 14.<\/span><\/p>\n “Oops (Oh My)” by Tweet is NOT about masturbation<\/a> \u2014 it’s actually about being confident in your body and your mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The song’s co-writer, Missy Elliott, revealed the true meaning behind the song on Twitter in 2021. Elliott tweeted<\/a>: “#FunFact this song was never ’bout masturbation \u2014 it was always about [Tweet] appreciating her dark skin (self-love) when she looked in the mirror. It was the listeners who thought it was about sex and just ran with it. We just let the consumers’ minds create what they wanted.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You can listen to “Oops (Oh My)” here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 15.<\/span><\/p>\n In Beyonc\u00e9’s song “Smoke Hour \u2605 Willie Nelson” from her 2024 album Cowboy Carter<\/i>, she pays homage to Black artists<\/a> who laid the foundation for country\/rock music. If you pay attention, you’ll catch onto songs by revolutionary artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry, and Roy Hamilton.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You can listen to “Smoke Hour \u2605 Willie Nelson” here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 16.<\/span><\/p>\n Yoko Ono co-wrote “Imagine” for John Lennon’s 1971 album Imagine<\/i>, but Lennon didn’t give her songwriting credit. Ono finally received songwriting credit<\/a> for “Imagine” at NMPA’s Centennial Annual Meeting in 2017 once it was learned that Lennon pulled the majority of the lyrics from her 1964 poetry book Grapefruit<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In a BBC interview from 1980, Lennon was quoted<\/a> as saying, “[‘Imagine’] should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song because a lot of it came from Yoko. But in those days, I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted to mention her contribution. But it was right out of Grapefruit<\/i>, her book.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 17.<\/span><\/p>\n In 1989, the Grammys created a new category: “Best Rap Performance.” DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith (then the Fresh Prince) won the award. The Grammys didn’t plan<\/a> on televising the category, so to show their support, rappers like Salt-N-Pepa didn’t attend the ceremony (even though they were nominated in the same category for their song “Push It<\/a>“).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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