Everyone has that one song that they absolutely cannot stand.
For celebrities, sometimes that hatred can be rage-inducingly personal.
With that in mind, here are some hit songs that totally outraged certain famous people.
The 90s was a decade of urban legends, so much so that there was even a horror film
that came out in 1998 called Urban Legend.
While there aren't too many Bigfoots or aliens running around, at least as far as we know,
there's at least one urban legend that's endured from this era, and with good reason.
As the story goes, Alanis Morissette wrote her vitriolic hit, "You Oughta Know," with
Full House's Dave Coulier in mind.
It turns out that this rumor is actually true, and Mr. Duplicity isn't exactly excited about
his incidental mark on pop culture history.
Coulier and Morissette dated in the early 90s, but it wasn't until nearly two decades
later that the actor finally admitted that the song was about him.
"Hmm!
Interesting."
The tip-off was the line that goes,
"I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner."
After the pair split, Morissette apparently did call him while he was eating.
In 2013, he told HuffPost Live,
"I've always taken the high road and said, 'You know, the guy in that song is an idiot.
I would hate to be that guy."
If he's thinking about the high road, that might just mean he's also thought about the
low road, so it's not too hard to sense a little bit of anger in there.
"It's funny that it's become this urban legend, and it just kind of spun its own life, and
it wasn't because I nurtured it along and said, 'I want to be this jerk in this hit
song.'"
Eddie Murphy didn't have a sense of humor when he was included in Tom Petty and Bob
Dylan's collaboration "Jammin' Me."
The track shouted out Murphy and his SNL castmate Joe Piscopo, along with English actress Vanessa
Redgrave.
Murphy was reportedly so angry that he went on record at least once to say,
"F--- Tom Petty."
The comedian believed that Petty was claiming that he was part of "the media oversaturation
problem" since the song ran through a number of 80s pop culture topics like war in the
Middle East and Apple computers.
At the time, Murphy had recently left SNL for big-screen stardom.
Petty took the lion's share of the blame, but Murphy probably should've redirected his
anger towards Dylan.
According to Petty,
"The verse about Eddie Murphy, that was all Bob.
Which embarrassed me a little bit because I remember seeing Eddie Murphy on TV really
pissed off about it.
I had nothing against Eddie Murphy or Vanessa Redgrave."
According to John Legend, his song "All of Me" literally made his wife Chrissy Teigen
cry.
But not all of his tracks have resulted in the same bittersweet reaction.
In fact, there's at least one that's had quite the opposite effect, and she's not afraid
to talk about it.
In 2019, the couple sat down to take a lie detector test for Vanity Fair.
When Legend asked his wife if "Green Light" was the only one of his songs that she didn't
like, she responded,
"You know it's not that good of a song.
You even said that it's kind of a little radio-ish and not you."
"What, what, what?
What?!
I love that song.
It's amazing."
"Ugh."
Legend claimed that his wife doesn't like the song because of the lyrics, which include
the line,
"Do I have a girlfriend?
Well, technically no."
The singer isn't about to be let off the hook on a technicality, though the real reason
Teigen hates "Green Light" might actually go much deeper.
In 2018, she revealed that she had a meltdown fueled by jealousy on the set of the "Green
Light" music video when her husband was singing around a beautiful woman.
As she tweeted,
"Keep in mind John and I met on a video.
I was that girl!
I know how this s--- works!"
Halsey apparently believes in publicly airing her dirty laundry, as she's been not-so-subtly
suggesting that rapper G-Eazy cheated on her while they were dating.
Though she never named names, her 2019 Saturday Night Live performance sent a powerful message.
If that wasn't enough, there were even some Instagram comments from the singer in which
she claimed that her ex had been abusive.
Naturally enough, G-Eazy didn't take all this lying down, as he dissed his former flame
in his track, "I Wanna Rock," and the saga didn't end there.
Most people can block their ex's number and never see or hear from them again.
But when you break up with a Grammy-nominated superstar, it's not so simple, as you can't
block out the entire radio or stop people from playing certain songs in the club.
In March 2019, G-Eazy was reportedly caught loudly booing when a DJ at the Playboy Club
New York played Halsey's "Bad At Love."
He then reportedly proceeded to very noticeably kiss his current girlfriend, Victoria's Secret
model Yasmin Wijnaldum, on the dance floor.
At least he has someone to drown his sorrows with.
There's a fine line between love and hate, and Sophie Turner has danced along it with
her husband Joe Jonas.
In a 2020 interview with Elle, the Game of Thrones actress revealed that she absolutely
couldn't stand the music her spouse made with the Jonas Brothers.
With a reportedly "wicked" laugh, she admitted,
"My friends and I were not Jonas Brothers fans."
Her hatred largely stemmed from the song "Year 3000."
That track was originally performed by Busted, a British boy band that was basically the
English version of the Jonas Brothers.
When the Jonases covered the song, it sparked a bit of a rivalry between their fanbases.
One thing's for sure: Turner wasn't impressed.
As she put it,
"The Jonas Brothers covered the song and made it massive.
And Busted broke up.
We thought it was all the Jonas Brothers' fault.
So we hated them."
Of course, Turner's hatred didn't last forever.
She and her husband met in 2016 after Jonas slid into her DMs while touring the United
Kingdom, and they then got engaged on their first anniversary.
Madonna is the veritable patron saint of subtle shade, eye patches, and singing about fried
fish.
So it's not particularly surprising that she let it rip when she was asked about Lady Gaga.
Anyone with two eyes can see that Mother Monster has been deeply inspired by the Material Girl.
Gaga has even admitted that Madonna was a huge inspiration when it came to making her
2011 album Born This Way.
Alas, Madonna never asked to be an inspiration.
According to Gaga, Madonna gave her blessing in an email for the title track, which bore
clear similarities to her own 1989 hit, "Express Yourself."
But Madonna's representative later claimed that she wasn't aware that any such email
existed.
In reality, it appears that Madonna never gave Gaga her blessing at all.
And it seems like she's decidedly not a fan.
"It feels, um, reductive."
"Is that good?"
"Look it up."
When 2019 rolled around, Selena Gomez hadn't released an album in four years.
So her fans were ecstatic when she dropped "Lose You To Love Me" in October of that year.
Alas, not everyone was pleased with her comeback single.
The gutting breakup track supposedly detailed her on-and-off relationship with former flame
Justin Bieber, which lasted the better part of a decade.
The pair called it quits for good in 2018, and Bieber went on to propose to Hailey Baldwin
just four months later.
Gomez's track wasn't particularly scathing, though it did seemingly call out her ex's
new relationship with the lines,
"In two months, you replaced us, Like it was easy."
That made Hailey Baldwin pretty upset.
Or at least, fans believed that she implied that she was mad through some seemingly passive-aggressive
Instagram activity.
Baldwin posted the Summer Walker song "I'll Kill You" to her Instagram Story mere moments
after Gomez premiered her song.
"I'll Kill You" is a rather aggressive track about women who may potentially come between
two lovers.
Enough people picked up on the supposed shade that Baldwin closed her comments section.
Gomez later took the high road during an Instagram Live session as she urged her fans to be kind.
"Be nice!
I don't read these things, so be nice."
Gavin Rossdale had already cast himself as the villain when he reportedly forgot to unlink
the family iPad and proceeded to text his mistress some dirty messages.
Then after his 13-year marriage with Gwen Stefani, he was awarded with some negative
headlines and split custody of their three children.
Stefani walked away with a split of their assets and some potential songwriting material.
But that proved to be quite painful for the Bush frontman.
In a 2017 interview with The Guardian, Rossdale admitted that he wasn't sure what to feel
after hearing Stefani's painful breakup ballad, "Used to Love You."
He described his emotions by saying,
"It could only really be horrible, tragic or terrible, right?
That’s the range.
It never really moves into joy or satisfaction, does it?"
Part of that has to do with the fact that he was blindsided in an airport.
He explained,
"They had one of those little kiosks playing it and I heard the song about how she used
to love me.
So I stood in the store and listened to it from beginning to end going: 'Okaaaay.'"
He added,
"If she had to do that, if she needed to do it, that's her perspective and everyone has
that.
It's just that ... look, it's bad enough getting divorced, but getting divorced publicly from
her was f---ing next level."
Drake seems like the kind of guy who would wear an oversized sweater and gleam wistfully
out of a rainy window while pining after his ex.
Rihanna, on the other hand, seems like the kind of bad babe who's so busy running a makeup
empire that she doesn't have time to keep love on the brain.
Nonetheless, Hollywood Life reported that the good girl gone bad was angry about Drake's
2018 album Scorpion, particularly the track "Summer Games," which supposedly referenced
their relationship.
According to a source close to her,
"Her first reaction is sad, disappointed, and hurt over some of the lyrics.
She feels Drake must be angry over some of the comments she has made about their relationship,
so he is retaliating, which is frustrating to her.
She feels both mad and let down at the same time."
Could this be the reason that Rihanna told Vogue that year that she no longer had a friendship
with the rapper?
Whatever went down, by 2020 the two were playfully teasing each other on Instagram, so perhaps
time heals all scorpion stings.
Elton John and Madonna don't exactly have the warmest relationship.
He's famously lobbed insults at her for decades.
"What would your advice be to Madonna this year?"
"Make sure you lip sync good."
He's called her everything from a "miserable cow" to a "fairground stripper."
The Hollywood Reporter even found enough shade to assemble a best-of list.
Perhaps the worst of it was when he told the Australian show Sunday Night,
"Her tour is a disaster and it couldn't happen to a bigger c---."
Needless to say, John doesn't think the Queen of Pop deserves her crown, much less a highly
lucrative soundtrack spot in a James Bond film.
In a 2012 interview with Sky News, he revealed that he thought her eponymous theme song for
2002's Die Another Day was, quote, "the worst Bond tune ever."
As he put it,
"It hasn't got a tune.
James Bond themes are usually very camp and this one's different ... They should have
gone for somebody like Lulu and Shirley Bassey, or maybe I'm in that league?"
We get that most iterations of Madonna might not have been the best fit if you were hoping
you'd be asked to record the song instead.
But you can't deny that Madame X-era Madonna with her bedazzled eye patch is practically
a Bond villain just waiting for her moment to live and let die.
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