Celebrities who recently failed a musical comeback – The music industry is a fickle, unforgiving, coldhearted beast. While one minute it will welcome you with open arms, as soon as you’re not the flavor of the week, you’re forgotten. Of course, that’s somewhat of an exaggeration; after all, some musicians have managed to forge careers decades-long, but it’s not as easy as it used to be.
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It takes more than a tour, a few t-shirts with your name on them and a video on MTV to make it big and stay in the spotlight.
These days, musicians need to brand themselves. They need to wear many hats, often getting involved in side projects, directing, acting, and marketing their own products when they’re not making music. It’s the only way to stay relevant and to make money. If you go more than a year or two without anyone hearing a peep out of you, people are going to forget about you entirely. (Unless you’re Adele.) But for everyone else, you’re going to be forgotten about except by your most diehard fans.
Just take a look at these former stars. Once, they were at the pinnacle of popular music. You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing their songs on the radio or turn on a TV without seeing their faces. They clung to their onetime status as huge star and hoped to ascend to the same lofty place that time had forced them to abandon. As you’re about to read, it’s definitely not that easy to reclaim a lost throne, and these musicians all fell short.
10. Mya
How you remember her: Probably best-known for being part of the all-women supergroup (of sorts) that re-recorded “Lady Marmalade” in the early aughts, Mya has also been plugging away at her own career since her 1998 self-titled debut. As a Grammy award winner and the singer of such major singles as “Case of the Ex” and “It’s All About Me,” Mya has released seven albums, acted, done philanthropic work, and even appeared on Dancing with the Stars.
How you don’t want to remember her: In February 2016, she will release Smoove Jones, an album whose production she self-funded. That tells you a lot already. It was also recorded on her own label, which tells you that much more. There are limited physical copies available.
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