Famous Songs About Famous People

If upset with a boyfriend or girlfriend the majority of us would just bitch about them to our friends, send the ‘I am so pissed off with you’ text and depending on the extent of the ‘crime’, write a not-so-subtle facebook status telling the whole world that your partner is a douche. But when you’re famous, with a huge fan following and a lot of money, the BEST way to really let them know you’re angry, is to write a song about it.

Justin Timberlake & Britney Spears

Our favourite celeb couple of the early noughties, Britney and JT. Fresh from the Mickey Mouse club we all hoped that this beautiful pair would live happily ever after in their matching double denim forever and ever. But alas, it was not to be and sadly they broke up, expressing their heart break in the only way they knew how…through their mutual love of music.

JT’s Cry Me a River was reportedly about Miss Spears, suggesting that she MAY have cheated on him..

“You don’t have to say what you did,
I already know, I found out from him
Now there’s no chance for you and me, they’ll never be
And don’t it make you sad about it.”

No Britney, no!

 

Shortly afterwards Britney released (what we would argue is one of her greatest tracks), ‘Everytime.’ Its lyrics are a plea for forgiveness for hurting an ex-boyfriend. We feel your pain Brit.

“I may have made it rain
Please forgive me
My weakness caused you pain
And this song is my sorry.”

 

Fast forward 10 years and we have another musical couple declaring their love for each other with many a PDAs, only for it to end in tragedy just like the doomed Brit & JT (only without the double denim)...

Taylor Swift & John Mayer

The pair dated briefly but we can all assume that it didn’t go well as after their split, Swift released ‘Dear John'….

“Dear John, I see it all now, it was wrong
Don’t you think 19 is too young to be played by your dark twisted games,
When I loved you so?”

Ouch.

 

In an issue of Rolling Stone (June, 2012) Mayer commented on the song, saying the he felt “really humiliated.” Going on to explain, “it made me feel terrible…because I didn’t deserve it. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.”
And he then retaliated with Paper Doll:

"You're like twenty-two girls in one
And none of them know what they're runnin' from
Was it just too far to fall?
For a little paper doll"

 

(Oh, and the video starts with a weird exercise thing....not quite sure what you're trying to say there John...)

 

 

Don't worry, it's not all doom and gloom. Keep an eye out for when we do a blog about nice famous songs about famous people...