Article written by Lauren Johnston
That’s right, this week we are looking at our favorite artists and band members and exploiting the weird things that they can do or have done. To mix it up a little, we're throwing in some weird facts about the music industry too, because if we are going to exploit one side of music then why not go for both? I’m joking. No-one is being exploited here but, I’ll tell you what, if I was any one of these people I’d be hiding these ‘facts’ and ‘things they can do’ as well as possible. To keep this short and sweet, I’m going to put it in a listicle with a small bit of info. During my research I have found that our beloved music artists are a little bit weird you could say, or at the very least, unexpected.
Katy Perry is a loved artist by all. Who couldn’t love her, right? She has the looks and can sing and holds amazing performances! Not only that, but in 2010 Katy brought her then boyfriend Russell Brand a $200,000 ticket on Virgin Galactic, which if you aren’t aware is Richard Branson’s suborbital spaceflight!!! If that wasn’t enough, seven years on to this day the spaceflight is still in test mode, making the ticket useless until the spaceflight can fully operate, which could take many more years!
If you have a sweet tooth, I can tell you right now that you will be jealous of Mariah Carey’s kids. This amazing singer decided that spoiling her kids like every other parent with clothes and toys just simply wasn’t enough. Mariah built her kids their very own candy room. Yes, you heard candy room. It is essentially a small candy shop filled with every type of candy that they could possibly want, from gigantic lollipops, to chocolate fountains. They even have their very own fairy floss machine! Now, if that isn’t insane then I don’t know what is. All I do know is that I envy her kids.
Now, we all have our superstitions on ghosts and the supernatural. I don’t know about you, but I love it. I have watched countless shows about finding ghosts, documentaries about the supernatural and so on. I know some ghosts can be scary and what not, but Lady Gaga is extremely paranoid about the supernatural, claiming that there is a ghost named Ryan that has been haunting her. Now, if that wasn’t enough, she then spent $50,000 on an electromagnetic field meter that is designed specifically to detect poltergeists.
We have all left a piece of clothing or an item of ours behind when travelling, just like leaving a jacket or your shoes on the plane. Well our good friend Bono, the lead singer of U2, did just that. He left his favourite hat on a plane when he was touring to Italy in 2003 for a charity concert. Now, you’d think he would have just performed the concert without the hat like anybody else would, right? Well, you would be wrong. Bono wasn’t going without his hat, so he paid $1,200 for the hat to be flown to him in a first-class seat on British Airways! Yes, that’s right. Bono brought a plane ticket for his hat!
Now, if you like to party you probably don’t party anywhere near as hard as Soulja Boy did on his 21st birthday in 2011, casually buying himself a present. If you could take a guess at what he brought and get it right, hats off to you, sir, because the 21-year-old now 28 brought himself a $55 million privet Gulfstream G5 jet! As you could imagine of course, there were rumors about if it was true or not, but on an interview with a radio show, when asked about it, all he had to say was, “I’m G5 status,” but shortly after that his publicist issued statements admitting that the “elaborate rumors” are “not true.”
Now, I thought I would save this one for last as the list of ridiculous c**p that this person has done is crazy! If you can’t guess who it is, then I’ll give you one word… Monkey! That’s right, Justin Bieber. Now, you are probably thinking what does a monkey have to do with JB? Well, he brought a monkey as an accessory and then ditched it in Munich as he didn’t have papers to bring the monkey into the country. Not only did he buy and ditch a monkey, he also wrote off a Lamborghini while smashed off his face. He has also hotboxed his private jet despite warnings from the pilots, and punched a fan in the face and made them bleed. He got banned from a sky diving facility which he didn’t pay a cent for and trashed the place, and even the management team said he could pay the $1600 for the time he had spent there or at least take a photo and put it on Instagram, but he never did. He has also spat in the face of many people, including fans, a woman’s drink and his neighbor. And this is a kid worth $200 million!
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