What was the biggest fall off in Music History ??

Define "fall off".

Artistically? Commercially? What?

I know where this thread is going. I'd say Madonna.

No, no. I'd say Madonna and Janet. Way more Janet then Madonna.

VoicesCarry said:

both...

Ok, more commercially than artistically, because artistic is more a matter of taste...

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

Yep, Madonna fell off bad with American Life, but Janet fell off harder with the nipple gate...

Hootie

Billy Squier - He was becoming a big rock star and had plenty of love from MTV. Once he did the "Rock Me Tonight" video, that pretty much killed him (and he said it so himself). It turned off a lot of his hardcore fans.

Mark Morrison - Anyone remember that song "Return Of The Mack"? That song was HUGE on R&B radio back in 1996/97. I forgot what he ended up going to jail for, but that incident put him away for a long time while the song was still big.After that, you never heard anything else from him.

Milli Vanilli - Yes I know they were fakers, but they were huge for a while. You couldn't go anywhere in 1989 without seeing them or hearing them.

what a fall...

SPYZFAN1 said:

this is actually the right answer

Fleshofmyflesh said:

BBD (they went from platinum to wood in two albums)

SPYZFAN1 said:

Mark Morrison was actually in prison twice. Once before his album dropped and then after. I remember reading somewhere he cause a stir on an airplain and got tazered. He had a lot of issues. But yea, I think he is still locked down.

Commercially:

Terence Trent Darby
George Michael
Vanilla Ice

Paula Cole - from an album that peaked at #2 and garnered a Grammy to an album that peaked just three years later at #97 and then into oblivion.

lol..I actually got that right Cinister?..I wonder if the Milli Vanilli Cd is worth anything now?

SPYZFAN1 said:

I always wondered why the dudes that actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album didn't come out with their own "The Real Milla Vanilla" album after other guys were exposed.

They did!

intha916 said:

The Real Milli Vanilli - 'The Moment Of Truth' (1991)

LOL!!! So they really did put something out?? Never seen that before.

Guns & Roses?

krayzie said:

Ah, but not commercially. Not commercially.

About all that fell off for Janet was a bra. You'll see.

PANDURITO said:

Well that pretty much tells me how that worked out

Jefferson airplane to starshit.What overproduced 80's crap that was.And I was a teenager then!

krayzie said:

what was or who was?
The biggest fall off is the industry itself.
It will get even bigger if it doesn't reinvent itself.

It survived RADIO
let's see how it survives INTERNET

sextonseven said:

Go that. Rare as fuck aswell. "keep on running" is a good pop song no joke. I heard it was a big hit in germany.

13inchshoe said:

Starships 1989 album (without grace) is good in places.

Vanilla ice had a huge downfall in about a year. So he is after milli vanilli.