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1. Jimi Hendrix - Everyone knows him as a guitar player, but his songwriting talent never gets talked about and his so good, he’s a great lyricist who knows how to paint a beautiful picture with his words who used interesting and unique chord progressions, and was so inventive with his use of effects and sometimes different instruments (like the glockenspiel on Little Wing). He was a pretty great singer too

2. Freddie Mercury - I think Freddie’s talents are generally more talked about but even still, his powerful voice and stage presence usually gets talked about the most. He wrote and produced some of the best vocal harmonies out to tape, was a really incredible songwriter who could write a great song in a genuinely impressive amount of different genres then also be able to change his voice to fit literally almost any genre you can think of, and was a really great pianist too. I’m sure there’s a lot of things I’m not mentioning with him but I think he was one of the greatest musical artists of all time

Kendall Roy (Succession) - Throughout the show you constantly want to see him succeed, and it’s so cathartic when he gets a win but there are so many times when he’s so close to getting exactly what he wants but he’ll make a stupid decision and you can’t do anything except watch everything crumble around him for making a horrible mistake that he could’ve definitely avoided

Kim Wexler/Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul) - While Jimmy spends the first half of the show trying to be a better person or lawyer, he lets other’s opinions of him get the better of him and it causes him to slip further into being unethical, both characters in the last half have a few moments where they hide things from each other that then make a problem that they could’ve avoided by letting each other know, but also spend a good chunk of the last few seasons bullying an associate for the fun of it, with even Kim, despite being a great and caring lawyer, deciding to skip a meeting that would’ve been incredible for her career to help out with a prank that would help bring a case to settle soon, which inevitably leads to both their lives more or less being destroyed

Idk if this really counts as a trope bit Slide 1: Quagmire from Family Guy - His whole character is being a sex pest and he’s a confirmed rapist, with most of the jokes involving him being “look at the way that he has a contraption set up to rape women lol”

Slide 2: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia - I love the show but they suffer with this a lot to, specifically in S11E4 there’s a joke about how cricket just gets raped by dogs

I shouldn’t have to explain why it’s just not funny, I get its shock humor but it’s just uncomfortable a lot of the time and makes jokes about a traumatic violation of people with no real substance

Eddie Cochran - Massive in the 50’s with songs like Summertime Blues, C’Mon Everybody and Three Steps To Heaven, plus his song Twenty Flight Rock famously got Paul McCartney in the Beatles yet when talking about 50’s rockstars he’s never mentioned in the same lane as Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry or Elvis

The Four Seasons - This one is more up for debate but I’m specifically talking about them before they became Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons who still have December, 1963 as a massive song today, also Frankie Valli’s Can’t Take My Eyes off you is still pretty big, but despite their rivalry in the early 60’s with The Beach Boys, being recognised as a great vocal group and their run of 3 consecutive number 1 hits with Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry and Walk Like A Man their work from around the mid 60’s and before is barely ever discussed

Yeah he’s a sex offending murdering asshole but man 1.4 billion living beings that he deeply (LOL) cared about dying basically because of him when he didn’t even have a choice is genuinely kind of heartbreaking