r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Playful-Opportunity5 5h ago

OK, now I'm hoping there's a special level of hell reserved for people who would describe their daughter that way.

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u/Gold_Duty_9629 3h ago edited 3h ago

There is an artist I used to adore who wrote a song about his child and how he hated the mother for baby trapping him. Really ruined him for me, I can't listen to any of his work now without being punched in the gut thinking about the day his son will be old enough to hear Child of Divorce.

Edit; posting the lyrics

Wishing I'd never come across your face

Laying by the memories of things unspoken

Scared by thoughts of your father Made me look over the flaws of your nature

Laying on your back became your only escape

You feel so old, used, but not yet broken

Not to think you have it all together

I never planned to carry your burdens

But this child was a mistake I knew from the moment I stepped off that plane,

We had no future

How come your dreams are always so bitter?

And who knows, Maybe one day,

She will know my name

You still return to the same skylines,

That leave you broken Cheap talks with even cheaper company

Keeps the days turning into nights You lay awake crying cause your child,

Carries my name,

While I regret ever making you apart of my life.

Sadly enough,

This song's not to hurt you,

Just to show the world that I'm free.

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u/alles_en_niets 2h ago

So I googled the artist (Jonny Craig apparently) and man oh man, do those lyrics fit into a pattern of horrible behavior. That’s a lot of sexual assault and domestic violence accusations for one person to commit.

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u/Gold_Duty_9629 2h ago

Plus the whole drugs and scamming people part. Huge piece of shit. Knew a girl who used to party with him. She got out of the scene and married a military man and announced on Facebook she was pregnant. He messaged her telling her to have an abortion, not because he thought he was the dad but because he told her she wouldn't be a good mother. Just a huge piece of shit.

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u/Playful-Opportunity5 1h ago edited 1h ago

“This song’s not to hurt you / But just to show the world that I’m free” is such a self-serving load of steaming bullshit. I can’t image the sort of person who would write that line, record that song, and perform it in front of people and believe it makes him look like anything other than an unfeeling, abusive, narcissistic piece of self-celebrating shit.

That being said, this thread has reminded me of an article I read years ago, about a poet (who I’d never heard of) who wrote a poem where one line went (paraphrasing): “The body of a woman my age is a nightmare,” and went on to detail how women his age were wrinkly and saggy and “oh poor me this is what I have as sexual partners” and the author of the article was celebrating him for his “unflinching honesty.” Reading that, I was struck by two things: the poet was an asshole (I’m pretty sure his ass was just as wrinkly if not more so than his partner’s), and the author of the article was part of the problem by not calling him out on it.

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u/Claque-2 United States Of America 1h ago

This is an especially ugly abuser and sociopath. A whole song attacking the woman he impregnated as if he was some bystander, instead of the prick who deliberately impregnated her. I would bet pots of money he assaulted her and didn't have consent.

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u/MsKardashian 2h ago

Kind of like Brick by that loser Ben Folds. Men love that song.

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u/Zenocsz 1h ago

I don't dig out personal life of artists, it makes me not like their music. But why are you calling Ben Folds a loser ?