1. Google Images was created after Jennifer Lopez wore *the dress* at the 2000 Grammys. It was the most popular search term Google execs had ever seen at the time, but there wasn't an image search option, so they created Google Images.



2. Jennifer Lopez’s mom won $2.4 million in 2004 after placing a $3 bet on a Wheel of Fortune machine in Atlantic City.



3. YouTube was invented because of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl. One of the inventors of YouTube missed the original broadcast, wanted to see it, but couldn't. Then they invented YouTube.



4. "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia is a cover.



5. "Ray of Light" by Madonna is also essentially a cover.



6. The Spice Girls didn't come up with their nicknames, some random magazine did. In an interview with Cosmo, Mel B said, "It was actually a teeny bopper magazine called Top of the Pops who gave us our names. We were already established as the Spice Girls, but they wrote a story about us and within it they called us each something different. The names stuck, so we went with it!”



7. Britney Spears absolutely hates the song "Sometimes." She hasn't performed it since 2001.



8. Lady Gaga hates the song “Telephone."



9. "Hollaback Girl" is the first digital song to ever sell a million copies.



10. Billboard named Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" the song of the decade for the 2000s.



11. Adele was discovered on Myspace. She uploaded three demos and was discovered by producer, XL. When she graduated high school, he signed her.



12. Shania Twain uses Brad Pitt's name in song "That Don't Impress Me Much," because nude photos of him leaked when she was writing the song and she wasn't impressed much.



13. Carly Rae Jepsen came in third place on Canadian Idol in 2007.



14. Beyoncé's alter-ego, "Sasha Fierce," was invented on the set of the music video for "Crazy In Love.”



15. Kelly Rowland, not Beyoncé, was the first member of Destiny's Child to have a solo number 1 hit. It was for the Nelly/Kelly duet "Dilemma."



16. It took Sia 14 minutes to write Rihanna's song “Diamonds."



17. Madonna thought she was being clever by uploading fake versions of her "American Life" album to music sharing sites with tracks that said, "What the f—k do you think you're doing?" on a loop. But a hacker got her album and posted it to download for free on her website the next day.



18. Reba McEntire was offered the role of Molly Brown in Titanic but had to pull out because of scheduling conflicts with her arena tour.



19. Alicia Keys originally picked the stage name "Wilde." So, essentially, her name would have been "Alicia Wilde.” Her manager had a "crazy dream" and suggested the name "Keys," like on a piano and the rest is history.



20. Both Pink and Hilary Duff turned down the song "Since U Been Gone” that Kelly Clarkson ended up making a hit.



21. Kesha is in Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" music video.



22. Avril Lavigne wrote the song "Breakaway" later sung by Kelly Clarkson.



23. In 2002, Saddam Hussein won Iraqi presidency with 100% of the vote. His campaign song was "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. It played over and over again on the radio when he "won" the election.



24. Carrie Underwood used to give her phone number to every one of the American Idol finalists, but no one ever called her.



25. In 1984, Fergie voiced Charlie Brown's sister, Sally Brown.



26. Fergie’s spot in the Black Eyed Peas was originally offered to Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls.



27. Christina Aguilera's music was used to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.





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