10 Musicians Whose Careers Were Destroyed By Just One Song

Blurred Lines may have been his controversial break out hit in 2013. But years before that song split audiences, Robin Thicke had been a reliable under-the-radar hitmaker in the world of R+B, featuring on more widely-known artist’s songs and boasting respectable album sales of his own.

Thicke was once even the opening act for Beyonce, and by 2013 it was inevitable that he would eventually have a crossover hit. In summer of that year, Blurred Lines brought him fame and infamy at once. But, despite a later lawsuit over its sample, it’s not the track that merits his inclusion on this list.

No, the track which bring us here is 2014’s Get Her Back, the lead single from his album Paula.

The once-ubiquitous hitmaker did not win back his ex-wife, or any former fans, with this tragically embarrassing and misjudged slice of cheesy, maudlin R+B. The unsubtly titled song was an attempt to win over Thicke’s own ex-wife after years of infidelity led her to leave him, and both the song and its parent album were disastrous failures that spelled the end of the world’s brief infatuation with him (as well as Paula Patton’s).