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Black Sheep Hit

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Black Sheep Hit	comment	Sometimes, a musician has a huge hit with a song that is at odds to their usual style. For some reason, this happens very often with hard rock/metal bands who hit it big with a slow ballad. Or alternatively a hardcore rapper/rap group with a crossover party anthem. For bands with a very niche appeal, the Black Sheep Hit is usually one of the songs "mainstream" enough to receive play on the radio stations. While having a hit is something most bands strive for, this type of hit can develop into a millstone around their neck because they only wanted to play rock (or metal, or whatever), and now they will forever be associated with this song. Often results in Creator Backlash. While such tracks may well be the one hit of the One-Hit Wonder, it need not be — a band with other well-known tracks may still have a Black Sheep Hit if the general public mostly thinks of the misfit song when they hear the band's name. If someone does not like the hit song, they may have no desire to check out the band's other works — and, when finally exposed to it, might be pleasantly surprised to discover that they do like the other songs. Conversely, those who do like the hit song may feel disappointed upon finding out that the rest of the band's songs sound quite different. A Black Sheep Hit will be a result of a Creator's Oddball for many musicians. Often related to Chart Displacement.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_391713ea	comment	W. W. Jacobs's most famous story is The Monkey's Paw, the one and only horror story by a guy who mostly wrote about sailors.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_43c03b4d	comment	Super Eyepatch Wolf is a well-known lover of Japanese culture who predominantly does video essays about manga and anime. Funnily enough, though, his most popular creation is a video essay about The Simpsons, which has almost twice as many views as his most popular video essay about a manga series.note That would be his video on Blood on the Tracks, if you're curious.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_69a74154	comment	CGP Grey predominately does educational videos about obscure and/or arcane topics that most people don't know about, but his big breakout hit (which is largely responsible for his fame) is the simple explanatory video "The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained", which covers a relatively simple topic that's just frequently misunderstood. He's also pretty well-known for his two-part video on the mythology of The Lord of the Rings, which is notable for being his only video about a work of fiction.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_a88418fd	comment	Stephen Sondheim was known for writing songs with complex music and dense lyrics with intricate rhymes, which even highly experienced singers often find very difficult to sing. One of the few exceptions is in A Little Night Music, one of the lightest musicals from the later years of his career (which is really saying something, as it's basically Adultery: The Musical), where he wrote a song intended for the non-singer Glynis Johns. To make up for Johns' lack of singing experience, he kept the melody and lyrics markedly simple, resulting in a minimalistic (but very evocative) song where her character laments her disappointment at the state of her life using short and simple phrases. The result was "Send in the Clowns", Sondheim's only mainstream pop hit—which went on to be covered by numerous popular artists (most notably Judy Collins and Frank Sinatra), and eventually became a jazz standard.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_b4501394	comment	In-universe, Left 4 Dead 2's supplementary materials suggest that the band Midnight Riders had a single #1 hit in their long career as a biker-fueled southern rock band: a slow piano ballad called "This Man Loves You", played by their long-suffering "provisional temporary band member" of a bassist and originally released as a B-side. The band refuses to play the song live.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_c28c18e7	comment	Ken Ashcorp's now-defunct YouTube alt foreverpandering had a few videos of him ranting about terrible gaming channels. A popular series of his was just called "iJustine", where he took the piss out of iJustine's playthrough of Portal 2. The people who found these videos on his channel also found videos about other gaming channels that he thought were bad, such as ElectricalBeast and MinecraftChick, so naturally people assumed that he uploaded videos like that regularly. They subscribed, only to find him uploading song covers and making rants about things that aren't gaming channels. He never made another gaming channel rant again. foreverpandering as a whole was temporarily this to Ken in mid-2012, certain videos, including the aforementioned iJustine rants, receiving higher viewership than the music he made on his main channel. This is usually brought up as the primary reason he decided to permanently delete it in late 2012, as he repeatedly stated he was tired of creating content that he didn't feel much attachment to.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_c66f52d9	comment	Despite self-admittedly hating drama, Todd in the Shadows's "I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube", which catalogues James Somerton's frequent factual errors, done almost completely absent from his usual comedic tone of reviewing pop music throughout the years, has quickly become his second most popular video of all time, only behind "The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2020". He's ruefully admitted that, despite disliking drama, it turns out he's good at it.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_c720f71e	comment	Parodied in a sketch by Man Carrying Thing called "why is this every youtuber's highest viewed video." The sketch follows an interview with a historian named Dave with an infomative YouTube channel that is overshadowed by a video he made earlier in his career called "PLANKTON FARTS & DIES (real)." He seems dissappointed but resigned when his interviewer asks him how he feels knowing that this one video will likely be his legacy, refusing to answer the question.
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Black Sheep Hit / int_d01106a8	comment	Vinny of Vinesauce does a wide variety of gaming-related streams, including traditional playthroughs of well-known games, peaks at obscure and often bizarre free games from the Internet, and reactions to new game trailers. His most famous videos, however, are his game corruption videos. This is despite him admitting that the sheer unpredictability of corruptions, while the source of their appeal, also makes it extremely hard to sift anything interesting out of them. Hence the dearth of such streams despite heavy viewer demand.
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Treme / int_4c02ab92	type	Black Sheep Hit

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