I thought so, too, until my dad told me, when I was about ten.
Roseanne Barr had been loveable (by some) as a sloppy, irreverent comedienne and prime time Mom. Then she got sloppy and irreverent with the national anthem, made dubious claims involving incest, bashed the gay community, just pretty much couldn’t shut up about anything, really… and everything changed.
True dat. I meant “newer model” as in “newer model” – fresh and different, not necessarily younger.
And :eek: a google search on Sandy Brooks brought up an incident from 2006 where she claimed she was kidnapped by a gang member. Turns out the gang member was her 28-year-old boyfriend, angry at being dumped.
Maybe Garth had the right idea.
John Lennon: We’re more popular than Jesus.
Cause a huge controversey in its day.
Which was funny, becasue he was 100% correct, and he didn’t say cooler, smarter or better, just more popular- the outrage at it is puzzling.
Rosie O’donnell
Wasn’t around then, but i don’t think Lennon alienated his fanbase. ISTM, the folks actually angry about this comment were bible-thumping christians who were already anti-rock & roll and anti-Beatles, and who were just waiting for an excuse to attack the band. I imagine that actual fans of the Beatles likely either took it in stride or applauded Lennon’s irreverence.
You forgot the topper: she got sloppy and irreverent with her successful TV show and ran it into the ground.
Zen Beam , I think you’re remembering about VH’s Diver Down album. Although I can’t remember the reception it got, it does remind me how much Van Halen changed after David Lee Roth. It went from being straight ahead hard rock to synth heavy pop rock. VH is a lot like Metallica; a big change in sound earned them a much larger audience, but you only seem to hear from old fans who miss the old sound.
I love that record.
Weezer didn’t do themselves any favors when they released the Green Album after five years of no new releases…and it was 28 minutes long.
To paraphrase the Rutles “documentary”: “People bought their records, just to burn them.”
Pretty much each of Weezer’s releases after the first album has been the equivalent of hitting their fans in the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. Yet they (OK, we) still keep coming back. 
I think the usual Piers Anthony progression as one goes through his books is to think “Hey, this is kind of interesting”. Then the pause. Then the :dubious: look. Then the pushing away of the book with a long stick.
Everyone seems to get there eventually.
Axl Rose.
I’m sure that will turn around as soon as the album comes out.
Oooh, great one. I can’t believe I didn’t think of them. I loved the first two albums (the second one had to grow on me, but still). Then after five years not only was it 28 minutes long, but the music (while somewhat catchy) was really plain and really lazy. Every single guitar solo was just the melody from the verse. Boring!
Maladroit was ok, and I started to have a bit of hope for the future, but then BAM came Make Believe, and all was lost. At that point I reclassified Weezer as not a great band with a couple duds, but as a mediocre band with a couple of good ones.
And while I’m on a roll, Kevin Smith got the exact same reclassification in my mind after I saw Jersey Girl. Fortunately he redeemed himself with Clerks 2 (which I almost didn’t bother seeing - Jersey Girl was so bad it not only made me hate Kevin, but made me disinterested in movies of any sort).
Edit: And I guess I’ll be the one to ask again. What’d **Rosie O’Donnell **and/or Axl Rose do? Please don’t make me work, note the username. 
I haven’t been in the US for a long time and don’t see any American daytime TV, but based on what I read here and elsewhere, once Rosie O’Donnell became the main host of The View, she steadily became more extreme in her opinions and generally nastier to anyone who questioned her.
The change was pretty striking to me. The last time I’d seen her was in A League of Their Own and on various talk shows in the early '90s, and she always reminded me of one of my aunts: loud and opinionated, but quick to laugh about anything and always totally lovable and sweet to everyone. That was the image of her I had until about a dozen years later when I watched a YouTube clip of The View where she was wishing Anna Nicole Smith would disappear for good (a few weeks before Smith died), and I couldn’t believe how completely she’d changed. ‘Mean’ was probably the only was to describe how she looked. Mean and angry.
Axl Rose has been promising the record Chinese Democracy for something like 15 years. It’s been right around the corner for years. People stopped caring a while ago when they figured out he was too flakey to ever release a new album.
Laurell Hamilton. She wrote more than half a dozen great books in the Anita Blake series, and then used both of her series as an opportunity to write her own erotic fanfiction. Really bad, boring repetitive erotica interspersed with 30 pages of plot each her last 8 or 10 novels.
Chris Carter made a lot of fans hate him with the last 4 episodes of the X-Files. Most of it amounted to petulant character assassination of most of the major characters, culminated with a frickin’ finale that was 85% clip show that punished people who’d actually watched the last two seasons by only using David Duchovny’s final appearance that season to make him look like a broken wuss afraid of a date of all damn things. Jesus.
Did Queen lose any significant portion of their fans when they abandoned their “no synthesizers!” rule with The Works?
While I actually like a lot of the songs on that album, it’s a big change from much of their '70s work (maybe not so much from Hot Space), and it seemed to mark a change away from the playful style mixes and experimentation of their earlier albums to the more run-of-the-mill pop (to me, at least) that followed.