10 Artist-Producer Breakups That Prove The Curmudgeons Right This Valentine’s Day

Idolator Staff | February 12, 2014 5:30 am

3. Solange & Dev Hynes

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Solange and Dev Hynes are both extremely likable, and they had landed on such a breezy, understated pop brilliance, so this one stings. Things started swimmingly: the pair co-wrote and co-produced the entirety of Solange’s breakout True EP, including the effervescent gem “Losing You.” Hynes even played in her touring band during the promo cycle (which included a couple stops on late night shows). But he started to get a lot of credit for the release, so last April, Solange took to Twitter to explain that she was more than just a “vocal muse.” Following a Hynes profile in The Fader in late 2013, their falling out became public, and the two beefed over Twitter. Hynes signed off with, “It’s over. We’re done. Bye.”

4. Christina Aguilera & Scott Storch

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Before the days of Lotus, before ever sitting upon her red swivel chair on The Voice and before Perez Hilton was attempting to suck up with his #JusticeForBionic movement, Christina Aguilera was in full-on retro mode preparing to record her jazzy 2006 double-disc Back To Basics.

To help craft a followup to her critically acclaimed 2002 album, Aguilera hit up the collaborator featured most prominently on Stripped, Scott Storch. And that’s when things got a bit — well, dirrty. According to Storch, Christina refused to fly him and his entourage out to California to work on the album. According to Aguilera, Storch demanded a lavish private jet — a superstar luxury reserved only for a diva like Christina herself. Storch’s decision to get involved in crafting Paris Hilton‘s debut only further drove a wedge between the two, leading to an almighty record laid out on Back To Basics: “F.U.S.S.” (That stands for “F U Scott Storch,” just in case you needed us to spell it out.)

“I thought I knew who you were, I see now that you were a lesson to learn / All I am to you is a bridge that’s been burned,” she croons above a slow jazzy beat, name-dropping every song they’ve written together. “Looks like I didn’t need you… still got the album out,” she chuckles. Storch had a few words of his own upon hearing the diss track: “I worked on half of her last CD and sold her millions of copies. Obviously, she cares more than I do that I didn’t do this album. But I can’t blame her, with an album full of fillers, oversinging and lame Vegas-like cabaret music,” he told In Touch.

Way to be a total bobblehead, Scott.

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