History Main / HostilityOnTheSet

* VirtualYoutuber Zaion [=LanZa=] had a very antagonistic working relationship with the management of {{WebAnimation/Nijisanji}}, which largely resulted in her only being part of the agency for three months [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor before being suspended and then officially released]]. With regards to both, ANYCOLOR cited many instances of unprofessional behavior that making her difficult to work with, including repeatedly breaching contract over several copyright and content-related matters, privately exchanging confidential company info, lying about and manipulating discussions on matters between management and her colleagues, tacitly supporting anti-ANYCOLOR posts on social media, along with generally offensive and irresponsible acts that didn't improve with time. Following her termination, Zaion's actress fired back with her own series of allegations and rebuttals, pinning blame on ANYCOLOR's management as being poor and lacking in integrity, accusing them of fabricating large parts of their narrative against her while being draconian in her attempts to engage with them. The Livers who have spoken up on the matters (namely her former genmates of XSOLEIL) erred towards the side of condemning her behavior as having been a noticeable private problem even while she was still active, and those reporting to side with her on certain issues with management came out exhausted by how irreconcilable Zaion/ANYCOLOR's working relationship had become.

* ''VideoGame/LANoire'': Many employees described Brendan [=McNamara=] and his behavior as a tyrant and a bully and one of the angriest people in the world, He would scream and lash out at his employees if he didn't get his way and his behavior was described to be so stress-inducing, some staff members would quit after 2 weeks. Even [=McNamara=] would describe the situation as "Things got violent".

* WebAnimation/Eddsworld

* One of the reasons that ''VideoGame/Superman64'' was the way it was is due to the new management of Warner Licensing who hated the team and their project mainly because they wanted a high profile developer to create the game and went on their way to sabotage the game by requesting nonsensical gameplay ideas such as making the game a SimCity clone and rejecting features such as Superman swimming under water.

* One of the reasons that ''VideoGame/Superman64'' was the way it was is due to the new management of Warner Licensing who hated the team and their project mainly because they wanted a high profile developer to create the game and went on their way to sabotaging the game by interfering with the game.

* Contrary to popular belief, ''Series/SteptoeAndSon'' co-stars Harry H. Corbett and Creator/WilfridBrambell had a good professional relationship while the series was being made, even if their different lifestyles and approaches to dramatic art meant they were never close friends. However, what tensions there were between them boiled over in spectacular fashion when they signed on for a stage version of ''Steptoe and Son'' to tour Australia and New Zealand in 1977. Both were in declining health - Brambell's alcoholism had been getting worse for over a decade, while Corbett was smoking multiple packs of cigarettes a day - and sick of being typecast as Albert and Harold, so the prospect of working together reminded them of everything they were trying to get away from. On one occasion, a drunken Brambell lashed out at Corbett in front of his wife and children simply because they were travelling as a family, prompting Corbett to grab him by the collar and snarl, "Never my children." Eventually, Corbett got so sick of covering for Brambell's alcohol-fuelled bad behaviour - which sometimes included refusing to go on stage at all - that his wife Maureen had to act as a go-between. Things bottomed out during a radio interview in Christchurch when a badly hung over Brambell responded to the question of what he and Corbett thought of New Zealand's landscape and architecture with "I hate your fucking town, and it's the lowest place I've been in all my life," to Corbett's mortification. The tour never recovered, although Brambell and Corbett's relationship did; they were planning a second Australian tour when Corbett died of a heart attack in 1982.

* ''The Curse of Steptoe'' covers the production of ''Series/SteptoeAndSon'', specifically the conflict between leading actors Creator/WilfridBrambell and Harry H. Corbett, although its factual accuracy was disputed by Corbett's family and the original writers.

* VirtualYoutuber Zaion [=LanZa=] had a very antagonistic working relationship with the management of {{WebAnimation/Nijisanji}}, which largely resulted in her only being part of the agency for three months [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor before being suspended and then officially released]]. With regards to both, ANYCOLOR cited many instances of unprofessional behavior that making her difficult to work with, including repeatedly breaching contract over several copyright and content-related matters, privately exchanging confidential company info, lying about and manipulating discussions on matters between management and her colleagues, tacitly supporting anti-ANYCOLOR posts on social media, along with generally offensive and irresponsible acts that didn't improve with time. Following her termination, Zaion's actress fired back with her own series of allegations and rebuttals, pinning blame on ANYCOLOR's management as being poor and lacking in integrity, accusing them of fabricating large parts of their narrative against her while being draconian in her attempts to engage with them. While many Livers have remained quiet or ambivalent regarding Zaion following her termination, those who have spoken up on the matters (namely her former genmates of XSOLEIL) erred towards the side of condemning her behavior as having been a noticeable problem even while she was still active, and those reporting to side with her on certain issues with management came out exhausted by how irreconcilable the hostility became.

* VirtualYoutuber Zaion [=LanZa=] had a very antagonistic working relationship with the management of {{WebAnimation/Nijisanji}}, which largely resulted in her only being part of the agency for three months [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor before being suspended and then officially released]]. With regards to both, ANYCOLOR cited many instances of unprofessional behavior that making her difficult to work with, including repeatedly breaching contract over several copyright and content-related matters, privately exchanging confidential company info, lying about and manipulating discussions on matters between management and her colleagues, tacitly supporting anti-ANYCOLOR posts on social media, along with generally offensive and irresponsible behavior that didn't improve with time. Following her termination, Zaion's actress fired back with her own series of allegations and rebuttals, pinning blame on ANYCOLOR's management as being poor and lacking in integrity, accusing them of fabricating large parts of their narrative against her while being draconian in her attempts to engage with them. While many Livers have remained quiet or ambivalent regarding Zaion following her termination, those who have spoken up on the matters (namely her former genmates of XSOLEIL) erred towards the side of condemning her behavior as having been a noticeable problem even while she was still active, and those reporting to side with her on certain issues with management came out exhausted by how irreconcilable the hostility became.

** Implied with Creator/YujiNaka himself especially due to the fact that he was not supportive of the development of the game, feeling that Sonic Team should be the only developers of ''Sonic'' games and he even had one moment of sabotaging the project witch involved him threatening to leave SEGA if the team used the engine of ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams''.

* ''VideoGame/LANoire'': Many employees described Brendan [=McNamara=] and his behaver as a tyrant and a bully and one of the angriest people in the world, He would scream and lash out at his employees if he didn't get his was and his behaver was described to be so stress inducing some staff members would quit after 2 weeks. Even [=McNamara=] would describe the situation as "Things got violent".

* HostilityOnTheSet: Many employees described Brendan [=McNamara=] and his behaver as a tyrant and a bully and one of the angriest people in the world, He would scream and lash out at his employees if he didn't get his was and his behaver was described to be so stress inducing some staff members would quit after 2 weeks. Even [=McNamara=] would describe the situation as "Things got violent".

* ''VideoGame/SonicXTreme'': Due to eternal politics heavily affecting the game especially between the two teams due to how the management was structured. As mentioned by game producer Mike Walles:

--> '''Mike Walles''': We had artists doing art for levels that hadn’t even been concepted out, We had programmers waiting and waiting and waiting until every minute detail had been concepted out, And we had designers doing whatever the hell they wanted. It was a mess and because of the internal politics (The art director had trained his art team to hate the designers and programers)” It was more difficult to get any work done.
** One of the animators would constantly complain about working too hard and verbally harassing the other employees for working too hard. One instance is when he walked out of a meeting leading to his firing the next day. He was described by producer Mike Walles as “Being an ass”.

** Implied with “Creator/YujiNaka” himself especially due to the fact that he was not supportive of the development of the game, Feeling that Sonic Team should be the only developers of Sonic Games and he even had one moment of sabotaging the project witch involved him threatening of leaving SEGA if the team used the engine of ‘’VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams’’.

* ''VideoGame/SonicXTreme'':
** Due to eternal politics heavily affecting the game especially between the two teams due to how the management was structured. As mentioned by game producer Mike Walles:

* ''VideoGame/SonicXTreme'': Had a few examples of this:

---> '''Mike Walles''': We had artists doing art for levels that hadn’t even been concepted out, We had programmers waiting and waiting and waiting until every minute detail had been concepted out, And we had designers doing whatever the hell they wanted. It was a mess and because of the internal politics (The art director had trained his art team to hate the designers and programers)” It was more difficult to get any work done.

** Implied with “Creator/YujiNaka” himself especially due to the fact that he was not supportive of the development of the game, Feeling that Sonic Team should be the only developers of Sonic Games and even had one moments of sabotaging the project witch involved his threatening of leaving SEGA if the team used the engine of ‘’VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams’’.

** Implied with “Creator/YujiNaka” himself especially due to the fact that he was not supportive of the development of the game and even had one of moments of sabatoshing the project witch involved his threatening of leaving sega if the team used the engine of ‘’VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams’’.

* During development VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996, David Siller's relationship with Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin was frequently strained. It eventually got to the point where Siller was removed from production after he hired Josh Mancell of Mutato Muzika to write the music.

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* Music/ACDC's Angus and Malcolm Young were frequently in conflict with early bassist Mark Evans. According to the brothers, they were never completely happy with Evans' musical ability or professionalism, and Evans only kept his job for several years and albums because the band's management didn't want any more lineup changes.
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand's last album, ''Win, Lose or Draw'' was aptly titled for a session that was marked by constant fighting amongst the band. It had started with Gregg Allman missing the first day and the other band members, all as coked up as he was, angrily confronting him over his commitment to the band in the face of a solo project (Dicky Betts was one to talk about that, as he had his own solo project beckoning). Eventually, it got to the point where the producers had to put together the last, and universally reviled as the worst album of the band's original run, from whatever jams the band did do together early in the session and those parts that individual members could get done themselves later on (even still, rumor has it that the producers had to do some of the rhythm parts themselves).
* Tensions between Joey Belladonna and his fellow members of Music/{{Anthrax}} peaked during the production of ''Persistence of Time''. Joey was resistant to prodding from the others to alter his vocal style for the album; Scott Ian said, "I hated what he was doing and at the same time it was like we were pulling teeth to even get that out of him."
* When Music/AtomicKitten were on their third album, tensions between Natasha Hamilton and Jenny Frost were very high. Natasha was dealing with postnatal depression and her commitments to the group had slipped - leading to her no-showing several publicity events. Right before a photoshoot, Natasha turned up with a new hairstyle identical to Jenny's. Things got very heated once they went on their tour - and Natasha even no-showed a gig in Dublin because she'd had a fight with the other two.
* Music/TheBeachBoys had this in spades. In fact, for much of their existence, they were divided into two camps. The first camp were the supporters of the "formula", wanting the band to stick to the conventional "surf, car, and sun" pop songs that first put them on the map consisting of Music/MikeLove, Music/AlJardine, and Music/BruceJohnston. They were opposed by Music/CarlWilson and Music/DennisWilson who wanted to continue to do more radical and experimental music that their brother Brian had been envisioning.
** Music/BrianWilson and Mike Love are known to not get along with each other. Love sued Wilson for songwriting credits. During the 50th Anniversary Tour, he fired Brian, his onetime ally Al Jardine (whom he also had a falling out with), and David Marks (who was an original member of the band, re-enlisted to take Carl's place as lead guitarist).
** Brothers Carl and Brian Wilson had a falling out in the mid-90s related to the infamous Andy Paley sessions. Carl disliked the material and he wasn't getting along with Brian's wife Melinda (they both wanted Brian to collaborate with different people). They did not mend their relationship until Carl was dying of cancer (they watched the Super Bowl together the week before Carl's death where the Beach Boys performed).
** The most fraught relationship though was actually between Dennis and Mike. Both infamously had a HairTriggerTemper and had a very difficult relationship even in childhood. The two also engaged in fisticuffs several times. Once in the studio during an argument between Brian and Mike, Dennis physically leaped to Brian's defense and hit Mike. On another occasion, Dennis and Mike got into an argument over a joke Dennis made about drugs during a concert and Dennis started to pummel Mike in full view of the audience. They absolutely loathed each other.
** Blondie Chaplin quit the band because the band's manager (and Mike's brother) Steve Love physically yanked gum out of Blondie's mouth during a dispute and then called him a racial slur.
* Music/TheBeatles had periods of this:
** Recording engineer Norman Smith later stated that the studio sessions for ''Music/RubberSoul'' revealed signs of growing conflict within the group – "the clash between John and Paul was becoming obvious", he wrote, and "as far as Paul was concerned, George could do no right".
** By the time ''Music/LetItBe'' came about, the already tense relations between the band members reached a breaking point:
*** Music/PaulMcCartney tried to organise and encourage his bandmates, but his attempts to hold the band together and rally spirits were seen by the others as controlling and patronising.
*** [=McCartney=] and Music/GeorgeHarrison got into a heated argument during the recording of "Two of Us".
*** Harrison got into a blazing row with Music/JohnLennon over creative disengagement from the band. According to journalist Michael Housego of The Daily Sketch, this descended into violence with them allegedly throwing punches at each other. Harrison denied this in a 16 January interview for the Daily Express, saying: "There was no punch-up. We just fell out."
* Music/TheCivilWars towards the end of their second album in the early 2010s. It led to their tour being cancelled and the break up of the duo years ater.
* ''Music/CutTheCrap'' was the title of the last [[Music/TheClash Clash]] album because it fit the statement Music/JoeStrummer was trying to make about getting back to the ThreeChordsAndTheTruth roots of punk, but it or some variant thereof was probably said at least a few times a day during the sessions, which ''began'' with Strummer and Paul Simonon kicking Mick Jones out of the band because he was getting to be too much of a rock star, followed by Topper Headon, who couldn't kick heroin long enough to record. Simonon might as well have left or been forced out as well, given his minimal contribution to what, on the face of things, looked like a Strummer solo album—most of the other instruments were played by unknown musicians the band had hired through anonymous ads in ''Melody Maker'' for a hundred pounds a week. However, Strummer and manager Bernie Rhodes fought bitterly, with Rhodes as determined to make a more "contemporary" Clash that could keep riding the musical tides for another several years as Strummer was to get back to where they once belonged. Rhodes was able to win and record the album ''his'' way by stealing the master tapes and adding plenty of synthesizers and effects to most of them; Strummer was so disgusted that, late in production, he tried to get Jones to come back. The result was an end to a once-great band as bitter as ''Let it Be'' or ''Win, Lose or Draw''.
* Cream, a musical trio formed in 1966 comprised of Music/EricClapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, is widely considered the first supergroup ever. Unfortunately, while they're widely considered one of the best musical groups of all time, everyone knew from the beginning that they wouldn't last long:
** Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker could not stand each other. Even before the band formed, they were notorious for getting into ''physical altercations'' with one another. The only reason the band formed was because they agreed to attempt to put aside their differences, while Clapton acted as the mediator in the group. This was a role Clapton wasn't equipped to handle, having been treated with kid gloves in his previous bands. The pressure would drive Clapton to tears, and close contact with notorious addict Baker would exacerbate his own substance abuse issues.
** Clapton, however, had his own issues with the band. He felt like the [[StealthPun third wheel]] of the group because they often focused too much on being '''LOUD.''' Clapton said in an interview that during a live performance, he actually ''walked out'' while Baker and Bruce were jamming very loudly, and ''nobody even noticed until they had stopped.''
*** Another complaint that Clapton had with the band is that [[PoorCommunicationKills they did not communicate well enough,]] which may have lead to the aforementioned issue with them playing too loud for his liking.
** In an attempt to calm the tensions between Bruce and Baker, Clapton tried to recruit his friend Steve Winwood to the band. Winwood refused, and the band announced their break-up and subsequent farewell tour in 1968, followed by a final album, appropriately titled ''"Goodbye",'' after only [[ShortRunner two years]]. All three of the members admitted that as tensions worsened, so did their performance. Baker said that it "Wasn't a gig, it was getting it over with...we knew it was over." Despite this, they ''did'' briefly reunite in 1993, and seemed to be getting along together once again, with Bruce saying that he would definitely do it again. And in 2005, they briefly reunited again at Clapton's request. This last set of shows predictably saw another blowup between Baker and Bruce over stage volume.
*** It would prove to be their last reunion, however, as Jack Bruce and ''especially'' Ginger Baker began to experience health issues that rendered it impossible for them to perform. Bruce died in 2014, and Baker in 2019; Eric Clapton is still very much alive.
* It's common knowledge that conflicts between the members of Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival permeated the TroubledProduction of their final album, ''Music/MardiGras'' (1972), but the precise details are a matter of dispute. Either way, the tension eventually led to the breakup of the band after the album's release:
** The part of the story that everybody basically agrees on is that Doug Clifford and Stu Cook were not big fans of John Fogerty's leadership -- either because Clifford and Cook were envious of all the attention Fogerty received or because Clifford and Cook were fed up with Fogerty's dictatorial IAmTheBand tendencies, depending on the source. It was because of John's egotism that his brother Tom quit CCR before the recording of ''Mardi Gras''.
** According to Clifford and Cook, Fogerty tasked them with composing their own individual songs for ''Mardi Gras'', despite their reluctance to contributing more to the album than they were used to. To hear it from them, this was Fogerty's attempt to set them up to fail and be seen as inferior musicians; to reinforce this point, Fogerty did not involve himself in either of their songs.
** In his autobiography, Fogerty states that it was Clifford and Cook's idea to individually contribute to the album, and that they basically forced him to give them greater power in the band's creative process.[[note]]Fogerty refers to this incident as the "night of the generals"[[/note]] When ''Mardi Gras'' was released, Fogerty says, his bandmates blamed him for their songs being panned by critics.
** No matter how exactly things went down, the failure of the album heralded the end of CCR not long afterwards, and the surviving members have literally spent the decades since suing each other.
* Music/DeepPurple were so stressed from heavy touring when they went right back into the studio to do ''Who Do We Think We Are?'' that before production was over, it had reached the point where none of the members were willing to be in the studio with each other, necessitating careful scheduling by the producer and engineers to get the album finished. They were able to make up afterwards, although the experience contributed to Ian Gillan's departure after the ensuing tour.
* The reason why drummer Chris Pennie left Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan. Chris and [[IAmTheBand band leader]] Ben Weinman's relationship went south after ''Miss Machine'' released and couldn't work together on a personal or professional level. Tensions got so bad between the two Ben temporarily left the band during a tour with AFI cause he couldn't stand being around Chris. Chris eventually left the band to join Music/CoheedAndCambria. [[https://youtu.be/79IBM_-xbxk Singer Greg Puciato explains more about the drama in this interview.]] Also, it's never been out right stated, but it's been heavily implied that Ben and Greg's [[Main/VitriolicBestBuds worsening relationship]] played a small part in the band breaking up in 2017.
* Music/TheDoobieBrothers similar constant touring/recording schedule had brought them considerable success, but at great cost to their personal relationships. By the late 1970s, according to bassist Tiran Porter, "we were all pretty sick of each other", allowing replacement lead singer Michael [=McDonald=] to [[IAmTheBand dominate the band]] by the time ''Minute by Minute'' was released. But those sessions and the subsequent tour cost them more members, and after their next album, ''One Step Closer'', they were little more than [=McDonald=]'s backing band.
* Music/{{Eagles}} were definitely this over the years. Especially towards the end. Glenn Frey had a reputation for being difficult, to say the least, and had a hard time getting along with EVERYBODY in the group (from initial producer Glyn Johns to bandmates Bernie Leadon and Don Felder). Even his relationship with Don Henley (who co-founded the group with him and was arguably his biggest ally in the group) was fraying.
** During the recording of their final original album, ''The Long Run'', Felder at one point told Frey "When this is all over, I'll kick your ass". Months later, late in the band's last concert, with three songs left, Felder looked at Frey, held up three fingers and said "three songs left", to which Frey replied, "I can barely wait". Then the two joined for a harmonious rendition of "The Best of My Love". After the show the knock-down drag-out indeed happened, leaving quite a bit of damage in its waking.
** And then the band still had to do a live album, which required some studio overdubs. Frey and Henley worked from studios on opposite coasts, unable to even be in the same state with each other. The joke was that the Postal Service deserved a producer credit on the ensuing, well-received ''Eagles Live''.
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's minimal output during their last years can be explained by their even more minimal willingness to work with each other. ''Love Beach'', their last and most reviled album, came about only because of [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligations]].
* During Music/FleetwoodMac's notoriously volatile period when everyone was breaking up with and/or cheating on everyone else in the band, the music videos for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAbfPDZdEBU Hold Me]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJOKBURlI1M Gypsy]]" were both filmed when various band members couldn't stand to be around each other. The former uses a lot of close up shots to disguise that they weren't actually near each other and shot their scenes separately, while the latter had Music/StevieNicks be made to dance with Lindsey Buckingham, who she didn't want to be in the same room with, and she looks visibly uncomfortable doing so.
* Music/GirlsAloud:
** Nadine later revealed that the early days of the group, when she was the one chosen to get the most lead vocals, led to a lot of bitterness between the girls.
** Sarah ended up losing contact with Nicola, Kimberly and Cheryl after the split - remaining only in contact with Nadine.
* Music/TheJacksons' Victory Tour was rife with this. [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael]] had been roped into doing the tour by his mother to help his brothers out and [[TroubledProduction greatly resented doing so]]; his disgust with the soon-abandoned lottery ticket system didn't help. The brothers attempted to get some sort of unity with a rule that only they could ride in the vans to shows, but Michael soon broke it; by the time he let Music/JulianLennon fly with them on the helicopter to Giants Stadium, they were all glaring at him silently. Eventually it led to separate limos to shows for all of them, Michael even staying in a separate hotel, and Michael and Jermaine letting their lawyers stand in for them at the increasingly frequent meetings between the band, Don King and promoter Chuck Sullivan later in the tour as things started going really sour. Michael saved the coldest dish for last, telling the crowd at the rain-soaked tour finale in Dodger Stadium that this was to be the brothers' last performance together, stunning not only them but King and Joe Jackson, who had been all set to take the tour to Europe.
* Music/TheKinks have had some tense periods when [[SiblingRivalry brothers Ray and Dave Davies were squabbling]].[[note]]Sometimes Dave would play badly ''on purpose'' to antagonize his IAmTheBand brother[[/note]]
** Dave and drummer Mick Avory were often at odds. In the most notorious (and widely mis-reported) incident, at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, South Wales, in 1965, Avory hit Davies with his drum pedal (not the cymbal stand, which, according to later interviews with Avory "would have decapitated him"), in reprisal for Davies kicking over his drum kit as revenge for a drunken fight the previous night in a Taunton hotel, apparently won by Mick. He then fled into hiding for days to avoid arrest for grievous bodily harm. On other occasions, fuming, he would hurl his drumsticks at Dave. According to Ray, their problems began during the time Mick and Dave shared a flat in London for a short period in early 1965. This resulted in Mick leaving the band. They eventually buried the hatchet.
* Music/{{Kiss}} during the 1970s was a DysfunctionJunction of two different pairs - business-minded Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on one side, and the wilder, hard-partying Ace Frehley and Peter Criss on the other - whose clashes eventually escalated to intense friction, not helped by the latter two starting to struggle with their performances due to being so intoxicated (Frehley was also developing CreativeDifferences). Tellingly, both were gone by 1982, and even when the quartet reunited in 1996, Paul and Gene ensured that the album ''Music/PsychoCircus'' barely had any input from Ace and Peter, who left again in 2001. Not helping is the myriad allegations everyone's made about each other over the decades, of out-of-control egos, poor work ethic, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism and general dickishness.
* While it wasn't why he was fired, this was most certainly the case with CJ [=McCreery=] and the rest of Music/LornaShore for a solid year or so before he was fired. While they got along well at first, relations with him started to go downhill by the end of 2018, and when the band went to the studio to record the rest of ''Immortal'' in early 2019, he managed to piss off Adam De Micco and Austin Archey by showing up for three days (as opposed to the month-plus that they spent working on it) with poor-quality lyrics and delivering numerous poor takes that had to be cleaned up and stitched together. Once they started doing the year's tours, Adam and Austin (plus newcomer Andrew O'Connor) quickly grew to despise him for his trashy and embarrassing conduct on tour and his habitual laziness and tendency to try and lie and manipulate his way out of everything, as well as his rudeness towards fans and other bands, and when they ended their final tour for the year, they were so sick of him and hated him so much that there was serious talk of firing him. When the allegations against him came out at the end of the year, they mostly just accelerated the inevitable - he had to go for the sake of the band's emotional wellbeing either way, and the allegations just forced their hand early. CJ's old Music/SignsOfTheSwarm bandmate Bobby Crow also went on record to say that the same was true for CJ's time with them, as he regularly displayed all of the same behaviors there and was such a toxic presence and caused so many problems for the band that, in the months before CJ quit to join Lorna Shore, there was a very real possibility of Bobby leaving the band because he could no longer deal with CJ.
* Music/NoDoubt: The video for "Don't Speak," which is all about growing resentment among the other band members to Music/GwenStefani's all-encompassing popularity, is not much fictionalized -- there really was a lot of resentment as Stefani became the face of the band and the only member of it most people could name.
** The breakup between Stefani and bassist Tony Kanal also caused a fair bit of tension, though the two eventually moved on.
* When recording Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheFinalCut'', Music/RogerWaters and David Gilmour couldn't stand to be in the same ''studio'' as each other, recording their parts in separate studios (Richard Wright having been fired in 1979 during the sessions for ''Music/TheWall''). Waters left the band shortly after its release, declaring Pink Floyd a "spent force," but Gilmour had the last laugh with [[Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason the massively successful follow-up]].
* The members of Music/ThePolice hated each other so much that they frequently had physical altercations backstage. The final straw came when they couldn't agree on which drum machine to use for a session (drummer Stewart Copeland had broken his collarbone in a horseback riding accident and was unable to play drums). Andy Summers saw Music/{{Sting}} and Copeland arguing about this one morning, so he left and decided to skip most of the day. When he returned to the studio in the late afternoon, his bandmates were still having the same argument, as passionately as they had in the morning, without either of them ready to give in.
** Sting so disliked the instrumental "Behind My Camel" from ''Zenyatta Mondatta'' that not only did he refuse to play on it, he tried to bury the master tape. Didn't stop him from accepting the Grammy the band won for it, though.
* Like Music/TheKinks, Music/{{Oasis}} is notorious for the [[SiblingRivalry acrimonious relationship]] between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, coming to a head when a backstage fight resulted in the band's breakup.
* Band relations in Music/TheRamones were often tense:
** Tension between Joey and Johnny colored much of the band's career. The pair were politically antagonistic, Joey being a liberal and Johnny a conservative. Their personalities also clashed: Johnny, who spent two years in military school, lived by a strict code of self-discipline, while Joey struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcoholism. In the early 1980s, Linda Danielle began a relationship with Johnny after having already been romantically involved with Joey. Consequently, despite their continued professional relationship, Joey and Johnny had become aloof from each other. Johnny did not contact Joey before the latter's death, although he said that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death.
** Tommy quit the band after being "physically threatened by Johnny, treated with contempt by Dee Dee, and all but ignored by Joey".
** The tensions among the group members were not kept secret from the public as was heard on ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' in 1997, where during the interview Marky and Joey got into a fight about their respective drinking habits.
** A year after the band's breakup, Marky Ramone made disparaging response against C.J. in the press, calling him a "bigot," a statement he would reiterate a decade later. C.J. would later respond that he was unsure as to why he would make negative comments against him in the press though he denied that it had anything to do with his marrying Marky's niece. He also denied being a bigot. Many years later, C.J. mentioned that despite being the two surviving members of arguably the band's most commercially successful era, and despite reaching out a few times to join him on stage, he and Marky were no longer in contact.
* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} had cases on at least two albums, ''Dirty Work'', where Music/MickJagger was getting too carried away by his solo career and the others showed their contempt - Music/KeithRichards wrote some angry tracks like "I've Had It With You", "Fight", and "One Hit (To The Body)", and Charlie Watts at a certain point punched Jagger in the face - and ''Music/BridgesToBabylon'', as Richards disapproved of Jagger bringing in electronic music producers, with tensions elevated to the point that the two of them had to record in separate rooms (Watts only got through by bonding with a percussionist, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flying out of Los Angeles as soon as his work was done]]).
* While there were no hostilities in Music/SClub7 during their first run together, in TheNewTens when Bradley, Jo and Paul toured together as 'S Club 3', Paul eventually stopped appearing with them citing tensions between himself and Jo.
* The shoot for Music/TupacShakur's "Hit 'Em Up" video was as intense as the actual song. Tupac was engaged in an argument with someone, who was heard telling him "You'll get shot." His armed bodyguard assured him that he had nothing to worry about. He also broke up a fight involving his friend Muta during the filming and fired a production assistant on set. The assistant was answering Shakur's pager and returning his personal calls without his consent. Many callers were confused or angry that a female assistant was answering Tupac's calls. The assistant had mistakenly lost the pager, and with Tupac already growing wary of her, fired her for that reason.
* Music/RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" was his biggest hit in the short term but also set into motion the events that ultimately [[CreatorKiller killed his career]] once his lecherous behavior was exposed, so it's appropriate that some of that apparently went down on the set of the music video for the song itself. Creator/EmilyRatajkowski, one of the models who appeared in the video, wrote in her autobiography ''My Body'' that she signed on to do the video because it had a female director and she was told that it would be subverting the MaleGaze by putting the women in a position of power over the male singers, but that she was subjected to routine sexual harassment and groping from Thicke on set. While she initially felt comfortable working with him, even when shooting the NotSafeForWork version where she was topless, she said that Thicke turned more aggressive once he got drunk. Director Diane Martel corroborated her story, saying that she yelled at Thicke "what the fuck are you doing? That's it! The shoot is over!"
* Dealing with Eddie Music/VanHalen was apparently not easy. He trashed Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony publicly for over a decade while not speaking a word to the guys themselves, trashed Music/DavidLeeRoth ''while he was in the band'', and generally had a bad attitude about any-and-everybody that doesn't have "Van Halen" as their last name. Things eventually got so fiery with both singers that they wanted to take a rest, and Michael Anthony also didn't like being sidelined (to the point he only joined the 2004 reunion because Sammy wanted him there, and he wasn't even ''notified'' of the band coming out of hiatus with Wolfgang van Halen, Eddie's son, in his place). And sadly, when Eddie was trying to bury the hatchet with Hagar and Anthony so all six[[note]]well, seven; but not only [[Music/{{Extreme}} Gary Cherone]] is the only singer that seemingly never clashed with Eddie, [[FanonDiscontinuity everyone prefers to forget his tenure in the band]][[/note]] could tour together, he died of cancer.
** Sammy Hagar also had some clashes with the people responsible for the "Right Now" music video, as he was proud of the lyrics and complained that "People ain't even going to be listening to what I'm saying because they'll be reading these subtitles". During filming, Hagar was with a pneumonia and a fever and thus angrier and even less cooperative, as illustrated by how he both steps away from a microphone and slams his dressing room door. That being said, by the time of his autobiography ''Red'' he had warmed up to it, down to reusing [[RightNowMontage the video's idea]] in "Cosmic Universal Fashion".
** According to band insiders, Eddie's mistreatment of Michael Anthony even went so far as to force an employment agreement on him during the 1984 tour (depriving him of the royalties he would receive as a full bandmember and his share of the group writing credits); Anthony is said to have signed on the spot, and went out and played that night and every night after.
* This is why Woe, Is Me was only around for about four years. A lot of interpersonal conflicts, drug issues, and [[Main/RevolvingDoorBand an inability to keep a stable lineup]] led to the band leader Kevin Hansen ending the band after ''Genesis'' released in 2013.
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* It's no secret that Creator/JohnKricfalusi made working on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' both a blessing and a curse. When he wasn't holed up in his office to avoid confrontation and leaving others to the heavy lifting on his cartoons for him, he was an outright terror of a director to work for.
** He frequently tore up artists' drawings for no reason other than it wasn't exactly what he pictured in his head, and he forbid any deviation from his layouts. When he tore up one background because he didn't like the bright colors, calling it "fucking candy cane lane," several artists decorated the studio with a sign that read "''Candy Cane Lane''" and drawings of Ren and Stimpy with candy canes up one another's butts as a form of protest.
** Creator/BillyWest suffered damage to his vocal cords from the grueling recording sessions, to which Johnny would respond, "You're 98% there." West was not swayed by bullying (he had grown up with an abusive father), which enraged Kricfalusi even further. He also fired storyboard artist Chris Reccardi for dating John's ex-girlfriend Lynne Naylor. (Reccardi and Naylor later married and remained together until Reccardi's fatal heart attack in May 2019). He rewarded Bob Jacques for his hard work on "Sven Höek" by chewing him out over the phone for hours over how "Disney like" it looked. Kricfalusi only began praising the cartoon when it became a fan favorite. Relations during the first two seasons became so bad that Bob Camp would invite staff members into his office to kick the wall (with a sign over it reading "''John's Knees''") to get aggression out. By the end of Kricfalusi's run, the wall had been reduced to a gaping hole.
** "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksman" only credited Reccardi for directing it after Kricfalusi was fired from the show. Kricfalusi was so enraged that he threatened to sue {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} for millions if he wasn't properly credited on the film; Reccardi relented and put his name on the credits. The day that most of the crew moved into Games Animation, he personally followed them around and verbally abused them.
** This was also the case during the production of ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends''. Funbag Animation manager John Shaw explicitly told his staff to disregard John K.'s style guide and left it sitting on the front desk for weeks. When he came to the studio and found out, the two came dangerously close to blows. Kricfalusi apologized, but was banned from the studio the next day. As a result, he was forced to make most of his revisions from a nearby hotel.
* Tensions between the creators of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' in the original 65 episodes run were quite real. Arlene Klasky and Paul Germain clashed on creative directions; the former wanted the characters to act more like realistic babies, while the latter favored strong characterization. Angelica was the big point of argument - Arlene Klasky not wanting an antagonist and hating how mean she was, Paul Germain instead wanting to show HiddenDepths and explore why a child might become a bully. He ended up leaving the show before the episodes even aired. Arlene Klasky continued to be unpopular with a lot of the animators; she would speak to some of them in baby talk to illustrate how she wanted the Rugrats to act, and they made a RunningGag out of Didi's obsession with the terrible advice of Dr Lipschitz specifically to mock her - as she was a great believer in such parenting books.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'': According to Creator/MarkEvanier, Lennie Weinrib was undergoing problems in his personal life at the time and could be quite difficult as a result. Part of the reason Scrappy was recast after this season was because Weinrib didn't get on with voice director Gordon Hunt. It got to the point where Weinrib would be willing to return if Evanier would take over as voice director, but this didn't work out.
* The infamous "Thief in the Night" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' had another problem besides driving the late Creator/CaseyKasem, who was of Lebanese descent, to quit the show in disgust of its depictions of Arabs (including naming a nation "Carbombya"): it led to a nearly three decade-long disagreement between Creator/MauriceLaMarche (who voiced Six-Gun) and voice director Wally Burr over the latter's style of directing. That said, before Burr's passing, while [=LaMarche=] stood by ''some'' of them, he did state most of his criticisms were out of line and reconciled with Burr. [[note]]The [[Website/TFWikiDotNet Transformers wiki]] explains that Burr was a perfectionist, who often held sessions up to the maximum allowed at the time (a whopping ''8 hours''). [[Creator/TownsendColeman Townsend Coleman]] is quoted as saying Burr would insist on prolonging recording sessions, whether "it was necessary or not." [=LaMarche=] was of the opinion Burr was a PrimaDonnaDirector who wanted the actor to parrot the lines back to him as he himself would have performed them. The wiki does point out that "Thief in the Night", as mentioned above, is also the episode where Casey Kasem walked out and offers that that might also have been a factor in [=LaMarche=]'s bad experience.[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Season one's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E13SomeEnchantedEvening Some Enchanted Evening]]": In addition to this episode's infamously TroubledProduction, James L. Brooks (who wanted more realistic animations on the characters and objects) called the original animation "shit". This did ''not'' please [[Creator/KlaskyCsupo Gabor Csupo]], who got into a heated argument with Brooks; Csupo (who ''wanted'' the animation to be OffModel and over-the-top) denied that there was anything wrong with the animation and instead claimed that "maybe this shit isn't funny". When the show won its first Emmy (albeit for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E9LifeOnTheFastLane Life on the Fast Lane]]"), Brooks made it a point to [[IronicEcho mockingly repeat Csupo's own line back to him]] at the ceremony.
** Season three's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E17HomerAtTheBat Homer at the Bat]]": Jose Canseco didn't get along with the cast and crew. He disliked his original part, felt that his cartoon self looked nothing like him [[YouDontLookLikeYou (though he had a point in that respect)]] and insisted his character be rewritten, and the writers [[TeethClenchedTeamwork grudgingly made him as heroic as possible.]] He was originally slated to wake up in bed with Edna Krabappel and miss the game (in a parody of ''Film/BullDurham''), but Canseco's then-wife, Esther Haddad, objected. Al Jean admitted that he found him to be intimidating.
** Season six's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]": As described in John Ortved's book, there was an incident when showrunner David Mirkin and writer Bob Kushell got into an argument about the episode, saying it hurt the integrity of the series. Mirkin replied, "That's why you're an asshole." Stunned, Kushell proceeded to chew out Mirkin in front of the writers present and stormed out. He was convinced he was going to be fired for it, and although he wasn't, he wasn't given any writing assignments either. Kushell also mentioned that many writers came up to him privately and thanked him for standing up to Mirkin. (Mirkin, it should be noted, stepped down as showrunner after the sixth season.)
** Season seven's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud Marge Be Not Proud]]": Josh Weinstein, co-showrunner at the time, called Creator/LawrenceTierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes" (for example, he refused to do the answering machine gag as written since he didn't understand why [[BaitAndSwitch Brodka would keep talking despite no one being on the line]], so Weinstein had to stand in the recording booth and adlib some responses from Marge and later edit them out).
* According to Creator/SteveBlum, while he greatly enjoyed working with Creator/JoshKeaton on ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Blum has [[https://twitter.com/SpiderMumHex/status/957055290909904896?s=20 less than fond memories]] about working with Creator/DrakeBell on ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', as the actor was more focused on his phone and created an uncomfortable tension in the studio.
* Following Creator/JustinRoiland's firing from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' due to domestic abuse charges in 2023, sources close to the show [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/justin-roiland-animation-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/ told]] ''The Hollywood Reporter'' that Roiland's relationships with co-creator Creator/DanHarmon and the writers had been fraught behind the scenes going back to Season 2. It reportedly got to the point that, by time of his firing, Roiland had not been on speaking terms with Harmon and members of the writing staff hadn't interacted with him, even over Zoom, in years.
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** Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker could not stand each other. Even before the band formed, they were notorious for getting into ''physical altercations'' with one another. The only reason the band formed was because they agreed to attempt to put aside their differences, while Clapton acted as the mediator in the group.

** In an attempt to calm the tensions between Bruce and Baker, Clapton tried to recruit his friend Steve Winwood to the band. Winwood refused, and the band announced their break-up and subsequent farewell tour in 1968, followed by a final album, appropriately titled ''"Goodbye",'' after only [[ShortRunner two years]]. All three of the members admitted that as tensions worsened, so did their performance. Baker said that it "Wasn't a gig, it was getting it over with...we knew it was over." Despite this, they ''did'' briefly reunite in 1993, and seemed to be getting along together once again, with Bruce saying that he would definitely do it again. And in 2005, they briefly reunited again at Clapton's request.

** ''The Krusty the Clown Show'' is an incredibly toxic environment, and Krusty himself is responsible for 99% of it, being an utter jerk of a prima donna that belittles, harasses (sexually and otherwise), insults and even threatens the lives of his coworkers on a constant basis behind and ''in front'' of the cameras. DependingOnTheWriter and whatever the RuleOfFunny says is best at the moment said coworkers are either utterly innocent and defenseless or they also hate Krusty but are a lot more professional about it and thus just stick to the occasional snarky line or deadpan look.