Discussion: Risky Lead Singles that Worked? - Page 6

TheVoiceXtina

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Originally posted by MusicLoverDude

I'm a Slave 4 U
Can't Be Tamed - for a Disney girl it was risky
Born This Way - LGBT message
Hold It Against Me
We Found Love
Rolling In the Deep
Russian Roulette
Don't Tell Me (Avril Lavigne)

No, try again

KyKy

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Originally posted by lickmycody

I Kissed A Girl.

Yes and it was also a DEBUT single !

ozlovezashlee

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Originally posted by .aR

Girl, I knew it was a play on words that's why I assumed that you thought Sweet Dreams was a lead single.

Hahah ah, I see.

Ainsworth

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Originally posted by Nii.

Primadonna tbh. She took a more Dr. Luke/Americanized approach, unlike the quirky, alternative, piano pop she used to go with. And also after the fact she bashed him.

Nothing was risky about Primadonna...

Harmonic Dreamer

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Originally posted by TheVoiceXtina

No, try again

Lemme guess. You think Not Myself Tonight is a risk...

JessieJHeartbeat

Wind It Up

fortheloveofmusic

Climax by Usher was a risky lead single because it was VERY different from what was on radio.

Sláy

RITD was risky. It got next to no US pop airplay till May. A MASSIVE risk in WFL/BTW musical climate.

ozlovezashlee

"promiscuous" by Nelly furtado was pretty risky, I mean her whole image was completely flipped.

Ahri

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Originally posted by chilicheese01

True, but it didn't "work."

Same goes for RTW.

Slave 4 U was a world wide No.1 , RTW on the other hand

Ray Bass

The riskiest single choice ever:

Boom Boom Pow.

#1 for many weeks, one of the biggest singles of that year. It sured work.

DullEnlightenment

There are about 3 correct answers here in a thread filled with generic disappointments, it was ****ed from the start.

Promiscuous

Gwen Stefani's 'Wind It Up' - not radio friendly at all.

Harmonic Dreamer

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Originally posted by JessieJHeartbeat

Wind It Up

I actually agree with this.

MusicLoverDude

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Originally posted by KyKy

Can't be tamed flopped though.

#8 on the Hot 100 though - it beat out Not Myself Tonight, Run the World, and Give Me All Your Luvin'

KyKy

Any one saying CIL or If I Were a Boy were risky should be warned.

Ray Bass

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Originally posted by Harmonic Dreamer

Lemme guess. You think Not Myself Tonight is a risk...

He thought so. Already replied that.

lickmycody

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Originally posted by KyKy

Yes and it was also a DEBUT single !

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Agreed.

Brando

People saying If I Were A Boy

A generic ballad is risky now?

If you want risky, you need to see Madonna's discography.

lickmycody

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Originally posted by JessieJHeartbeat

Wind It Up

yes.

LOVE IT!