I think 'someone like' you brought in a wave of future ballads/mid tempo songs back into mainstream again in the mist of EDM - for that I think it was non safe because it could have so easily flopped being not conformed at the time.
I think 'someone like' you brought in a wave of future ballads/mid tempo songs back into mainstream again in the mist of EDM - for that I think it was non safe because it could have so easily flopped being not conformed at the time.
meh. i feel like a good ballad has and never will go out of style
meh. i feel like a good ballad has and never will go out of style
You could argue that a good pop song never goes out of style as well. SLY is a very pure piano ballad and as that it was a rarity in the high regions of american (Pop) radio.
I think 'someone like' you brought in a wave of future ballads/mid tempo songs back into mainstream again in the mist of EDM - for that I think it was non safe because it could have so easily flopped being not conformed at the time.
But Love Story, Need You Now, Perfect, JTWYA, Grenade, and several others were also vastly successful in the mainstream during the EDM era. The only thing that separated SLY from them is its musical composition of being a piano ballad.
I do agree it wasn't by any means a "safe" choice for mainstream radio though.
For Taylor, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together could be argued as a risky single tbh. It's very mainstream, but then it's unlike her usual sound, which may cause people to lose interest in her and caused her to risk her footing in country radio.
